At the start of the pandemic, many of us were puzzled as to why the lab leak hypothesis was considered “racist” but the wet market hypothesis was not. Both theories said the pandemic began in China, and both implied that some Chinese people had acted carelessly. (In reality, of course, neither theory is “racist”.)
The most likely reason why the lab leak theory came to be seen as “racist” is that this was convenient for several key organisations, who wanted to avoid any suggestion that they might have helped to cause the pandemic. These organisations include the Chinese Communist Party, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the National Institutes of Health, and EcoHealth Alliance.
The fact that President Trump endorsed the lab leak theory also played a role, of course. Left-wing media outlets in the US have a habit of assuming that, if Trump says something, then it must – almost by definition – be racist.
In a recent article for UnHerd, the biologist Bret Weinstein argues that we should actually welcome the lab leak theory. This is because, if it turns out to be true, we know how to prevent future pandemics of this kind. Simple: ban the research until we can figure out how to do it safely. (Or at the very least: ramp up lab security.)
However, if the zoonotic spillover theory is correct, then “it’s only a matter of time before something like this happens again. And again. And again.” As Weinstein notes, “The straightforward lesson of the pandemic would be to simply face up to the clear risk of studying dangerous, novel infectious agents in the lab.”
He goes on to argue that, if the virus did escape from a lab, then one of the pandemic’s ultimate causes is the distorted incentives that led scientists to undertake such dangerous research in the first place. According to Weinstein:
… the scientific method has been hijacked by a competition over who can tell the most beguiling stories. Scientists have become salesmen, pitching serious problems that they and their research just so happen to be perfectly positioned to solve. The fittest in this game are not the most accurate, but the most stirring. And what could be more stirring than a story in which bat caves are ticking pandemic time-bombs from which only the boldest and brightest gene experts can save us?
Weinstein’s article contains a lot of interesting details, and is worth reading in full.
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Good article, don’t disagree with his general comments. You can apply the same logic to ‘climate change’ , the ‘zero carbon’ idiocy will probably directly and indirectly kill millions throughout the world.
I think what has happened this past 15 months and the way the governments have been in lockstep in everything they have done disproves it was accidental and the fact the escape from a laboratory rather than deliberate let’s the governments off the hook. Nuremberg II cannot happen fast enough.
It does seem that Fauci has been selected to be “thrown under the bus” by the Caesar Flickermans of the MSM.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-sars-cov-lab-leak-idea.html
Even the Health-fascist Con is reporting the news (you’d have known a year ago if you ignore the MSM) when they tried to suppress the truth before.
It does serve Floyd Ferris Fauci right.
Lab leak=False Flag?
You mean deliberately done by another party but to be blamed on the CCP lab?
Racist !!
Now why do I think a lab leak is likely…
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2007/08/report-lab-leak-likely-caused-uk-foot-and-mouth-outbreak
Oh it’s happened before, and they probably prefer you’d forgotten (like the reliability of Spreadsheet cowboy Fergusson’s disease soothsaying ).
Weinstein has nailed it and something that others have been saying. The reason this was so deadly is it did jump 3x nature evolution. It may also explain why the variants have been so much more transmissible while not getting significantly less deadly (the normal trade off). But for one, stop this type of research. It certainly didn’t help us prepare for future viruses.
Meanwhile (while LS bangs on about the origin story of a non-lethal virus), the UK regime has responded to a petition to stop the ‘vaccination’ of children.
They admit they’re criminally testing this stuff on a small group of children, which I’m sure sets a new precedence in itself. In the response, they’re clearly building the argument to give themselves permission to go ahead and start jabbing children.
It’s inevitable, coming this autumn, and so are child deaths and injuries.
So the pandemic ultimately comes from the climate change lobby (“Ecohealth” in this case), together with the environmental damage done by biofuels and premature deployment of environmentally-unfriendly electric vehicles etc? All this damage to produce negligible change to future temperatures.
Absoballylutely!
Left-wing media outlets in the US have a habit of assuming that, if Trump says something, then it must – almost by definition – be racist.
