Congressional Report says lab leak likely, probably in Sept 2019

[WarDamnCockerel]

The House Foreign Affairs Committee minority staff, led by ranking Republican Michael McCaul (Tex.), released Monday an 84-page addendum to their previously issued report on the origins of covid-19. Their new research focuses on whether the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the world’s leading bat coronavirus research center, as well as other labs in Wuhan, could have been the source of the outbreak. The report also presents extensive evidence that the international community may need to revise its timeline of the outbreak.
“It is our belief the virus leaked sometime in late August or early September 2019,” McCaul said in a statement accompanying the release of the report. “When they realized what happened, Chinese Communist Party officials and scientists at the WIV began frantically covering up the leak. … But their coverup was too late — the virus was already spreading throughout the megacity of Wuhan.”

s the committee’s report notes, the Wuhan Institute of Virology took its main public virus database offline on Sept. 12, 2019. Dozens of athletes from several countries who attended the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan in late October reported they came down with covid-like illnesses either while they were in Wuhan or shortly after returning home. The committee report also references commercially available satellite imagery that shows significantly increased activity at the six Wuhan hospitals closest to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in September and October of 2019.
The committee staff also unearthed an archived version of a contract competition for a new $1.3 million “Security Service Procurement Project” that was issued by the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Sept. 12, the same day the virus database went mysteriously offline. Four days later, the Wuhan Institute of Virology announced a new contract competition to completely renovate its air conditioning system for an estimated $606 million. Both contract announcements were later scrubbed from the Chinese Ministry of Finance website.

The report singles out Peter Daszak, the head of the U.S. government funded nonprofit organization EcoHealth Alliance, who awarded several subgrants to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and worked closely for many years with their main bat coronavirus team, led by Shi Zhengli. Daszak was instrumental in organizing a letter in February 2020 in the Lancet “condemn[ing] conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” and he has consistently defended the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“We have uncovered strong evidence that suggests Peter Daszak is the public face of a CCP disinformation campaign designed to suppress public discussion about a potential lab leak,” the report states, pointing to emails between Daszak and other scientists the committee says were part of his effort to steer the narrative away from the Wuhan labs.

The Biden administration’s 90-day intelligence review will not be sufficient. Calls for a 9/11-style commission are increasing. Without investigating the Wuhan labs and all U.S. collaboration with them, there’s no way to claim we have done our best to learn how the pandemic started, so we can prevent the next one. Uncovering the truth is crucial to our national security and our public health.

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[AUBK]

Holy shit. Covid is not a hoax anymore?!

 

[tickledone]

The China virus?? Where have I heard that before?

 

[AUB03]

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says the U.S. intelligence community may never know the specific origin of COVID-19.

The information is in a 17-page report recently sent from the office to President Biden that details findings so far, according to the Associated Press.

Office of Director of National Intelligence says US may never be able to pinpoint COVID-19 origin

Agencies are split on whether the virus jumped from animal to human, or if it was caused by a lab leak in Wuhan.

justthenews.com

 

[au4life_rz]

Whether accidental, or planned, zoonatic, or engineered, I'm not going to expend much/any energy trying to figure it out. It would probably be a lot easier to determine how many licks it takes to get the the center of a tootsie roll lollypop.

The leading authorities have gotten what they wanted out of this "emergency" for the most part. At this point, it is what it is.

 

[AUBK]

Whether accidental, or planned, zoonatic, or engineered, I'm not going to expend much/any energy trying to figure it out. It would probably be a lot easier to determine how many licks it takes to get the the center of a tootsie roll lollypop.

The leading authorities have gotten what they wanted out of this "emergency" for the most part. At this point, it is what it is.

Lol. What did the leading authorities want and get?