The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.
It’s quite funny how the virus originated in a city with a lab studying precisely that kind of virus, yet judging by the comments, it’s considered outrageous to even suggest the possibility that it might have escaped from that lab.
Nobody is claiming with absolute certainty that it did, but it seems strange to completely dismiss the idea.
Nobody is claiming with absolute certainty that it did,
Are you kidding? Of course they are
Who gives a shit?
It wasn’t a man-made lab leak.
Yes but now all the screetching heads can screetch it was all made by China and funded by George Soros and all Fauci’s fault and all the horrible talking points because there is a “source” that “proves” it was a man-made leak.
This really doesn’t change much though, the DOE put out the same low confidence theory 2 years ago. The fact that the intelligence agency hasn’t reached a better confidence level two years after the energy department said the same thing, that’s more like a massive strike against the theory than anything that supports it.
Even if it was, does it make a difference? It’s not like this is the type of thing you would do on purpose, because releasing it hurts everyone equally.
The only thing that you should conclude out of this is that you should probably just ban gain of function research and make sure lab security is regularly inspected by the WHO, things that should already be in place without needing a pandemic.
20 year later…
OK guys, Here’s how a laser works…first you need two mirrors, then Aliens.
OK, Here’s how cars get made! Mostly aliens
And fruit has to get picked. You guessed it! Aliens!
I should clarify, I included the excerpt in the post because i, too, believe this is bullshit.
It doesn’t matter where it came from! It doesn’t change the fact that our government left us to die, and corporations picked over our remains. As humanity grows so does the possibility of new diseases. Covid was almost the perfect test disease for modern nations to experience. Deadly enough to have to be taken seriously, but not deadly enough to be uncontrollable. We could have stopped the spread in 14 days. But stopping the flow of private money was unthinkable for even one day, so doors stayed open and the disease flourished. If covid was more deadly the world would have crumbled to ground because the wealthy and powerful can’t imagine losing one cent of profit. Even if that means losing billions of lives.
