The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy
While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry
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.
After every major pandemic in human history there is social unrest…
“So when our Sickness, and our Poverty Had greater wants than we could well supply; Strict Orders did but more enrage our grief, And hinder in accomplishing relief.”
That’s how the British poet George Wither explained a spreading rebellion against social-distancing rules. Seeing quarantines and lockdowns as unfair and tyrannical punishments, people were taking to the streets. The year was 1625, the place was London, the disease was plague.
…The peasant revolt in the 1300s, the civil unrest in the 1600s and the civil disobedience in the 1900s. The strict measures required to snuff out pandemics always makes the lives of the poorest unliveable, we haven’t seen the full economic and social whiplash of Covid yet, especially amongst small business owners and those who were already vulnerable.
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 year 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.
The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy.
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Yes, very true. Everyone knows COVID was created in Fort Detrick.
Conspiracy theorists are noted for unsuccessfully push their evidence free claims for years. Nothing shifts their convictions because the convictions are reached before evaluating the evidence.Just piling more suspicion upon suspicion and trying to draw tenuous historical parallels is not causal evidence.
The laboratory leak origin is not a theory, it’s a suspicion, a possibility that remains bereft of concrete evidence.
But why bother writing this article? You declared it conclusive victory for the hypothesis a couple of years back.
One thing is certain however. That is, even with all the painful lessons of COVID 19, we are still absolutely unprepared for the next pandemic.
We will be screwed all over again. Especially the poor and vulnerable.
Stupid humans.
“The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy.”
What, is it a left wing conspiracy too?
Let’s stop saying conspiracy.
COVID LEAKED FROM THE WUHAN LAB.
If you want to do some conspiracy analysis then ask, how did covid get to the Wuhan lab?
According to Jeffrey Sachs who led the US enquirey into the origins of covid, it 99% came from a US bioweapons research lab at the University of North Carolina where it was created with US miltary ‘defence’ money.
https://youtu.be/Fnq37QxHSDY?feature=shared
Then ask, why would that bioweapon be sent to a Leaky Lab in China and who would be most affected if the virus leaked from a leaky lab in China?
Then ask, if you wanted to use a bioweapon against an economically threatening adversary and have plausible deniability how could that be done?
Its relatively simple, Joseph. We are talking about research here, yeah we can argue over how dangerous, or not, this research may have been, but ultimately,, its just research. Now, back in Obama’s day, he put a temporary halt to this type of research, mainly because the main lab doing this work, Fort Detrick, leaked like a sieve. Thus, this type of research was offshored during this period, Wuhan being the most well known lab to receive this research. So, the US basically continued their research, but now out of the Wuhan lab. The French also worked on whatever they were doing out of this same lab. So, cooperation between labs, all over the world is relatively common and what I am outlining here is relatively easy to still find also. In short, there’s no big mystery here,the origins of Covid and whether it was a lab leak, and whether it leaked from the Wuhan lab, or not, aside…nobody knows and I am not sure if it matters anyway.
Another aside, Wuhan is an amazing city – architecturally speaking, 10m+ population, hi-tech, super modern joint.
“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.”
Lucky with Covid? Hardly.
A low *acute* mortality rate.. does not account for the damage the illness does, particularly from repeat infections, nor do we know what post acute mortality rates will look like for a virus that’s mechanistically similar in protein function to HIV1.. a virus evolutionarily turbo-charged via ribosomal frameshifting.
Never mind that SARS2 binds to the ACE2 RBD.. a receptor that happens to be prolific in all vital organs and vascular system.. or that SARS2 directly enters privileged systems like the brain and central nervous system infecting every subsystem in it’s wake – a short goodbye to your cancer preventing t-cells and brief hello to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, *AIDS*. Glymphatic system not taking the trash out.. who cares? It’s not like you’re going to remember much of anything once Lewy Body Dementia sets in. Living with ALS? Not for long.
The lab leak was suspected at the beginning of the epidemic, then quickly turned into a conspiracy theory, then eventually morphed into the received knowledge now that it’s almost certainly a lab leak. A lab leak suits no one because if it was proven 100% not only would China and the US (as joint partners in these gain of function experiments) be culpable all ‘risky’ lab experiments would have to be under the hammer to stop. They would have to re write a lot of the rules for gain-of-function experiments, which are continuing apace as well as god knows what they do in these labs. The science community probably don’t want that scrutiny or to put the breaks on what lay people would consider very risky experiments. Another reason it’s almost certainly a lab leak is because if it was a natural species jump they would have identified the source by now.
The lab leak theory relies on one main detail: ignoring the biology of the virus. Most experts in that area have said repeatedly that there are clear signs the of zoonotic origin which could not be faked.
The evidence for a lab leak hasn’t changed since 2021, and there is a paucity of actual evidence for it – mostly just vague probabilistic evidence, none of which accounts for what virologists who work in this specific area say.
So, who are you going to believe if there’s no more evidence? The people who can show specific biological evidence for zoonotic origin likelihood, or people who’re often highly motivated to make a legal-type case for something by lumping lots of low quality evidence together in a group? Remove the “it’s gotta be man made” tinted glasses and you’ll see what real experts on viruses have said all along. Their views haven’t changed because the best evidence has not changed.
I don’t see why it matters, tbh. If it was a lab leak, that doesn’t alter the fact that wild animals represent a reservoir from which viruses can readily transfer to people, or mutate to infect people instead. If it was a transmission from wild animals, that doesn’t alter the fact that efforts to prevent lab leaks are important. Whipping up Sinophobia did not save the life of anyone with a lethal case of COVID.
The lab leak theory relies on one main detail: ignoring the biology of the virus. Most experts in that area have said repeatedly that there are clear signs the of zoonotic origin which could not be faked.
The evidence for a lab leak hasn’t changed since 2021, and there is a paucity of actual evidence for it – mostly just vague probabilistic evidence, none of which accounts for what virologists who work in this specific area say.
So, who are you going to believe if there’s no more evidence? The people who can show specific biological evidence for zoonotic origin likelihood, or people who’re often highly motivated to make a legal-type case for something by lumping lots of low quality evidence together in a group? Remove the “it’s gotta be man made” tinted glasses and you’ll see what real experts on viruses have said all along. Their views haven’t changed because the best evidence has not changed.