4d ago

CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

www.theguardian.com CIA now backs lab leak theory to explain origins of Covid-19

Analysis released by new director, John Ratcliffe, suggests the agency believes totality of evidence makes a lab origin

The nuanced finding suggests the agency believes the totality of evidence makes a lab origin more likely than a natural origin. But the agency’s assessment assigns a low degree of confidence to this conclusion, suggesting the evidence is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory.

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Who gives a shit?
It wasn't a man-made lab leak.
- Who gives a shit?
  So we can prevent the next one. More stringent lab testing procedures are required in China. And, if not implemented, we can easily have a repeat event with a different pathogen.
- Even if it was, does it make a difference? It's not like this is the type of thing you would do on purpose, because releasing it hurts everyone equally.
  The only thing that you should conclude out of this is that you should probably just ban gain of function research and make sure lab security is regularly inspected by the WHO, things that should already be in place without needing a pandemic.
- Yes but now all the screetching heads can screetch it was all made by China and funded by George Soros and all Fauci's fault and all the horrible talking points because there is a "source" that "proves" it was a man-made leak.
  
  This really doesn't change much though, the DOE put out the same low confidence theory 2 years ago. The fact that the intelligence agency hasn't reached a better confidence level two years after the energy department said the same thing, that's more like a massive strike against the theory than anything that supports it.
  
  The main reason they don't have the evidence is because China won't cooperate. We may never know.

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