Well, gee wiz, only well over two years too late
WHO now says theory that COVID-19 leaked from Chinese lab should be studied more
Over two years after the coronavirus was first detected in China, and after at least 6.3 million deaths have been counted worldwide from the pandemic, the World Health Organization is recommending in its strongest terms yet that a deeper probe is required into whether a lab accident may be to blame.
That stance marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the pandemic’s origins, and comes after many critics accused WHO of being too quick to dismiss or underplay a lab-leak theory that put Chinese officials on the defensive.
WHO concluded last year that it was “extremely unlikely” COVID-19 might have spilled into humans in the city of Wuhan from a lab. Many scientists suspect the coronavirus jumped into people from bats, possibly via another animal.
Yet in a report released Thursday, WHO’s expert group said “key pieces of data” to explain how the pandemic began were still missing. The scientists said the group would “remain open to any and all scientific evidence that becomes available in the future to allow for comprehensive testing of all reasonable hypotheses.”
Let’s see, a virus that flew around the world within months, that tended to primarily kill the old and people of all ages with pre-existing conditions, kept people sick for long periods of time, spun out many variants, and, according to the sources, didn’t kill Chinese people that much, tending to affect those in the 1st World, Russia, and South America. But, hey, right, it’s because someone in a wet market at a bat or something. And somehow ended up on cruise ships in the Caribbean quickly? No way it came from a lab, right?
WHO’s expert group also noted that since lab accidents in the past have triggered some outbreaks, the highly politicized theory could not be discounted.
Jean-Claude Manuguerra, a co-chair of the 27-member international advisory group, acknowledged that some scientists might be “allergic” to the idea of investigating the lab leak theory, but said they needed to be “open-minded” enough to examine it.
It’s not like there have been previous lab leaks from the Wuhan facility. Or that China pressured WHO to dismiss the notion of a lab leak. Or that there’s lots of evidence for a lab leak.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speculated repeatedly — without evidence — that COVID-19 was started in a Chinese lab. He also accused WHO of “ colluding” with China to cover up the initial outbreak, citing the U.N. health agency’s continued public praise of the country despite China’s refusal to share crucial data.
Without evidence. There was no evidence it came from a bad meal. And, with the Wuhan Institute of Virology right down the road, which seems more likely?
To investigate whether COVID-19 might have been the result of a lab accident, WHO’s experts said interviews should be conducted “with the staff in the laboratories tasked with managing and implementing biosafety and biosecurity.”
Yeah, well, good luck, because you can bet the labs have been sterilized of anything related to coronaviruses and the staff will have been threatened to keep their mouths shut.
Teach
WHO never in the past said that the virus did not escape from thst lab. They did say thst PROBABLY it jumped from a bat to another animal and then to humans. Viruses regularly do this. Bird flu swine flu ebola are all examples. The “experts” jumping on WHO “suddenly” changing are the same ones who: repeatedly told us that vovid was no big deal just something the Dems were promoting to hurt Trump, that covid would magically disappear in April 2021 when the weather got warmer, that it was no worse than the regular seasonal flu, that masks and vaccinations weren’t necessary, that covid only killed people with other diseases (90% of all Ameticans over 65 take daily perscription drugs 55% take 4 or more drugs each day), that ivermectin would reduce covid death rates, drinking Bleach or shining a UV light inside you would kill covid (just like on a countrrtop?)
Bloomberg.com
Jun 27 2021
Michelle Cortez
The Last and Only Foreugn Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out.
This article is about an Ametican who works there.
But, but, but, we were told that that’s just wrong, that the successors to Chairman Mao would never, ever, do anything wrong like that!
China has been trying to walk the tightrope balancing Communist authoritarianism with the market power of capitalism. Today, Dear Leader for Life Xi and his ruling buds have closed China from the rest of the world, ostensibly to stop the spread of Covid. To this end they have enacted brutal shutdowns/lockdowns.
This appears to be in the Chinese DNA. From 1958 to 1962, Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward policy led to the deaths of up to 45 million people – the biggest episode of mass murder ever recorded.
Was the spread of Covid the result of a laboratory release, either accidental or deliberate? It’s unlikely but unknown.
WHO has given up on pretending that the Wuhan Laboratory was not the source of the virus.
But they think they can still pull off the hoax that it was a lab accident, and cover up the fact that it was done deliberately.
Let alone who did it deliberately. Was it the CCP for their own internal political reasons, or for a way to disrupt world trade? Or was it elites like Fauci who wanted to make a fortune off of their patents? Or was it US Democrats who wanted to disrupt the 2020 election and create an opportunity for rampant vote fraud?
Or some combination of them all?
Or aliens from the planet Xortron to weaken Earthlings for their eventual farming as Xortronian food?
Proof you have nothing useful or relevant to say.
When caught in lies and deception, defaults to random nonsense.
Joe Anon,
Go fuck yourself, moron. We were mocking your ridiculous and random bullshit.
And what exactly was that load of crap you typed??
WHO has given up on pretending that the Wuhan Laboratory was not the source of the virus. That is not true, liar.
But they think they can still pull off the hoax that it was a lab accident, and cover up the fact that it was done deliberately. Do you have even one tiny shred of evidence to support that the pandemic was “done deliberately”? Or was a lab accident?
Let alone who did it deliberately. Was it the CCP for their own internal political reasons, or for a way to disrupt world trade? If you can show even one tiny shred of evidence to support your thesis this question makes sense.
Or was it elites like Fauci who wanted to make a fortune off of their patents? How much is Dr Fauci projected to make off his patents?
Or was it US Democrats who wanted to disrupt the 2020 election and create an opportunity for rampant vote fraud? The only vote fraud proven was GOPher vote fraud. Did you hear today that trump operatives had access to the Georgia voting machines?
Or some combination of them all? So moron, do you have evidence supporting even one of these silly ideas?
Didn’t think so.
Funny how Rimjob can call others liars and simply not supply any proof of such…
#LiarsAndKiddieDiddlers
#LetsGoBrandon
Bwaha! Lolgf
He is such a clown that he makes reference to WHO.
Why did Biden continue funding the Wuhan lab for almost 3yrars before this leak might have occurred????
Oooppp sorry my bad
That funding was occurring under our Dear ex Leader Trump