Lab Leak Hypothesis, Once Dismissed as ‘Conspiracy Theory’, Now Believed by Downing Street
A lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is now considered the most likely origin of the Covid pandemic “behind closed doors” in the Government, it has been claimed. Sarah Knapton, the Telegraph‘s Science Editor, has more.
On Monday, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that the U.K. biosecurity strategy would be refreshed to protect against “natural zoonosis and laboratory leaks”, in a public acknowledgement of the threat from insecure research facilities.
There is mounting suspicion that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology which had been collecting and experimenting on dangerous bat coronaviruses in the years before the virus first emerged in the city.
The Government has asked for evidence before drafting a new biosecurity strategy, which will deal with “accidental release and dual-use research of concern, where life science research is capable of being misapplied to do harm”.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, an expert on chemical and biological counter-terrorism and former British Army officer, has submitted evidence for the strategy.
He said: “I think the official view [within Government] is that it is as likely as anything else to have caused the pandemic. A lot of people like myself think it is more likely. I think attitudes have changed a little bit. The zoonotic transfer theory just didn’t make sense.
“There is a huge amount of concern about coming out publicly, but behind closed doors most people think it’s a lab leak. And they are coming round to the fact that even if they don’t agree with that, they must accept it’s likely, and they must make sure the policies are in place to stop it.”
He added: “My view, that I’ve put to the Government already, is that we cannot afford emotionally, physically or financially, to go through another pandemic. We must now get on the front foot.”
Lab leaks are fairly common, with smallpox, swine flu, anthrax, foot and mouth disease, and the original Sars virus all known to have escaped from facilities in recent decades. In Britain, there have been more than 100 safety breaches at labs handling dangerous pathogens over the past 15 years.
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Well I never! Whodathunkit?… Where’s the tin foil hat gone?
You will need that fir the Five G upgrade any time soon when your brains start to fry!
Lab leak on purpose? Just wait.
I reckon it was accidental and they covered it up, but I wouldn’t put anything past the lying chinks. The theatrical falling down dead in the street that was staged was deeply suspicious and rarely ever mentioned now.
“The theatrical falling down dead in the street”
this almost seems like another lifetime now. Yes, funny how we didn’t see that anywhere else.
lets relive some of the chinese magic
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxCbD0SVVIk&ab_channel=WION.
What about the Chinese woman caught on mike shouting: “It’s all fake!”?
Pretty definitive!
workers selling bats at the wet market after they’ve been researched on?
Matt Ridley mentioned there being fines/slaps on wrist for this at WIV – so it obviously has been going on
Medical waste from the hospital bins straight into the wok!
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Bit of a coincidence when Event 201 had just been completed
Call me Cassandra, again.
Replace “Now Believed by Downing Street” with “Always Known by Downing Street”
Exactly! Johnson must have his personal signed Copy of the Schwab/ Gates/ Fauci plan in the safe!
Porton Down the world’s oldest known chemical warfare research, sorry, defence installation, had various names in the past, according to the political wind, but now named “Porton Down Science Campus/Portonbigpharma” – in partnership with Public Health England. Lol.
Not wishing to tempt providence but at least “covid/Sars2” has shown how good the human immune system really is, – provided the bastard scientists behind all this research aren’t let loose on the development of “vaccines”.
Oh, wait….
Ah Proton Down just Down the road from where the Russian defectors were strangely “poisoned” you mean that Proton Down?
Yes, I think so. Not far from that place with an impressive cathedral spire, and used to have the Common Cold Unit, where the term “coronavirus” was invented, during their research into such illnesses.
In future news, the developed vaccines have been found not to work, and Invermectin has been accepted as a useful treatment for Covid symptoms.
I would guess that the above news will break in about 2024…..
We have always been at war with vaxxers!
Right wingers racists to blame for lab leak.
No it will not – the will have new killer virus circulating by then and the issue will be food shortages and un-payable energy bills!
They have only just started with the misery they intend inflicting on us!
all the conspiracy theories coming true
They never were just ‘theories.’
What pandemic? A two week rise in deaths in 2020, when old folk were anaesthetised out of this world, and then a bigger death peak subsequent to the roll out of the injectables. MPs partying throughout it all. Either our leaders are complicit or they have been duped, but we are the ones paying for it all.
“Lab leak”? Convenient timing as China now appear to be forming an “axis of evil” with Russia?
Utter bollox! Nothing accidental about any element of the last two year’s….I suggest this “virus” was released by Fort Detrick as the starting gun for the unfolding totalitarian nightmare! How’s it going in Canada btw? It’s all about a public health emergency dontcha know!