I don’t think it is so much racist as false and this is based on massive experience. All politicians lie to some extent but Trump does it on an unprecedented scale – I think he thinks the truth is for wimps.
Oh please, are we still pretending that bullshit is reality, the US media’s daily running total of thousands and thousands of “lies” that invariably turn out to be selective editing or simply Trump’s opinions that the Left do not share?
Don’t waste your time. MTF is clearly working on behalf of the government and has an unusual amount of time to afford to his/her arguments.
Why does it matter who I work for?
As it happens I am retired and have time to do this because I am recovering from two stem cell transplants in six months (a stem cell transplant is a kind of high dose chemotherapy for blood cancers).
If anyone was lying is was reporters.
You need to ditch your assumption the MSM doesn’t lie wholesale.
That’s observably correct. There is some really weird thinking about Trump by wishful thinkers (worshippers).
The train of false thought is that because Biden is a total arsehole, then Trump is some kind of great politician and thinker.
Sorry, folks – it doesn’t work like that. They are both total arseholes – although Trump does have a longer record as a silver-spoon con artist, with a longer public record of spoken idiocy.
Remember – Stopped Clocks.
His instincts on covid were right, but as usual he flip-flopped too much and didn’t put the necessary effort into execution. But of all major leaders he was the only one with the balls to say that covid was not that big of a deal. I’m not a big fan of his, but the rest of them seemed as bad/worse to me.
It cannot be denied he was/is a polarising figure because he spoke bluntly and I think he scared the left because his message was getting through, and people who hated him immediately took the contrary position on everything he said, just because he said it, which IMO is not a very clever thing to do, however much you dislike someone.
He called it the Chinese virus and defunded the Who and resisted masking and distrusted Faucism. All correct instincts.
Die 77
Puke inducing celebration of child endangerment
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-kids-shots-covid-vaccine.html
The thing is, if a Wuhan lab leak of a modified virus is found to be the source, then Fauci and the NIH are guilty. The NIH literally paid for the pandemic. They funded it.
Public executions would seem to be the very least that should be expected.
That isn’t a joke by the way. If this virus was created in a lab then those responsible, all the way down the chain, Fauci downwards, should be treated in the same way that the Nazis were, and for precisely the same reason: pour encourager les autres.
There was a pandemic? When did that happen?
I don’t know what to believe anymore – all I know is that I want all my freedoms back.
What matters a hell of a lot more than this annoying distraction, even more than lockdown, is the ‘vaccination’ programme. These injections are killing healthy people, and may kill many more when their bodies react to another virus. And now they’re gearing up to inject the whole population of children. This is our fight – that’s what you need to believe in.
Killing or ‘simply’ complete digital surveillance? Or both? I simply don’t know anymore. It’s a waiting (and resisting) game.
Just a distraction from the really important facts: https://off-guardian.org/2021/06/07/the-wuhan-lab-leak-story-is-just-more-fear-porn/
This is a good article, and yes, fear porn is exactly what this is, but a ‘variant’ that pulls rebellious people into the fold.
I have no way of knowing whether the lab leak hypothesis is correct.
But I have always reckoned that the geographical coincidence makes it as likely as any other.
Wuhan, Portan Down, Fort Detrick etc in my opinion are all ultimately controlled by the same powerful elite entity. Obviously just my personal thoughts and like the MSM controlled by that same entity, I have no proof either of my claims.
It’s a distraction from the real issues. The most likely result of this theory gaining ground is that people will be MORE scared, not less, and will blame China rather than our own stupid/wicked governments.
As far as I’m aware the virus still hasn’t been sequenced. There is a reward by the Geman Group “Querdenker” under Bodo Schiffman of €1.5 million for the first person to fully identify the virus which as yet remains unclaimed. It might be best if we refrain from calling the dead “Covid victims” and reclassify them as deaths with a positive PCR test.
If anyone can disprove the above I’d like to see the evidence as long as it’s not from Google.
