How many times did we see accusations of involvement by the Wuhan Lab shot down by the 'It came from Bats' crowd and now, the fingers are pointing at the lab again … …
You have repeated this question many times in this thread. Most people, including myself, have simply ignored you. Your questions all imply that human political factors were the cause of the outbreak and subsequent pandemic. Political supporters of Trump, as well as rabid watchers of distorted news, such as Faux News, tend to believe these ideas without questioning them. Why should anyone attempt to argue with people who believe that?
You made at least 3 claims in your post – the Wuhan Lab origin idea, the “misdirection” claim, and the Ft. Detrick claim – that can be tested against the known facts.
There is no remotely convincing evidence to support any of them. There is also no evidence to refute the second & third claim. That leaves them in the realm of rank speculation or pure fantasy. That may be fine for Faux News or the GOP in general, but all the rest of us need to see supporting evidence. Where is it?
Your first claim – that the December 2019 breakout in the Wuhan Hunan Seafood Market originated from a leak in the Wuhan Labs that perform research sponsored by the Chinese government. That also needs a lot of supporting evidence, and we have none. We’re not likely to get anything useful from the Chinese government. But before we launch missiles to strike Beijing, I want to see convincing evidence.
However, there is convincing evidence that says the Corona virus outbreak happened earlier than December 2019, at unknown locations. Evidence comes from Italy dating as early as July-September 2019. Numerous patients were participating in a clinical trial of lung cancer screening methods, and all of them had blood samples taken and frozen away. About a year later, when good anti-body tests were available, these blood samples were tested to see if the trial participants had been exposed to the Corona virus. These well-documented results showed that 11.6% of 959 people had already been exposed to Corona virus, certainly by September 2019. Despite the exposure, none of these people had any of the symptoms of Corona virus infection. (See posts
#3619 and
#5371 in this thread.) It clearly indicates the virus was widespread in Italy well before the Wuhan outbreak. How can the December 2019 Wuhan Lab outbreak origin of Corona virus be correct, if this clinical trial test is also true?
There is also evidence, not as convincing, suggesting this virus was around even earlier. Sewage test samples of a city or cities in Spain showed evidence of the virus DNA as early as the spring of 2019. This isn’t as convincing as the Italian evidence, but it cannot be simply ignored because it doesn’t fit a ‘let’s blame China’ idea.
Later, additional evidence based on virus sequences of the virus variants, showed that early on, cases in the USA almost certainly came from Europe, via New York and other east coast international airports. At a later time (I forget the timing), cases also entered the west coast coming from China or at least Asia.
All of these taken together make the case that Corona virus was widespread in Europe well before December 2019, when the first cases of severe illness & death were noticed in Wuhan.
Where is similarly convincing evidence to support your idea of a Wuhan Lab outbreak? I don’t see any at all.
