Posted on 12/12/2021 7:29:11 AM PST by John W
Almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery.
Most scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorize it escaped from a Chinese lab.
Now, with the global COVID-19 death toll surpassing 5.2 million on the second anniversary of the earliest human cases, a growing chorus of scientists is trying to keep the focus on what they regard as the more plausible “zoonotic,” or animal-to-human, theory, in the hope that what's learned will help humankind fend off new viruses and variants.
“The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there's no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the journal Cell in August laying out evidence for animal origin.
Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who contributed to the article, said he always thought zoonotic transmission was more likely than a lab leak but had signed a letter with other scientists last spring saying both theories were viable. Since then, his own and others' research has made him even more confident about the animal hypothesis, which is “just way more supported by the data.”
Last month, Worobey published a COVID-19 timeline linking the first known human case to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, where live animals were sold.
“The lab leak idea is almost certainly a huge distraction that's taking focus away from what actually happened,” he said.
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SMDH! Are we back to blaming the pangolins again? :-}
Poorly paid lab workers at Wusan were supposed to euthanize and incinerate the lab animals when the scientists were done with them. Instead they probably put them on sale at the meat markets.
Anyone who actually says this is a ******g liar.
If the virus originated in nature, then in the time that has passed, the offending bat in nature would have already been found, as happened in the past. But there is no such bat. However, a few 100m’s away is a CCP lab producing bioweapons based on modifying virus’ from bats. Proof of gain of function research at the lab is plentiful and publicly available along with Fauci’s funding of said research. Doesn’t take a high IQ to figure out where this virus came from. Pro tip: it didn’t come from nature.
RFK Jr just came out with a book full of citations that pretty much shows how covid came about. Fauxi + eco-health alliance + bat lady.
Provda strikes again.
AP=fake news! Not credible.
Abhorrent Presstitutes.
Yes. The market…. A mile from the lab that made these viruses😂
That scenario doesn’t necessarily suggest that it is a transmission of some naturally developed virus. Rather, it would be just a confirmation it was developed, or allowed to develop in a lab and THEN somehow got out of the lab and into circulation where the virus could spread..
Truer words were never spoken, Fauci scares the hell out of me, I am waiting for the NEXT deadly virus to drop this guy is an ego maniac LOVES the attention he is getting!! When his attention starts to wain he would think nothing of calling his CCP buddies and dropping another virus on the world!! I wish someone would take this BASTARD out!!
Another way of saying the same.....Scientists say that it is not definitive that covid came from a Chinese market
Complete and utter BS, it came from the Wuhan lab from research that Fauci funded.
Without the gain to function research this chimera coronavirus would not exist.
Fauci belongs in prison.
Scientists spouting CCP propaganda. Trace the origin of any deposits made to their bank accounts.
Saw this posted a day or two ago.
Propaganda.
Ap is sucking up to China to ensure profits and access.
Yes, and “It would appear so.”
Looks like the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette drew the short straw this week. Its their turn to continue the Associated Press promotion of the Deep State propaganda of a natural origin for this virus. Hoosiers saw through this hoax long ago, but these communist idiots are nothing if not persistent.
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