re: NYT - Trump Officials Are Said to Press Spies to Link Virus and Wuhan Labs

I thought Carlos Slim was the one who held them by the balls.

Does China hold them by the balls? Is that why it is perpetually a big multi-cultural circle jerk around there?

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spy agencies

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are concerned that the pressure from administration officials will distort assessments

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OHHHHH! So now they are worried?

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Again, it takes a lot of logic pretzels to get to the point where you read an article that identifies a concerted Chinese disinformation campaign, and come away thinking the article accepts what China says as the truth.

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Most intelligence agencies remain skeptical that conclusive evidence of a link to a lab can be found, and scientists who have studied the genetics of the coronavirus say that the overwhelming probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a nonlaboratory setting, as was the case with H.I.V., Ebola and SARS.

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So either you are illiterate, or a duplicitous pro-chinese hack. Because NO scientist or intel official outside of the CCP says there is an "overwhelming probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a nonlaboratory setting." In fact there is virtually zero chance of that occurring in Wuhan.

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They also had SARS leak from their labs in the past. Twice. This is not an isolated example.

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Exactly. The difference is in those 2004 instances, they realized with WHO officials already in Beijing, a cover up would be very difficult. It is one reason they set up their P4 BioLab away from Beijing. In 2004 the WHO ended up with extensive access to the P3 Beijing facility and procedures. It found significant breeches.

Fast-forward 16 years to the CV19 case, and even after 6 months, no inspectors have been allowed anywhere near the facility.

Read the comments on the article. Wow. I have officially lost all faith in America moving forward.

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Because NO scientist or intel official outside of the CCP says there is an "overwhelming probability is that it leapt from animal to human in a nonlaboratory setting."

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"All of the evidence points to this not being a laboratory accident," says Jonna Mazet, a professor of epidemiology at the University of California, Davis and director of a global project to watch for emerging viruses.

Virus Researchers Cast Doubt on Laboratory Accident Theory

If you find out this lady or the other dozen of folks cited in this article are Chinese citizens, let me know.

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Jonna Mazet

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Is a veterinarian.

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Who determined that someone has to be a Chinese citizen to carry their water?

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I’ll rephrase: provide any evidence she has sympathies, loyalties, or allegiance to CCP

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What’s the factually untrue part?

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This part right here

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unsubstantiated theory

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Got any more questions?

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Virus researchers say there is virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as result of a laboratory accident in China or anywhere else.

The assessment, made by more than half-a-dozen scientists familiar with lab accidents and how research on coronaviruses is conducted, casts doubt on recent claims that a mistake may have unleashed the coronavirus on the world.

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"Virtually no chance"???

Meanwhile, SARS escaped Chinese Labs ––– TWICE ––– in the past.

"Virtually no chance", and yet China's leading virologist lost several days of sleep worrying that the CV19 outbreak would (or could) be tied to her lab.

But your dog doctor says a lab sourced CV19 outbreak is "impossible". While I do wonder if her reference to "lab sourced" refers a black-dog or a facility, I guess your dog doctor and her sundry colleagues would say Shi Zhengli is a know-nothing imbecile to suspect her own Wuhan lab (facility, not dog) as a source.

Again, veterinary and "holistic" opinions aside, science addresses facts.
There is ZERO factual evidence of a CV19 transmission vector being present in Wuhan outside of a lab. NONE! If you or the dog doctor have antithetical information to that, by all means lay it out.

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Shi instructed her group .... meanwhile she frantically went through her own lab’s records from the past few years to check for any mishandling of experimental materials, especially during disposal. Shi breathed a sigh of relief when the results came back: none of the sequences matched those of the viruses her team had sampled from bat caves. “That really took a load off my mind,” she says. “I had not slept a wink for days.”

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