CV and mad panic behaviour

[PaulP]

When the dust settles and the history of covid is written, it may indeed be the case that a lab leak was the real cause, but until such a time, I'd be keeping an open mind.

Nudge nudge type cynicism and bias are no substitute for evidence and genuine analytical ability IMO.

[DJC]

When the dust settles and the history of covid is written, it may indeed be the case that a lab leak was the real cause, but until such a time, I'd be keeping an open mind.

Nudge nudge type cynicism and bias are no substitute for evidence and genuine analytical ability IMO.

Live bats in a wet market?  Very likely.

Bats in a lab causing COVID? Science fiction perhaps ?

By the way, I have eaten a bat.  In hindsight it wasn’t the best choice on the menu and it was terribly over cooked.

[capcom]

You seriously expect a persecuting lying cheating communist regime to offer any evidence of their guilt?

[DJC]

You seriously expect a persecuting lying cheating communist regime to offer any evidence of their guilt?

Only if it’s in their interest to do so.

[Mav]

"I just want to emphasize that the concerns we have at the moment are extraordinary, The Delta variant of this virus is certainly moving around our community far faster than anyone could have imagined and it's up to us to fight back."

Really? Haven’t critics spent the last week or so saying this is why NSW needed to impose a lockdown as soon as the Delta variant started to spread?

When I read that, it took me back to an episode of Frontline in which the EP was going ballistic at a journo who’d been sent to film a segment at the butterfly enclosure where some super rare moths had been added to the collection but he’d managed to kill them all when he used heavy duty lights to get better shots. He started to defend himself by saying, “How was I supposed to know moths would be attracted to ...” but gave up when he realised how stupid he’d been.

[Mav]

When the evils of lockdowns ceases to be a viable avenue of attack, I guess the Wuhan lab theory will have to do.

[ElwoodBlues1]

Live bats in a wet market?  Very likely.

Bats in a lab causing COVID? Science fiction perhaps ?

By the way, I have eaten a bat.  In hindsight it wasn’t the best choice on the menu and it was terribly over cooked.

The Chinese lied about having live Bats...until old video came out, thats the issue and the Aus Govt were not exactly forthcoming about the research assistance they supplied either.
Huang Yanling, who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was one of scores of doctors, scientists, activists and journalists who disappeared during the Chinese Communist Party's suspected cover-up. She was known as patient zero..and meant to be the first CoVid victim and has not been found since.
As Cap suggested I wouldnt trust a regime that squash people with tanks or revisit Nazi death camps or as the Chinese call them re-education camps. I prefer my bats in caves or pollinating crops rather than on my plate....                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

[PaulP]

I'd be 100% in favour of a proper investigation into the origin of the virus, but a Google search for "Huang Yanling Wuhan" doesn't inspire much confidence. The majority of the first 30 hits are from Murdoch papers or others like the Daily Mail. There isn't one I could find in the first 30 that appears reputable IMO.

[DJC]

I'd be 100% in favour of a proper investigation into the origin of the virus, but a Google search for "Huang Yanling Wuhan" doesn't inspire much confidence. The majority of the first 30 hits are from Murdoch papers or others like the Daily Mail. There isn't one I could find in the first 30 that appears reputable IMO.

I'm not sure whether the Murdoch media is more credible than the propaganda produced by the Chinese Communist Party, but the same must be said for tweets about "patient zero".

Huang Yanling was a post graduate student at the Wuhan Institute of Virology but she hasn't published anything since 2015.  I suspect that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't have the ability to manipulate the very broad range of academic publications and the absence of publications by Huang Yanling is real rather than a COVID conspiracy theory.

It seems that "patient zero" is more likely to a be someone who contracted COVID-19 a couple of months before the Wuhan outbreak.

[Thryleon]

Food for thought most of today's espionage end up being false flag attacks.

The Spanish flu was only named the Spanish flu because Spain was the first country to report on it.

I know people like to point the finger at Wuhan but odds are if this is man made and everyone is pointing the finger at China we've all been hoodwinked.