Media Downplayed Or Ignored These 8 Lab Leak Theory Facts For Over A Year

[PeteS in CA]

Media Downplayed Or Ignored These 8 Lab Leak Theory Facts For Over A Year

https://dailycaller.com/2021/05/27/lab-leak-theory-credible-8-facts-wuhan-covid-19-coronavirus/

Numerous media outlets have published stories within the last week confirming the legitimacy of the COVID-19 lab leak theory after denigrating the hypothesis as a baseless conspiracy for the first year of the pandemic.
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Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who said in May 2020 it was “virtually impossible for this virus to come from the lab,” published a story on Tuesday saying the lab leak theory “suddenly became credible.”

But the lab leak theory was always credible. Here are eight facts that have been in the public domain for well over a year that point to the legitimacy of the lab leak theory that the media downplayed or outright ignored.

1. China arrested doctors for telling the truth about COVID-19
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2. Wuhan’s top bat-based coronavirus researcher said she lost sleep worrying the virus came from her lab.
China’s top virologist on bat-borne viruses, Shi Zhengli, told the Scientific American in March 2020 that the possibility of an accidental leak from her Wuhan lab was the first thing that crossed her mind when she learned of the virus’s outbreak in Wuhan in late December.
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4. Chinese researcher published — then deleted — a study concluding COVID-19 probably originated from Wuhan lab in February 2020
Botao Xiao, a researcher at the South China University of Technology published a paper alongside another Chinese researcher on Feb. 6, 2020, reporting that the horseshoe bats known to carry a viral strain that shares 96.2% similarity to the virus that causes COVID-19 live 600 miles south of Wuhan in the Yunnan province.

The researchers also cited testimony from 60 people who lived in or visited Wuhan who said the bat ‘was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market.”

“The killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan” the two Chinese researchers noted in their paper, which was originally uploaded to Research Gate.
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7. Key American defender of Wuhan Lab had a clear conflict of interest
Daszak, the president of the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance, was responsible for orchestrating a statement published in The Lancet medical journal in February 2019 prior to any serious research on the origins of COVID-19 condemning “conspiracy theories” suggesting the virus doesn’t have a natural origin.

None of these prove the SARS-CoV-2 virus leaked from the lab, but they do "prove" that the MSM dismissed the leak theory despite evidence indicating it theory should not be dismissed. As for why the MSM dismissed it, Orange Man Bad.

[Smokin Joe]

https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985 Was all I needed to believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus was

Lab generated

Leaked from the Wuhan Lab (see the bio material on the researchers, two of whom are from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.)

The question is one of whether the leak was intentional or just capitalized upon by the Chinese and perfidious Democrats and sympathizers. The actions of the Chinese, while typical for a Communist regime trying to dodge responsibility, increased the severity and the perception of severity of the pandemic through failure to disclose information and the dispersal of disinformation in regards to the nature and effects of the virus. Using the Chairman of the WHO as a a mouthpiece, misleading information contributed to the spread of the virus (especially as disseminated accounts that the virus was not particularly contagious were parroted by Democrat politicians, with or without knowledge of the impending effects).

I fully expect the Communist Chinese to behave as they did, but the question for me is what did the Democrats (along with Fauci and the head of the WHO) know and when did they know it, something that would be difficult to prove, and did they use their knowledge for political ends despite the effect it might have on the American People and the world. Were they partners in the devastation which followed, not through ignorance, but through collusion and cooperation in creating the devastating results?