Sad to say yesterday’s press have opened Pandora’s Box. The Origin of C19 is now in the public domain. Reading the analysis is hardly Bank Holiday reading. A man made disaster???
Have a good break everyone.
Have a good break everyone.
Which paper or media outlet was that in. I read that British Intelligence believe it to be feasible it came from the Wuhan Laboratory, but so do some elements of US intelligence agencies, whilst others parts of US agencies believe it to be a jump across the species. Be interested for a link to your source of yesterday.Sad to say yesterday’s press have opened Pandora’s Box. The Origin of C19 is now in the public domain. Reading the analysis is hardly Bank Holiday reading. A man made disaster???
Have a good break everyone.
That’s one reason why President Biden has given the respective US intelligence agencies 90 days to develop their positions.Yet again the Press seem to have a very special bunch of people who know much more than those with eminent qualifications .
However, the following is probably a much more accurate situation:
"Last week the Wall Street Journal cited US intelligence agencies who said they were told that three unnamed members of staff at a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan were sick enough to go hospital in November 2019 with Covid-like symptoms.
US intelligence chiefs later stressed they did not know how the virus was transmitted initially, but that they had two theories: either it emerged naturally from human contact with infected animals, or it was a laboratory accident.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s The World This Weekend, Dr Dale Fisher said the theory that the virus leaked from a laboratory was “not off the table”, but remained “unverified”. Fisher, chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, which is coordinated by the WHO, urged the US to share any intelligence it had. “The Wall Street Journal is not really the way to share science,” he said."
The simple answer is ......nobody really knows (or if they do are not admitting it) how it all happened, and I very much doubt we ever will.
For those not aware, Porton Down is where the MOD played around with all things nasty.
Daily TelegraphWhich paper or media outlet was that in. I read that British Intelligence believe it to be feasible it came from the Wuhan Laboratory, but so do some elements of US intelligence agencies, whilst others parts of US agencies believe it to be a jump across the species. Be interested for a link to your source of yesterday.
Damian, my old man went on one of the Porton Down jaunts during his days as a crab, and i remember in my early days there used to be the odd bulletin in the boards asking for volunteers. But with the old mantra of never volunteer for anything I always passed it by.
I think that delaying an inquiry into 2022 is just kicking the bucket down the road. There is nothing to stop the preparations regarding its terms of reference, power of representation, scope, venue, and Inquiry Chairperson all being drafted such that it can make a prompt start.I am more worried about the survival of friends and family, the inquest on where the problem came from can wait until we have the problem sorted.
I agree with your views. A judge led inquiry with powers to subpoena witnesses under oath would ensure less politicisation.It makes no differene where it came from - we still have deal with it and that should be the priority.
We do need to try and find out where it came from, so we can if possible, stop it from reoccuring, or so we can have an effective solution to prevent or manage any future mass infections.
Ilke Clive I see no practical reason to delay the start of an inquiry though its terms are at present unknown. But I fear its going to be turned into a party political witch hunt with wisdom of hind sight.
As memebers of the public we are never going to be told the whole truth whatever the authorities evntually find out or decide to blame the outbreak on.