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  • Originally posted by seanD View Post
    China is denying both #1 and 2. They're denying any and all theories, conspiracy or otherwise, related to the pandemic. The Wuhan wet market is the story they're sticking to; at least to my knowledge that hasn't changed. Which leads me to believe #1 is the most likely.
    The Wuhan wet market fits the genetic evidence as described in the research in the previous post. The administration acknowledged there is no evidence for a Wuhan lab leak.
    Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
    Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
    But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

    go with the flow the river knows . . .

    Frank

    I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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    • Originally posted by seanD View Post
      China is denying both #1 and 2. They're denying any and all theories, conspiracy or otherwise, related to the pandemic. The Wuhan wet market is the story they're sticking to; at least to my knowledge that hasn't changed. Which leads me to believe #1 is the most likely.
      This theory of the origin strikes me as quite interesting:



      Note: I've done absolutely zero fact-checking of anything said in that video. I post it as a 'that sounds vaguely plausible' rather than 'everyone should believe this!'.
      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
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      • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
        This theory of the origin strikes me as quite interesting:



        Note: I've done absolutely zero fact-checking of anything said in that video. I post it as a 'that sounds vaguely plausible' rather than 'everyone should believe this!'.
        The USA administration acknowledged that there is no evidence to link the Wuhan lab to the COVA-19 pandemic.
        Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
        Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
        But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

        go with the flow the river knows . . .

        Frank

        I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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        • Originally posted by seanD View Post
          The Wuhan wet market is the story they're sticking to; at least to my knowledge that hasn't changed.
          Wrong, they've stated that they don't know where it started. It was Chinese researchers that published in Lancet some weeks back that it couldn't have started in the market.
          Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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          • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
            Wrong, they've stated that they don't know where it started. It was Chinese researchers that published in Lancet some weeks back that it couldn't have started in the market.
            Weren't they researchers independent of the actual china regime?

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            • Originally posted by seanD View Post
              Weren't they researchers independent of the actual china regime?
              There haven't been outraged reports about these researches being muzzled for contradicting the regime etc etc.
              Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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              • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                There haven't been outraged reports about these researches being muzzled for contradicting the regime etc etc.
                From what I understand, china isn't denying the Wuhan wet market story is not true, they're saying there's no evidence it was manufactured (which is like pretty much admitting guilt, we just can't prove it).

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                • Originally posted by seanD View Post
                  From what I understand, china isn't denying the Wuhan wet market story is not true
                  They've said that they're going where the science indicates, and the scientists have discarded the wet market theory.

                  they're saying there's no evidence it was manufactured (which is like pretty much admitting guilt, we just can't prove it).
                  If you can't prove it, why don't they just deny it outright?
                  Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                  • Darth, where are you? '''''''''''''anonymous''''''''''''''''''''''''' sourcessay that intelligence knew in November that China was covering up since then. '''''''''''''anonymous''''''''''''' sources say that intelligence has proof.
                    Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.

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                    • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                      There's two quite different theories though...

                      1. That China was manufacturing bio-weapons. That this virus was created artificially in a bio-weapons lab. That it escaped from by mistake (or even on purpose) from that lab.

                      2. That China was doing totally normal scientific study of animal diseases (with a view to understanding them and preventing their future transmission to humans). That one of the labs where they had some caged animals and were studying the diseases of them, was the original source of this virus after one of the scientists there caught it.

                      China is denying #1, I think rightfully so.

                      I believe #2 is correct from the evidence I've seen. China is also denying / trying to cover #2 which IMO is silly, but it doesn't really matter whether they admit that one or not. It's not like it makes a difference at this point.
                      I agree. But as I have been saying, China is big on saving face. They don't want to be held responsible for the biggest fiasco in the history of mankind.

                      And as people have been saying, they have been lying about their numbers.

                      from March 30:


                      Wuhan residents say coronavirus figures released by China don't add up

                      Despite China's propaganda pushers being all smiles for the international community, residents told Radio Free Asia that Beijing's claims that there were only 2,500 deaths in Wuhan is far from reality.

                      For more than a week, seven large funeral homes that serve Wuhan have been handing out the cremated remains of about 500 people to their families every day. When added, the figure puts the official number the Chinese government has claimed into question.

