Covid escaped from lab - US report finds

GagaJo

My actual opinion, and I speak as someone who has lived in, and loved, China, is that they were developing it as germ warfare. It massively backfired on them though.

You may very well be correct Gagajo.
It certainly wouldn’t surprise me.

Katie59

Viruses get out of labs in many ways, about 20 yrs ago there was a Foot and Mouth disease outbreak traced to a leak in the drainage system at Pirbright. Thankfully contained to a small area.

Whatever the origin of Covid we are not going to get an unbiased account from the US.

Even more so from China who have conspired to prevent us from knowing the truth ever since it all started.

GagaJo

My actual opinion, and I speak as someone who has lived in, and loved, China, is that they were developing it as germ warfare. It massively backfired on them though.

Very much mine too, with USA funding.
There were labs in Ukraine I think set up by the USA.
I dont think the UK would not be involved in some way too.
They say politics is a dirty business, so is defence.

True Maddyone

Gagajo when I had a lust for travel China was a place I longed to go to, but never made it.
Did you visit the Three Gorges?

Namsnanny

Gagajo when I had a lust for travel China was a place I longed to go to, but never made it.
Did you visit the Three Gorges?

No. I did see the wall, the terracotta army, the forbidden city, Guanfulin (seat of the original settlement of Shanghai). I loved the wall. It had a lot of atmosphere. Guanfulin was wonderful as well.

I just loved the people and the general way of life. Family orientated, a love, respect and valuing of learning and embracing difference and foreigners.

Thanks for the reply. Well you managed to fit quite a lot in👍
I like reading about the history of China. A lot of fantastic early inventions. Nowadays interesting paleolithic finds.
I like the society's attitude to the elderly, too.

Yes. An integral part of the family.

Witzend

I wouldn’t be making excuses for China, MaizieD. They must have suspected, yet refused to acknowledge the problem, even when one of their own doctors was emphatic about a virulent new virus - and the poor man died.

Then they continued to allow planeloads of workers from Wuhan, to fly back to northern Italy to work in leather factories - and Italy was the European country hit first and hardest, if you remember.

China can’t be trusted or believed on anything at all.

The FBI have today announced today that a lab leak is the most probable cause of the pandemic. Apparently some of the report is classified so I guess that we will have to fill in the blanks ourselves.

Without the full text of the FBI report it's wise to withhold judgment.

I think germ warfare,too. I only hope other countries like Russia and the USA don’t decide to do the same. Nothing will ever be proved in any case.