WHO director admits to prematurely dismissing lab leak theory, says China needs to be more transparent https://www.theblaze.com/news/who-tedros-lab-leak-china After dismissing the lab leak theory and praising China for being so transparent, the director of the World Health Organization changed course on Thursday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted that China had been less than forthcoming about requests for information related to the source of the pandemic and called for their cooperation. He told reporters that the WHO was "asking actually China to be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic." Tedros went on to admit that experts had been too hasty in ruling out the possibility that the coronavirus had leaked from a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan. "I was a lab technician myself, I'm an immunologist, and I have worked in the lab, and lab accidents happen," Tedros explained. "It's common." The lab leak theory had been ridiculed by many experts and those in the media as a right-wing conspiracy theory animated by racial animus against Asians and political expediency. Public opinion turned toward the possibility of the laboratory leak theory after a team of online amateur sleuths trudged through official documents online and undermined the official narrative from China and the Wuhan lab. Scientists and experts were forced to reluctantly admit that there was evidence enough to investigate the hypothesis. In May, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. intelligence community to reassess the lab leak theory. Many accused the WHO and its director for not taking a strong enough stance against China. Some critics have claimed that China aided Tedros' campaign to become WHO's director in 2017 despite his problematic past. In February, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the U.S. had stopped cooperating with the WHO because they believed it had become corrupted. "It had been politicized. It was bending a knee to General Secretary Xi Jinping in China," said Pompeo. "I continue to know that there was significant evidence that this may well have come from that laboratory." Although Tedros asked for greater transparency from China in the investigation for the source of the pandemic, he framed it as an opportunity to exonerate the communist government. "We need information, direct information on what the situation of this lab was before and at the start of the pandemic," the director said. "If we get full information, we can exclude (the lab connection)," he added.
This Ghebreyesus guy is clearly a complete moron. This has dramatically damaged the credibility of the WHO.
Actually, it garners respect. Morons and those who lack credibility, are those that never admit when they were/are wrong. (ex. Trump, Trump voters, Pizzagaters, Qanoners, Space laserers, etc. etc. etc.) Only dummies expect to never be wrong; and never admit to being wrong.
I stated multiple times throughout 2020 that it was possible that COVID-19 leaked from a lab. However I also stated that I do not believe that COVID-19 was bio-engineered as a weapon or deliberately leaked from a lab to infect the world (as was being pushed by many extremists).
Is it true that you also don't believe that the COVID-19 was part of a bio-weapons research program? Relatedly, do you believe China engages in any bioweapons research at all? Or, for that matter, do you believe the US engages in such?
I do not believe that COVID-19 was part of a bio-weapons research program. There are much better diseases to investigate in terms of infectiousness and deadliness than coronaviruses. Both China and the U.S. likely engage in bio-weapons research --- including research on how to defend yourself from bio-weapons attacks. Similar scenario in chemical weapons research.
Do you believe that a nation without nuclear weapons, but performs research on nuclear energy production, can simultaneously be researching nuclear weapons, under the guise of only researching nuclear energy production?