An analysis by the U.S. Defense Department’s intelligence agency concluded five years ago that the virus that caused COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese laboratory and later escaped to spawn the pandemic that eventually killed millions of people, recently released documents obtained by US Right to Know show.
The never-before-published analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) points out that the lab in question – the Wuhan Institute of Virology – was highly capable of genetic manipulation, and includes an assessment that the genome of the coronavirus strain that caused COVID-19 is “consistent with the hypothesis” that it was “a lab-engineered virus” that “escaped from containment.”
The analysis by scientists in the DIA, which is charged with collecting and analyzing medical and health intelligence as part of its operations, also concluded that the virus that became known as SARS-CoV-2 could have come from “a bank” of bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab that was under the research of senior virologist, Dr. Shi Zhengli.
This story is and always has been a gigantic nothing-burger. The science is not settled, which means many hypotheses could be true or could be false.
The problem, is who the fuck cares? Is there any difference whatsoever if its man made or natural, in how we should act or what decisions we should make? Can we do anything to prevent bio engineering in a foreign country?
No. No, there is no practical difference, no, we cannot prevent research in other countries, and we probably shouldn’t even try since the goal is not practical.
One gigantic red herring.
