A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
Fourteenth, the FBI and Department of Energy have reported their assessments that the laboratory escape of SARS-CoV-2 is the most likely explanation of the virus
The department of energy’s “low-confidence” hypothesis is that Covid originated from the chinese cdc, not the wuhan institute of virology as sachs is suggesting. This is actually a more likely hypothesis than sachs’, because the ccdc is located right near the wet market that became the epicenter of Covid in wuhan. The wiv is located far away from the wet market.
Also as sachs notes the defuse project was never approved, and I wish he’d be more clear with what he’s suggesting. Is he saying it was never approved but went ahead anyway? Was this in line with the wishes of the dod/niaid, or were they just going rogue?
Anyway I find this unconvincing. All these things are just the same right wing talking points we’ve been hearing for years, except i guess im supposed to find them cool and good because he’s blaming the USA and not China. It just backs up my general feeling that the lab leak people don’t really know what they’re talking about, and their “theory” is just a conflicting mess of competing theories. I mean he’s citing people in here who contradict the theory he’s putting forward. Sachs should stick to what he knows, apologizing for inflicting shock therapy on post-Soviet Russia.
The department of energy’s “low-confidence” hypothesis is that Covid originated from the chinese cdc, not the wuhan institute of virology as sachs is suggesting. This is actually a more likely hypothesis than sachs’, because the ccdc is located right near the wet market that became the epicenter of Covid in wuhan. The wiv is located far away from the wet market.
Also as sachs notes the defuse project was never approved, and I wish he’d be more clear with what he’s suggesting. Is he saying it was never approved but went ahead anyway? Was this in line with the wishes of the dod/niaid, or were they just going rogue?
Anyway I find this unconvincing. All these things are just the same right wing talking points we’ve been hearing for years, except i guess im supposed to find them cool and good because he’s blaming the USA and not China. It just backs up my general feeling that the lab leak people don’t really know what they’re talking about, and their “theory” is just a conflicting mess of competing theories. I mean he’s citing people in here who contradict the theory he’s putting forward. Sachs should stick to what he knows, apologizing for inflicting shock therapy on post-Soviet Russia.
Good points!