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The Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab. These 5 Key Points Explain Why.
The New York Times ^ | Jun 08, 2024 05:49 PM | Alina Chan

Posted on 06/08/2024 12:58:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.\

On Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci returned to the halls of Congress and testified before the House subcommittee investigating the Covid-19 pandemic. He was questioned about several topics related to the government’s handling of Covid-19, including how the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which he directed until retiring in 2022, supported risky virus work at a Chinese institute whose research may have caused the pandemic.

For more than four years, reflexive partisan politics have derailed the search for the truth about a catastrophe that has touched us all. It has been estimated that at least 25 million people around the world have died because of Covid-19, with over a million of those deaths in the United States.

Although how the pandemic started has been hotly debated, a growing volume of evidence — gleaned from public records released under the Freedom of Information Act, digital sleuthing through online databases, scientific papers analyzing the virus and its spread, and leaks from within the U.S. government — suggests that the pandemic most likely occurred because a virus escaped from a research lab in Wuhan, China. If so, it would be the most costly accident in the history of science.

Here’s what we now know:

1 The SARS-like virus that caused the pandemic emerged in Wuhan, the city where the world’s foremost research lab for SARS-like viruses is located.


(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; chinavirus; gainoffunction; labtheory; wuban; wuhanlab
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Even the NYT is admitting it now.
1 posted on 06/08/2024 12:58:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should get a pulitzer for this timely reporting.


2 posted on 06/08/2024 1:00:28 PM PDT by pas
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To: pas

They probably will.


3 posted on 06/08/2024 1:01:56 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It was a tough connection to make for some people. Where did it come from? From where it was. And where was it? In a laboratory in Wuhan.

I will admit I'm only covering for the pangolins...

4 posted on 06/08/2024 1:02:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Even pigs grew wings...

/s


5 posted on 06/08/2024 1:03:21 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Yep, no doubt sloppy chicom security in the biological Wuhan lab.

Now if it was accidental or on purpose, is up for debate.

6 posted on 06/08/2024 1:08:18 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you read the emails between Farrah-Collins-Fauci from 1/30/20 - 2/2/20, it’s pretty clear they were worried about this, and about suppressing “conspiracy theories”.

The problem is, the timing is wrong. The sequence of Wuhan was published 1/9/20 (that’s a problem also, much too fast after disclosure 12/31/19). The critical issue(s) on 1/30/20 were not about “conspiracy theories”, any real scientist (and those 3 are huge scientists for real) would be asking a) how is it spreading; b) how to treat the pneumonia; and c) where else are there cases.


7 posted on 06/08/2024 1:08:53 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The always unasked question is, “Was it deliberate?”


8 posted on 06/08/2024 1:09:40 PM PDT by alternatives?
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Um, the Times and the rest of the Main Stream Media is always four years late. Take the Hunter Biden story, or the Steele Dossier story. The truth was known about these stories years ago around here.

Good Lord, even the dinosaurs had the common decency to die quickly...

9 posted on 06/08/2024 1:09:41 PM PDT by fhayek
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has the NYT apologized for leading the 1st-Amendment-destroying media jihad against any and all “conspiracy theorists” who dared to try to promote the chicom lab leak theory four years ago, by silencing all such dissenters on social media and destroying their reputations and livelihoods ?

anything yet? from anyone?


10 posted on 06/08/2024 1:19:18 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This would be like finding a dead Greyhound next to a dog track and concluding the dog came from home 3000 miles away.


11 posted on 06/08/2024 1:19:26 PM PDT by LukeL
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Now if it was accidental or on purpose, is up for debate.
.......

Only with those who don’t buy the Wuhan Coup Flu was the scamdemic to stuff the mail ballots all around the country that led to the oddest bellwether county results maybe ever in election 2020..

NY Slimes will have their hair on fire by the time they end their accidental vs purpose debate (if they have that Deep State debate with themselves), as we’d already would have moved on to seeing co conspirators and thieves receiving their justice for the roles they played in the Coup..


12 posted on 06/08/2024 1:22:41 PM PDT by delchiante
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Yep, no doubt sloppy chicom security in the biological Wuhan lab. Now if it was accidental or on purpose, is up for debate.

I noted early on that there was no way to distinguish an accidental release from a biological weapons attack. China has no shortage of people, the Chicom government would not shy away from sacrificing Chinese civilians, and starting the pandemic on Chinese soil (with concomitant Chinese casualties) provided the best 'plausible deniability' available. Furthermore, the timing was perfect for removing the first American president in years who played hardball with China, and replace him with 'China Joe' Briben.

13 posted on 06/08/2024 1:22:46 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ("...mit Pulver und Blei, Die Gedanken sind frei!")
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To: Who is John Galt?

Especially when the best majority of people who died were very old and not productive anymore in China


14 posted on 06/08/2024 1:27:09 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: logi_cal869

THE NEW YORK TIMES...DO YOU THINK? IS THE SKY FALLING. When did they start talking about the real news. Wow, things are getting real scary, if they start telling the TRUTH even CNN will have to go along. This is more fun than watching a Super Bowl game.


15 posted on 06/08/2024 1:32:03 PM PDT by rovenstinez (, )
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Probably???😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫


16 posted on 06/08/2024 1:36:01 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stop the presses.

The New York Times has discovered what the condemned “ conspiracy theorists “ knew three years ago.

That damn Elon Musk. Why did he have to go and end censorship on social media?


17 posted on 06/08/2024 1:44:01 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Who is John Galt?

Everybody knows covid started in Wuhan, China, the liberal media and fauci can’t cover up that fact, no matter how hard they try.


18 posted on 06/08/2024 1:50:15 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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Except there is no probably. The question is was it accidental or purposely released? I believe it was intentional, just a wee bit too coincidental from my point of view, because it opened the door to do things that would not have been possible, to steal the 2020 election without the plandemic/scamdemic. It served two purposes, enrich the wealthy, while destroying the economy.


19 posted on 06/08/2024 1:54:18 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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The Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab.

Now figure out who funded it. (I can give hints if the NYT needs them.)

20 posted on 06/08/2024 2:06:38 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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