“How’s it going in Canada btw?”
Good question -all seems to have gone quiet of late. I have wondered how truckers can afford the fuel to take their vehicles all the way back to Alberta/British Columbia (6-7 days’ drive) if they haven’t been able to pay the ‘mortgage’ on their trucks.
I remember people in hazmat suits hosing disinfectant all over empty streets of Wuhan,
for an airborne virus!!
Acting for the cameras – same in the UK.
Back in 2019, Chinese medics reported on a cluster of patients with pneumonia with unknown aetiology.
Why were they concerned about the causative pathogen? if bacterial treat with antibiotics, if viral treat accordingly.
Why did they need to sequence the virus? After all there was only a relatively small cluster of cases.
Did they know there had been a leak from the laboratory several weeks earlier and were looking for a marker in the RNA sequence to show this?
Always good to see De Bretton Woods popping up two years late, long after Sir Jeremy Farrar, the bird flu impresario of Vietnam, was making frantic phone calls to America on his burner phone (he’s written about it) with his wife making poor and illegible notes. What could they have been sweating about in the middle of the night? The welfare of octogenarians? The powers that be seemed far more interested in covering their tracks about gain of function funding and research than dealing with the resultant public health problem. The only thing clear about this unholy mess is that big Pharma made it, (the furin cleavage site with inserted Moderna patents?), didn’t want it discussed or revealed until it suited them, and then conveniently offered a solution that increasingly seems to have been, at the very least, unfit for every purposes but profit. Read Robert F Kennedy’s excellent book on Fauci. The story of AZT alone, the killer drug approved for use during the AIDS years is horrific. Everything is rotten in the world of drug research and big pharma. It needs dismantling from the WHO down NOW. Let’s revisit the letter to The Lancet denying the lab leak… Read more »
Almost overnight we have gone from conspiracy theorists to mainstream without having recanted or done anything else. It has only just started but there is more to come.
I cannot believe anybody on here could take this story at face value. More gaslighting.
The Coronavirus Act, all 350 pages, was ready to go before March 20, Ivermectin and HQL, were banned and cleared from shelves, the “advertising” campaign was signed and ready to go, event 201 in October 2019, the Rockefeller document outlining this from 2010, Agenda 21 /30 and more.
There is a wealth of other corroborating evidence showing the government knew what was going on – Jeremy Farrar was in daily contact with Fauci.
Bozo, Bliar and God knows how many others are working for WEF and the government are now saying they think it might have been an “accidental” lab leak.
Absolute BS.
Leaked deliberately from a US funded lab into Wuhan by rogue elements of the US security services has always been top of my list.
The Chinese will never tell the truth about anything. They have learned their lessons well from the British politicians.
China is a long way away, and no Daily Sceptic reader will be going there to “sort them out”.
Are we still buying items/products Made in China? Every Little Helps! (their regime).
I trust people here have read The China Hack and How To Reverse It?
It’s terrifying when even the special ink that America uses to print its dollars is Made In China…
Some months ago, Gates muttered something about bioweapons being biggest imminent threat. Whether that was as per WEFetal’s plan or crowing about VAIDS, goodness only knows.
Either way, stoking lab leak theory now keeps project fear going, preps for worse next and, above all, clamps down even harder on us with massive increase in their precious ‘security’ surveillance.
Some years ago, when someone got poisoned in Salisbury, government in Britain immediately blamed Russia, but Porton Down, being so near Salisbury, transport logistics didn’t seem to tally with accusation.
Accusation made before police investigation started and 3 days before increased funding for Porton Down announced.
At time, as schools needed more funds people would have been furious, but in light of poison incident, favoured Porton Down getting funds instead.
So now, the scared will favour massively increased ‘big brother’.
One week it’s red, next week it’s yellow, next week it’s red again. Having been born before end of ‘Cold War’ I’m fed up with the tediousness of that cycle.
The bollocks even infected what claimed to be scientific papers. Consider this “If we exclude conspiracy theories, SARS-CoV-2 can be hypothetically considered as the natural result of an antigenic shift from SARS-CoV” That occurs in the first para of
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7204740/
Shameful!
