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At the start of Covid many scientists believed it likely leaked from Wuhan lab - until a conference call with Patrick Vallance changed their minds.
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 10/02/2021 8:15:38 PM PDT by algore

The Government has been condemned after refusing to release details of key email conversations involving leading scientists over the origins of Covid-19.

This newspaper used Freedom of Information rules to obtain a cache of 32 emails about a secretive teleconference between British and American health officials held early in the pandemic.

But officials blacked out almost every word before releasing the crucial documents.

Before this discussion, several of the world’s most influential experts believed the new virus most likely came from a laboratory – but days later, the scientists began dismissing such scenarios as ‘implausible’ and branding them conspiracy theories.

The critical call is at the centre of concerns that the scientific establishment tried to stifle debate on the pandemic’s origins, as damning new evidence emerges of US ties to high-risk research on bat viruses in Wuhan, where the first cases emerged in late 2019.

The Mail on Sunday requested emails, minutes and notes on the call between Sir Patrick Vallance – Britain’s chief scientific adviser – and its organisers Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust medical charity, and Anthony Fauci, the US infectious diseases expert and presidential adviser.

Yet when the documents were released they had page after page redacted with thick lines of black ink by Whitehall officials. Even the names of experts copied in on discussions were blocked – and exchanges as trivial as one Edinburgh biologist’s ‘thank you’ for being invited – leaving only a few basic details about the call visible.

The lines left intact include a demand for the discussions, involving 13 participants around the world, to be conducted in ‘total confidence’, and an intriguing email line suggesting ‘we need to talk about the backbone too, not just the insert’.

Such state secrecy is highly contemptuous towards taxpayers and to the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; covid; fauci; freedomofinforamtion; gainoffunction
NOTHING TO SEE HERE


1 posted on 10/02/2021 8:15:38 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

Fauxci had a vested interest to get this theory nixed.

He funded this shiite.


2 posted on 10/02/2021 8:24:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: algore

What?

Why?

Why would records of a teleconference between British and American health officials be redacted?

It makes no sense.


3 posted on 10/02/2021 8:27:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: algore; All

From the article:

“Many prominent scientists, including several participants on the call, feared the new virus looked engineered – among them California-based immunologist Kristian Andersen, who told Farrar beforehand he was alarmed by Covid’s unusual properties.

“He said the binding mechanism ‘looked too good to be true, like a perfect key for entering human cells’ while its furin cleavage site – a feature not found on similar types of coronavirus that allows it to enter efficiently into human cells – might be expected ‘if someone had set out to adapt an animal coronavirus to humans by taking a specific suit of genetic material from elsewhere and inserting it.’”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10052689/Government-condemned-refusing-release-details-key-email-conversations-Covid-origins.html


4 posted on 10/02/2021 8:30:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

It makes sense if it is highly incriminating.


5 posted on 10/02/2021 8:32:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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To: algore

This is secrecy to cover wrongdoing and the conspiracy to use it to hurt Trump. Pure criminal behavior.

This isn’t like hiding nuclear secrets. This is a crime coverup.


6 posted on 10/02/2021 9:25:34 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: algore
But this all begs another question: why is our own Government redacting key documents and refusing to share information it holds on events that might help us grapple with the mystery of the pandemic’s origins after almost five million deaths?

My guess is that they are all afraid of China. After all, every last one of them are very weak leaders.

7 posted on 10/02/2021 10:25:59 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Secret Agent Man

BEYOND DUMP TRUMP
9 MINUTE VIDEO
https://www.brighteon.com/99cc36a2-f553-4adf-9770-58d1daaa2477
THE MARXIST DEMS BROUGHT COVID HERE FOR MORE THAN SIMPLY GETTING RID OF TRUMP, AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THEIR CORRUPTION. COVID WAS JUST STEP ONE OF A FAR MORE INSIDIOUS


8 posted on 10/02/2021 11:36:29 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Robert DeLong

The governments don’t want people to know the truth about Covid as they are in it upto their eyeballs. Not one, not two, but many. This is all precursor to the great reset and one world government.
The human race is being betrayed by socialists and globalist aided by infiltrated governments. This has been planned for decades.


9 posted on 10/03/2021 2:11:59 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: algore

Thnx for posting
bkmk


10 posted on 10/03/2021 3:15:48 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: .44 Special

Yep I know. I also know many people refuse to believe what you are saying because they can’t bring themselves to accept that fact, even with what they see on a daily basis across the globe. Instead most people would rather believe the plandemic and the fear driven belief that this is such a dangerous virus that we all must comply and follow the edicts set forth as the only response to it. They believe they are following the science. Nothing could be further from the truth in reality, as science is not even involved in the tyrannical responses. It’s control and fear to accumulate power and rob people blind.


11 posted on 10/03/2021 5:13:35 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: algore

Bump


12 posted on 10/03/2021 7:21:59 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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