I’ve written a comment piece for Mail+ today about the shameful attempt by eminent British scientists to suppress the lab leak theory, pegged to the editorial in the BMJ calling for a “full, open, and independent investigation” into the origins of the virus. Here is an extract:
We still don’t know for sure where the virus came from, but the theory that it escaped from a lab in Wuhan has always been quite plausible – which is why it’s peculiar that so many British scientists initially dismissed it as ‘misinformation’.
For one thing, the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 occurs naturally in a region of Southern China almost 1,000 miles away from the research centre. Yet the first viral outbreak was recorded in Wuhan. How did it get there if it wasn’t via a lab leak?
We know that scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been researching coronaviruses in bats for more than a decade, catching them in the wild and bringing them back to the lab to carry out ‘gain of function’ research.
This involves altering microbes that cause diseases to make them more transmissible in the hope of developing vaccines and treatments.
What’s more likely? That SARS-CoV-2 escaped from the lab or that Covid-19 began when a human ate an infected animal bought from the Wuhan wet market – the so-called ‘zoonotic spill over’ theory?
We know that safety standards at the Institute are quite lax. For instance, Wuhan scientists conducted some experiments on a coronavirus capable of infecting human cells in 2016 in a lab with biosafety levels comparable to that of a dentist’s office, i.e. they wore protective face shields, but that was about it.
Moreover, this wouldn’t be the first time a dangerous pathogen has escaped from the lab. Smallpox leaked from a research lab at Birmingham Medical School in 1978, SARS has escaped six times – once from a lab in in Singapore, once in Taiwan and four times in Beijing – and in 2007 an outbreak of foot and mouth disease was traced to a leaky drainage pipe at a British government lab in Surrey.
Yet in spite of this circumstantial evidence, some experts were quick to write off the lab leak hypothesis when it was first aired.
Worth reading in full.
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I predict the WHO will become a completely irrelevant talking shop. Just like the UN. Populated by people who love to look important and busy but who do absolutely nothing. And the general folk will be even less aware of their existence than they are today.
But we must keep a weather eye open.
As my post makes clear M A k I am at the other end of the spectrum on this. I do hope you are correct.
I think the cat’s out the bag, hux. They need to find new vehicles for their corruption.
I fear that I agree with you.
Thank you.
I read this to the following point:
as the world faced the outcomes of European fascism and the similar approaches widely imposed through colonialist regimes.
and hereby impolitely ask the author to pack up his things and go. Present-day colonial empires, that is, large, multi-ethnic states are Russia (nobody ever even suggested the Russians should decolonise Asia), India (a superstate of ultimatively British conception encompassing what used to be a lot of independent principalities settled by people speaking different languages), the USA and – the oldest of them all – China. Move there and decolonize that, decolonizer, before demanding that anyone listens to your prattle.
As to the WHO, simpy abolishing it would neatly solve any global problems its existence tends to cause.
The Pandemic Preparedness Treaty (PPT) and revised International Health Regulations (IHR) are so far removed from public health as to be beyond a joke. The blatant reality is that these so-called legal instruments are the first steps in transferring national sovereignties to a one world government and the plebs be damned.
In this country people still moan about the lemming-like rush for annihilation currently pursued by the fake tory party but fail to understand that the establishment have already sold out to the Davos Deviants. As far as our establishment is concerned this jaunt is fait accomplis. And the same applies across all Western nations. And once these “legally binding” instruments are up and running everything will be fair game. Theft? Grand larceny? We haven’t seen the half of it.
Think you have money in the bank? One day we will all wake up and find our money has disappeared.
Own a property? Thought you did. Off to the fifteen minute city.
Personal transport and travel – ancient history. All the memories commence with … ‘ I remember when…’
“Vaccines?” Oh yes indeed but very life limiting. Slowly poisoned and repeatedly from birth until we reach Soylent Green. And Billy’s next brew is already prepared with a release date post May 2024. The new “
vaccine” poison factories are built and raring to go if not already in production mode. Get ready for more ‘safe and effective’ and ‘nobody is safe until everyone is safe.’ Unfortunately, I suspect the new release will probably have some interplay with those already jabbed and as a group this lot will probably be terminal with their mortality numbers providing much of the propoganda.If Billy’s new release doesn’t get you then the starvation that will kick in once the farms and farmers have been sequestered surely will.
The horrors waiting to be unleashed are frankly beyond imagination.
Iain Davis has some brilliant essays on all this which he neatly summarises as “The Theft of the Commons.”
Nothing in either the PPT or the IHR has any semblance of truth and every word is written such that it can be abused. These fake “agreements” are about genocide and enslavement of the unfortunate survivors.
Hell on earth in the wings.
Sadly, I think you are correct.
Thank you.
Every time I hear or read about these treatise I get a knot in my stomach.
The United Nations Organisation is rotten to the core and is a very real threat to national sovereignty and democracy. Burn it down.
This is the Biggest Topic on the Horizon & the fact it has only a few comments on here shows how confusingly well packaged the WHO has made it ! They will repeat covid asap complete with mandates once this Treaty that’s not really a treaty gets the ok !!!…
It’s terrifying that there are so few comments. Are people just ignoring it or what, burying their heads in the sand?
I suspect the lack of comments is simply down to the fact that this is a very long and detailed article which requires time and commitment to get through. I have been following the WHO and WEF machinations on this subject for many months so I am aware of its wholesale duplicities.
“It’s not always about what they say it’s about.”
Yes, it is very long and detailed and, to be honest, a bit beyond me. There’s a link in the news roundup to an article by Ramesh Thakur of Brownstone, which was perhaps easier to take on board, though slightly different in its emphasis.
Why should anybody read through all of this when it already starts out with Blame Europeans for all evils in the world, as in equating European fascism and European colonialism. That’s an American guy preaching to an American audience about the perceived ills of an American invention (Wilson’s league of nations) and trying to play on their learnt prejudices in order to win them for his (American) political agenda.
Slaves don’t become free by switching masters and all this guy aspires to be is to become our new master.
Politicians do not like to make decisions or be held accountable, it’s why we have so many quangos. If our esteemed leaders can have another person or body they can blame they are happy to abdicate responsibility.