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NEW: Major Senate Report Finds Two Lab Leaks Caused the COVID Pandemic, Cites Far Earlier Timeline
Red State ^ | 04/18/2023 | Bonchie

Posted on 04/18/2023 8:58:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new comprehensive US Senate report on the origins of COVID-19 is pointing to at least two different lab leaks ultimately causing the worldwide pandemic. According to Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS), a lack of change in operations by both the Chinese and the United States could lead to another outbreak as well.

While speaking to reporters (Just the News), Marshall bemoaned the fact that gain-of-function research was being done at the Wuhan facility and noted that there’s no indication that China has changed its procedures. US money is still flowing to Chinese labs despite the communist state’s attempts to cover up its role in starting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another interesting aspect of the report is when the first leak allegedly occurred. It sets the timeline back much further than originally suspected.

“This report concludes most likely this was two leaks,” Marshall said during a briefing with reporters ahead of the release of the report. “The possibility of a lab leak in the September-October [2019] time frame, even as early as July or August, was followed by vaccine development in November 2019. And then another lab leak seems to be the most sensible explanation in this retrospective review.”

The report suggests that China could have been covering up a leak as far back as July or August of 2019. That’s determined by the fact that the Chinese began vaccine development in November of 2019, according to documents obtained by Marshall and other senators. The supposition past that is because the virus didn’t start spreading until early 2020, another leak must have occurred at the unsecured Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The report further determined that gain-of-function research was occurring in Wuhan despite US legal prohibitions against it.

The report determined that the U.S. government was funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“I think we’re in no better shape today than we were a year ago, three years ago, as far as I’m concerned,” Marshall said in response to a question from Just the News.

“There’s nothing proving to me that they’re doing this type of research in BSL-4 labs,” he continued. “Their own documents continue to show that they’re understaffed, that they don’t have the right facilities to do it in, a huge concern. That’s why we’ve been calling for a halt in all viral gain-of-function research until we get the guardrails around it.”

That part of this saga would seem to implicate Dr. Anthony Fauci, who signed off on the research while skipping over a normally required review by an NIH board. Fauci continues to publicly mislead on the matter, insisting that gain-of-function research isn’t actually gain-of-function research. For its part, EcoHealth Alliance, which received the grant used in Wuhan, was allowed to change the definition to avoid scrutiny.

As Marshall points out, there’s nothing that has been done to ensure that gain-of-function research is only done in BSL-4 labs, and there’s every indication that another outbreak could originate in China. That’s unfathomable given everything we know today, but for reasons which have long been speculated on, the Biden administration appears completely subservient to Xi Jinping and the Chinese government.



TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 201010; 201907; 201908; 201910; bcw; bsl4; btw; china; chinavirus; chineselabs; covid; fauci; gainoffunction; gof; kungflu; lableak; senate; wiv; wuhan; wuhanflu

1 posted on 04/18/2023 8:58:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Now that the Neocon Ukraine Project has failed, we’re now getting ready for a new war with China, hence it’s NOW ok to tell the truth about the origins of the virus.


2 posted on 04/18/2023 9:09:23 PM PDT by BobL
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To: SeekAndFind

AND the world will be buying trillions of dollars worth of solar panels and lithium batteries for the brave new green utopia of next Tuesday...


3 posted on 04/18/2023 9:10:54 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember hearing reports in late Summer of 2019 of a rare pneumonia going around (I wish someone could look that up). I went to Israel in October 2019 and caught a nasty bug. I think I gave it to my mom when I returned and she almost died at 88. She had pneumonia and sepsis.


4 posted on 04/18/2023 9:25:55 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animal are equal. Some are more equal than others.")
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To: SeekAndFind
Gain of functions research is dual use technology - meaning the technology has both civilian and military applications. The military side of the field is known as Bio Weapons development.

The techniques and procedures for bio weapons development are virtually indistinguishable from gain of functions research except for the fact that bio weapons research is done under very tight controls and protocols and is supervised under the codes of military discipline.

Gain of function is done under the totally uncontrolled, unsupervised and undisciplined conditions of academic research which is obviously much more dangerous.

The big question is why are Chinese researchers being trained in cutting edge bio warfare technology in American Universities and why are American tax dollars being used to transfer that bio weapons technology to China with the goal to establish US funded bio weapons research facilities in China. These US funded programs are being used to conduct US funded Chinese bio warfare related research using the technology we transferred to them. ?

5 posted on 04/18/2023 9:27:03 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: BobL

It was meant to get Trump.


6 posted on 04/18/2023 9:29:56 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

related:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4145913/posts

Graphika, a tiny company given $7 million in DOD grants/contracts, somehow knew to start monitoring & mass reporting online “conspiracy theories” and dissent about Covid-19 before WHO officially learned about Covid on Dec 31, 2019.


7 posted on 04/18/2023 9:34:31 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

SARS-CoV-2, probably released in late May 2019, in Chinese communities within Italy, by mid-summer 2019. Diagnosed as “a summer flu.”

Probably already in the U.S.A. by September 2019.

- my guess


8 posted on 04/18/2023 9:36:13 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
My wife and I think she may have had the virus months before the thing became "news"

She had the symptoms of it.

9 posted on 04/18/2023 11:37:47 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: SeekAndFind

herself once the coronavirus pandemic hit, even referring to allegations that it leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — the very lab she expressed concerns about — as racist.

She even went so far as to blame the allegations for attacks on Asian-Americans, without any evidence supporting her claim....


10 posted on 04/19/2023 12:40:47 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SeekAndFind

“part of this saga would seem to implicate Dr Anthony Fauci” who approved gain of function


11 posted on 04/19/2023 12:57:16 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind

“Fauci continues to publicly mislead on the matter, insisting that gain-of-function research isn’t actually gain-of-function research.”
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“Mislead?” The guy is a lying sack of schit, including lying under oath to Congress. He should be stripped of his medical license and pension for lying, and thrown in prison for life for his part in crimes against humanity.


12 posted on 04/19/2023 1:34:40 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: linMcHlp

Merely gossip, but a friend who lived by the Port of Los Angeles said people there were getting sick in Fall 2019. Given the volume of shipping from China, this seems plausible to me.


13 posted on 04/19/2023 2:10:50 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“This report concludes most likely this was two leaks,”

Deliberate spread...not “leak”.


14 posted on 04/19/2023 3:22:27 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: rdcbn1

“The techniques and procedures for bio weapons development are virtually indistinguishable from gain of functions research except for the fact that bio weapons research is done under very tight controls and protocols and is supervised under the codes of military discipline.”

Not necessarily military discipline, but done in strict compliance with Institutional Biological Safety Procedures as regulated by government. Where in the U.S. such work is done in Biosafety Level 4 labs (moonsuits and airlocks etc.) in China it was done in BSL2 labs (basically a lab bench with a fume hood in street clothes with a labcoat). I’m sure any US grant money to China for this research came with safety restrictions but were simply ignored.


15 posted on 04/19/2023 3:50:30 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


16 posted on 04/19/2023 4:23:58 AM PDT by DocRock
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To: SeekAndFind
How pathetic. Will the Senate be investigating how many of them wanted to destroy those saying this early on? Maybe Senators even colluded with big tech to violate the freedom of speech rights of those who had the correct information?
17 posted on 04/19/2023 4:29:58 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: BobL

We have no chance against China using conventional warfare. And mutually assured destruction isnt a good option either. The US military has become an embarrassment...and its not a slight against the folks serving...theyre being set up for failure.


18 posted on 04/19/2023 5:59:26 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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