Or you can conclude that they are so compromised by their own complicity and warped funding commitments and were so intoxicated by the unprecedented levels of public attention and influence that these previously unknown boffins were accorded that they had zero incentives to spoil the party by supporting a full scale investigation. Also many medical scientists have Trumpian levels of humility which doesn‘t help…
Well quite. When a new virus emerges in a wet market just down the road from a laboratory that explicitly creates new viruses by splicing together existing viruses, the application of Occam's Razor supports the lab leak theory. We knew this already even whilst the pandemic was still raging - see this article from May 2021: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
Important to note that this theory maintains the leak was accidental, due to poor safety and security practice, most likely from an employee stopping at the market on the way home from work. It was not deliberately released into the human population and not a conspiracy to kill or control people.
What most certainly is a conspiracy, is the 'vehement' campaign of the world's leading virologists to deny that the lab-leak theory was at all plausible, precisely because they were all implicated in it. Fearful for their funding and their prestigious careers, they circled the wagons and dismissed the theory as baseless and nonsensical. In Germany you have Christian Drosten, in the UK we had Peter Daszak. Here is Daszak writing in the Guardian in June 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic . The same Peter Daszak who funded research at Wuhan, who drafted the open letter to the Lancet, who was part of the WHO delegation of scientists sent to Wuhan in Jan 2021 to investigate the origins.
Here was a real conspiracy hiding in plain sight amongst all the utter nonsense about Bill Gates, 5G masts and vaccination programs. No wonder the BND did not want to share their evidence with one of the conspirators. Again it is important to note that the motivation for the conspiracy was not power, population control or eugenics, it was plain old pride and greed, the instinct to self-preservation to not be found culpable for the deaths of millions of people and trillions of dollars of economic damage worldwide.
That doesn't explain the Merkel or Scholz governments reticence to make this public though. That I can only attribute to a cowardly and craven instinct to avoid making themselves enemies of China for as long as they can possibly delay it, which is also consistent with their approach to Russia and Israel, as we have seen in recent years.
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Or you can conclude that they are so compromised by their own complicity and warped funding commitments and were so intoxicated by the unprecedented levels of public attention and influence that these previously unknown boffins were accorded that they had zero incentives to spoil the party by supporting a full scale investigation. Also many medical scientists have Trumpian levels of humility which doesn‘t help…
Well quite. When a new virus emerges in a wet market just down the road from a laboratory that explicitly creates new viruses by splicing together existing viruses, the application of Occam's Razor supports the lab leak theory. We knew this already even whilst the pandemic was still raging - see this article from May 2021: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
Important to note that this theory maintains the leak was accidental, due to poor safety and security practice, most likely from an employee stopping at the market on the way home from work. It was not deliberately released into the human population and not a conspiracy to kill or control people.
What most certainly is a conspiracy, is the 'vehement' campaign of the world's leading virologists to deny that the lab-leak theory was at all plausible, precisely because they were all implicated in it. Fearful for their funding and their prestigious careers, they circled the wagons and dismissed the theory as baseless and nonsensical. In Germany you have Christian Drosten, in the UK we had Peter Daszak. Here is Daszak writing in the Guardian in June 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/conspiracies-covid-19-lab-false-pandemic . The same Peter Daszak who funded research at Wuhan, who drafted the open letter to the Lancet, who was part of the WHO delegation of scientists sent to Wuhan in Jan 2021 to investigate the origins.
Here was a real conspiracy hiding in plain sight amongst all the utter nonsense about Bill Gates, 5G masts and vaccination programs. No wonder the BND did not want to share their evidence with one of the conspirators. Again it is important to note that the motivation for the conspiracy was not power, population control or eugenics, it was plain old pride and greed, the instinct to self-preservation to not be found culpable for the deaths of millions of people and trillions of dollars of economic damage worldwide.
That doesn't explain the Merkel or Scholz governments reticence to make this public though. That I can only attribute to a cowardly and craven instinct to avoid making themselves enemies of China for as long as they can possibly delay it, which is also consistent with their approach to Russia and Israel, as we have seen in recent years.