The other day, I asked if you believe that SARS-2 leaked from a lab. I have another question today.

📊 Survey: What are the merits of ‘gain of function’ research?

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #covid #covid19 #pandemic #lableak #zoonosis #GainOfFunction #gainoffunctionresearch #CovidOrigin #wuhaninstitute

📊 Survey: What do you elephants in the app think is Covid’s origin?

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #CovidOrigin #covid #covid19 @novid

@Tooden @elana @PacificNic @novid

I guess the conclusion so far is that this underground lab wasn’t meant for bioterrorism, it was just the pharmaceuticals industry working hard to provide us with Covid and pregnancy tests, etc etc, at competitive prices.

It doesn’t exactly reassure me that #lableak would be particularly unlikely as #CovidOrigin.

Police crack down on clandestine virus lab in a Californian warehouse. The lab featured:

🦠 Tissue samples included HIV, Hepatitis and Covid-19,

🦠 A thousand humanized rats, bioengineered to catch and spread Covid-19,

🦠 800 different chemicals, many categorized as ‘unknown chemicals’

Insider: »An illegal lab in California containing nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice has officials concerned after improperly stored tissue samples were tested and discovered to contain infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis. […]

The makeshift lab contained roughly 30 refrigerators and freezers — some of which were non-operational — as well as incubators, medical testing supplies, and hundreds of mice. Several disease samples tested from the lab included infectious agents like herpes, coronavirus, E. Coli, and malaria, SFist reported.

Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.

The warehouse came under investigation in March after a local code enforcement officer discovered a garden hose attached to a back wall of the building. As officials searched, medical devices that appeared to have been created on-site, such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, were also discovered, NBC News reported.

"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," NBC reported court documents related to the incident said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."

Nearly 800 of the mice found inside the warehouse were euthanized by officials, per NBC. An additional approximately 175 mice were already dead when they were discovered.

"There was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids," KRON4 reported the assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado, said. "Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."«

Source: https://www.insider.com/illegal-lab-found-full-of-bioengineered-mice-and-infectious-diseases-2023-7

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #bioterrorism #PrestigeBiotech #lableak #GainOfFunction #covid #covid19 #CovidOrigin #California @novid

“The preponderance of information supports the plausibility of an unintentional research-related incident that likely resulted from failures of biosafety containment during SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-related research,” the 301-page report, released on April 17, states.

US Senate COVID Origination Report

Source: multiple independent organizations reporting, full text report below.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23782224-senate-covid-19-origins-report
#ussenate #congress
#covid #COVID19 #CovidOrigin #senate

COVID origins debate: what to make of new findings linking the virus to raccoon dogs

While this latest data is one additional piece of the puzzle that supports an origin of the pandemic linked to Wuhan’s animal trade, it is unlikely to provide irrefutable evidence. — Connor G G Bamford, Queen’s University Belfast

https://bit.ly/40eGjaK

#COVID19 #COVID #covidorigin #wuhan

The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic
A new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.
#Covid19 #CovidOrigin #genetics

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/

For anyone thinking “what the actual fuck?” about DOE’s announcement that COVID came from a lab after so many others have assessed otherwise, here is one of the more detailed analyses in the literature that explain why DOE’s theory is just not all that likely. #CovidOrigin #COVID

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2202871119

#covid19 #SARSCoronavirus2 #SARS_COV_2 #OriginOfSarsCoV2 #CovidOrigin

Having been hit hard by the first SARS epidemic in 2003, which the CPC also tried to cover up, Taiwan did not trust the Chinese government’s word.

That skepticism proved to be warranted — and holds valuable lessons for us all.

For Beijing, winning its "people’s war" against the coronavirus by controlling the propaganda narrative is more important than learning the truth about the pandemic.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2022/11/18/commentary/world-commentary/china-covid-19-origin/