Germany says Covid was probably a lab leak
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merry christmas — 1 year ago(March 12, 2025 03:32 PM)
https://www.dw.com/en/covid-pandemic-likely-unleashed-by-lab-mishap-germanys-bnd/a-71897701
According to reports in the German papers Süddeutsche Zeitung and Zeit, the BND based its conclusion on the analysis of material from the public domain and that it collected in the course of an investigation with the code name "Saaremaa."
The material, some of which came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the Chinese city where the pandemic is believed to have started, indicated that there had been some risky research methods used there, compounded by breaches of laboratory safety rules, the reports said.
The papers said there was evidence that Wuhan researchers carried out so-called gain-of-function experiments, in which viruses occurring in nature are manipulated. Such research can cause changes in the way a virus causes illness, its transmissibility and the types of hosts it can infect.
There were also indications that there had been numerous violations of safety regulations at the lab,according to the reports.
The BND reached its conclusions as early as 2020, the papers said, giving them a likelihood rating of 80% to 95%, but the assessment was kept from the public at the time. -
Wu Ming — 1 year ago(March 12, 2025 04:36 PM)
merry christmas March 13, 2025 12:46 AM
Member since November 1, 2020
Only because China covered it up.
Actually the USA
covered it up.
And this is known/confirmed since September 2023.
CIA tried to pay off Analysts to bury Findings that COVID Lab Leak was likely: Whistleblower
https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/cia-tried-to-pay-off-analysts-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-findings-whistleblower/
