“COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.”
That is among the findings of a 520-page final report by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which has been submitted to the U.S. Congressional Record following a two-year investigation.
For a long time, governments around the world, as well as international bodies like the World Health Organization, failed to properly—or, at the least, publicly—consider the ‘lab leak theory,’ prompting heavy criticism. Individuals who suggested it might be true were attacked as “conspiracy theorists” and “racists.”
The subcommittee found that the “strongest arguments” in favour of the theory were:
- The virus’ biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
- Data showing all cases stemmed from a single introduction into humans.
- The fact Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, “which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels,” and that
- Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers were sick with “a COVID-like virus” in 2019, before the global pandemic.
- And finally that “by nearly all measures of science,” evidence of a natural origin would now have surfaced, if there was any.
More importantly, the paper also suggested reasons why the theory has been made to look so heavily discredited—partly in an attempt to “defend China,” but also “to lessen the likelihood of increased biosafety and laboratory regulations.”
It has been submitted just months after now-President-Elect Donald Trump said he would reinstate military service members who were dismissed for rejecting the COVID-19 vaccination, promising they would also receive an apology and back pay—another shift away from the COVID pandemic madness.
This follows former UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s admission in his memoirs that he had come around to believe lab leak theory, as opposed to the idea that the Coronavirus was transmitted from infected pangolins to humans.
But where there are two steps forward, there must be one step back; this time in the shape of Britain’s civil service clinging on to ‘working from home’ arrangements, at the same moment as the private sector is asking employees to spend more time in the office.
“I guess,” joked MCC Brussels director Frank Furedi, “the Civil Service is not a Service anymore!”
