Last year, Matt Ridley – along with “everybody sensible” – believed the idea that the pandemic leaked from a lab was “pseudoscientific nonsense almost on a par with UFOs and the Loch Ness monster”. Now, writing in the latest issue of the Spectator, he says that, “if we are to avoid another pandemic”, the theory – which is looking increasingly plausible – should be taken more seriously and be properly investigated.
The turning point, ironically, was the “press conference” on February 9th in Wuhan where a team of western scientists representing the World Health Organisation (WHO) sat meekly through a three-hour propaganda session at the end of a 12-day study tour. Strictly chaperoned throughout, the western scientists (approved by the Chinese Government) had mainly listened to presentations by their Chinese colleagues during their visit and done no research themselves. Yet the result was presented to the world as if it was the WHO’s conclusion.
The press conference was told that the lab leak theory was “extremely unlikely” and would not be investigated further, because the scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology said so during a three-hour visit by the study team. By contrast, the theory favoured by the Chinese Government – that the virus reached Wuhan on frozen meat from a rabbit or ferret-badger farm in southern China or southeast Asia – was said to be plausible, despite a total lack of evidence.
So risible was this little stage play that even WHO’s Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had to backtrack a few days later: “All hypotheses remain open and require further study.” Dr Peter Ben Embarek, who led the study team, added wishfully: “I don’t think the press conference was a PR win for China.” The governments of Britain, America and 12 other countries issued a joint statement expressing “shared concerns” over the study…
The problem is partly that journalists confused two different theories last year: that the virus might have escaped from a laboratory openly doing research that was intended to prevent a pandemic, or that a secret project to create a nasty virus for use as a bioweapon had either gone wrong or succeeded all too well. The latter theory remains implausible; the former has never been so…
The lab that has been assiduously and energetically collecting coronaviruses from horseshoe bats for more than a decade, gathering a far larger collection of samples and genetic sequences than any other lab anywhere in the world, just happens to be in Wuhan, as part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Run by Dr Shi Zhengli, it boasted in 2019 of having at least 100 different Sars-like viruses in its database.
We cannot check these samples because the database went offline on September 12th, 2019, just before the pandemic began, and Dr Shi persistently refuses to reopen it, arguing that it’s been subject to “hacking attempts”. Right… in September 2019? And there’s no other way to show the data? Dr Daszak says he knows what is in the database and that it is of no relevance, which is why he has not asked his friend Dr Shi to share it. Right. When I raised this lack of transparency with a senior British scientist, he said: ‘They are communists, what do you expect?’ It is not clear why that should be reassuring.
Matt highlights the letter recently published in the academic journal Science, in which 18 scientists from around the world criticise the WHO over its failure to properly investigate the lab leak theory, and say: “Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover [from animals to humans] both remain viable.”
His article is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Conservative MP Bob Seely has told MailOnline that Facebook’s censoring of posts debating whether Covid could be man-made is “contemptible”.
I think it is absolutely contemptible and it shows their commitment to democracy is an incredibly thin veneer over their commercial interests. So many big tech firms are showing their true and frankly really ugly colours…
This is not a conspiracy theory. There is a genuine debate about where the Wuhan virus came from.
For Facebook to be shutting that conversation down is absolutely appalling.
Also worth reading in full.
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I shall look forward to their massive outbreak in “cases” in the next few weeks then – no doubt the will blame it on the 5% unvaxxed though
I doubt that going to a restaurant a few weeks earlier will convince anyone one way or the other after 18 months of lockdowns.
Yes, the latest idiot PM in New South Wales looks to be running shit scared. If the unsullied have held out this long, nearly all will continue to do so.
So I’m wondering whether they will test the vaccinated as they start rolling into the hospitals in ever larger numbers?
The case numbers are surely going to explode given the lid they kept on the population.
They will explode everywhere and it will be difficult for them to keep the lid on the obvious fact that it is only the jabbed who are dropping like flies.
We are now at Stage 6.
Remember it was just a conspiracy theory!
Just In: Merkel – New severe restrictions for the unvaccinated.
Indeed, they have the same blueprint as all Anglophone legislations do, followed closely by the rest of the Western world as China laughs when it is imposed on Developing Nations.
NSW is just a trial run while the State of Victoria is voluntarily running ahead of the game.
Going into Summer in Australia, so they probably reckon it’s a good time to play this card.
They can pretend ‘the measures’ have been successful.
And when people start getting ill in 6 months, they already have the story ready, well rehearsed over here:
The real story, that the vaccines are scything through populations will likely soon become obvious to all. What happens then is anyone’s guess.
The “vaccines” are doing what they were intended to do – cripple and kill people.
Having normalised hysteria and totalitarian control, regimes everywhere are now normalising medical apartheid. How far away can we be from The Trials of the Unvaccinated, where the ‘unvaccinated’ are dragged before a kangaroo court by a baying mob and burnt at the stake? A bit far-fetched? If you’d have been told in mid-2019 that we would experience what we have for the last 18 months, you’d have told the person it was ‘far-fetched’, and you’d probably have called them a conspiracy nut. We no longer have the luxury of dismissing things as ‘far-fetched’.
