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WashPo writer shreds NBC’s Wuhan lab report, here’s most glaring miss

A new NBC News report on the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) -- the lab from where the coronavirus pandemic may have originated -- is inconsistent and misleading, according to a thread of tweets from Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin.

“This NBC News report on their field trip to Wuhan Institute of Virology has several errors, but the most glaring is that it misrepresents what U.S. officials wrote in diplomatic cables in 2018,” Rogin began Monday afternoon.

The NBC report states that U.S. officials observed several safety issues in the lab. But according to Rogin, WIV scientists told officials about the issues in a January 2018 cable.

“Wang Yanyi, director of the WIV, told NBC reporters the U.S. officials visited in March 2018, two months after the first cable was written,” Rogin tweeted. “The truth is they visited three times, both before and after the Jan. 2018 cable. Did U.S. officials make an entire visit? Not likely…”

Rogin went on to question Wang's credibility, zeroing in on her claim that biosafety was not discussed with the U.S. officials and point and noting that she essentially called the Americans “fabricators.” He also criticized NBC for reporting Wang's claims "without any pushback."

The Post columnist also questioned why NBC's reporters bothered touring the lab at all.

“What did they expect to find, a piece of paper they forgot to throw out that says ‘Coronavirus Origin Evidence’?” he asked. “It's absurd to think that has any probative value. But there's more ... The NBC report says that [Dr. Anthony] Fauci ‘discounted the idea that the virus had accidentally escaped from a lab.’ If you read the interview, Fauci said it’s not important if it was a lab accident (which is wrong) but not that he rules out the possibility.”

Rogin added that WIV Vice Director Dr. Yuan Zhiming reiterated that there’s no evidence that the coronavirus was transmitted from animals to humans in the Huanan Seafood Market.

“Overall, the Chinese scientists can't be blamed for toeing the Party line,” Rogin said. “They deviate from that under penalty of death. But U.S. news organizations must do better than presenting a walk around a lab and an interview with falsehoods in it as telling us anything about the virus.”

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There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China's attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.

This may be the "costliest government cover-up of all time," one of the sources said.

The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus – a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there – was bat-to-human and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.

The “increasing confidence” comes from classified and open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has requested to see the evidence directly. Sources emphasized -- as is often the case with intelligence -- that it’s not definitive and should not be characterized as such. Some inside the administration and the intelligence and epidemiological communities are more skeptical, and the investigation is continuing.

What all of the sources agree about is the extensive cover-up of data and information about COVID-19 orchestrated by the Chinese government.

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The Chinese city where the coronavirus originated claimed Tuesday that a massive testing effort targeting nearly all of its 11 million residents has resulted in just 300 new cases – all of which are asymptomatic.

Wuhan official announced Tuesday that the city completed 9.9 million tests from May 14 to June 1. Wuhan also found no infections among 1,174 close contacts of the 300 people who tested positive, suggesting they were not spreading it easily to others, according to the Associated Press.

“It not only makes the people of Wuhan feel at ease, it also increases people’s confidence in all of China,” Feng Zijian, vice director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state broadcaster CCTV.

Wuhan was by far the hardest hit city in China, accounting for more than 80 percent of the country’s deaths, according to government figures.

If those tested previously are included in the new effort, virtually everyone above the age of 5 in the city of 11 million people has been tested, said Li Lanjuan, a member of a National Health Commission expert team.

“The city of Wuhan is safe,” she said at a news conference with city officials.

 

The city of Wuhan is safe? Lol

But the rest of the world is screwed because of you?

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On 8/9/2020 at 7:43 AM, fishbulb said:

 

 

Awesome. Thank you so much. That can really be an incredible help for somebody that needs it.

Additionally, if any of the rest of you doofuses ( @Lhalo, @Jason, @Chuckster70, @gotbeer, @tdawg87, @JarsOfClay, @Redondo, @Stradling, @Brandon, @Adam, @fan_since79, @Angel Oracle, @AngelsLakersFan, @Taylor, @tdawg87, @ten ocho recon scout, @tennischmp , @Tank , @st1ckboy , @Lou ) and each and every one of your alt accounts ( @angelinkc, @EnglishCop, @Orange Lives Matter) are good with donating blood, you may be able to score a free antibody test out of donating for regular blood needs right now. If you pop positive, you might be able to help by donating plasma which is awesome. If you come back negative, at least you know it to the extent that the tests are reliable and you've donated some blood that will help somebody when they need it. Heck, I'd even be good with somebody receiving @Brian Ilten's convalescent plasma.

I don't know if the free antibody testing is everywhere, but it's offered here in south Texas.

Please do this if you can.

Thanks for quoting me and tagging me in this or I would have missed it.

Got tested today.

 

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Attacking retail, restaurant workers enforcing mask rules now a felony in Illinois

Assaulting a retail or restaurant worker who is enforcing mask requirements in Illinois has become a more serious offense.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker approved the bill on Friday, which declares the “battery of a merchant is aggravated battery,” according to the Illinois General Assembly website.

Aggravated battery is considered a felony in Illinois, according to FindLaw.com.

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But it's okay to loot stores and get away with it?

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