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Sympthsical

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6. I got two hides because of this topic
Thu Jun 3, 2021, 12:47 PM
Jun 2021

We'll see how this thread goes.

More and more, I believe there was an accident or breach of safety protocols at the lab. I think it got out into the population, took a bit for anyone to notice, and by then it was too late.

I don't believe in conspiracies. I believe in evidence. More and more evidence is piling up that something happened. American intelligence was suspicious something happened when all cell phone activity in the lab disappeared in (IIRC) late October - meaning the lab had been evacuated.

Zhengli herself noted that she was working on gain-of-function areas with coronaviruses. A guy testifying to Congress a few weeks ago (I forget who) denied this, even though Zhengli herself has admitted to it.

There are things in the Fauci e-mails where, if you're not at least raising an eyebrow about what was going on in that lab, you're actively not wanting to investigate the situation. Very early on, a major funder of the lab was actively planting and paying for stories in the media to claim a lab leak was conspiracy theory, and promoted the idea that it was a random species jump.

This was a crazy potent virus, it spread fast, and it originated in an area near a lab that just so happens to be tinkering with gain-of-function on coronavirus?

We owe it to our dead to learn what happened here. And if it was the lab, we have to do our damnedest to ensure it never happens again.

We do not definitively know it was the lab. Not yet. But the evidence is beginning to pile. To dismiss the idea completely out hand is dangerous.

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Vanity Fair once again with great reporting underpants Jun 2021 #1
Does it cover this? soothsayer Jun 2021 #2
The lab-leak hypothesis is viable but will remain unproven. dalton99a Jun 2021 #3
This. Will remain murky. soothsayer Jun 2021 #4
there is plenty that can be done FreddyWhite Jun 2021 #17
What if the lab leak were proven true? Would that lead to war? Initech Jun 2021 #5
Nah Sympthsical Jun 2021 #7
I got two hides because of this topic Sympthsical Jun 2021 #6
We seem to be tracking this at the same time underpants Jun 2021 #13
There are two major problems that people will fight to cover up Sympthsical Jun 2021 #16
EcoHealth Alliance smells like an intelligence operation Klaralven Jun 2021 #22
Did you see our "investigation"? Sympthsical Jun 2021 #23
There is also this about LLNL... Klaralven Jun 2021 #24
Trumpers had a vested political interest in proving the lab leak Sympthsical Jun 2021 #25
Trump was definitely a problem for people managing classified information Klaralven Jun 2021 #26
And it's creating problems now Sympthsical Jun 2021 #27
We owe it to our dead.. FreddyWhite Jun 2021 #18
I Could Make A Long List WHITT Jun 2021 #8
Get the data out. We need to get the truth out. Yavin4 Jun 2021 #9
It's likely the Spanish Flu of 1918 wasn't Spanish. hunter Jun 2021 #10
Trump weaponized it. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #11
It seems to me that the production of this would be for prevention underpants Jun 2021 #12
Exactly. Downtown Hound Jun 2021 #14
Apparently there are some who want to give more ammo to the racist idiots. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #15
Yes. You are right on all counts. roamer65 Jun 2021 #20
Given the nature of China politics. At such time as the current leader shows weakness Johonny Jun 2021 #19
The most likely outcome will be to classify gain-of-function and associated research Klaralven Jun 2021 #21
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