Following discussions on the origins of Covid among the G7 leaders in Cornwall on Saturday, Dominic Raab has said that on the “balance of probabilities” the U.K. Government does not believe in the lab leak theory. It is “much more likely”, he added, that the virus “jumped” from animals to humans. The MailOnline has the story.
Asked if he had been involved in G7 discussions about the lab leak theory, [the Foreign Secretary] told Sky News: “I haven’t personally but of course it has created part of the backdrop and officials have been comparing notes on this.
“If you are asking me whether we think on the balance of probabilities, if you like, that it originated in a lab, our best information for now is that it didn’t.
“But we don’t have all of the answers, that is why internationally we wanted the review to be able to go into to get all of the answers, to have all the cooperation, so we have the full picture rather than these possible, potential, plausible options.
“But on balance we do not believe that it came from a laboratory. We think it is much more likely to have jumped if you like from animals to humans.”
A recent report by the Wall Street Journal, citing a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report, claimed three researchers from the Wuhan lab sought hospital care in November 2019.
The report, which provided fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits, sparked renewed calls for a probe into whether the virus came from a lab.
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General of the World Health Organisation, says that all hypotheses on the origins of Covid remain “open“.
The MailOnline report is worth reading in full.
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One of Parliament’s youngest MPs has received her first dose of the Covid vaccine.
Dehenna Davison, the Conservative MP for Bishop Auckland, tweeted a selfie adding: “Massive props and respec to me main mans Matt Hancock, Kate Bingham, and everyone dem working on the vaccination rollout ting for reaching we 25-29 year olds so quickly. Innit. I like pop and drill music me and we must save dem planet. booyacka boy. oh my dayz”
I don’t know about you. But I think she is such a hero for being vaccinated. Like Douglas Bader or that person with a womb who chucked herself under a horse to get the vote for posh women. Poor women managed to get it a decade or so later. I digress.
3 cheers for Dehenna me mains womans for being steriliz.. I mean vaccinated. Innit.
TalkRadio, angry, but still not talking about the Great Reset. Iain Dumdum Smith.. a little annoyed after a year and a bit of unconservativeness. He’s written the same annoyed article now at least 6 times. But still he does not see (?) or mention the Davos coup.. the Great Reset.. it’s all just cockup and/or fear say Bradley, Toby and Dumdum.
John Redwood same. Even states how there is nothing the angry backbenchers can do to stop this. Because Kiev Rodney Harmer has agreed to all the covid measures. Thus Boris’ majority is actually in the 100’s. Only letters to Brady have a chance of unseating Princess Carrie and King Stanley but who’s to say whether Brady has or hadn’t had 30 plus letters? If I was Gates et al I would buy Brady off first. And just allow him (or even instruct him) to mumble from the sidelines pretending he opposes what is going on.
Unless something radically changes.. in a year.. or two.. we will still be in lockdown and ‘vaccines’ (sterilisation?) will be mandatory. I note that a flight to many destinations now is 5-10x what it was pre-covid. The oiks will not drink in pubs or… Read more »
ccscsrrrsssskkk crabkle..
My name is Robert Titor, John Titor’s British cousin.. I have come back from the future.. I have just seconds to pass on this warning..
I live in the year 2025, lockdown 9.. I am forced to share my home with 2 Afhgani boat people and a young husband and wife who like most young people were made sterilie by the ‘vaccine’.. old terrace houses were deemed too ungreen to rent or buy and so many of us are now forced to live together in homes deemed acceptable, former offices and shipping containers.. all homes, all property is owned by the state.. on the news before I travelled back in time Graham Brady and Iain Dumdum Smith had just written their twelfty fiftieth article explaining why lockdowns are wrong and that Boris is naughty and wrong for continuing it. Boris and his four wives Carrie and Charmaine and Pippa and 16 year old Chelsea continue to dictate our lives. We are all vegans now. When we can get food. We have no cars. Or shoes. And we can no longer see the sun since Gates’ sprinkled his wonder dust… we have no sun or shoes or food and… Read more »
Of course they don’t believe it, they can’t say they believe it because that would impact relations with China who I suspect they will approach to help them get out of the financial mess they have created by adding the Uk to the Chines colonisation project. Just look at the way Raab and co have protected the Hong Kong people!
