HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1ckmg1a/us_shared_gobsmacking_covid_lab_leak_file_with_uk/
>>
>>
>> US shared ‘gobsmacking’ Covid lab leak file with UK
>> Tony Diver
>> Sat, May 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM PDT·5 min read
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>> Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of
>> Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team
>> Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of
>> Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team - NG HAN
>> GUAN/AP
>> The US shared “gobsmacking” evidence with Britain at the height of the
>> Covid pandemic suggesting a “high likelihood” that the virus had leaked
>>from a Chinese lab, The Telegraph can reveal.
>>
>> In January 2021, Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations were convened to
>> discuss the possibility of a lab leak as the US warned that China had
>> covered up research on coronaviruses and military activity at a
>> laboratory in Wuhan.
>>
>> In a previously unreported phone call that month, Mike Pompeo, the
>> former US secretary of state, presented evidence that supported the lab
>> leak theory to Dominic Raab, then the Foreign Secretary, and
>> representatives from Canada, New Zealand and Australia.
>>
>> Speaking to The Telegraph, two Trump administration officials accused Mr
>> Raab and the UK Government of ignoring the lab leak theory because of
>> resistance from government scientists who supported the explanation that
>> the virus had jumped between animals and humans.
>>
>> Mr Pompeo presented a summary of classified American intelligence
>> reports collected in the early days of the pandemic and compiled by the
>> State Department. The intelligence reports themselves are understood to
>> have been shared separately with the UK via the Five Eyes network
>> between October and December 2020.
>>
>> “We saw several pieces of information and thought that they were,
>> frankly, gobsmacking,” said one former official who worked on the
>> intelligence that informed Mr Pompeo’s report. “They obviously pointed
>> to the high likelihood that this was indeed a lab leak.”
>>
>> Dominic Raab and Mike Pompeo, the then US secretary of state, in 2020
>> Dominic Raab and Mike Pompeo, the then US secretary of state, in 2020 -
>> Kirsty O'Connor/PA Archive
>> In one document, which has since been released by the State Department
>> under Freedom of Information laws, US officials warned of “consistent
>> stonewalling” by China after the virus was first discovered and accused
>> local officials of “gross corruption and ineptitude”.
>>
>> The research revealed for the first time that Chinese military officials
>> had worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the years leading up
>> to the pandemic, and that some researchers at the lab had become ill
>> shortly before the virus was first recorded nearby.
>>
>> It also showed that Chinese scientists had carried out “gain of
>> function” research at the institute, which has since become a key piece
>> of evidence for the lab leak theory.
>>
>> The theory has become a divisive topic among scientists and government
>> officials in the years following the pandemic and has prompted two
>> investigations by the World Health Organisation, which China has been
>> accused of obstructing.
>>
>> British government ministers including Boris Johnson initially dismissed
>> the possibility that Covid had been created by scientists, arguing in
>> June 2021 that “the advice that we have had is that it doesn’t look as
>> though this particular disease of zoonotic origin came from a lab”.
>>
>> Two former officials claimed the UK had ignored the evidence presented
>> by the US because ministers saw the lab leak claims as a “radioactive
>> American political issue” fuelled by public disagreement between
>> government scientists and Donald Trump.
>>
>> “Once the thing became fundamentally political, the ability to pursue it
>> internationally really just collapsed because no one else was interested
>> in touching it,” said one of the officials. “I think [Five Eyes] were
>> kind of annoyed by the way the issue had become treated in US politics.”
>>
>> Both separately named Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the Government’s
>> Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies as one of the leading
>> opponents of the lab leak theory within the British government.
>>
>> A majority of scientific experts have long said that they believe an
>> animal to human interaction was the most likely cause of the first
>> infection.
>>
>> However, some Government figures, including Michael Gove, have since
>> said that they believe the virus was “man-made”.
>>
>> In November, Mr Gove told the Covid Inquiry that there was a
>> “significant body of judgment that believes that the virus itself was
>> man-made – and that presents its own set of challenges”.
>>
>>
>> Both the FBI and US Department of Energy have said they believe a lab
>> leak is the most likely cause of Covid, while other agencies have said
>> they think it occurred naturally.
>>
>> Joe Biden, the US president, has said he does not know where the virus
>> started, while the US National Intelligence Council said last year it
>> “probably emerged and infected humans through an initial small-scale
>> exposure”.
>>
>> UK ministers are now facing calls to expand the terms of the Covid
>> Inquiry to include an investigation into the origin of the virus.
>>
>> The Telegraph understands that the call in Jan 2021 was deliberately
>> held on an “open line” without security encryption in the hope that
>> Chinese intelligence agencies would hear that Western countries were
>> aware of military activity in Wuhan.
>>
>> “We did that deliberately…we wanted to put pressure on the bad guys,”
>> said a State Department source.
>>
>> Ten days after the call, in which officials said the UK was unwilling to
>> assist with a US-led lab leak investigation or share its own research,
>> the summary compiled by Mr Pompeo’s officials was released to the public
>> in a “fact sheet”.
>>
>> Those involved in the release said they took care to avoid revealing the
>> sources or methods of US spy agencies, and that it was just the “tip of
>> the iceberg” of the underlying intelligence that had been gathered.
>>
>> A UK government spokesman said: “There are still questions that need to
>> be answered about the origin and spread of Covid-19, not least so we can
>> ensure we are better prepared for future pandemics.
>>
>> “The UK continues to support the World Health Organisation in its expert
>> study of the origins of Covid-19. It is important that China and other
>> countries cooperate fully with the researchers.”
>
> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>
> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
> longer effective.
>
> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
> ) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a healthy
> appetite too.
>
> So how are you ?
>
I am wonderfully hungry!

Michael