WHO inquiry chief 'had concerns' about lab close to first Covid cases

Post by camhart » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:03 PM UTC

TooKool4This wrote: post #77

908B64B197 wrote: post #12

Remember when the previous administration suggested looking into the Lab Leak theory and was laughed at? Remember how you would get banned from Facebook for suggesting that the lab leak theory was a possibility? Then major social networks and the medias reversed their positions. What changed in the meantime, other than the president?

> Remember when the previous administration suggested looking into the Lab Leak theory and was laughed at? Remember when the head of the previous administration thought injecting disinfectants or UV light was a possible solution to Covid? The problem with trust and credibility is that once it’s lost, it’s very hard to gain back. Even if the broken clock is right twice a day, it’s still broken.

Post by stvswn » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #83

Phil_Latio wrote: post #50

Everyone with common sense must assume that a lab which does experiments on Corona viruses is the most likely source and not the food market nearby. It's really that simple...

The lab was located there because the wet markets and local bat population have been a historical epicenter of respiratory diseases.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:09 PM UTC

jerry1979 wrote: post #130

abakker wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, but the purpose of the narrative is not to compare whether we are doing the same thing. It is to blame China for the pandemic. TBH, if we did the same thing, I expect the rest of the world would blame us. That said, it seems pretty unproductive at this point to blame anyone, but it does seem productive to avoid it happening again.

Do we need to actually blame them, as such? Or is it more important to memorialize the mistake so we can learn from our history?

Post by refenestrator » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:12 PM UTC

athenot wrote: post #131

refenestrator wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would the US react to a foreign-led investigation of us?

Probably very similarly. If the EU Commission tried to lead an investigation of some major disaster potentially originating in the US, cooperative is not the word I'd use to describe how it would go. Sadly.

Post by timbo1642 » Fri, Aug 13, 2021, 9:17 PM UTC

cm2187 wrote: post #63

causi wrote: post #26

I'm not skilled enough in the biomedical background to evaluate the various genetics-based articles written for or against natural-origin and lab-origin hypotheses. As a layman, however, I find the degree to which the Chinese government has stomped all over foreign-led investigations into the origin of SARS-Cov-2 to be highly, highly suspicious.

To be honest the only way we will ever know is if the chinese would share the genomes of the viruses they stored in their lab, but who would trust them to do that? The express drive-by the WHO did in china served absolutely no purpose. I am ready to bet that all samples have been destroyed and the staff briefed (warned). I would even suspect the samples have not even been analysed by the Chinese themselves as it is b…