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U.S. Intelligence Claims That Covid May Have Escaped from Chinese Lab

by Luke Perry
30 October 2021 6:52 PM
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According to a recent declassified report, U.S. intelligence have remarked that the lab leak theory, which claims that the global spread of Covid began when the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory by accident, is a plausible explanation, but has stated that the disease was never intended to be a biological weapon. The Telegraph has the story.

The report, which China branded a “farce”, said agencies may never be able to identify the source of the global pandemic but dismissed accusations that Covid was developed as a bioweapon.

Those pushing that theory have been accused of disinformation and had “no direct access” to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, it said.

One intelligence agency said it had “moderate confidence” that the first infection was probably because of a laboratory accident involving experiments and animals at the Wuhan Institute.

The report updates a review ordered by President Joe Biden amid political infighting over how much to blame China rather than governments that may not have moved quickly enough to protect citizens.

Former Republican President Donald Trump – who lost his bid for re-election as the deadly pandemic ravaged the US economy – and many of his supporters referred to Covid as the “China virus.”

The Chinese embassy in Washington said, “The U.S. moves of relying on its intelligence apparatus instead of scientists to trace the origins of Covid is a complete political farce.

“We have been supporting science-based efforts on origins tracing, and will continue to stay actively engaged. That said, we firmly oppose attempts to politicise this issue.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: ChinaLab Leak Theory

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
11 months ago

The article makes a fundamental error in the first paragraph. It is increased prosperity and inventiveness which have improved the lot of the bulk of the people. This has been done by individuals alone and in voluntary association doing what Adamn Smith said they would do.

Capitalism, free enterprise or entrepreneurship (call it what you like) has produced a huge increase in peosperity and along the way many useful new products and methods have been developed. I struggle to think of a single one which has come about due to state run institutions.

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iconoclast
iconoclast
11 months ago
Reply to  EppingBlogger

For a useful account of how health has improved as income has improved this site provides a great deal of information in an accessible form:

Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics
“In addition to the extensive static graphs below, the following superb BBC FOUR broadcast by Professor Hans Rosling shows how health improved in step with wealth over the last 200 years “200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes“

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FerdIII
FerdIII
11 months ago

The article assumes some very egregious and religious gospels which are false:
-viruses (flying) exist – they don’t
-DNA/RNA can survive outside a host – they can’t
-viruses cause measles et al – they don’t
-quackcines reduced death from diseaese – they didn’t

Too much disinformation which negates the obvious reality that your health, diet, your lack of imbibing toxins, your mental state, is your wealth.

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Solentviews
Solentviews
11 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Ferdlll, I am in general agreement with many of your posts but I am a bit thrown by your opinion on flying viruses. Are you saying that airborne viruses are not a thing, and illnesses cannot get passed on through the air?

I read a paper showing that the Spanish Flu, which did go around the world, beat any of the transport ships at the time. The Flu appeared to follow the natural climate circulation. It seemed a convincing argument. I also noted that Covid got into some Antarctic research bases despite stringent checks on staff health. Again an airborne spread seems feasible.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Solentviews

I suspect what got in to Antarctic research bases was a shed load of PCR tests and nothing more.

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Curio
Curio
11 months ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Please forgive me, but if a virus does not cause measles, what does?

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Sue
Sue
11 months ago
Reply to  Curio

Yes, a virus.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-measles-guidelines/measles-factsheet

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago

” A reduction in inequality and evidence-based health policies have been central to this success”

Well there certainly has been a reduction of ‘evidence based medicine’. Probably to do with the power of Big Pharma and vested interests!

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
11 months ago

“most deaths during the Spanish Flu, before modern antibiotics were invented, were likely due to secondary bacterial infections.”

Some say most of the deaths were associated with the mass vaccine program at Fort Detrick. And the malnutrition from WW1.

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Roy Everett
Roy Everett
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Some say that masks made the situation worse, by providing a breeding ground for the secondary bacterial infections, which allegedly can be more problematic for the human body than the primary virus. Perhaps we should consider that respiratory viruses are pretty delicate little rubber dinghies with SAS operatives on a mission: they need exactly the right cells to invade and subvert into making more viruses; bacteria are more like aircraft-carriers that carry an entire food manufacturing machinery and weapon repair stations. The whole idea of humans being constantly at war with respiratory viruses rather in symbiosis with them might be a notion put about by BigPharma to boost sales.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
11 months ago
Reply to  Roy Everett

Good point.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
11 months ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Yes. I believe that around 3 million Us soldiers were “vaccinated” against smallpox, ostensibly because the military were worried the Germans would use smallpox as a bioweapon (same as the military allegedly used it against the native Indian).
This trashed many immune systems leading to a prevalence of bacterial pneumonia.
Good old uncle sam again.
The real genius was getting it to be known as “Spanish Flu”. Fort Detrick Flu doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

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jsampson45
jsampson45
11 months ago

” taxpayers in the U.K. and elsewhere have been working hard to fund the 100-day vaccine programme” – how to work hard without noticing it.

