Five years since COVID-19 first emerged in Wuhan, the UN health agency is calling on China to "share data and access so we can understand the origins" of the global pandemic.
Summary
The WHO reiterated calls for China to provide data on COVID-19 origins, five years after the virus emerged in Wuhan.
The lack of transparency has hindered understanding of the pandemic’s early stages. Initial theories pointed to animal-to-human transmission via Wuhan’s wet market, but speculation about a lab leak persists.
A 2021 WHO-China report deemed a lab leak “extremely unlikely,” though no firm conclusions were reached. China has rejected further investigations.
While most scientists favor natural origins, debate remains, complicating efforts to prevent future pandemics.
China would rather blame it on people eating weird shit than admit any fuckups. The Chinese government is NOT working in the interest of all humanity, and often not for its own population's well-being either.
If it were a nothing burger, why is China being apprehensive about releasing any data on its true origin? There was a literal lab working on coronaviruses in the specific location of patient zero. That doesn’t at all seem suspect in anyway? This isn’t even about dumb MAGAts, this is just asking basic questions that you weren’t allowed to ask and were silenced in doing so. Some narrative it came from someone eating an exotic animal from a wet market doesn’t add up. If it were that simple, just a zoonotic transmission, you’d think China would give confirmation of that.
Because it makes no sense. Covid has been detected in waste water in Italy from summer 2019. That's not to say it originated in Italy but that connecting the Wuhan outbreak in December 2019 to a lab - or indeed a wetmarket - makes no sense.
China and openly sharing data; name a more diametrically opposing duo.
I'll wait for examples of China sharing data (I'm sure a few of you are already scouting for an article) while I wonder why China won't share this data.