Who’d have thought UK life under a conservative government would actually become like Monkey Dust and Chris Morris?
So Raab demonstrates his total lack of critical thinking skills, what a surprise NOT. And my MP used to ‘work’ for him as a ‘Spad’, god help us all and save us from Groupthink idiots who have to pass the brain cell between each other before making a decision.
Has belief replaced evidence?
Yes, from January 2020
Science/engineering for a long time has been what they said it is.. from more than a dozen missions to the moon with no accidents? lol to the felling of three steel-framed skyscrapers (two hit by a plane and one not).. repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
The US report by Biden is likely to be inconclusive – the CIA works for the party. (Trump said it came from the lab so it must be false.) Also, no one wants to confront China – who knows what they have on the President’s son. There have been defectors in the US since last year who found it difficult to get a hearing during the election. The Biden administration loves lockdown to push its rescue agenda, piling government debt onto America. Johnson and Raab are being made puppets for further lockdown. That a Tory government is willing to throw personal liberties and small businesses under the bus beggars belief…Our job, apparently, is to protect the NHS in its protracted holiday and pay for this government’s incompetence. Carrie will tell us lockdown is saving the planet.
Dominic Raab clearly got to by the CCP too
They are too cowardly to upset the Chinese. But ultimately does it matter in the scheme of things where the mild virus came from? It’s a red herring. A convenmient ruse to lock us down and begin the great reset.
If it jumps species, how come dogs, cats, rats, mice etc aren’t dying in their millions (Australia’s overrun with mice that don’t seem to have been affected by nibbling away at causally-discarded masks)?
Well.. humans aren’t dying in their millions are they? Most of those who supposedly died of covid 19 in fact died of old age. Without government/Gates and their mainstream media we wouldn’t have noticed covid 19.
Spanish Flu killed massively.. but it was rarely reported on. Hence it became known as Spanish Flu because only the Spanish media reported on it. But then.. they didn’t want to stop the economy through fear back then.. there were no Gates types back then or XR woke squirrel toothed theatre studies students pulling the PM’s fat filthy winky. Back then there were bad people and government ministers.. but not with the power that the likes of G7/Gates now have. Back then we had nations and nationalisms.
I agree totally. I was simply using the 2nd part of the official narrative (that it causes millions of deaths) to question the first part (that it jumped species)
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Interesting interview with Wuhan whistle blower on GB News tonight. She claims to have evidence of a deliberate leak from the lab and was clear that the chances of the virus having a natural antecedant are billions to one against – ie it is a deliberate gain of function modification.
Blowed if I can find the link but the virus WAS engineered in a lab and a number of scientists have confirmed that the make-up of the virus is such that it cannot have occurred in nature. Certain elements are manufactured and could not occur naturally.
Personally, I never believed the bat theory, it was too convenient and the global response too uniform.
The name to look out for is Peter Danszack (?)
Raab of course wouldn’t have a clue and is simply repeating his lines.
Well, at least we know now that Mr Raab is another puppet of the CCP. Not surprising that he rejected Parliament’s call to vote on whether to allow courts to impose restrictions on China and other countries found to be committing genocide a few months ago.
He’s either lying or he’s stupid.
Or both
In Wuhan, there is a laboratory where people are mucking about with coronaviruses. In the same city there is a market where they sell exotic meat. The SARS-CoV2 virus first appeared in Wuhan.
Following on from that, the nut jobs that govern us have concluded that the virus “jumped” from an animal to a human in the market (with no explanation of how this animal picked up the virus in the first place). The presence of the laboratory is an irrelevant coincidence.
