Intelligence report says US split on Covid-19 origins
US intelligence agencies have found no direct evidence that Covid-19 broke out from a Chinese laboratory, a declassified report has said.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said both a natural and laboratory origin remain plausible scenarios.
It noted most US intelligence agencies agree the virus was not genetically engineered or “laboratory-adapted”.
The origins of the pandemic have been a matter of bitter debate in the US.
“The Central Intelligence Agency and another agency remain unable to determine the precise origin of the Covid-19 pandemic, as both (natural and lab) hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting,” said the 10-page report.
Four agencies believe the virus was transferred from animals to humans, said the findings.
Two other agencies – the Energy Department and the FBI – continue to believe that the virus leaked from a lab.
The findings said the US intelligence community still could not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a laboratory.
All US intelligence agencies agree that Covid-19 was not developed as a biological weapon, said the report.
It said that the WIV and Chinese army had collaborated in work on coronaviruses for public health needs, although not on any infections that could plausibly have spawned Covid-19.
But the report also noted that scientists at the WIV have engineered “chimeras”, or combinations of coronaviruses, and used reverse genetic cloning techniques that could hide intentional changes.
The findings said that some researchers probably did not use adequate biosafety precautions before the pandemic.
When Covid first erupted, I argued mathematically chances of a lab leak were a real possibility we needed to look at because the history of lab leaks was actually far greater and larger than many knew.
Because of the prevalence of these types of labs and with human error factored in, there is an 80 percent chance of a a dangerous pathogen escape every 12.8 years.
I was cancelled 3 or 4 times for making this claim by Woke Twitter because anyone asking deeper questions at a time of panic and fear tend to get knifed first and the latest report only highlights that neither America or China want to get to the bottom of the origins of Covid.
The deep suspicion of a lab leak is legitimate.
We know there were embassy cables warning Trump that the Wuhan Lab was a safety risk.
We know the lab was experimenting on the virus and that scientists have now cast suspicion on the virus having been tampered with.
We know US Intelligence picks up a pandemic in November.
We know lab staff suffered symptoms exactly like Covid a month before the first case in December.
We know that via a bizarre set of circumstances relating to the unique private military research budgets created by the Pentagon that America funded a Circus Freak Show of an organisation called EcoHealth Alliance.
If you don’t know who EcoHealth Alliance is, you best read this damning article in Vanity Fair that exposes how the American Military Industrial Complex accidentally funded the very type of dangerous experiments on the very exact virus that was released in the very exact lab where the breakout was next to…
Chasing scientific renown, grant dollars, and approval from Dr. Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak transformed the environmental nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance into a government-funded sponsor of risky, cutting-edge virus research in both the U.S. and Wuhan, China. Drawing on more than 100,000 leaked documents, a V.F. investigation shows how an organization dedicated to preventing the next pandemic found itself suspected of helping start one.
…that article is so damning and so dangerously close to what may have actually happened it demands investigation.
Vanity Fair is not some fringe conspiracy theory rag, it has enormous credibility and reach.
The Vanity Fair expose clearly points to funding Fauci green lighted For EcoHealth Alliance to research the very Covid virus that is then leaked near a lab at the centre of the outbreak.
That at the very least demands some examination and not the usual screams of xenophobia from the usual and predictable defenders of China because this isn’t about China maliciously creating a bioweapon and attacking the West, it’s far more banal than that – underfunded Chinese labs with poor security and American Military Industrial Grifters who played with fire and unleashed Pandoras Box on the world!
Millions have died because of this clusterfuck of Democratic incompetence, corporate greed and One Party corruption.
No wonder no one wants to examine any of this.
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Martyn – USA funded it, China developed it, the Chinese Communist Party allow it to escape, via very lax safety practices…lock up Dr Fauci who funded it, and lied about it.
Democratic incompetence?
Unfortunately for us, the all important patient zero was never found, thus theory, aka guesswork, is all there is to talk about, therefore I find this angle pointless. But the close ties here between China and the US, coupled with the work they, and many labs like this located throughout the world do, this is worth a bit of prodding.
” patient zero was never found”.. ” lab staff suffered symptoms exactly like Covid a month before the first case in December.” Can you not read to an adult level yet?
You find patient zero and I, let alone the entire world, will thank you because patient zero solves the origin mystery. Otherwise, you can find stories of Covid circulating earlier than what you believe, as in this story from Italy pointing to it circulating there in Sept, 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27W1J2
Patient zero matters because there’s probably stories around earlier than the one I’ve mentioned here. Patient zero matters because it puts all the stories that we may think we know, to bed. Thus, until solved, the grown up position to take here is to keep an open mind.
Are you auditioning for a Q Anon membership?
Why is that? Are you a recruiter for QAnon?
Ask Bill Gates and Fauci. Both were in deep. Financially, politically and organisationally with WHO, Big Pharma and US Bioweapons industry.
It’s no longer a conspiracy.
Did you ever read the Fauci emails released under FOIA 2 years ago Bomber?
Maybe you should have. You may find your answers! You should at the very least be following Senator Jim Jordan’s & Senator Rand Pauls senate hearing evidence. To busy worrying about ACT
You should ask Jacinda & Simon Bridges about that 5 eyes intelligence memo they got back in Feb 2020 Bomber. The one they shut our borders on the basis of!
In March of 2020 STUFF put out a survey on their website regarding how covid originated. Only 3% said from the Wuhan bioweapons lab (its true reason for existing)
This was actually highlighted soon after the outbreak became public and the scientists involved changed their minds 180 within days. Re: “We know the lab was experimenting on the virus and that scientists have now cast suspicion on the virus having been tampered with.”
There’s plenty of evidence that the massive US biowarfare program likely created the virus. It’s sad when anti-Chinese racists try to blame Chinese people for something the American dogs did.
And your sources are?
Yes, well said Martyn. There are arguments for zoonotic and lab escape, probably sitting at least 50 50 at the moment going either way. Which is utterly terrifying if you think about it. As Robert Redfield the ex-head of the CDC in the US keeps saying, his great fear is a bird virus pandemic (high death rate) with a strong possibility of it coming out of gain of function research. Gain of function research is a genuine existential threat. And the fact that so many virologists and researchers with skin in that game tried to make the lab leak seem like a conspiracy, is a total disgrace. They used Trump (a nut) as cover.