THE ENGINEERING OF A PANDEMIC: —— https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fviro.2022.834808/full MSH3 Homology and Potential Recombination Link to SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage Site … A peculiar feature of the nucleotide sequence encoding the PRRA furin cleavage site in the SARS-CoV-2 S protein is its two consecutive CGG codons. This arginine codon is rare in coronaviruses: relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU) of CGG in pangolin CoV is 0, in bat CoV 0.08, in SARS-CoV 0.19, in MERS-CoV 0.25, and in SARS-CoV-2 0.299 (9). A BLAST search for the 12-nucleotide insertion led us to a 100% reverse match in a proprietary sequence (SEQ ID11652, nt 2751-2733) found in the US patent 9,587,003 filed on Feb. 4, 2016 (10) (Figure 1). … ——- https://www.freepatentsonline.com/9587003.pdf Applicant: Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. Inventors: Stephen Bancel et al Assignee: ModernaTX Inc., Cambridge, MA ——- https://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/confidential-documents-reveal-moderna-sent-mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-candidate-to-university-researchers-weeks-before-emergence-of-covid-19/ … It was not until January 9th 2020 that the WHO reported Chinese authorities had determined the outbreak was due to a novel coronavirus which later became known as SARS-CoV-2 with the alleged resultant disease dubbed COVID-19. So why was an mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by Moderna being transferred to the University of North Carolina on December 12th 2019? … —— https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6935295/NIH-Moderna-Confidential-Agreements.pdf See pp. 105 & 107.… Read more »
That’s very scary and frightening
Then more people need to be scared- perhaps fear of the real will wake them up?
Fauci, M.D. Lol.
The man should rot in Hell.
Please read Kennedy’s book – ” The Real Anthony Fauci “.
I’m sure it was written in part in the hope that Fauci sues him. But there’s a small problem for Fauci – and that is that truth is a good defence (usually, at least for now, in a libel/defamation claim ).
Agreed – the last thing Fauci wants is to find himself in a courtroom. Kennedy knows this and would relish the opportunity!
Vital information – struggling to get a public outing ignored by MSM Journalism.!
Dr David Martin, take a bow; if you have read “TRAF”, please read his dossier on the patent history of vaccines associated with coronaviruses etc….he started this thread in 2020, early….and his insight is encyclopaedic – Fauci/Baric/Daszak and all the other PI’s have got “it” coming…
Yes, Vallance and Farrar were on a call with Fauci 1 Feb 2020 about how to quash the rumours – what did Vallance tell Johnson?
Have your bosses in Davos given you the green light on this, Johnson?
Exactly.
If the new Online Harms Bill they are pushing through Parliament had been in place two years earlier anyone that talked about the Wuhan lab theory would have been guilty of spreading misinformation and imprisoned because such an opinion was not government approved.
Now with the government having changed narrative it would be act of misinformation not to support the Wuhan lab theory.
In the USA they now class spreading misinformation as being a form of terrorism, so discussing government lies or disagreeing with government approved PhDs puts you on a par with ISIS.
This nation and the West is so far up poo creek it is frightening, the worst part is the mongs that always vote Tory/Labour will carry on.
Cobblers,
This whole scam is due to the United States paying the Wuhan L\ab to do their dirty work for biological warfare research.
The pretend President O’Bama wanted to hide the governments complicity in their dirty tricks(in collusion with the 5eyes conspirators)
Oh sorry I am now a conspiracy theorist.
Or merely a ‘truth teller’?
Right on cue as tensions with Russia escalate. Lab leak my arse.
“As tensions with Russia are escalated by Biden the CIA Nato and the EU”
And the word “deliberate” before ‘Lab leak’ would be closer. .
Biden can barely speak, he’s a puppet whose string pullers are part of the same cabal that initiated the fake pandemic. It’s all political and fake, we’re just stuck in the middle because people can’t wake up and see everything about our reality isn’t real.
America owns Russia.
Experimental gene editing has as much in common with science or research as experimental arson. Considering this, I have an idea for a much better biosecurity strategy: Let’s do gain of function research on genetical engineers. Maybe, they can be transformed into some kind of higher lifeform, say, macaques.
I think the powers that be knew that it came from the lab right from the beginning and initial internal scientist reports who worked in that system suggested it was a nasty thing (gain of function etc) which is why they all went into meltdown and lockdowns.
They then needed to cover their back sides when it emerged that it wasn’t so bad. And given that they all had the same initial information they all behaved the same.
Apart from the Swedes… no one told the Swedes.
Wuhan was probably where there was a release but the virus comprises patented sections that have never existed before in nature and those patents are not held by anyone in China….. cough USA USA USA cough.
They just need to have a chat with Mr Vallance, who has been liaising with Dr Fauci since the beginning of the crisis by email. They discussed how to cover up the lab leak by publishing false information. Emails with a lot of redacted sections are available from FOIA. Massive vested interests with Big Pharma.
Always thought he was compromised since reading the Fauci emails back in the day when he was “cc’d” in as then HoR @ GSK – how he got through DD to become CSO is beyond me – he must know where all the skeletons reside…..no question.