Sunday, May 10, 2020

The Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Doesn't Add Up. It's Also a Self-Defeating Diversion.

https://thewire.in/world/the-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-doesnt-add-up-its-also-a-self-defeating-diversion


The standard narrative has  been that the virus originated in an animal and seafood market some 30 kms away from the  Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) where the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is housed. Speaking to Fox News on April 15, Pompeo remarked that the wet market and the WIV were a “handful of miles away,” and that the US was “working diligently to figure it out.”
Subsequently, right-wing American publications and some tabloids began to run stories claiming that the outbreak originated in the lab. More extreme ones like the Washington Times even claimed in late January that the coronavirus may have originated in a lab linked to China’a biowarfare programme.
 
A detailed  analysis in NPR has suggested that “there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as a result of a laboratory accident.” After consulting 10 leading scientists who do the work of collecting samples of viruses from animals and understand how lab accidents happen, the NPR concluded that “an accidental release would have required a remarkable series of coincidences and deviations from well established experimental protocols.”

2 comments :

  1. Kalonymus HaQatanMay 10, 2020 at 6:56 PM

    This article doesn't add up.
    Dr Fauci simply said that if the bat virus escaped from the lab, it's still a wild virus. (Yes, collected from the bat cave by the bat Woman).
    In that scenario, had the virus not been collected and played with, it might not have reached humans.
    It's not self defeating, Chinese cooperation will not happen either way.

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  2. Kalonymus HaQatanMay 10, 2020 at 8:23 PM

    The claim that the virus pre-existed in France is false propaganda, French athletes were at Wuhan Military Games in October, just after the alleged incident at the wuhan labs. They state that they picked up the virus whilst in Wuhan.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8291755/Did-European-athletes-catch-coronavirus-competing-World-Military-Games-Wuhan-OCTOBER.html

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