We have regressed to such an extent and at such a rate that one wonders how long it will take to restore sanity and rationality if/when we put a stop to this madness.
Kangaroo courts could happen, but as time goes by the vaxxed will be dead and dying and increasingly less able to oppress the unjabbed. The real danger for those of us, who are still wisely resisting the “poison death shots”, is more probably internment leading on to elimination, by a very desperate officialdom.
The only way it will be removed is when the majority wake up, realise the lies, distortions, they have been subjected to, and remove all anti-liberty politicians from being anywhere the levers of power ever again. They say that “those who ignore the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them”, – well, as a people we need to learn BIG lessons about our “betters” and their love of despotism.
Senedd, Cardiff 4pm next Tuesday
We will be there #Together
#NoVaccinePassports
Why protest outside? Surely inside is better?
My God, but they are vile.
‘“Ultimately we want a united society and we believe by moving that date back to December 15th will incentivise [sic]” [Dominic Perrottet] said.’
Marvellous, isn’t it? Regimes everywhere have been demonising and coercing their people. They have actively encouraged disunity by pitting citizen againat citizen, and this odious creature has the front to say they want a united society! Oh yes, we’ll demonise and coerce you until you are ‘united’ with us!
Once again, language is abused and meanings are turned on their head.
Once they murder all those that disagree those that remain will be united.
Good. The bedwetters will all be in one place and we can avoid them
The bedwetters will be jabbed and so are already doomed. The aim of the rest of us is to keep out of the internment (elimination) camps, that governments will be preparing for those that won’t conform.
Did anybody see the coward Jacinda Ardern scurry away from her press conference when asked about the failure of the ‘vaccine’ in Israel? So enjoyable to watch. There’s a link in this news roundup:
https://yvymaraey.blogspot.com/2021/11/update-from-planet-lockdown.html
Ardern before becoming NZs die Fuhrerin – she worked for PM Tony Blair’s Cabinet Office and was El Presidente of the International Union of Socialist Youth.
So why the surprise she’s a majorette cheer-leader for the NEW NORMAL?
I didn’t know that. But it does explain the smug, insufferable grin and the vacuous discourse.
Change “unvaccinated” to “jew”, “gay” or “socialist” and it becomes clearer what is being done. They are not isolating the infectious, just those who haven’t demonstrated their allegiance to the group.
To everybody’s geniune surprise – no vaccine required to go shopping in Melbourne.
New South Wales run by Liberals.
Liberalism in its modern form is essentially fascism.
‘If Fascism Ever Comes to
AmericaAustralia, It Will Come in the Name of Liberalism’ – Ronald ReaganRonnie was right for both countries.
Ha ha ha! Given up on zero Covid, as I said they would have to. This prediction was greeted with a tsunami of drivel from Australians contradicting me, whilst I was struck by the similarity of the things they were saying to the views of U.K. tabloid man a year ago. In 8 months or so they will also have realised that vaccines do not retard the spread of the disease, so vaccine passports are pointless.
There is a definite and observable time lag between the UK and Australia on this issue for obvious reasons. People who study both know all, but the majority of Australians have no idea about the vaccines and boosters failing in Israel and the UK. In Australia, it’s still very much a case of “life will be normal when all plebs are jabbed.”
Premier Perottet claims the ‘freedom’ delay for the Unclean will “incentivise” them to get the shot and bump the double-vaxx rate up to the magic 95%. He obviously doesn’t read this publication which reported polling in Germany showing that the people targeted by such manoeuvres are actually made less inclined to get the jab – 86% of respondents said that they will be more likely not to receive the ‘vaccine’ if politicians promise to lift Covid restrictions once a certain vaccine quota is attained. They stole our freedoms and they can’t bribe us into getting them back, is their admirable thinking.
Perottet’s get-out is that December 15 will be the new Freedom Day, even if 95% isn’t reached, but he is a politician after all, not a White Hat saviour, and having shifted the goalposts once, who is to say he won’t shift them again.
I’m looking forward to how they handle the massive surge in cases and deaths among the injected. They will not be able to blame the untermensch because they are banned from participating in much of society. In doing this, they have broken the social contract and citizens are no longer under any ethical or lawful obligations to obey government. Do as you will until democracy is restored and these traitors are punished.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/ql5knm/new_zealander_forum_member_describes_a/
New Zealander forum member describes a conversation he had with “elites”, where they describe the real reason for this push at vaccination and give hints for the end game
The interesting thing if this leak is true, is that the plan is to get the public to turn on their governments. This is how the global government will be imposed.
When will they be issuing special identification clothes to the unvaccinated? when will the first ghetto be opened? perhaps they can have a firework display over sydney harbour to celebrate
I’m sure those, like me, refusing to get the vaccine will not mind holding out till Dec 15, leaving the vaccinated to their eternal booster shots each six months. That last 5% may prove difficult, because a lot of ethnic minorities don’t trust governments – something we could learn from.
This is worse than any Communist state. At least in the USASR you could travel within your area, go to shops, bars etc, have visitors at home etc without these restrictions. I hope that the inhabitants will remember this when they next come to vote.
Why wait to vote? All you get is another corrupt politician who will carry on with more of the same. People should get off their arses and do something today. But they won’t.
What a sickening place.