Some time in 2019 in Wuhan a virus appeared that was already adept at infecting human beings and that was related to bat viruses from a long way away. Whether it arrived in the lungs of a traveller from a rural village in Yunnan, or through something that went wrong in a laboratory, we do not yet know. But tracking down its origins becomes more vital with every day that passes.
What the experts think
Members of the Trump administration claimed that SARS-CoV-2 may have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. Scientists are waiting to see if supporting intelligence will be declassified or if we will hear more from the new administration. However, the public scientific consensus has been shifting slowly.
In a significant change from a year ago, a growing number of top experts – including (ordered alphabetically by last name) Drs Francois Balloux, Ralph S Baric, Trevor Bedford, Jesse Bloom, Bruno Canard, Etienne Decroly, Richard H Ebright, Michael B Eisen, Gareth Jones, Filippa Lentzos, Michael Z Lin, Marc Lipsitch, Stuart A Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Megan J Palmer, Nikolai Petrovsky, Angela Rasmussen and David A Relman – have stated publicly (several in early 2020) that a lab leak remains a plausible scientific hypothesis to be investigated, regardless of how likely or unlikely.
We informed and obtained consent from each expert for their inclusion in this list.
Matt Ridley’s book on the origin of the pandemic, Viral, will be published in 2021. Alina Chan is a postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
What the experts think
Members of the Trump administration claimed that SARS-CoV-2 may have leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. Scientists are waiting to see if supporting intelligence will be declassified or if we will hear more from the new administration. However, the public scientific consensus has been shifting slowly.
In a significant change from a year ago, a growing number of top experts – including (ordered alphabetically by last name) Drs Francois Balloux, Ralph S Baric, Trevor Bedford, Jesse Bloom, Bruno Canard, Etienne Decroly, Richard H Ebright, Michael B Eisen, Gareth Jones, Filippa Lentzos, Michael Z Lin, Marc Lipsitch, Stuart A Newman, Rasmus Nielsen, Megan J Palmer, Nikolai Petrovsky, Angela Rasmussen and David A Relman – have stated publicly (several in early 2020) that a lab leak remains a plausible scientific hypothesis to be investigated, regardless of how likely or unlikely.
We informed and obtained consent from each expert for their inclusion in this list.
Matt Ridley’s book on the origin of the pandemic, Viral, will be published in 2021. Alina Chan is a postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?
The world knows by now the story of the coronavirus: this disease that has ripped around the world, killing two million people and counting, leaving a swathe of devastation in its wake. We are all but certain it came from China. Yet surprisingly, even now…
It was already established on balance of probability last April that SARS-CoV-2 escaped out of a Wuhan lab
https://project-evidence.github.io/
It was already known back then that Fauci had funded that work.
https://project-evidence.github.io/
It was already known back then that Fauci had funded that work.
Corona, False Alarm? Facts and Figures – October 2, 2020
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Flagging a worthwhile piece from 13 Nov 2020 in the BMJ "Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science" https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4425/rr-31
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Robert Kennedy Jr.: Bill Gates controls the WHO 100%
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My grandma died of Covid last month, and I blame — wait for it — no one.
I do, however, blame lockdown panic mullahs for making her last year a lonely and miserable one.
I do, however, blame lockdown panic mullahs for making her last year a lonely and miserable one.
** The possibility of climate lockdowns is already being floated by some of our greatest thinkers. They see a confluence of global crises as an opportunity.
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The idea of ‘doing capitalism differently’ is the driving rhetorical motivation behind the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset (another term for the implementation of global Marxism). **
https://spectator.us/topic/ready-climate-lockdowns-environment/
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The idea of ‘doing capitalism differently’ is the driving rhetorical motivation behind the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset (another term for the implementation of global Marxism). **
https://spectator.us/topic/ready-climate-lockdowns-environment/
** The former central banker said the investment needed to avert millions of deaths was double current rates.
But with governments ploughing billions into keeping economies afloat, a question mark hangs over whether the recovery will be green enough.
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Mr Carney, who was the Bank of England governor up until last year, and the head of the Bank of Canada before that, is now the United Nations envoy for climate action and finance.
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"Every year, for the course of the next three decades, $3.5 trillion (£2.5tn) a year, for 30 years. It is an enormous investment opportunity." **
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55944570
But with governments ploughing billions into keeping economies afloat, a question mark hangs over whether the recovery will be green enough.
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Mr Carney, who was the Bank of England governor up until last year, and the head of the Bank of Canada before that, is now the United Nations envoy for climate action and finance.
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"Every year, for the course of the next three decades, $3.5 trillion (£2.5tn) a year, for 30 years. It is an enormous investment opportunity." **
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55944570
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Sky News: Experts "baffled" at 50% drop in coronavirus cases following Bidden win.
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Sky News Australia: Digital Proof of Vaccination Ready Ahead of Rollout.
A classic from March 2020. Worth a read. Couple snips:
** If the current coronavirus had appeared in 1968, it would simply have been called “flu”, probably “Wuhan flu”. COVID-19 may not be nowadays classified as such, but in my youth flu is definitely what we would have called it. The Hong Kong flu was very similar to the current outbreak in being extremely contagious but with a fairly low mortality rate. 30% of the UK population is estimated to have been infected in the Hong Kong flu pandemic. The death rate was about 0.5%, mostly elderly or with underlying health conditions.
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100% of those who contract coronavirus are going to die. 100% of those who do not contract coronavirus are also going to die. The difference in average life expectancy between the two groups will prove to be only very marginal. That is because the large majority of those who die of COVID-19 will already be nearing the end of life ..."
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/03/momento-mori-unpopular-thoughts-on-corona-virus/
** If the current coronavirus had appeared in 1968, it would simply have been called “flu”, probably “Wuhan flu”. COVID-19 may not be nowadays classified as such, but in my youth flu is definitely what we would have called it. The Hong Kong flu was very similar to the current outbreak in being extremely contagious but with a fairly low mortality rate. 30% of the UK population is estimated to have been infected in the Hong Kong flu pandemic. The death rate was about 0.5%, mostly elderly or with underlying health conditions.
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100% of those who contract coronavirus are going to die. 100% of those who do not contract coronavirus are also going to die. The difference in average life expectancy between the two groups will prove to be only very marginal. That is because the large majority of those who die of COVID-19 will already be nearing the end of life ..."
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/03/momento-mori-unpopular-thoughts-on-corona-virus/