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Urmstongran Wed 23-Feb-22 21:11:19

A LAB leak is now considered the most likely origin of the Covid pandemic “behind closed doors” of the Government, it has been claimed, after Boris Johnson signalled that security measures would be enhanced to prevent accidental escape.

On Monday, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons the UK Biosecurity Strategy would be refreshed to protect against “natural zoonosis and laboratory leaks” in a public acknowledgement of the threat from insecure research facilities.

There is mounting suspicion that Covid-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology that had been experimenting on bat coronaviruses in the years before the virus first emerged in Wuhan city.

The Government has issued a call for evidence before drafting a new biosecurity strategy, which will deal with “accidental release and dual-use research of concern, where life science research is capable of being misapplied to do harm”.

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, of Magdalene College, Cambridge, who has submitted evidence for the strategy, said: “The official view (within government) is that it is as likely as anything else to have caused the pandemic.”

“Behind closed doors most people think it’s a lab leak.” ?

volver Sun 27-Feb-22 10:38:40

Got any links?

Not all scientists think Climate Change is man made.

But the sensible unbiassed ones do.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 27-Feb-22 10:48:44

Urmstongran

I’m sticking with mine. Not all scientists think the wet markets were the cause! I’m with a different set of experts.

Which experts are they?

I suspect they emanate from the far right in USA.

GillT57 Sun 27-Feb-22 10:51:03

But the people who brought us the success which is Brexit told the electorate to ignore "the experts" Urmonstongran.

Ro60 Sun 27-Feb-22 10:52:05

29volver

So whose opinion shall we lean towards?

'We' don't need to lean either way. We are all entitled to.our own opinions.

Whitewavemark2 Sun 27-Feb-22 10:56:46

Ro60

29volver

So whose opinion shall we lean towards?

'We' don't need to lean either way. We are all entitled to.our own opinions.

Yes absolutely. But if you post that the moon is inhabited by little green men then I think you will be rightly challenged

Urmstongran Sun 27-Feb-22 10:57:25

volver

Got any links?

Not all scientists think Climate Change is man made.

But the sensible unbiassed ones do.

Google is your friend. I haven’t got time to trawl.
Scientists do not always agree!

volver Sun 27-Feb-22 11:10:43

Yes I know. First hand experience, remember?

GrumpyGran8 Fri 04-Mar-22 19:11:46

Desire

Dean Koontz's book "The Eyes of Darkness” - science fiction novel published in 1981 references a fictional “biological weapon” called “Wuhan-400” . Interesting read...

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread (I've been away from GN for a few weeks), but I had to correct the claim that Dean Koontz predicted Covid.
Koontz's virus was nothing like Covid - it killed within hours by destroying internal organs and left no survivors.
And, in the original 1981 edition, the virus was named "Gorki-400" after the Russian city; that was changed to "Wuhan-400" in the 1989 reprint. Presumably that was because the Cold War was drawing to an end and Russia was no longer the enemy; the Wuhan reseach laboratory was already quite well known and there were predictions that China would become the new world power.
So not really a prediction.
I'll try to keep up with threads in future!

Namsnanny Fri 04-Mar-22 19:18:39

Don't chastise yourself Grumpygran I enjoyed reading your explanation.

effalump Sun 06-Mar-22 12:37:35

Urmstongran, there's a tonne of stuff that's been kept 'behind closed doors'. Like the fact that Dr Fauci had been using US taxpayers money for years to fund gain of function research in the Lab in Wuhan. Hundreds of emails between Fauci and his pals confirming this. A US sen. Rand Paul has been on Fauci's back for months.
If you get all your news from the UK msm and the Guardian, you need to do some serious research. Did you also know that SAGE has been stood down because they acknowledge that all their 'modelling' is guesswork?

volver Sun 06-Mar-22 12:45:44

So, its 12:37 today before someone tell us that we need to "do our research".

Rand Paul... is that the Tea Party member who said Obama was un-American?

SAGE haven't been stood down, despite what the Telegraph tells you. They're just not meeting so regularly. Modelling isn't guesswork. its...modelling confused.

Got any other pieces of fake news you'd like to share with us, that one of us can demolish for you?