{"id":52544,"date":"2020-04-15T19:28:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52544"},"modified":"2020-04-15T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:29:11","slug":"fox-news-reports-coronavirus-originated-in-wuhan-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=52544","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/fox-news-reports-coronavirus-originated-wuhan-lab\">Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fox News<\/em>&nbsp;reports that COVID-19&nbsp;<strong>originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology&nbsp;<\/strong>and that&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;patient zero&#8221; was a lab employee who became infected&nbsp;<\/strong>before spreading it in the community &#8211; just&nbsp;as we have reported repeatedly over the past three months, in exchange for which Twitter&#8217;s &#8220;appropriate content&#8221; arbiters deplatformed us without reason or explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/27086004-8211291-image-a-7_1586650490164_1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to &#8216;multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China&#8217;s government,&#8217; the initial transmission of the virus was&nbsp;<strong>bat-to-human<\/strong>, and that the &#8216;official&#8217; story amplified by the MSM &#8211; namely that the virus originated at the Wuhan wet market &#8211;&nbsp;<strong>was a coverup by Chinese officials<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8216;in order to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country&#8217;s propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy,&#8217; reads&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources\">the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In what may or may not be a bit of narrative shaping from &#8216;official sources,&#8217;\u00a0<em>Fox<\/em>\u00a0reports that China&#8217;s Wuhan laboratory was working with COVID-19 &#8220;not as a bioweapon, but as part of China&#8217;s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses\u00a0<strong>are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So &#8211; lab accident while trying to compete with America&#8217;s capabilities appears to be the official story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;reported that the US State Department received&nbsp;<strong>two cables<\/strong>&nbsp;from US Embassy officials in 2018 warning of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-state-department-cables-warned-potential-sars-pandemic-after-visiting-wuhan-lab\"><strong>inadequate safety<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;at WIF, which was conducting&nbsp;<strong>&#8216;risky studies&#8217; on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/man-behind-global-coronavirus-pandemic\">bat coronaviruses<\/a><\/strong>, according to the&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/04\/14\/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses\/\">Washington Post<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>which notes that the cables have &#8220;<strong>fueled discussions inside the U.S. government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Reports Coronavirus Originated In Wuhan Lab\u00a0 Fox News&nbsp;reports that COVID-19&nbsp;originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology&nbsp;and that&nbsp;&#8220;patient zero&#8221; 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