@wtg said:
CIA and FBI both say it was laboratory sourced.
Not arguing that it didn't come from the lab, but when did the CIA and FBI determine that?
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CIA Jan 2025, FBI Feb 2023
I can't find the newspaper article with everyhing on a timeline, but the following is my quick review on the Wuhan biological warfare research institue, the criminally negligent accidental escape of the covid virus, and the start of the CCP cover up and obfuscation:
...there was no cellphone activity in a high-security portion of the Wuhan Institute of Virology from Oct. 7 through Oct. 24, 2019, and that there may have been a "hazardous event" sometime between Oct. 6 and Oct. 11.
... three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had fallen ill with Covid-19 in November 2019 and were admitted to hospital...
This predates the 7 market sourced cases reported by Dr. Li, the Chinese opthalmologist on 30th December 2019. He was silenced by Chinese authorities, caught covid in January and unfortunarely died.
A Jan. 24 study published in the medical journal The Lancet found that three of the first four cases — including the first known case — didn't provide a documented link to the Wuhan wet market.
The bats that carry the family of coronaviruses linked to the new strain aren't found within 100 miles of Wuhan — but they were studied in both labs.
Photos and videos have emerged of researchers at both labs collecting samples from bats without wearing protective gear, which experts say poses a risk of human infection.
A U.S. State Department expert who visited the WIV in 2018 wrote in a cable reported by The Washington Post: "During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, [U.S. diplomats] noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory."
And the cover up...
According to Senate Intelligence Committee member Tom Cotton, R-Ark., the Chinese military posted its top epidemiologist to the WIV in January.
The Shanghai laboratory where researchers published the world's first genome sequence of the coronavirus was shut down Jan. 12, according to The South China Morning Post.
According to U.S. intelligence assessments, including one published by the Department of Homeland Security and reviewed by NBC News, the Chinese government initially covered up the severity of the outbreak. Government officials threatened doctors who warned their colleagues about the virus, weren't candid about human-to-human transmission...
So, 1 million US deaths later, and up to 40 million worldwide, the CCP continues to try to save face.
