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WHO report: covid likely not from Wuhan

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PicsInRed · 09/02/2021 16:40

Covid not from Wuhan, not there before December 2019 and may even have been imported into Wuhan/China in frozen food.

Definitely, 100% not from a lab but may have mutated bit by bit and crossed different animals and borders whilst doing so in order to reach the current covid we know and love.

So there ya go. Hmm

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55996728

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Middersweekly · 10/02/2021 17:35

How much money has China bunged the WHO for that report I wonder? 🤔

ERFFER · 10/02/2021 17:36

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Tiredwiththeshits · 10/02/2021 17:42

@ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia
Bottom line there is no definitive answer as to exact original source as it’s been years since this started back in 2019 quarter 2/3 (??).

The circumstantial evidence has been likely intentionally systematically erased over time right from the initial days and confusion when key connected and knowledgeable sources were “mysteriously” silenced!?

This is not a historical retrospective archeological carbon dating exercise as the original crime scenes have long been eradicated and forensic science will never be able to fully recover the true facts!

It is possible that there may have been a number of originating sources including zoonotic as well as man made experimentation leaks. Without conclusive evidence all we have is a nearby lab with known virus experimentation, silenced key local medics and scientists as well as a near by wet market with a petri dish of possibilities. It’s anyone’s guess as evidence is destroyed as now “access (to removed evidence) is granted.”

Exactly this!!

Lelophants · 10/02/2021 17:44

I have some horrible feeling it came from somewhere in China really messed up, like a concentration camp type prison and then someone escaped and happened to be in Wuhan. Morbid I know. The Chinese government are just, ugh.

GintyMcGinty · 10/02/2021 17:44

Folk wont take their tin foil hats off for anything

Lelophants · 10/02/2021 17:45

@PicsInRed

What I can’t understand is why governments seem to be going along with what appears to be a ‘show investigation’, when this virus has had such a profound impact worldwide

Presumably, we can't afford for tensions to get too high whilst the West is still in such a weakened state.

China is terrifyingly powerful. Just see how they've treated Australia.
ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia · 10/02/2021 17:48

Media finally ‘opening eyes’ to the truth about origins of COVID-19

Mamafaye · 10/02/2021 17:58

Who cares?????!!!!!!! Why is everyone wasting their time even thinking about this B S

LangClegsInSpace · 10/02/2021 18:02

@Lelophants

I have some horrible feeling it came from somewhere in China really messed up, like a concentration camp type prison and then someone escaped and happened to be in Wuhan. Morbid I know. The Chinese government are just, ugh.
The camps in Xinjiang are about 2000 miles away from Wuhan.
LangClegsInSpace · 10/02/2021 18:05

@Mamafaye

Who cares?????!!!!!!! Why is everyone wasting their time even thinking about this B S
In the hope that we can prevent something like it happening again? You know, like how after BSE we decided that it probably wasn't the best idea to feed cows to cows.
pam290358 · 10/02/2021 18:14

Dont think we’ll ever get to the bottom of it but the WHO have been wrong on a number of issues with Covid. I think it came from Wuhan and like others i think the emergence so close to the laboratory suggests that even if it wasn’t man made, they were attempting to modify it.

Whenigrowupiwanttobea · 10/02/2021 18:16

So the Who chief has been funded and supported by the Chinese in whichever organisation he works in. One of the Ambassadors of WHO is the Chinese President's wife. Coincidence?

Lweji · 10/02/2021 18:42

Who cares?????!!!!!!! Why is everyone wasting their time even thinking about this B S

In the hope that we can prevent something like it happening again? You know, like how after BSE we decided that it probably wasn't the best idea to feed cows to cows.

And who is going to force China to comply?

caspersmagicaljourney · 10/02/2021 18:46

Come on now - even if it was an accidental leakage, it must surely of come from a lab.
I'm not a scientist, but believing anything else is frankly fanciful.🙄🤔

LangClegsInSpace · 10/02/2021 18:50

One of the Ambassadors of WHO is the Chinese President's wife. Coincidence?

She was made a WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in 2011, one year before her husband became the Chinese president and six years before Dr Tedros became Director General of WHO.

news.un.org/en/story/2011/06/377342#.UWJk86Jgdc0

Lady Gaga's mum was made a WHO goodwill ambassador in 2019. They're all in on it!

o8O8O8o · 10/02/2021 18:51

who is going to force China to comply?
if they insist on endangering the rest of the world we'll just have to...errr....ummm... keep them on the naughty step I suppose Confused

o8O8O8o · 10/02/2021 18:53

they were attempting to modify it
as in give it an enhanced ability to infect humans, something which a virus which has recently overcome a species barrier tends to take a long time to reach...I'da thought?

Sarahrellyboo1987 · 10/02/2021 18:56

So many tin hat wearers in this thread!

KellyLynch · 10/02/2021 19:04

The UN delegation was not allowed to look at anything they wanted to see, so, I believe this news report is fake. The Wuhan lab is most probably the epicenter. If you believe China look at what they are doing to minority groups in their own country, plus HongKong, where they are arresting anyone who dares to want freedom.

LangClegsInSpace · 10/02/2021 19:07

@Lweji

Who cares?????!!!!!!! Why is everyone wasting their time even thinking about this B S

In the hope that we can prevent something like it happening again? You know, like how after BSE we decided that it probably wasn't the best idea to feed cows to cows.

And who is going to force China to comply?

Nobody can force China to comply with anything, obviously. It's very difficult for the investigators to gain access to anything in Wuhan or to any data that the Chinese government doesn't want them to see, obviously. China can just tell WHO, or pretty much any country on the planet, to just fuck right off, obviously.

What's the alternative? The rest of the world just says, 'Oh well, it originated in China so we can never hope to learn anything, we'll just leave them to get on with it and enquire no further'?

Maybe you're right, everyone seems to 'know what they reckon' in any case. That'll do, who needs science?

bondgirl76 · 10/02/2021 19:11

Dosent mean its not..just because they say so.Not exactly a reliable source..are they

KellyLynch · 10/02/2021 19:22

Spain did not fight in the Great War so did not have media censorship like Europe and America. They were the first to report on the flu because they could. Spain itself believed the flu started in France

Whenigrowupiwanttobea · 10/02/2021 19:33

So the Who chief has been funded and supported by the Chinese in whichever organisation he works in. One of the Ambassadors of WHO is the Chinese President's wife. Coincidence?

Theoldwrinkley · 10/02/2021 19:41

To quote some remark from the Profumo affair, ‘well, they would say that, wouldn’t they?’

Dinocan · 10/02/2021 19:42

I see one of the Australian scientists on the investigation has said there’s really no decent evidence for the frozen food theory. No surprise there.
www.smh.com.au/national/australian-scientist-on-who-mission-confident-covid-19-originated-in-china-20210210-p571cz.html