5 years after Covid and we still have few answers and less solutions
20 million lives lost.
Enormous economic damage caused by supply chain shutdowns that spiked inflation in a way that generated deep anger and resentment in many.
Disinformation and social media hate algorithms spawning demented realities from lonely people locked down under Covid.
And no clear idea as to where the bloody thing came.
5 years after Covid, we are all still left bruised and battered from the experience, culturally, economically and socially.
Some of our whanau have been lost down rabbit holes that the growing polarisation simply feeds rather than challenges.
With the Republicans running everything in America, the laser focus on Faucci and the involvement of American research into gain of function technology that was being conducted in (lo and behold) the Wuhan Lab.
The reality I suspect is that neither China NOR America want to focus much on where Covid came from, because they both seem deeply involved.
Here was the original manner in which the original report was covered…
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.
…last week the FBI responded to their Intel being dumped from the President…
FBI ‘found evidence Covid was lab leak but was not allowed to brief president’
The FBI found evidence suggesting that Covid-19 was caused by a lab leak but were not allowed to brief the president, it has been claimed.
Jason Bannan, a doctor of microbiology and former senior scientist at the FBI, has dedicated more than a year of his life to discovering the origins of Covid.
But despite being the only US national intelligence agency to conclude that a lab leak was likely, the FBI and Bannan were snubbed from a National Intelligence Council briefing with Joe Biden, it has been claimed.
Biden had ordered an urgent investigation in May 2021 by US intelligence agencies and national laboratories to identify whether the virus had been transferred from an animal to a human or had escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
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!
Officially 7million died globally but all experts point to the far truer figure of 20 million deaths because of this clusterfuck of Democratic incompetence, corporate greed and One Party corruption.
No wonder no one wants to examine any of this.
While we ponder that, the next pandemic is brewing dangerously in America amongst bird and cow farms.
We were ‘lucky’ that Covid had a low mortality rate, the next pandemic could easily be far worse than Covid and if it is, our system will quickly become over run and shut down from the shear number of dead.
5 years after Covid and we still have few answers and less solutions.
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Was going to say…another China bash, but now our Editor includes the yanks too as maybe having some involvement.
The rational take has to be climate change leading to environmental degradation leading to changed habitats leading to cross species virus transmission. COVID was just the beginning of some very bad shit for humanity.
There is no evidence that Covid was leaked from a Chinese lab. It was obviously weaponized by the Americans, who deployed it against China and Iran for just that reason.
https://www.unz.com/runz/five-years-and-thirty-million-deaths/
Thanks for that Link Mohammed Khan.
Just spent 2 hours reading that link and watching the video links included within it
It is very very very informative from start to finish and I read it with an open mind.
It sure blows the Wuhan lab leak theory right out of the water.
It is scary with what is being experimented with.
You beat me to it. Yeah, its an interesting read, but unlike you, I just perused the majority of it. Ridiculous long piece, but fantastic site Mo. Cheers. Otherwise, this was not a topic that interested me much until I found out that Covid, is indeed, a bio-weapon, but who released it, or how was it released and for what purpose is anybody’s guess.
Well, if it was an intentional leak I saw a movie that created a virus so they could sell the vaccines to cure it and make a shit load of money. But it was probably an accidental lab leak that probably most of the scientific world, across the world, would not want that to be the case. Because, you know, scientists love to experiment. The latest scarey sci Fi scenario way beyond gain-of-function virus manipulation is developing mirror bacteria. Look it up. Another on the horizon is totally synthetic cell development.
I agree with Geoff and AO . Thanks for the reference Mohammed. I had about come to he conclusion that it originated in the US rather than in Wohan long ago. The world wide almost universal response to the outbreak required some massively co ordinated management. A Dutch politician was recently condemned for making the statement that the response was directed by NATO.
What I think has happened is that the virus escaped from an American lab working for the military. They were naturally working on a vaccine in conjunction with the development of the virus, hence it was almost ready when the leak happened , and was given to moderna and PHIZA to manufacture in bulk. But first Fauci/ Barak et all put the virus into the Wohan lab through their co=operative arrangement with that lab, set up after the gain of function research was stopped in the US by Obama following the leak. They then set the virus loose in Wohan probably at the military games event held in Wohan at the ideal time.
By then they were in a panic thinking that the virus was much more deadly than it turned out to be. Perhaps the first mutations were much worse as it seemed to get the Chinese authorities going pretty quick and there seems to have been a high mortality from the first few cases but if so it mutated quickly to become little more deadly than a seasonal flu. Shortening the lives of some very old very sick people by on average about a fortnight.
That origin would explain the almost universal , at least in the West , and simultaneous treatment of the pandemic and the vaccine rollout and mandates in every Western country .In contradiction of protocols previously adopted for the handling of a pandemic.
I wonder if we will ever know for sure. The experimental vaccine surely did not get the testing it needed , and for every government in the western world to mandate it in lockstep with the disastrous effect it is having and the complete ineffectiveness of it to reduce the spread of the virus.
D J S
Another interesting and in this world of batshit crazyness, entirely plausible, theory.
We have not learned anything because we are too busy plying the blame game instead of making sure it never happens again .Why is it so important to find someone to blame 5 years after the event ?.Should we not be planning for it to never happen again?I guess that is too easy so we will have a Jacinda witch hunt and spend millions on it while we disband the team that were working on a prevention response as we speak .
Finding out the origin of COVID-19 is part of the road for it to never happen again. That’s why… investigations , they are not a witch hunt. However it’s increasingly looking like a cover up.
Round 2?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yot3EfLFI0
Conspiracy theories are impossible to extinguish.
Because the evidence to substantiate them is always being hidden from us by them.
Hoho whevr makes you happy. In the 1970s there was a conspiracy theory that one day the multinations would take over the world. Wow…Elon Musk….it’s even worse…
This sort of research is going on all the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if some illiterate Wuhan lab cleaner sold some of the test subjects (bats/pangolins/etc) into the wet markets for a few yuan instead of throwing them into the incinerator
Another plausible theory.
That’s just racist