So they came out today saying the Wuhan lab is innoncent and extremely unlikely to be the origin of the virus. Nice to know. Counter argument: "The WHO also investigated the 1977 Russian Flu, and concluded that Laboratory contamination can be excluded because the laboratories concerned either had never kept H1N1 virus or had not worked with it for a long time. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2395678/pdf/bullwho00443-0095.pdf But later studies showed that the virus was near-identical to a strain from 1950, without the expected mutations that should have occurred if the virus had been circulating undetected in a human or animal host for 20-30 years. Back before lab escapes were a polarizing political topic, the scientific consensus was sufficiently in favor of a lab origin that the NEJM--which has the highest impact factor of any medical journal--casually wrote: The reemergence was probably an accidental release from a laboratory source in the setting of waning population immunity to H1 and N1 antigens https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0904322 So it's funny to see people claiming there's no precedent for a lab accident to start a pandemic. Not only is there a likely precedent for that, but there's also a precedent for the WHO to exclude the possibility at the time." "On top of that we already know that WHO isn't making adequate assessments as they have said that there was no evidence the virus was spreading before December 2019. We have concrete evidence that people were being diagnosed prior to that. There are US satellite images showing that hospital capacity was increasing from late Summer in Wuhan. This is literally a slap in the face to an independent investigation its insane. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52975934"
I thought everyone knew by now COVID-19 came to China from imported salmon. https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1191462.shtml
Read some wild theories were pushed by the chinese propaganda machine but ur link is not working. Kindda surprised after the WHO got Full Access in Wuhan (jokers) they didn´t come to the conclusion Covid was planted there by the US
The link works for me, and I copied the article in the quote for the benefit of those blocked by the CCP.
So WHO is full of shit. Who? Yes, WHO. Ah, what? WHO. Who? Correct. Makes about as much sense as the organization itself. Idiots. Strike that. They're making easy money pretending to care. Genius.
Reddit quote: "To your first point I don't think people believe it was engineered, just that it was being studied there and was released through poor protocols. Even the idea of poorly disposing of testing animals could be possible and shouldn't be dismissed. Is it not possible that they hadn't sequenced the virus before it was incorrectly disposed of? If that happened a year to doctor records is fine. Not that I think he is part of a conspiracy but what would you say to the following: His team has said there is no evidence that the Virus was in Wuhan before December 2019. US satellite images and internet tracking show that Hospitals were increasing in capacity drastically starting October 2019 in Wuhan and that internet searches for COVID-19 related symptoms spiked around the same time China has been pushing the frozen meat theory with no evidence, but WHO says it is a credible theory with no evidence why is that different? WHO is now moving its investigation to South East Asia and has said in their press conference it didn't start in Wuhan, why did no other country in South East Asia experience a similar outbreak except Wuhan?"
Thanks, just noticed it opens fine from my mobile, the Global Times is an official part of the chinese propaganda machine btw, so not blocked in China ( from memory, I live in Europe now)
So, of all the 1000's of wet markets in China, the coronavirus just happens to show up at one in the only city in China to have a BL4 lab.