I suppose it is no more stupid an idea than desperately hoping that making people wear cloths or plastic visors on the bus will stop the virus.
The whole scam seems to coincidentally feature incredibly large amount of coincidences.
But what about the confirmed cases in America also in November 2019? How are these explained?
You tell me.
Who give a sheet what Raab or any of these crooks believe
Raab is thick as fuck.
Just a four week delay until the next delay, according to the gibbering imbecile.
That’s being very rude about fuck
When big oil causes a devastating spill, the world at least reacts a bit and the oil company faces some retribution.
When the pharma industry causes a “spill” however, the world’s politicians, scientists and media build a big shield around the perpetrators.
There is a group of people somewhere with a terrifying amount of power.
If the government believes that then they are an ass.
Perhaps Raab isn’t mentally capable of reading the academic article by the Norwegian and Scottish professors. Who have added an addendum as there is clear proof of bio-engineered mid-stages of the virus with a later date that are attempts to prove the zoonotic thesis.
What is Raab playing at? Wait till all adults are jabbed now? It’s a natural virus? Wonder his opinion on Ivermectin. Actually, I can guess.
They only have the opinions they are allowed to have by Vallance, Ferguson, etc.
If this virus escaped from a lab or not, what should be clear is that this virus WAS “spreading” in countries besides China at or before the same time those three lab workers in Wuhan became sick in November 2019 (per U.S. “Intelligence sources”).
It takes no “intelligence sources” to know that at least 16 Americans were sick with all the COVID symptoms in November and December 2019. You could just read published articles in The Palm Beach Post, Fox News, The Seattle Times and other publications. All 16 of these Americans had their cases confirmed by positive antibody tests. Several of these people had multiple positive antibody tests.
The big tell to me is that the CDC has not spoken to or investigated a single one of these very credible cases of early spread. And the CDC in a May 29, 2020 press conference said it had searched hard for indications of early spread in America (in November or December 2019) and could not find any such evidence. Well, all of these published reports came out weeks before that press conference. I don’t think they were searching that hard.
It’s not the possible cases these officials… Read more »
What a bell end
Your brevity with the English language is a credit to you.
I’m not criticising your English here Sophie, I genuinely want to know. When used in the context of acurately describing a person such as Dominic Raab, is it ‘bell end’, ‘bellend’ or ‘bell-end’?
All of the above
Fair point
So hundreds of thousands of people have died around the world (according to governments) because of a virus. It is unclear whether the virus was released accidentally or otherwise from a lab or whether it was formed in nature.
When people die and the cause is not clear but there is reasonable suspicion that it may have involved other people, the police don’t just walk away saying “nah, we believe it was an accident”. There is an investigation to determine whether a crime has been committed.
If the virus leaked from a lab, accidentally or otherwise, a crime of epic proportions has been committed. It’s just not good enough for this imbecile Raab to say he doesn’t believe it came from a lab.
If I could kill people and not have any authorities investigate it, it wouldn’t take me long to draw up a hit list…
surely the only logical conclusion is that the UK Govt has something to lose if the lab leak theory is true?
let that sink in…
or they ‘scientists’ advising the gov have something to lose, the gov are only listening to a narrow group of ‘scientists’
“Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab”
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab – YouTube
Dominic Raab, the well known virologist
Dominic Raabstard said ” If you are asking me whether we think on the balance of probabilities, if you like, that it originated in a lab, our best information in January 2020 was that it did and of course we panicked and in the process killed tens of thousands of OAPs, trashed the economy and completely destroyed the country”
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Footage proves bats were kept in Wuhan lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANRs4DojOek
Maybe they played cricket regularly
”This video from Pfizer’s former Chief Scientist Mike Yeadon, has been banned by Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, and Twitter is currently hiding it behind a “misleading message” warning banner, SO YOU ABSOLUTELY KNOW IT MUST BE OVER-THE-TARGET!”
https://gab.com/BeachMilk/posts/106402191855114058