                      "It can't be right ... because the incinerators have been working round the clock, so how can so few people have died," said Zhang, a Wuhan resident who only gave Radio Free Asia his last name. "They started distributing ashes and starting interment ceremonies on Monday."

                      Wuhan accounts for about 60 percent of China's coronavirus cases, but the numbers the government has been putting out has fallen sharply in weeks, a sign, the government says, that its aggressive measures are working.

                      Social media users aren't buying it and have taken the country to task, doing basic math and finding faulty figures in the government's reporting.

                      The news website Caixin.com reported that 5,000 urns had been delivered by a supplier to the Hankou Funeral Home in one day. That's double the number of deaths Xi's officials claimed.
                      https://www.foxnews.com/world/wuhan-...na-dont-add-up


                      Well today, China released new numbers for Wuhan sharply raising the death toll, while downplaying it as problems with data reporting.


                      Chinese epicenter Wuhan raises number of virus dead by about 50 percent

                      China raised Wuhan’s coronavirus death toll by nearly 50 percent Friday following weeks of allegations that officials were underreporting the numbers to make the situation there look better than it actually was.

                      The city where the coronavirus outbreak is believed to have originated is now reporting 3,869 deaths after adding 1,290 to its previously-announced figure. Numbers of total cases in the city of 11 million were also raised by 325 to 50,333, accounting for about two-thirds of China’s total 82,367 announced cases.

                      Chinese state media claimed Friday that the reason for the sudden leap was that medical facilities were overwhelmed during the peak of the outbreak and because of that, “belated, missed and mistaken reporting occurred.”
                      https://www.foxnews.com/world/chines...s-dead-by-1290


                      I believe they knew they couldn't keep up lying with all of the world attention on them at this time so they are trying to revise their numbers upward and blaming it on bad reporting. I also believe this is still not the true number, and they are still lying.

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                      • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                        There haven't been outraged reports about these researches being muzzled for contradicting the regime etc etc.
                        Well, yes they have the muzzled the doctor in Wuhan that first described the virus, where it came from, and coming pandemic. The Doctor died from the virus. I will go with the genetic research I cited and other research
                        Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
                        Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                        But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

                        go with the flow the river knows . . .

                        Frank

                        I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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                        • Originally posted by demi-conservative View Post
                          They've said that they're going where the science indicates, and the scientists have discarded the wet market theory.

                          If you can't prove it, why don't they just deny it outright?
                          I have no reliable references that the origin of the virus was not the Wuhan market. In fact the research I cited indicated that the most likely source is the animals in the market.
                          Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
                          Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                          But will they come when you do call for them? Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1, Act III:

                          go with the flow the river knows . . .

                          Frank

                          I do not know, therefore everything is in pencil.

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                          • Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                            This theory of the origin strikes me as quite interesting:



                            Note: I've done absolutely zero fact-checking of anything said in that video. I post it as a 'that sounds vaguely plausible' rather than 'everyone should believe this!'.
                            Yeah that does seem pretty plausible.

                            here is a news article saying pretty much the same thing with similar evidence:

                            https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/...to-wuhan-labs/
                            Last edited by Sparko; 04-17-2020, 07:01 AM.

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                            • Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                              The USA administration acknowledged that there is no evidence to link the Wuhan lab to the COVA-19 pandemic.
                              No they didn't Shuny. They said they are investigating it and every day it becomes more plausible. Just stop repeating your nonsense.



                              ‘Costliest Government Coverup of All Time’: Growing Confidence among U.S. Officials That Coronavirus Emerged from Lab

                              U.S. intelligence has “increasing confidence” that the novel Wuhan coronavirus outbreak began in a lab that was researching bat-coronaviruses, contrary to China’s claim that the pandemic emerged from a Wuhan wet market

                              https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...rged-from-lab/

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                              • Originally posted by shunyadragon View Post
                                I have no reliable references that the origin of the virus was not the Wuhan market. In fact the research I cited indicated that the most likely source is the animals in the market.
                                They don't even sell horseshoe bats in the market, which is the animal the virus came from.

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