That statement makes the guy below happy, so happy that he’s willing to give those scientists grants for future study. Just don’t stray from the party line, comrades.
Posted on 12/10/2021 10:20:08 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery.
Most scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorize it escaped from a Chinese lab.
Now, with the global COVID-19 death toll surpassing 5.2 million on the second anniversary of the earliest human cases, a growing chorus of scientists is trying to keep the focus on what they regard as the more plausible “zoonotic,” or animal-to-human, theory, in the hope that what’s learned will help humankind fend off new viruses and variants.
“The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the journal Cell in August laying out evidence for animal origin.
But further investigation is stymied by superpower politics. Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown University said there has been a “bare-knuckles fight” between China and the United States.
Still, Gostin said there’s one positive development that has come out of the investigation.
WHO has formed an advisory group to look into the pandemic’s origins. And Gostin said that while he doubts the panel will solve the mystery, “they will have a group of highly qualified scientists ready to be deployed in an instant in the next pandemic.”
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No. It doesn't.
Fauci animal.
The Chinese gov said it came from Maine lobsters 😆
Most scientists believe it emerged in the wild and jumped from bats to humans, either directly or through another animal. Others theorize it escaped from a Chinese lab.
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Please ignore the remarkable coincidence that a level-4 virus lab just happened to be in Wuhan.
It came from bats that lived far away from Wuhan. Then the bats flew to Wuhan and played with gain of function research at the virology laboratory. They took the manipulated virus to a wet market, dropped it on some food and flew back home.
It appeared first in Wuhan. That is evidence enough.
“The Associated Press” Says it all. No need to read further.
That statement makes the guy below happy, so happy that he’s willing to give those scientists grants for future study. Just don’t stray from the party line, comrades.
Among other things, this means that we will never achieve "herd immunity".
Perhaps because I’m not a virologist I don’t get it. So many indirect pieces of evidence it was from the lab:
Was in middle of Winter when bats don’t fly, bats associated with the virus 900 miles away. Bats don’t even like cities.
Lab requested enhanced air ventilation system weeks before the outbreak
Satellite imagery showed greatly increased parking lot use at Wuhan labs even at night, in days before outbreak
Increased cell phone usage same time
Some of first victims worked at lab
Chinese virologist took bat samples from the “guano mine” that killed miners and sent to Wuhan
Some Chinese whistleblowers like Meng Li (name?) Yan testified the virus was engineered and released intentionally
Failure of Chinese authorities to cooperate
Chinese authorities destroyed evidence, deleted data
Chinese whistleblowers “disappeared”
Proven ability to hide genetic engineering
Many previous safety leaks at Chinese labs
Probably as many I’ve forgotten that I’ve listed here…..
That was my automatic response as well.
Referring to the Chinese Communists as “animals” is racist….but I’m okay with that.
Take a look at this marionette’s bio—and tell me how you can be surprised that he jumps when his strings are pulled:
https://cellvolution.org/stephen-goldstein.html
Anyone who doesn’t understand it came from the Wuhan lab also thinks masks work and that Fauci is a real scientist.
More AP disinformation. I’m sure Fauci is pleased.
The AP selling the CCP line.
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