The bill, known as the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, specifically aims to investigate the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
Republican Sens. Mike Braun and Josh Hawley reintroduced the bill on Monday after the Department of Energy (DOE) provided a classified intelligence report to the White House and certain members of Congress, which concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely arose from a lab leak. The FBI had previously come to a similar conclusion.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) made a request for unanimous consent of the bill, which was granted “without objection.” Unanimous consent enables a bill to pass without a recorded vote.
No matter what origin theory one personally supports, full disclosure of all known facts and data can only be beneficial. No more government secrets—they are not helping anyone.
Hey, look at what the other side is saying about the lab-leak...from Scientific American magazine.... Lab-Leak Intelligence Reports Aren’t Scientific Conclusions
Intelligence reports supporting the lab-leak theory for COVID are not based in science
No kidding. Intelligence analysis is NEVER based in science, no more than police investigations are.
But the question of whether or not the virus originated in a lab is NOT a "scientific" question. There is no analytical test, no clinical research to be done, which is capable of identifying a particular virus as having definitively emerged inside a laboratory vs out in the wild. The most that "science" can say is that particular combinations of genes and nucleic acid sequences have never been seen in a particular type of virus before. That does not mean it couldn't happen naturally or that it didn't happen naturally.
The question of whether or not the virus emerged from a lab is not a question for Dr. Gregory House but for Perry Mason.
I've always been a fan of "self-evident rights." Our government never had a "right" to keep a secret; any secret. Government is supposed to be our servant. Would you continue to pay a servant who keeps a secret from you that involves your own affairs? Something fishy is always behind government insistence on keeping any secret.
Government secrecy presumes a measure of trust in said government that simply cannot be justified given the horrific conduct of governments the world over since the dawn of civilization.
Given the already proven lies the United States government has told the American people about COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, secrecy surrounding COVID is absolutely unacceptable.
Not at first, I'm sure, and quite probably not ever. Not without major shifts in the electoral landscape.
However, if the secrecy is maintained then Fauci, et al, for certain will escape justice. Declassification and disclosure are the best first steps there are to holding the bad actors to account.
We just need to end the secrecy. Get everything out in the open where people can chew on it as they will.
“This is the final part of the plan – the death rattle. And remember, months ago I warned that the plan is to make us hate our governments so much that we accept a world government.”
When people hate their governments to that extreme the tendency is to burn the existing structure to the ground and start over from scratch. That's not a scenario that leads to world government.
The pathway to world government lies in people accepting the authoritarian diktats of their existing governments.
Human nature has never been half as fluid or as problematic as some people make out.
The basic motivations of self-interest which Adam Smith leveraged to explain the actual functioning of national economies in Wealth Of Nations still drives people even today.
Humans have always been more than just the sum of their genes--a stubborn truth that has consistently confounded progressives and authoritarians since the beginning of civilization.
Hey, look at what the other side is saying about the lab-leak...from Scientific American magazine.... Lab-Leak Intelligence Reports Aren’t Scientific Conclusions
Intelligence reports supporting the lab-leak theory for COVID are not based in science
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-leak-intelligence-reports-arent-scientific-conclusions/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=today-in-science&utm_content=link&utm_term=2023-03-03_top-stories&spMailingID=72731201&spUserID=NjEwMTE3NDkzMTQ3S0&spJobID=2320317052&spReportId=MjMyMDMxNzA1MgS2
smh.....
No kidding. Intelligence analysis is NEVER based in science, no more than police investigations are.
But the question of whether or not the virus originated in a lab is NOT a "scientific" question. There is no analytical test, no clinical research to be done, which is capable of identifying a particular virus as having definitively emerged inside a laboratory vs out in the wild. The most that "science" can say is that particular combinations of genes and nucleic acid sequences have never been seen in a particular type of virus before. That does not mean it couldn't happen naturally or that it didn't happen naturally.
The question of whether or not the virus emerged from a lab is not a question for Dr. Gregory House but for Perry Mason.
Bat+pangalin=love......
data + logic == evidence
I've always been a fan of "self-evident rights." Our government never had a "right" to keep a secret; any secret. Government is supposed to be our servant. Would you continue to pay a servant who keeps a secret from you that involves your own affairs? Something fishy is always behind government insistence on keeping any secret.
Government secrecy presumes a measure of trust in said government that simply cannot be justified given the horrific conduct of governments the world over since the dawn of civilization.
Given the already proven lies the United States government has told the American people about COVID-19 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus, secrecy surrounding COVID is absolutely unacceptable.
Not an accidental lab leak, but a deliberate bioweapon release, possible because of Fauci's gain of function funding. See how they spin the narrative.
Orchestrated
Not sure anything will come of it.
Will they go after Fauci, Collins et al or will they let them off?
Not at first, I'm sure, and quite probably not ever. Not without major shifts in the electoral landscape.
However, if the secrecy is maintained then Fauci, et al, for certain will escape justice. Declassification and disclosure are the best first steps there are to holding the bad actors to account.
We just need to end the secrecy. Get everything out in the open where people can chew on it as they will.
Yep, except it will be a lie, but it will be declassified.
Edwin
Lies, like cockroaches, tend to not like bright lights.
There is a reason the saying "sunshine is the best disinfectant" endures in political rhetoric.
The more that is disclosed, the more that is revealed, the more difficult it will be to sustain the lies and perpetuate the propaganda.
“This is the final part of the plan – the death rattle. And remember, months ago I warned that the plan is to make us hate our governments so much that we accept a world government.”
—Vernon Coleman
History and human nature don't work that way.
When people hate their governments to that extreme the tendency is to burn the existing structure to the ground and start over from scratch. That's not a scenario that leads to world government.
The pathway to world government lies in people accepting the authoritarian diktats of their existing governments.
Well, that only works in the past, with a non-damaged human genome.
Whether it works in our future remains to be seen.
Especially with fluoride, mRNA, and who knows whatever treatments we have gotten.
Human nature has never been half as fluid or as problematic as some people make out.
The basic motivations of self-interest which Adam Smith leveraged to explain the actual functioning of national economies in Wealth Of Nations still drives people even today.
Humans have always been more than just the sum of their genes--a stubborn truth that has consistently confounded progressives and authoritarians since the beginning of civilization.
Well, we'll see.
Or we won't.