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Top Biden officials now believe COVID lab-leak theory: report
The New York Post ^
| July 17, 2021
| Isabel Vincent
Posted on 07/17/2021 8:34:12 AM PDT by Salman
Biden administration officials are divided over the origin of the coronavirus, but an increasing number now believe that it could have leaked from a Wuhan lab, according to a report.
The once-derided lab-leak theory is now being seriously considered by senior administration officials even as most experts on coronaviruses maintain that the virus had its origins in nature, jumping from animals to humans, according to a CNN report Friday.
On Thursday, the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said it was “premature” to dismiss the theory that the virus escaped from Wuhan’s Institute of Virology and called upon China to provide “direct information on what the situation of these labs was before and at the start of the pandemic.”
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: biden; china; corrupticrats; covid; demagogicparty; flubras; flubros; ghebreyesus; isabelvincent; newyork; newyorkpost; stooges; unitednations
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Well well well.
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:34:12 AM PDT
by
Salman
To: Salman
Do the variants also have the same origin?
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:36:31 AM PDT
by
jd777
To: Salman
They always believed it. But sheer cynical politics demanded they act the opposite.
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:40:59 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Salman
Now Winston Smith will have to rewrite all his history books again. Poor guy. He’ll never get to see Julia .
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:46:09 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(leave the gun, take the canolis)
To: Salman
From the CNN article linked to in the article:
Current intelligence reinforces the belief that the virus most likely originated naturally, from animal-human contact and was not deliberately engineered, the sources said. But that does not preclude the possibility that the virus was the result of an accidental on-purpose leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where coronavirus research was being conducted on bats -- although many scientists familiar with the research say such a leak is unlikely.
I feel very confident that in the Wuhan lab there is one of those super-cold freezers where they store dangerous viruses. There is a vial labeled COVID-19 for 2019. There are others as well, labeled COVID-22, COVID-24, etc. We ain't seen nuthin' yet.
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:50:20 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(I am not afraid of the Chinese Virus or variants. I AM afraid of the unproven "vaccines.")
To: Salman
Unbelievable that any objective observer could look at someone holding a smoking gun, look at a body with a bullet hole, and then conclude that there was no possible way that the person holding the smoking gun could be responsible.
(George Orwell was right, he just got the year wrong.)
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:50:23 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
To: Salman
So it will go go from Donald Trump's insane conspiracy theory to Joe Biden's sensible evaluation of the evidence.
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:54:35 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
To: Sooth2222
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posted on
07/17/2021 8:55:17 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
(“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
To: Salman
But I thought that kind of thinking was racist.
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:03:52 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Salman
Jumped from animals to humans?
And yet, for some reason, there is absolutely no urgency in the medical community to locate or identify these infected animals.
Also curious, no lab has been able to infect any bat species with the original COVID-19 virus.
Yet, COVID-19 in humans has actually become more infectious, and possibly just as deadly, after six major mutations.
To: Salman
After the government censored it for over a year. These people have got to go.
They hide the truth, they lie, and they shut us up to enslave us. to enslave us. What Biden ministration is doing is what totalitarian regimes do around the world.
Does anyone doubt that the DNC was censoring Americans before the Biden Administration?
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:12:12 AM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
To: wildcard_redneck
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:17:57 AM PDT
by
protoconservative
(Been Conservative Before You Were Born )
To: Salman
And these are the same jerks who scold us for declining the jab...they change their version of things every 30 minutes
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:28:07 AM PDT
by
SMARTY
(Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
To: Salman
Obviously misinformation, put “circle back” Psaki on the case. /sarc
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:33:07 AM PDT
by
nuke_road_warrior
(Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
To: SMARTY
There were plenty of a-holes in here who parroted the same idiot propaganda that CV-19 didn’t come from a lab.
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:35:35 AM PDT
by
tatown
To: SMARTY
Remember with Dems, its always about the money. A Chinese/Jesse Jackson extortion coming?
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:36:03 AM PDT
by
Oystir
To: Salman
Yesterday’s “misinformation,” today’s truth.
To: Salman
When’s Gain of Function FRAUDci going to get perp walked? And, the minions who were also complicit.
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:37:38 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
To: Salman
“ Biden administration officials are divided over the origin of the coronavirus”
Well, division is to be expected when you a) have no evidence; b) have no access to primary sources; and c) lack competence to evaluate any evidence that accidentally comes your way.
I am an expert in molecular biology, epidemiology, and infectious diseases. There are some things I KNOW based on publicly available facts - airborne transmission of COVID, for example.
The “lab leak hypothesis” has a very strong circumstantial body of evidence to support it. The Wuhan event was very unusual, until Bergamo and the Diamond Princess I seriously considered a biowarfare dispersal system as being involved. The coincidence of the location of outbreak 1 and the CoV research at Wuhan is just too much to ignore.
But what “Biden administration officials” make of it all shouldn’t be of interest to anyone.
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:38:36 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
To: Salman
"Top Biden officials now believe COVID lab-leak theory:"
The new administration is about a year behind the previous administration. Isn't that the definition of retarded?
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posted on
07/17/2021 9:40:52 AM PDT
by
clearcarbon
(Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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