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I think I know what you’re getting at, but why now, five months into the new administration?

adinosaur123 5y ago
A better question is this: Why did the current administration suddenly shut down an ongoing inquiry started by the last administration, only to immediately turn around and announce a "new" investigation? That's very, very bizarre.
pedroma 5y ago
It was always a plausible theory. Why would time change that, especially once it's brought up again with new evidence.
hn8788 5y ago
Maybe so they can claim they've had time to review the information on their own, and determined it's not a conspiracy. If they'd done it sooner they would have been lumped in with Trump supporters, and you can see see people in the comments here saying that they assume that everything he says is racist/lying, so they didn't want internet mobs to claim they're racist too.
dsyrk 5y ago
It’s because the evidence is overwhelming and political establishment has realized it will be impossible to suppress the information. Will we “cancel” an eminent virologist and former President of Caltech because he explains transparently to people the smoking gun with the FCS and CGG condons. This isn’t even “just” a lab leak of a naturally occurring dangerous virus, it’s a lab leak of a synthetic gain of function virus. Previously since it was Trump’s people saying it, ok that was easy to discredit and claim racist china hate at all that. What are they going to do though now? round up all the world’s scientists and try to silence them. The’ve throw in the towel, that’s what’s changed, the corruption and intimidation only worked so far, only so many scientists able to influence and try to manipulate the narrative with. Some of those have even turned on the CCP boot lickers, realizing the game is up. It’s too damn obvious. This is now damage control mode. Also they needed to wait for the worst of it to be over, that way less political fallout. Imagine they actually admitted this all officially last year, before the peak waves.
- justicezyx 5y ago
  > the evidence is overwhelming AFAIK all the evidences were still the roughly the same as what was known in Trump administration. Are there significant new discoveries?
  - dsyrk 5y ago
    Yes many more. Including details of the death of the wife of a researcher in December 2019 from Covid. The other is deeper investigation of the FCS and how it might have arisen, very difficulty in nature, especially with zero trace of intermediate host so far.
    - justicezyx 5y ago
      > Including details of the death of the wife of a researcher in December 2019 from Covid Could you please provide a link to the report? > deeper investigation of the FCS and how it might have arisen, very difficulty in nature, especially with zero trace of intermediate host so far. Ditto
      - dsyrk 5y ago
        https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... Unfortunately it’s not being reported on mainstream sources yet, but the wife of a researcher was an even earlier patient and she died, clearly from covid. According to information I’ve seen, she was perhaps patient 4-6. Extensive paper on FCS will be published soon. https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6 https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6 > Sørensen said the amino acids all have a positive charge, which cause the virus to tightly cling to the negatively charged parts of human cells like a magnet, and so become more infectious. > But because, like magnets, the positively charged amino acids repel each other, it is rare to find even three in a row in naturally occurring organisms, while four in a row is 'extremely unlikely,' the scientist said. > 'The laws of physics mean that you cannot have four positively charged amino acids in a row. The only way you can get this is if you artificially manufacture it,' Dalgleish told DailyMail.com. > Their new paper says these features of SARS-Cov-2 are 'unique fingerprints' which are 'indicative of purposive manipulation', and that 'the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small.' 'A natural virus pandemic would be expected to mutate gradually and become more infectious but less pathogenic which is what many expected with the COVID-19 pandemic but which does not appear to have happened,' the scientists wrote.

A better question is this: Why did the current administration suddenly shut down an ongoing inquiry started by the last administration, only to immediately turn around and announce a "new" investigation? That's very, very bizarre.

pedroma 5y ago

It was always a plausible theory. Why would time change that, especially once it's brought up again with new evidence.

hn8788 5y ago

Maybe so they can claim they've had time to review the information on their own, and determined it's not a conspiracy. If they'd done it sooner they would have been lumped in with Trump supporters, and you can see see people in the comments here saying that they assume that everything he says is racist/lying, so they didn't want internet mobs to claim they're racist too.

dsyrk 5y ago

It’s because the evidence is overwhelming and political establishment has realized it will be impossible to suppress the information. Will we “cancel” an eminent virologist and former President of Caltech because he explains transparently to people the smoking gun with the FCS and CGG condons. This isn’t even “just” a lab leak of a naturally occurring dangerous virus, it’s a lab leak of a synthetic gain of function virus. Previously since it was Trump’s people saying it, ok that was easy to discredit and claim racist china hate at all that. What are they going to do though now? round up all the world’s scientists and try to silence them. The’ve throw in the towel, that’s what’s changed, the corruption and intimidation only worked so far, only so many scientists able to influence and try to manipulate the narrative with. Some of those have even turned on the CCP boot lickers, realizing the game is up. It’s too damn obvious. This is now damage control mode. Also they needed to wait for the worst of it to be over, that way less political fallout. Imagine they actually admitted this all officially last year, before the peak waves.

justicezyx 5y ago
> the evidence is overwhelming AFAIK all the evidences were still the roughly the same as what was known in Trump administration. Are there significant new discoveries?
- dsyrk 5y ago
  Yes many more. Including details of the death of the wife of a researcher in December 2019 from Covid. The other is deeper investigation of the FCS and how it might have arisen, very difficulty in nature, especially with zero trace of intermediate host so far.
  - justicezyx 5y ago
    > Including details of the death of the wife of a researcher in December 2019 from Covid Could you please provide a link to the report? > deeper investigation of the FCS and how it might have arisen, very difficulty in nature, especially with zero trace of intermediate host so far. Ditto
    - dsyrk 5y ago
      https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/... Unfortunately it’s not being reported on mainstream sources yet, but the wife of a researcher was an even earlier patient and she died, clearly from covid. According to information I’ve seen, she was perhaps patient 4-6. Extensive paper on FCS will be published soon. https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6 https://imgur.com/a/bBAuXv6 > Sørensen said the amino acids all have a positive charge, which cause the virus to tightly cling to the negatively charged parts of human cells like a magnet, and so become more infectious. > But because, like magnets, the positively charged amino acids repel each other, it is rare to find even three in a row in naturally occurring organisms, while four in a row is 'extremely unlikely,' the scientist said. > 'The laws of physics mean that you cannot have four positively charged amino acids in a row. The only way you can get this is if you artificially manufacture it,' Dalgleish told DailyMail.com. > Their new paper says these features of SARS-Cov-2 are 'unique fingerprints' which are 'indicative of purposive manipulation', and that 'the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small.' 'A natural virus pandemic would be expected to mutate gradually and become more infectious but less pathogenic which is what many expected with the COVID-19 pandemic but which does not appear to have happened,' the scientists wrote.