The Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus
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If reports from the beginning of covid are true much information was deliberately suppressed. Pete probably has the best answer as to why. Of course we don't yet know how much WEF and WHO had in suppressing facts to push their ideals.
I think T-bones is right on this. People who say things like "Evolution is just a theory" are generally religious types trying to dismiss it as unverified speculation, in the mistaken belief that's all theory means. Both evolution and gravity are theories in the scientific sense, and they're also both facts, their effects are observed. The observable facts are what the theories are based on, the theories are the ideas and analyses we've come up with to organize, explain, and give meaning to the facts. For example, the law of gravity in Newton's world is that all masses attract each other with a force determined by their masses and the inverse square of the distance between them, that's the basic theoretical idea and it's not quite correct, though it's close enough to reality for most purposes. Einstein's basic theoretical idea is that masses create curvatures in space-time and moving bodies follow those curves, which gives more accurate results at the cost of a great increase in computational complexity. Except in extreme conditions it's seldom worth doing, almost nobody routinely uses it to calculate satellite or planetary orbits, though it IS necessary to correctly describe Mercury's orbit and keep the GPS systems working accurately because of gravity's effects on clocks. For evolution, the key theoretical idea is descent with modification, every individual organism is slightly different from all others and environmental influences are observed to favour and preserve certain of those differences, so over long time periods organisms change. There is no useful alternative theory as there is with Newtonian and Einsteinian gravity.
I am of course oversimplifying a bit, and discounting religious explanations, they're not theories.
I can't remember where I read a report from some European Scientists - I'm thinking it was in mid-late 2020 - that said they could not replicate the virus from "natural" sources so it was likely man-made since there was nothing in nature that would produce this type of virus. So it's likely that it's been known all along that it was a lab leak but they were silenced because it went against the narrative. So, I'm not surprised at all that it was from the lab.
The issue is not only the acquisition of new information that changes things but the "hiding" of said new information if it goes against the narrative.
There were oodles who put samples into analytical cassettes and found no natural structure. Testing is cheap and easy these days and it's just as easy to sample AND code human DNA.
Should have never voted him out , but that ship has sailed .
There also is no "Law of Gravity." There is an equation that has worked in all cases in which it has been tried, after apparent exceptions have been explained by intervening forces. It remains good until the day it no longer describes observed phenomena, just as the Newtonian "Laws" of motion remained good until they no longer described observed phenomena.
Well yes, strictly speaking you're right in the usual meaning of law, which as a lawyer you presumably know something about. It's a poor choice of words, but its a convenient shorthand for the regularities we observe in how nature behaves. It's a lot quicker and easier to refer to the laws of nature than "the regularities we observe... etc."
But to return to the actual subject of this thread, I don't think we're ever going to know definitively whether it was a virus that got away from a Chinese lab or a natural product of evolutionary biology, it's too late. We can reasonably assume the Chinese will not be forthcoming if it *was* a leak, and it's now too late to gather the evidence for it anyway. We'd need evidence the virus was in the lab, tests of people who worked at the lab, tests of the animals in the market where it supposedly came from, at the time the infections began, to nail down its origin beyond a reasonable doubt. We don't have that data and are unlikely to get it.
What was convenient shorthand is, sadly, now wielded as a rhetorical weapon by people who don't know the difference between semantics and facts.
Of course not. And if intelligence ever finds out, it's unlikely they'll tell me and thee.
It was Biden's DOE that released the low-confidence findings you seem to be buying into.
Shh... you'll have Dix have a stroke thinking about that.
U.S. House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Lisa Mascaro
Published Mar 10, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
WASHINGTON — The House voted unanimously Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic.
The 419-0 vote was final congressional approval of the bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk. It’s unclear whether the president will sign the measure into law, and the White House said the matter was under review.
“I haven’t made that decision yet,” Biden said late Friday when asked whether he would sign the bill.
Debate in the House was brief and to the point: Americans have questions about how the deadly virus started and what can be done to prevent future outbreaks.
“The American public deserves answers to every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
That includes, he said, “how this virus was created and, specifically, whether it was a natural occurrence or was the result of a lab-related event.”
The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.
Experts say the true origin of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1 million Americans, may not be known for many years — if ever.
“Transparency is a cornerstone of our democracy,” said Rep. Jim Himes, of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, during the debate.
Led by Republicans, the focus on the virus origins comes as the House launched a select committee with a hearing earlier in the week delving into theories about how the pandemic started.
It offers a rare moment of bipartisanship despite the often heated rhetoric about the origins of the coronavirus and the questions about the response to the virus by U.S. health officials, including former top health adviser Anthony Fauci.
The legislation from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was already approved by the Senate.
Hawley urged Biden to sign the bill into law. “The American people deserve to know the truth,” he said in a statement.
If signed into law, the measure would require within 90 days the declassification of “any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the Coronavirus Disease.”
That includes information about research and other activities at the lab and whether any researchers grew ill.
— Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
torontosun.com
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Lisa Mascaro
Published Mar 10, 2023 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
WASHINGTON — The House voted unanimously Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic.
The 419-0 vote was final congressional approval of the bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk. It’s unclear whether the president will sign the measure into law, and the White House said the matter was under review.
“I haven’t made that decision yet,” Biden said late Friday when asked whether he would sign the bill.
Debate in the House was brief and to the point: Americans have questions about how the deadly virus started and what can be done to prevent future outbreaks.
“The American public deserves answers to every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
That includes, he said, “how this virus was created and, specifically, whether it was a natural occurrence or was the result of a lab-related event.”
The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020.
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.
Experts say the true origin of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 1 million Americans, may not be known for many years — if ever.
“Transparency is a cornerstone of our democracy,” said Rep. Jim Himes, of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, during the debate.
Led by Republicans, the focus on the virus origins comes as the House launched a select committee with a hearing earlier in the week delving into theories about how the pandemic started.
It offers a rare moment of bipartisanship despite the often heated rhetoric about the origins of the coronavirus and the questions about the response to the virus by U.S. health officials, including former top health adviser Anthony Fauci.
The legislation from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., was already approved by the Senate.
Hawley urged Biden to sign the bill into law. “The American people deserve to know the truth,” he said in a statement.
If signed into law, the measure would require within 90 days the declassification of “any and all information relating to potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the Coronavirus Disease.”
That includes information about research and other activities at the lab and whether any researchers grew ill.
— Associated Press writer Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
U.S. House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
The House voted unanimously Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.
I read that to say they don't have anything important, so pretend we care about transparency.