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The Likely Lab Leak and the Covid Cassandra
Commentary ^ | February 2024 | James B Meigs

Posted on 01/17/2024 12:48:35 PM PST by Rummyfan

I thought I was done with writing about Covid-19. But Covid-19 isn’t done with me—or with any of us.

I’m writing this precisely four years after Chinese health officials first announced the emergence of a mysterious new form of pneumonia in the city of Wuhan. “No obvious human-to-human transmission has been observed,” the officials added in that December 30, 2019, release. (Already, the Chinese were lying.) Today, Covid cases are ticking up for the umpteenth time. And documents keep coming to light that expose how American officials and scientists similarly suppressed unsettling facts about the pandemic’s origins.

While the death rate from each new wave of Covid keeps dropping, the disturbing revelations about our public health leaders keep getting worse. In December 2023, a new disclosure revealed how leading U.S. virus experts lobbied to conduct dangerous gain-of-function research at the substandard Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory. The latest leak provides yet more evidence that the pandemic likely emerged from a lab experiment gone awry, and that U.S. scientists actively covered up their possible role in that world-historical catastrophe.

After both the 1986 Challenger explosion and the 9/11 attacks, bipartisan commissions were convened to investigate the disasters. Covid has killed more than a million Americans and has cost our economy at least $14 trillion. And yet we see no great urgency to investigate the pandemic’s murky origins or prevent a recurrence. Republicans in Congress continue to hold productive hearings. But, according to the New York Times, the Biden administration is “privately resisting” pressure to create a 9/11-style commission on the pandemic. The press has largely moved on. And the public health officials most deeply involved in the debacle—including Anthony Fauci and his National Institutes of Health (NIH) colleague Francis Collins—continue to tap-dance around the truth, even after leaving their posts.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; chicoms; china; covid

1 posted on 01/17/2024 12:48:35 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

More at the source...


2 posted on 01/17/2024 12:48:55 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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And yet we see no great urgency to investigate the pandemic’s murky origins or prevent a recurrence.

Kinda like the Kennedy files, They are afraid of mass riots if the public knows the truth, that our government is corrupt and was involved.

3 posted on 01/17/2024 12:52:20 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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4 posted on 01/17/2024 12:55:24 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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https://www.firstpost.com/world/china-experimenting-with-100-per-cent-deadly-new-covid-strain-report-13616272.html


5 posted on 01/17/2024 12:55:27 PM PST by jdege
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Bkmk


6 posted on 01/17/2024 1:04:31 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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It was not a lab leak. China had massive protests in Wuhan and Hong Kong in the fall of 2019. The Tiananmen Square solution was no longer viable in today’s trade intensive world. They couldn’t get away with it like they did back in 88 or 89. So they released a garden-variety version of SARS deliberately. Combined with a lot of hype, such as videos of people collapsing dead in the street etc. they created a panic. The second goal was to prevent trumps reelection so DC was happy to go along.

It was not a leak. It was an attack on Chinese people who wanted Freedom, and the American people who wanted their good economy and President Trump. It was not a leak.


7 posted on 01/17/2024 1:10:04 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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Anyone know if Russian troops attended the Wuhan games?


8 posted on 01/17/2024 4:33:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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