Senate Report: SARS-CoV-2 likely came from Wuhan Lab

Another "Conspiracy Theory" turns out to be factually correct

Image Caption: Map showing the locations of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Huanan Seafood Market.

On October 27, 2022, a Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) published an interim report titled “An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Its authors conclude that the origin of SARS-CoV-2 was more likely a “research related incident” in a lab, and not zoonotic.

For readers unfamiliar with the details of the Lab Leak vs. Natural Zoonotic debate on the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the 35-page document (including 225 citations) is well worth reading in full. For those familiar with the well-documented activities of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s BSL-4 lab (which opened in 2017), the report’s conclusion comes as no surprise.

As is often the case in official investigative reports of catastrophes that are represented to the public as unforeseen and still containing elements of mystery, the Senate report raises as many questions as it answers. Some notable omissions include:

1). Given that there is little to no evidence (serological or epidemiological) to support the natural zoonotic origin hypothesis, why did our government officials and mainstream media immediately and vehemently insist that this was the origin?

2). What is the significance of e-mails (obtained by FOIA requests) between Anthony Fauci, American infectious disease experts, and Jeremy Farrar (director of the Wellcome Trust) when news of SARS-CoV-2 first broke? Their correspondence reveals their concern that the virus originated in a lab. Why, after exchanging these private e-mails, did these officials then insist to the public that the virus was of natural zoonotic origin? Why did they have an interest in denying the indications that the virus leaked from a lab instead of investigating this probable scenario?

3). Likewise, why did the Lancet—one of the most prestigious medical journals in history—publish an open letter by Jeremy Farrar, Peter Daszak et al. on February 19, 2020, aggressively condemning the lab leak hypothesis as calumnious “conspiracy theory”? This question is all the more pressing when one considers that Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance is widely suspected of (and now being sued for) making key contributions to the gain of function research that was performed on bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan BSL-4 lab. Why didn’t the Lancet’s editor spot this obvious conflict of interest?

4). Why have public officials and the mainstream media consistently ignored the warnings of the Harvard Phd, Rutgers University Professor, Dr. Richard Ebright, who has been sounding the alarm about the danger of a leak from the Wuhan BSL-4 lab since it was poised to open in 2017? Dr. Ebright’s chronology shows a clear evidentiary trail leading to the Wuhan BSL-4 lab.

5). Given the initial assertion that SARS-CoV-2 was of natural zoonotic origin, why haven’t public officials all over the world and the World Economic Forum waged a sustained campaign to improve the inhumane and unsanitary conditions of China’s live animal markets? The WEF is always lecturing westerners about the need to implement more humane and sustainable agricultural and dietary practices. Why doesn’t that club of billionaires use their wealth and influence to clean up China’s live animal markets? Wouldn’t this be a great cause for Leonardo DiCaprio, whose 1998 film Titanic was the highest grossing in China for a decade?

Calling Leonardo DiCaprio! Leo, get off the supermodel, get on your plane, and get to China in order to prevent massive cruelty to animals and save mankind!

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