No debate about COVID’s origins was permitted. It had been settled by The Science™.
The reason this consensus was so quickly consecrated was that a group of more than two dozen scientists published a letter in the prestigious science journal Lancet in February, 2020 — while very little was known about SARS-CoV-2 — didactically declaring “that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.” The possibility that COVID leaked from the Wuhan lab was dismissed as a “conspiracy theory,” the by-product of “rumours and misinformation” which, they strongly implied, was an unfair and possibly racist attack on “the science and health professionals of China.”
For months, that letter shaped the permissible range of debate regarding the origins of COVID. Or, more accurately, it ensured that there was no debate permitted. The Science™ concluded that COVID was a zoonotic virus that naturally leaped from non-human animal to human, and any questioning of this decree was deemed an attack on The Science™.
That Lancet letter has fallen into disrepute due to the key role in its publication played by one of its signatories, Peter Daszak of the EcoHealth Alliance. To say that Daszak had a gigantic but undisclosed conflict of interest in disseminating this narrative about the natural origins of COVID is to understate the case. Daszak had received millions of dollars in grants from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to conduct research into coronaviruses in bats, and EcoHealth awarded part of that grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab which would be the leading suspect, by far, for any COVID lab leak.
Daszak’s enormous self-interest in leading the world to believe that a lab leak was impossible is obvious. It would be a likely career-ending blow to his reputation if the Wuhan laboratory to which EcoHealth had provided funding for coronavirus bat research was responsible for the escape of a virus that has killed millions of people around the world and caused enduring suffering among countless others due to lockdowns and economic shutdowns.
You would think if the lab leak theory was correct, we would have more evidence by now. We know that the Ecohealth alliance funding was on natural strains that were very far genetically from Covid19.
Allan S,
Seems like incredibly naive rationalization to me. We do not know any such thing about the actual uses for the Ecohealth Alliance funding but we know from communications that some western scientists had no compunction about taking an end run around gain of function prohibitions. We do know the Chinese “disappeared” their extensive virus database. The Chinese and their western cronies have done everything in their power obfuscate the Covid origins, and in doing so make themselves look guilty as hell. Occam’s Razor tells us that the virus came from the Wuhan Virus Institute. At this point, I say, guilty until proven innocent.
The Wuhan market release has even less credibility, again courtesy of China and her disinformation network.
Nobody argues that anymore. Why do you?
Fauci is on record in 2017 for predicting a pandemic during the Trump administration…Fauci has also been exposed for supporting gain of function research using the Sars bug as the starting point. Sars was shipped to Wuhan China from a lab in Manitoba which Trudeau and his MSM sycophants covered up.
“We would have more evidence by now” ??? Really? …in 2021 you still trust the people in power and more so the MSM?
“In a world of lies, speaking the truth becomes an act of rebellion, so be loud and clear for what meets no resistance never stops.”
Metalguru
This quote is from Peter Daszak, as quoted by Dr. David Martin from an episode in the online series: https://vrevealed.com/c19/viewing?utm_source=email “We need to create universal acceptance of a universal, such as a pan influenza or pan coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media and the economics follow the hype. We need to use the hype to our advantage to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see a profit at the end of the process.”
“Humanized mice” – that creeps me out every time I read it. Do they have humanized souls?
Or do they take after the scientists that created them?
Mike
I have been following the series on Covid Revealed.
It’s a 9 part series.
What an incredible find!
History of the virus and the people involved including Peter Daszak, Fauci and other lesser known individuals.
Lots of very knowledgeable people that give very good explanation on the Covid plandemic .
I ended up purchasing the package so I have the online, PDF download, transcripts and DVD.
Covid Revealed.
Well worth signing into to hear from the most informative group of individuals that are experts in their fields.
https://vrevealed.com