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Column: U.S. government debunks COVID lab-leak conspiracy theory, enraging conspiracy theorists
MSN ^ | 6/26 | Michael Hiltzik

Posted on 06/27/2023 11:06:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway

That sound you may have detected rising from the ether of social media this weekend was the gnashing of teeth by COVID conspiracy-mongers, outraged by a U.S. government report debunking their most cherished claims.

The long-awaited report released Friday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, put the lie to the theory that the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID, leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan, China, where the disease was first detected in humans.

The lab-leak conspiracists were certain that the report would validate their contentions, for which there has never been any valid scientific evidence. Instead it did just the opposite.

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Didn't other government agencies come out earlier and say it was most likely a lab leak?
1 posted on 06/27/2023 11:06:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Yes they did.


2 posted on 06/27/2023 11:07:31 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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Today’s lie is the approved narrative.


3 posted on 06/27/2023 11:09:01 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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amazing someone learned how to write in arrogant prick style!


4 posted on 06/27/2023 11:09:34 AM PDT by big bad easter bunny
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Well, that settles it for me! Faith was telling the truth all along! Thank you, MSN! /SARC


5 posted on 06/27/2023 11:09:50 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)Xvg)
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FAUCI, not faith! Sigh.


6 posted on 06/27/2023 11:10:41 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)Xvg)
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So did it come from the Ukraine bio labs?


7 posted on 06/27/2023 11:10:41 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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I guess according to MSN, they are conspiracists too.

And is this snarky, biting tone the new normal for journalism?


8 posted on 06/27/2023 11:10:58 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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“This is the word of Gov and we can trust it.”
😆🤣


9 posted on 06/27/2023 11:11:21 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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I expected them to say that the COVID lab leak story had all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

I guess that doesn’t work so well anymore, so maybe they were forced to try something new.


10 posted on 06/27/2023 11:12:33 AM PDT by Stosh
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>> amazing someone learned how to write in arrogant prick style!

MSN interviews to locate & hire that skill!


11 posted on 06/27/2023 11:13:49 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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Dbag liberal press spun the “most likely” part into a denial, simply because the report did not say “was”.


12 posted on 06/27/2023 11:14:46 AM PDT by jpp113
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SOOOO-—IF IT WAS NOT LEAKED-—does that mean it was DELIBERATELY turned loose on the world???


13 posted on 06/27/2023 11:15:19 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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Well, the Chinese said the U.S. did that.


14 posted on 06/27/2023 11:15:54 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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Didn't other government agencies come out earlier and say it was most likely a lab leak?

After blinken's apology tour, Xi not only ordered more balloon flights, he ordered the mockingbirds to change their tune on the WuFlu origins.

15 posted on 06/27/2023 11:17:24 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Fauci was right and told the truth.....that is why Trump stuck with him.


16 posted on 06/27/2023 11:17:49 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a


17 posted on 06/27/2023 11:23:15 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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“a U.S. government report debunking their most cherished claims”

LOL, you have to have some credibility in order to be able to “debunk” something, so the US government is not capable of it.


18 posted on 06/27/2023 11:23:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Let me give an example of how this is an ideological cover up by an internal partisan who created this report. This is a direct quotation from the report:

“While several WIV researchers fell mildly ill in Fall 2019, they experienced a range of symptoms consistent with colds or allergies with accompanying
symptoms typically not associated with COVID-19, and some of them were confirmed to have been sick with other illnesses unrelated to COVID-19. While some of these researchers had historically conducted research into animal respiratory viruses, we are unable to confirm if any of them handled live viruses in the work they performed prior to falling ill.”

So we don’t know according to this explanation whether the sick WIV workers really had COVID in the fall of 2019. This is a plain cover up because the report glosses the matter by pretending that the diseases came and went and we cannot now know whether they had COVID 19. That is false, because the antibodies associated with the illness remain in the immediate aftermath of the illness. Chinese authorities could have always made the antibody data available from these workers.

The report makes it clear that the Chinese government is not doing this— three years later. That is plain proof of cover up both by the Chinese Communist party and the sympathetic American Government report we read here.

Truly pathetic.


19 posted on 06/27/2023 11:23:31 AM PDT by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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Isn’t this kind of like saying, “It wasn’t me! I didn’t do nothin’”?


20 posted on 06/27/2023 11:25:42 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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