I am not sure what you mean by “not from Google”. I am sure we all use a search engine of some kind to find references. But however I found it, here is a reference to a paper which “comprehensively analyzed 2,492 complete and/or near-complete genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 strains reported from across the globe to the GISAID database up to 30 March 2020.”
Google is one of the world’s largest investors in the Pharma industry and as such can. not be trusted to give impartial information on this. “Complete or near-complete”. Yeah, right.
Looking from the angle “what does it all mean for future pandemics (or ‘pandemics’)”, I wouldn’t worry much about it (about potential pandemics, but would worry a lot about reactions to them).
A good article:
Lockdown Proponents Have Seemingly Forgotten North Sentinel Island In 2018
https://www.aier.org/article/lockdown-proponents-have-seemingly-forgotten-north-sentinel-island-in-2018/
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North Sentinel is 500 miles east of India, and it’s speculated that somewhere in the range of 100 to 150 people live there. No one knows for sure. The North Sentinelese descend from African migrants who settled on the island 50,000 years ago.
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To some of the fanatics who so naively bought the run-and-hide from the coronavirus concept in total, the Sentinelese are likely very healthy people. How could they not be? So isolated are they that no one even knows the island’s actual population. As for an outside understanding of its language, forget about it.
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Their isolation has done the North Sentinelese no favors in a health sense. As Varadarajan put it, “Contact with the outside world – with men like Chau – would likely kill off the Sentinelese. Think flu, measles, chickenpox.”
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Precisely because the North Sentinelese have been so isolated for so long from the outside world, their immunity is nil.
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another gentle reminder of how backwards the lockdowns were. Hide from a virus? To do so would be for cities, states and countries to set themselves up for something much worse down the line. As the North Sentinelese remind us, isolation weakens the human body precisely because it limits the exposure to the myriad human-spread viruses that paradoxically strengthen the immune system.
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Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta, one of the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration, has long argued that globalization’s genius has been understated.
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globalization has also fostered a great deal of physical, in-person interaction among productive, specialized people increasingly possessing the means to see the globe.
As a consequence they haven’t just seen the world. In a health sense, they’ve spread viruses around the world. With more and more of the world’s inhabitants moving around the globe, so have viruses. The spreading hasn’t weakened the global population, rather it’s strengthened it. Immunity is most notably achieved naturally, and it’s achieved much more quickly when people are constantly interacting with other people.
The North Sentinelese haven’t been so lucky. Wholly isolated, the island’s inhabitants have long been separated from the crucial human interaction that fosters immunity.
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It’s not just that lockdowns and other forced isolation destroyed so many jobs, so many businesses, and that they drove all sorts of other human tragedies of the alcohol, drug, and suicidal variety as discussed in my new book releasing today, When Politicians Panicked. Lockdowns furthered the rather backwards notion that our health is improved if we’re separated from one another. Not at all.
Isolated people aren’t saved from what threatens their health as much the inevitable infection from the threat is delayed. Worse is what the isolation means over the longer term. The North Sentinelese are a very real reminder of how cruelly bankrupt the run-and-hide strategy is as a broad form of virus mitigation.
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Talk about missing the elephant in the room.
It’s not just left wing media in the US, its 99% of MSM including most of Fox, social media, ar sebook, tw**face, twaddle, woke i ped o, etc etc were all unanimously screeching about Drumpf being wrong on everything.
It wasn’t just US media – UK media was as bad look at the bias on Trump reportage from the likes of Sopel.
It needn’t have been a bioweapon. It could have been intentionally released viral vector vaccine. The genetic insert being the marker that they already had ready to put in their gene-therapy vaccines.
The “China did it” narrative is ultimately unrelated to the Gain of Function narrative.
BSL-4 labs everywhere.
Rubbish and so called scientists like Weinstein, Gupta etc only help to peddle the myth
The Mafia, institutional child abuse, insider trading on stock markets etc etc…..Have people not thought that corruption and amoral behaviour can happen at any level of society, even at the ‘top’.