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Covid-19: CIA says lab leak most likely source of outbreak www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o

375 sats \ 22 comments \ @ch0k1 26 Jan news

The CIA on Saturday offered a new assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, saying the coronavirus is "more likely" to have leaked from a Chinese lab than to have come from animals.

But the intelligence agency cautioned it had "low confidence" in this determination.

A spokesperson said that a "research-related origin" of the pandemic "is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting".

The decision to release that assessment marks one of the first made by the CIA's new director John Ratcliffe, appointed by Donald Trump, who took over the agency on Thursday.

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36 sats \ 4 replies \ @denlillaapan 26 Jan

Crazy.

That was racist conspiracy until like five seconds ago

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 26 Jan

Still is, only it's just reached the White House.

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 26 Jan

Until January 20 to be more accurate. You noticed the wording “more likely” and “low confidence”, or?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 26 Jan

And people were getting censored for supporting the lab leak theory

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 26 Jan

Unfortunately, nowadays the only working way of finding the truth is to pursuit the censorship...

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 17h

"lab leak" is cover for "intentional release"

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @e6e745befa 26 Jan freebie

Wow that's so interesting #fbgm

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Manikese 26 Jan

Hmmm, would the CIA ever lie to me? 🤔

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @tomlaies 26 Jan

The Chinese Communist Party is working on creating bioweapons against the west.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 26 Jan

Xaxaxa sure thing

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @User21000000 26 Jan

Still haven’t had the COVID yet . Anyone else here avoided it?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ama 26 Jan

I caught it November 2023, the very first time I took my mask off at work for a coffee. I took extreme precautions for so long because I was on a immunosuppressive treatment at the time, and I was worried about how my inmune system might react to the infection (I saw several people with a similar treatment die). It was like a long bad flu (almost five weeks) in my case. Fortunately I'm off the treatment now for a little over six months.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 20h

Wow that’s full on! Lucky you got through that one

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 26 Jan

You're lucky. Where did you hide?

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @User21000000 20h

I did nothing different my wife had it and one of our kids but I never caught it even being in the same house

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ama 20h

Did you ever get tested? There are naturally resistant people to pathogens as well as others who develop asymptomatic infections. Not that it's very important anymore, now that most strains are much less virulent and resistant through either exposition or vaccination is very widespread, unless you have someone immunocompromised close to you, that is.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 20h

The couple times I tested I didn’t have it . I possibly got it and it wasn’t bad enough to test for maybe but not sure

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 26 Jan

In The Spectator for 2021-11-20, Matt Ridley argues “The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger”

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-covid-lab-leak-theory-just-got-even-stronger

https://www.amazon.com/dp/006313912X

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @ama 26 Jan

But the intelligence agency cautioned it had "low confidence" in this determination.

As they should, since there isn't any scientific evidence about it, and a lot about its zoonotic.

A couple of scientific research papers among many in the literature:

There is currently no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has a laboratory origin (The origins of SARS-CoV-2: A critical review).
SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, similar to the causative viruses of these previous outbreaks ([On the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2(https://www.nature.com/articles/s12276-021-00604-z)).
The origin of the virus appears to be zoonotic (SARS-CoV-2: basic concepts, origin and treatment advances).

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 26 Jan

Your literature is out of date

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ch0k1 OP 26 Jan

Are you claiming the opposite with those quotes/references?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ama 26 Jan

I'm showing three scientific papers, one of them a systematic review, out of the many there are, which find evidence of the opposite. There isn't any slight scientific evidence that support the claim that refers the BBC news.