So if we sum up the contents of that page*, SARS-CoV-2 is a terrible virus that leaked from a Wuhan lab, BUT! No masks nor social distancing were required to stop outbreaks. (* taken from the Wenstrup report published last year) - ThreadSky

flodebarre.bsky.social • 1 day ago

So if we sum up the contents of that page*, SARS-CoV-2 is a terrible virus that leaked from a Wuhan lab,
BUT!
No masks nor social distancing were required to stop outbreaks.

(* taken from the Wenstrup report published last year)

Reposted from Andrew Couts

So, covid.gov now redirects to, uh, this... www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

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dankeevy.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm just glad he didn't write it in sharpie.

flodebarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Who was President of the United States in 2020, again?

flodebarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's really pathetic. This webpage is based on the Wenstrup report, which did not find anything on lab leak, so just rehashed stuff from the June 2024 NYT OpEd by Alina Chan.
And for the Tufekcis of this world: the French Academy of Medicine just repeated the Wenstrup report (and Kadlec's stuff)

flodebarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Time to use one of my favorite @effinbirds.com images

flodebarre.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Very helpful side-by-side comparison by Zach in this thread ⬇️ showing the links btw the Wenstrup report used on the new covid[.]gov page, and Alina Chan's OpEd in the NYT.

After 2 years and many hearings, the Wenstrup commission had nothing on a lab leak, so they copied an OpEd in their report.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

And you don't actually think Tufekci's going to bother learning the actual science? s/

flodebarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here it's not even learning some science, it's simply reading the stuff she is commenting on...

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

She’s dug in hard to a lab leak position, from being ostensibly neutral, fair, and open-minded. Which was a fraud from the get-go. Tufekci had never been interested in understanding the science, only in promoting her own brand.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

I watched part of Kadlec's interview with the Hudson Institute Such a farrago of nonsense. This guy (full disclosure-I know him slightly of old) has been pushing the bioterrorist threat for decades. He has always been about pushing money into biodefence. Pushing LL "theory" suits him just fine.

adriheguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

The worst part is that it’s not just pathetic, it’s extremely dangerous.

p00r.bsky.social•1 day ago

Obama, election where rigged 🤣

lourencojml.bsky.social•1 day ago

That visual literally says: lab fart (trump) leak.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/experts-covid-19-has-shown-u-s-u-k-are-n1207776

Yet, here Kadlec is, saying that Covid was "naturally occurring."
Good one, Bob.
You finally figured you could make more hay with false lab leak accusations.

flodebarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

My default is to consider that people are of good faith. He may have completely falling into conspiratorial rabbit holes and actually believe that SARS-CoV-2 was designed as a neurotoxic bioweapon for China to intellectually overthrow the West

ggronvall.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't think that is the case, here.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nope. It isn’t.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

Um. No. He is a very intelligent man. There is no way he thinks this could be a legit bio weapon. He knows too much to think that.

flodebarre.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://youtu.be/R6g42Sw87FU?feature=shared&t=616

zachhensel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

One piece of "evidence" he cites is that environmental SARS2 in the market couldn't be from animals because genomes were identical to human cases. That is based on Alina Chan et al misreading 2002-2004 SARS data, where there were also identical sequences from viruses in different species.

zachhensel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It would be fantastic if people calling for retraction of others' papers would correct their own.

wendyorent.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Yeah, it was likely a newly-evolved generalist virus that broke away from its initial bat adaptation, racketed around in several species almost certainly, and then jumped into people, where it began to evolve more precise human adaptation. Which, of course, it continues to do.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well it might have affected Kadlec’s brain after all. He still can’t smell dirty socks after four years. So there’s some brain involvement!

zachhensel.bsky.social•15 hours ago

He says Taiwan recognized in early November that something was going on and reacted to the outbreak... dude is just a liar.

wendyorent.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sincerely hoping for his sake that I’m right and that he hasn’t actually LOST HIS FLIPPIN’ mind.

beornblack.bsky.social•1 day ago

they are using this to ramp up their anti-china narrative to distract everyone and to try to keep EU/UK from working with China to defeat the idiot's tariff shank.

bexzex.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'll just drop this one here

https://youtube.com/shorts/e1uQpTAXaNk?si=nrttNqiYjeRrSglu

emeal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Had you told me 4 months ago, I would have been like there is no way the agencies and administrations would bow and suck this hard, and now there is rank stank everywhere.

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