FBI director says COVID-19 ‘most likely’ originated from lab incident

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8 thoughts on “FBI director says COVID-19 ‘most likely’ originated from lab incident

  1. Not sure why so many people are still invested in the idea that this originated from bats – and whose closest variant to C-19 is found 1,000 miles away from Wuhan – rather than the in-your-face obvious explanation that a lab with shoddy controls let it escape. China screwed up big time, lied, and is not our friend, so why try to soft-pedal what really happened here?

  2. Maybe the legacy national news media should concentrate
    on true objective investigative journalism instead
    of being a sock puppet for the Dems and their allies.

  3. Center-left person here (Dem, former Dem? I don’t know anymore). I’ve been shocked all along that people are so dumb to believe the narrative that this occurred naturally. Oh yeah, it just so happened in this big big world in a big big country like China, that this virus jumped from an animal to a human in a market A FEW MILES AWAY from one of the only labs in the world supposedly authorized to handle viruses like this. I also don’t buy that this is something released on purpose. It was highly likely incompetence. Advance of knowledge be damned, we shouldn’t be researching deadly viruses in labs where the research staff leave out into urban areas every night. At least incompetent places like China shouldn’t be doing the research (with our support, no less!). This was clear and obvious since March 2020 and I’m baffled it isn’t obvious to more people. I don’t need investigations, all I need is Occam’s Razor to explain it all.

    1. Very well put. Agree completely. And while I understand the agitation among the conspiracy theorists who believe this was deliberate, let’s not forget that, at least in February and early March, the political class that was most encouraging people to go out and enjoy Chinese New Year and that restricting flights from China was racist was the same party that, by late March, was encouraging stringent lockdowns. It was incompetence from the start. But opportunists never let a good tragedy go to waste.

    2. “FBI director Christopher A. Wray” keeps the Federal Government propaganda alive and well!

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