Politics China, possibly the biggest cover-up in World History

This story is gaining a lot of traction in the media. Figured it qualifies for its own thread.


Intelligence officials weigh possibility coronavirus escaped from a Chinese lab

WASHINGTON — Although the the U.S. intelligence community early on dismissed the notion that the coronavirus is a synthesized bioweapon, it is still weighing the possibility that the pandemic might have been touched off by an accident at a research facility rather than by an infection from a live-animal market, according to nine current and former intelligence and national security officials familiar with ongoing investigations.

After extensive research, scientists in the U.S. and elsewhere have determined that the new strain of the coronavirus discovered in China in December is, as Chinese officials have maintained, of natural origin, but they are taking seriously that its route to human infection may have started in a lab in Wuhan.

“It’s definitely a real possibility being bandied about at the high levels of the administration,” said one of the sources, who has knowledge of China and national security.


A technician works to produce vaccines for the H1N1 flu virus at a lab in Wuhan, China, in June 2009. (Reuters/China Daily)
“We are actively and vigorously tracking down every piece of information we get on this topic and we are writing frequently to update policymakers,” an intelligence official told Yahoo News. The intelligence community “has not come down on any one theory.”


https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/inte...rus-escaped-from-a-chinese-lab-194958353.html

 

Sources believe coronavirus originated in Wuhan lab as part of China's efforts to compete with US


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources


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"Ryan Saavedra - In early 2017, he wrote for far-right conspiracy website The Gateway Pundit. Later in 2017, he became editor and writer for Breitbart News.[3][4] While at Breitbart News, he focused primarily on stories about crimes by Latino immigrants,[2] and also promoted Murder of Seth Rich conspiracy theories.[2]

In 2017, after a London terrorist attack by Islamist terrorists, he wrote, "People think I’m kidding when I say this but the crusades need to come back."[3][4] He left Breitbart News shortly thereafter.[2]

Later in 2017, he became contributor to both The Daily Caller and The Daily Wire.[2] He was accused of plagiarism (posting slightly altered versions of the same stories to both websites) and left The Daily Caller shortly thereafter.[2] He has subsequently been accused by other conservative writers of plagiarizing both tweets and stories"

I don't know what happened in China although I have read a few articles that argue the nature of the virus make it likely it was naturally occurring

I'm really skeptical about these "sources" and the timing of the rumors as it would be real convenient for trump and his acolytes to spend lots of time yapping about evil China. But then I remember all the bullshit about WMD's in Iraq.

none of that is to excuse China from blame. But it doesn't make a damn bit of difference where the virus originated in terms of how trump has responded. It's irrelevant in that regard

 

I heard it sprang upon the world from the ultra secret "covfefe" cult.

 

Okay, what about Washington Post, yahoo news and the New York Times? They’ve all reported on this as well.

 

The 1% has probably decided this is the only way to transition to a totally robotic workforce....they just needed to make sure poor people could still go out and buy shit the robots are making for them

 

isn't that how Sly made it into the world?

 

From the reports, patient zero supposedly worked in the lab and got infected.

 

Has nothing to do with Trump fans. New York Times and other various news outlets care about this as well.

Don’t you want to know if China purposely did this?

 

but what did they report?

was it all based upon the same leaks from the same anonymous "intelligence officials"

I mean, I'm reading the yahoo article and wondering if it's the same as the other reports. Maybe it's correct and will be shown to be true. But as I said I remember the WMD stories and how essentially the same rumors propagated across several news organizations at the same time, and it was all bullshit and never supported with evidence

and again, it has no bearing on how trump's white house has reacted to the pandemic. Whether it's from a lab or from a wet market doesn't matter right now. it got here and the US story goes from that point (and before)

but it's just about guaranteed now that the right wing universe will try desperately to make this the big story

 

The yahoo article was yesterday. It’s the first article I posted. Let me find the others.

 

I'm not trying to pick a fight here....I think China is a threat in any event; I don't trust them at all. I just don't see much reason to focus on this possibility right now. Do the investigation sure.

 

I’m hoping our government can walk and chew gum. I’m sure more reporting on this will come out in the coming days.