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Lafiel on 19 April 2020
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Nighthawk117 said:

Ok, so earlier this week many of you slammed me for my support of Trump's defunding of the WHO, and I spent plenty of time defending my opinion....However evidence is now starting to show that this virus originated in a Chinese government biolab in Wuhan. That lab was investigating coronavirus in bats. Also, the lab had lax safety protocols.

Thus, at some point the virus jumped from a disected bat to an employee, who unknowingly, then left the lab and spread it around Wuhan.

If this is true, then....

1. The WHO was complicit in the Chinese government cover-up.

2. All the nations in the world need to come together and punish the Chinese government....such as...

3. I predict that before the end of this year the IOC will renege the 2022 Winter Olympics from Beijing and also ban Chinese athletes from all Olympic games indefinitely.

I don't understand how that scenario changes anything ???

Disecting bats is not prohibited, security lvl doesn't have to be high for that either and the chance of a spillover in that environment is vanishingly low, especially one that results in a human to human transmissible disease. The way these come about is by people being exposed to animal viruses millions and millions of times - so (usually) not in a lab where you might disect a few hundred specimen.

China deserves blame for how they clamped down on people trying to warn of this new disease and reacting late to the outbreak (but atleast they were decisive when they did) resulting in containment failing, but this "accidental spillover in a lab" scenario changes precisely nothing!

Apropos "lax safety protocols" - just yesterday the CDC was in the news for their Atlanta lab ignoring the CDCs own safety protocols and producing very early covid-19 test kits in the same facility that analysed/produced synthetic SARS-CoV-2 samples, which led to contamination of equipment and ending in this critically delaying production of more test kits, as the first ones failed. link

And that is a max security lab, which (for example) houses one of only Smallpox samples in the world and ofc other super deadly germs!

Last edited by Lafiel - on 19 April 2020