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soundofreason
soundofreason
11 months ago

That picture: Where’s the meat and dairy? Not a balanced diet.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  soundofreason

That’s the diet that health fascists will
force on us

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Solentviews
Solentviews
11 months ago

Excellent article. It demonstrates well that our health is (largely) within our own hands. None of which is rocket science, good diet/exercise/sleep etc. However it does need repeating to push home the message that pharmacology shouldn’t be the first port of call.

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AJPotts
AJPotts
11 months ago

An appalling article. The author misunderstands most things. Improved health followed improved prosperity which was caused by individuals being allowed the freedom to pursue their own interests rather than following the diktats of the local lord or bishop. ‘Public money’ does not exist; it is simply money extorted by the robber state. Different people value health differently and choose to make different trade-offs.

The author is a coercive collectivist out to impose his version of what is good on everybody else. ‘I’m from Public Health and I’m here to help’ are some of the scariest words in the English language.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  AJPotts

I agree with some of your comments though I think it’s harsh to call it an appalling article. The analysis of the deeply corrupt “public health” industry is correct – it’s the remedy we disagree on.
You and I probably agree that we can do without a “public health” industry, the author thinks it could be replaced with something actually helpful. But I think we’d just end up with mandatory broccoli eating (I love broccoli with garlic, Mrs ToF does it very well).

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  AJPotts

I think this illustrates what we are up against- even people who saw the “Covid” scam for what it was think that everything can be made better if only more sensible and honest people were put in charge. Hardly anyone wants to just get rid of vast swaths of public bodies.

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Myra
Myra
11 months ago

Amen!
Could not have put it better myself.
Also we should not forget the whole surveillance industry setup to monitor infectious diseases around the globe. A lot of people would be out of jobs, including a lot of people working for the WHO.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
11 months ago

Vaccines are killing millions. Autism now one in thirty-six post kids immunisation. Ask any parent with an autistic child when it started. They can pinpoint the day! mRNA covid poisons are currently killing millions but first causing horrific adverse events. Please wake up.

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iconoclast
iconoclast
11 months ago
Reply to  marebobowl

Over 7% of UK school age boys are autistic. That is 1 in 14. That is based on official statistics in England and official statistics for Northern Ireland. The NI stats prove it is nothing to do with better diagnosis or greater awareness. They show that 60% of the boys are non-verbal which means they are impossible to miss.

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CGW
CGW
11 months ago

How about just admitting that vaccines NEVER solved any problems and NEVER helped reduced illness? On the contrary, the first vaccines were totally poisonous (just read the history of how the first smallpox vaccines were created and distributed) and modern day vaccines have their famous adjuvants, which are often poisonous on their own.

The immune system is amazingly complex and we have a very, very long way to go before we (if ever) completely understand every implication of attempting to modify or “assist” a minute part of it.

In the meantime, we are surely all aware of the dangers of mRNA vaccines. I cannot believe the author wrote the following, so maybe I misunderstood something:

We don’t yet know the long term consequences of causing inflammation and cell death in the ovaries of young girls, or the results of stimulating inflammation and probable cell death in a foetus in a pregnant woman. However, having given these injections to a lot of children and pregnant women, we should understand this better in the future.

The too typical argument of the medical profession: vaccines are a modern marvel and you have to be really very unlucky to die or become permanently disabled from them. Smile.

In my simple mind, the body has two main defences against pathogens: the respiratory system and the digestive system. Also, if I should have an open wound, the body is quick to seal the wound and “disinfect” the area, thus also acting to prevent pathogens entering the body.

But a vaccine directly injects a pathogen of sorts into the bloodstream, thus bypassing all bodily defences. The idea is to provoke some sort of advance warning inside the body so that, when I eventually am exposed to a particular disease, my body will react immediately to conquer that disease. But what is the difference when I encounter a disease without prior vaccination? Will my body not also immediately respond against that disease?

I think the whole idea of vaccination is completely flawed and, with it, the whole idea of the human race being eradicated by some modern “Pandemic”.

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waterbear
waterbear
11 months ago

I’d be more comfortable believing in flying viruses if someone could isolate the little devils.

Saying, “If viruses don’t cause disease, then what does?” is rather like saying, “Well, if she’s not a witch, then why did the crops fail.”

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