[Dismas]

The president has ordered spies to do a probe on the virus' origins. Seems a bit late.

President Biden on Tuesday ordered US spy agencies to do a 90-day investigation into whether COVID-19 was released by a Chinese lab — with the White House saying it isn’t ruling out anything, including deliberate release of the virus.

Biden made the abrupt pivot after his administration insisted for weeks that it would defer to the World Health Organization for answers on how the pandemic started.

Biden said in a statement that two theories predominate current US official thinking. Those theories are that the virus emerged naturally from animals or escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.

“As of today, the U.S. Intelligence Community has ‘coalesced around two likely scenarios’ but has not reached a definitive conclusion on this question,” Biden said.

Read More: https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/biden-orde...ak-theory/

[Boudica]

This does feel like it's over a year too late? Surely any evidence, if there were any, would have been dealt with by now? Perhaps it's a "pretend to look like we're doing something" situation in light of the fairly weak intelligence that was released recently that merely stated some staff got ill. While it seems to coincidental not to be covid, the reports were also unbelievably vague.

[Dismas]

This does feel like it's over a year too late? Surely any evidence, if there were any, would have been dealt with by now? Perhaps it's a "pretend to look like we're doing something" situation in light of the fairly weak intelligence that was released recently that merely stated some staff got ill. While it seems to coincidental not to be covid, the reports were also unbelievably vague.

Suddenly the notion that the virus could have originated from Wuhan, isn't considered racially-charged, either.

[Boudica]

This does feel like it's over a year too late? Surely any evidence, if there were any, would have been dealt with by now? Perhaps it's a "pretend to look like we're doing something" situation in light of the fairly weak intelligence that was released recently that merely stated some staff got ill. While it seems to coincidental not to be covid, the reports were also unbelievably vague.

Suddenly the notion that the virus could have originated from Wuhan, isn't considered racially-charged, either.

That's a very good point. Imagine if the intelligence was faked to throw people off

[fritz]

This does feel like it's over a year too late? Surely any evidence, if there were any, would have been dealt with by now? Perhaps it's a "pretend to look like we're doing something" situation in light of the fairly weak intelligence that was released recently that merely stated some staff got ill. While it seems to coincidental not to be covid, the reports were also unbelievably vague.

Suddenly the notion that the virus could have originated from Wuhan, isn't considered racially-charged, either.

Was it ?! I thought it was only viewed as conspiracy theories.
Although meanwhile scientists clearly didn't agree on any consensus about the origin of the virus

[Dismas]

This does feel like it's over a year too late? Surely any evidence, if there were any, would have been dealt with by now? Perhaps it's a "pretend to look like we're doing something" situation in light of the fairly weak intelligence that was released recently that merely stated some staff got ill. While it seems to coincidental not to be covid, the reports were also unbelievably vague.

Suddenly the notion that the virus could have originated from Wuhan, isn't considered racially-charged, either.

Was it ?! I thought it was only viewed as conspiracy theories.
Although meanwhile scientists clearly didn't agree on any consensus about the origin of the virus

There was disdain for the terms "Kung Flu" or "Chinese Virus", originally. The terms were related to the origins of the virus, rather than people that were Chinese. Keep in mind, the influenza outbreak in 1918 was known as the Spanish Flu (and it didn't originate in Spain). WHO actually advised people not to label the virus, in fear of it being discriminatory. People should also have thicker skin.

[fritz]

the terms "Kung Flu"

wtf really, never heard this one haha. I totally can understand the racism in this yeah, even if that's probably used as a joke
But around me I mostly hear people calling the covid...covid! ^^

[ConcernedCitizen]

This does feel like it's over a year too late? Surely any evidence, if there were any, would have been dealt with by now? Perhaps it's a "pretend to look like we're doing something" situation in light of the fairly weak intelligence that was released recently that merely stated some staff got ill. While it seems to coincidental not to be covid, the reports were also unbelievably vague.

“The United States has compliance concerns with respect to Chinese military medical institutions’ toxin research and development because of the potential dual-use applications and their potential as a biological threat...”  “In addition, the United States does not have sufficient information to determine whether China eliminated its assessed biological warfare program, as required under Article II of the [Biological Weapons] Convention.”

"China’s most advanced virus research laboratory, known [as] the Wuhan Institute of Virology...is the only declared site in China capable of working with deadly viruses. Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied Chinese biological warfare, said the institute is linked to Beijing’s covert bio-weapons program."

[Dismas]

the terms "Kung Flu"

wtf really, never heard this one haha. I totally can understand the racism in this yeah, even if that's probably used as a joke
But around me I mostly hear people calling the covid...covid! ^^

Not terms I've heard except on TV/news. However, it does seem like political correctness has taken priority over determining the origins.

[Boudica]

the terms "Kung Flu"

wtf really, never heard this one haha. I totally can understand the racism in this yeah, even if that's probably used as a joke
But around me I mostly hear people calling the covid...covid! ^^

Not terms I've heard except on TV/news. However, it does seem like political correctness has taken priority over determining the origins.

Even if they can definitively point fingers at China, what is actually going to happen? Another "trade war"? How is the rest of the world going to punish China? While I don't want them to get away with it, I do feel a sense of futility in this.