Obviously, this is not the first report. There have been plenty of those. This one just seems to be making it more official, having moved from a conspiracy theory to a “you know, this kinda makes sense” conspiracy theory, to a “this is likely true” theory
There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China’s attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.
This may be the “costliest government cover-up of all time,” one of the sources said.
The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus – a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there – was bat-to-human and that “patient zero” worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.
The “increasing confidence†comes from classified and open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has requested to see the evidence directly. Sources emphasized — as is often the case with intelligence — that it’s not definitive and should not be characterized as such. Some inside the administration and the intelligence and epidemiological communities are more skeptical, and the investigation is continuing.
Everyone pretty much knew that the lab was doing risky research, and gave known that for a long time. There’s reasonable certainty that both Sars and N1H1 escaped from the lab. To what purpose? Labs doing research on viruses and such all over the world. Some look to weaponize them
U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Consider this
Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern
Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University, who also serves on the research and development advisory board for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, plotted the rates of new coronavirus infections of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain. The numbers told a shocking story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way. In the exact, same, way. His graphs show that all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week.
The Wuhan Virus follows its own pattern, he told Mako, an Israeli news agency. It is a fixed pattern that is not dependent on freedom or quarantine. “There is a decline in the number of infections even [in countries] without closures, and it is similar to the countries with closures,â€Â he wrote in his paper.
“Is the coronavirus expansion exponential? The answer by the numbers is simple: no. Expansion begins exponentially but fades quickly after about eight weeks,†Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel concluded. The reason why coronavirus follows a fixed pattern is yet unknown. “I have no explanation,†he told Mako, “There are is kinds of speculation: maybe it’s climate-related, maybe the virus has its own life cycle.â€
Let’s speculate: the Wuhan lab was messing around with it, playing around, changing it, and it got out. Let’s go further, as many have suggested: they intentionally created an easily transferred virus which would create panic and destroy the economies of 1st World nations before just fading away. Which seems to be happening right now.
Another theory being bandied about is that it was meant to kill off the elderly and sickly in China, a nation which has never been overly concerned with its people, especially ones that the State has to take care of, considering the massive population. But, it got out by accident. Or, maybe not.
Or, perhaps it was meant to decimate 1st World Nations. One has to wonder just how it spread like it did so easily. Maybe they knew that most would get sick but not die, and China would get to sell ventilators, test kits, and so forth to nations. This is China we’re talking about, and their intentions are not honorable.
Virus with funny cartoonish name has now killed more than 30,000 Americans
In the last 6 weeks, after Trump’s strong reassurance of February
Only after NY added 3700 deaths of people who were never tested and only suspected of dying from bat soup flu. Other places are also doing this. I would bet that the real number has’t surpassed 20,000 yet.
And, even if accurate, this is still less than the number who die every year from the flu.
Actually, it’s probably a lot less. We’ve gone over this, but some people are too ignorant to listen.
At least half, maybe more, died from something else.
Toldja.
Someday John, maybe you’ll understand the difference between “reassurance” and Hope! Trump as the President has the job of keeping Americans hopeful in a country inhabited by people like you who relish in the deaths of your neighbors as long as you perceive it as hurting Trump. You are a cruel, unfeeling slob.
Beside that little parcel of truth, Nighthawk hit on a fact which our Fake News Media conveniently ignore (I guess they’r too busy pushing the pro-China line) which is PEOPLE ARE COOKING THE BOOKS FOR POLITICAL REASONS. Or haven’t you noticed the numbers don’t work or listened to the “experts” explaining how they do it?
We don’t expect Trump (or any human) to be always correct but you clowns insist he’s always wrong. Either would be a miracle for a human. But in your tiny partisan closed mind ANYTHING Trump says or does is wrong. Period.
Hey John, CHINA LIED and bought it because you hate Trump more than you love the Truth!
Apparently, Taiwan sent an email in December to the WHO warning them about the occurrence of a new disease in China and asking for more information. That information being investigated that early in the game could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Instead, Taiwan was ignored.
Remember, by mid-January, despite these warnings, the WHO was still insisting that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. They hadn’t pushed China or sounded the alarm at all, instead letting the communist nation essentially write the press releases being put out. Even when it became clear China had lied and covered up the outbreak, the WHO still accepted their information as fact, something they are continuing to do to this day.
Perhaps the worst part of this regarding Taiwan is how they’ve been treated by people like Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and his lackeys. An official from the WHO literally hung up on an Asian journalist not controlled by China’s state party because she asked about Taiwan. These people are so deep in the pocket of the Chinese that they can’t see daylight out the top.
Sadly none of this matters to the Democom party or people like John or Elwood. They are more interested in seeing as many Americans die as it takes to make Trump look bad and win an election. And BTW, the lies you are seeing about America having the most people infected is a lie. Red China has about 60,000,000 infected that they won’t admit and over 50,000 dead. And that does not include the doctors, nurses and staff people who were “disappeared” by the communist government for “talking”. Elwoods comrades know how to deal with disloyalty. He’s lucky we don’t do that here.
Trump 2020 He’s not always right but unlike Democoms he’s also not always wrong
This, of course, is why the Chinese had no qualms about reopening the wet markets. They knew the markets weren’t a threat.