{"id":68510,"date":"2024-06-09T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68510"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:08:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T21:08:29","slug":"it-leaked-from-a-us-backed-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68510","title":{"rendered":"It Leaked From a US-Backed Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

It Leaked From a US-Backed Lab<\/a><\/h3>\n
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For The New York Times, which started this whole fiasco dating from Feb. 27, 2020, with a podcast designed to drum up disease panic, it\u2019s been a drip, drip, drip of truthiness ever since.<\/p>\n

A fortnight ago, the paper finally decided to report on vaccine injury from shots that vast majorities never needed and that stop neither infection nor transmission. And now, as of June 3, we have as decisive an article<\/a> as one can imagine that shows that \u201ca laboratory accident is the most parsimonious explanation of how the pandemic began.\u201d<\/div>\n

\u201cWhether the pandemic started on a lab bench or in a market stall, it is undeniable that U.S. federal funding helped to build an unprecedented collection of SARS-like viruses at the Wuhan institute, as well as contributing to research that enhanced them,\u201d the article reads. \u201cAdvocates and funders of the institute\u2019s research, including Dr. Fauci, should cooperate with the investigation to help identify and close the loopholes that allowed such dangerous work to occur. The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The author is scientist Alina Chan of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For purposes of documentation, let\u2019s go through the points she makes.<\/p>\n

1. The SARS-like virus that caused the pandemic emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, the Chinese city where the world\u2019s foremost research lab for SARS-like viruses is located.<\/p>\n

2. The year before the outbreak, the Wuhan Institute, working with U.S. partners, had proposed creating viruses with SARS\u2011CoV\u20112\u2019s defining feature.<\/p>\n

3. The Wuhan lab pursued this type of work under low biosafety conditions that could not have contained an airborne virus as infectious as SARS\u2011CoV\u20112.<\/p>\n

4. The hypothesis that COVID-19 came from an animal at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan is not supported by strong evidence.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It Leaked From a US-Backed Lab For The New York Times, which started this whole fiasco dating from Feb. 27, 2020, with a podcast designed to drum up disease panic, it\u2019s been a drip, drip, drip of truthiness ever since. A fortnight ago, the paper finally decided to report on vaccine injury from shots that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[29341,29192,16260,607,16350,28842],"class_list":["post-68510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-covid","tag-covid19","tag-jeffrey-a-tucker","tag-pandemic","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-wuhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68511,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68510\/revisions\/68511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}