Posted on 07/26/2021 6:23:04 AM PDT by karpov
No one should expect the Chinese Communist Party to cooperate with a real inquiry into the origins of Covid-19. More disappointing is the lack of candor from American scientists and officials whose conflicts of interest deserve more scrutiny.
More than a year-and-a-half after Chinese researchers published a draft genome of Covid-19, the world still doesn’t know where the virus came from. The leading theories are an accidental lab leak or zoonotic spillover from a bat or other intermediary species.
A World Health Organization team visited Wuhan this year but Chinese officials provided little useful information. Even WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus, typically a Chinese ally, criticized Beijing for a lack of transparency. He called for an audit of laboratories in Wuhan as part of the origin investigation’s next phase, but Beijing rejected the idea last week.
A senior Chinese public-health official said WHO’s plan “did not respect common sense and violated science.” The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called instead for an investigation into Fort Detrick, a U.S. military lab. A Wuhan Institute of Virology official said that his lab “did not contact, preserve or study the novel coronavirus, and it never designed, made or leaked the virus,” according to Chinese state-media. He added that there have been zero pathogen leaks or human infections since the institute opened its high-level BSL-4 lab in 2018. A Chinese official must say this or risk disappearing.
The WIV has handled coronaviruses. U.S. experts visited the lab in 2017 and 2018 and warned about a dangerous mix of subpar safety standards and infectious bat coronaviruses. In January the State Department published a fact sheet warning that several WIV researchers had been sick with Covid-like symptoms in the fall of 2019.
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The Wuhan Lab virus was very much like China’s Chernobyl, except that Chernobyl was not funded and protected by US Fed.gov
“The Wuhan Lab virus was very much like China’s Chernobyl...”
Chernobyl was an accident. The Russians had nothing to gain by intentionally allowing the reactor to fail. There is reason to believe the Wuhan lab leak was intentional.
The phrase “lab-leak” suggests more of an accidental release.
The appropriate phrase should be “lab-release,” which allows for either an accidental or deliberate release by the ChiComs.
What the hell is the point of this statement? He's excitable? He's comatose compared to the Marxist Democrats who are running our government.
It came from Wuhan, everybody knows it. Fauci funded it.
Agree. It might have technically been a leak but you’ll never get me to believe it wasn’t intentional.
Ccp had to do something to slow down the US economy, President Trump was about to steamroll the chinese.
“conflict of interest” means PATENTS OWNED
“lab-leak” means PLANNED DEPOPULATION GENOCIDE
I call it the Wuhan Whoopsie.
Why invoke malice when simple incompetence will suffice?
The initial leak was probably due to their inability (and ours) to contain the deadly virus.
However...
We can look at China’s actions AFTER the leak - those actions will be easier to assign malice towards.
Expecting the CCP to support investigations of the virus origins is like expecting the Democrats to support election audits.
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