> “The idea that it was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side,” the official said.<p>That’s how I feel. Isn’t it just the darndest coincidence that the worldwide deadly pandemic just happened to originate in the backyard of the only BL-4 research center in China. And they just happened to work with bats, and somehow two years earlier someone bothered to warn US govt. about safety issues there.<p>It also interesting to observe the level of coverup here. That page about the visit was scrubbed, doctors silenced, etc.<p>How many vendors at the wet market, the alleged source of the virus, even sold bats or made bat soup and such? How does it compare with other wet market around the country or the world?
I saw posts on Reddit months ago pointing out the virology labs in wuhan studying this exact virus and wasn’t it a coincidence. I am actually quite surprised that US scientists that twice visited the lab sent strongly worded official communications back to the US government stating concerns over safety and the competence of the personnel working at the lab and saying that they needed more assistance.<p>Now that China has disappeared people who were speaking out, shut down the Shanghai lab that originally published the virus’ genome, and is back to tightly controlling information out of the country, I doubt we’ll ever know for sure if this pandemic was a preventable accident. Either way it is a major black eye for China.
This is a very disappointing thread on Hacker News.<p>First, the article is title "State Department cables warned of <i>safety issues</i> at Wuhan lab studying bat coronavirus." Immediately sensationalizing the title to imply <i>this</i> coronavirus leaked from the Wuhan lab is not good.<p>Did the coronavirus leak from the Wuhan lab? Maybe, there's some evidence to suggest it's a possibility, but jumping on conspiracy theories, or unproven claims (e.g. "it was the wet market" -- it may have been, but many of the original infectees were not involved with the wet market) is just spreading fake news. Haven't we had more than enough of that over the last few years?
>US diplomatic cables warned of coronavirus leaking from Wuhan lab.<p>That's not at all what the original title was, matter of fact not even what the original article was about.
But how fast they jumped on all these -CIA term used to discredit people with valid concerns- when they said that. Now ever the MSM writes about it. I won't read WSJ anyway.
I was downvoted in another thread for pointing out that reporters have failed to do their jobs here.<p>Doctors knew about this back in November-December timeframe, maybe even earlier, and were asking people with cough and chest pains if they had been to Wuhan recently.