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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChris Wallace Challenges Pompeo: You 'Had Almost a Year' to Prove Lab Leak Theory
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace confronted former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday over the lack of hard evidence provided by the Trump administration to prove that COVID-19 originated from a Chinese lab, telling Pompeo he had almost a year to prove the theory.
With circumstantial evidence indicating that it is possible that the virus behind a worldwide pandemic could have leaked out of a lab in Wuhan, President Joe Biden has called for the intelligence community to redouble its probe into the origins of COVID-19.
The about-face on the credibility of the lab leak theory came in part after it was reported that Wuhan researchers were hospitalized with coronavirus-like symptoms in November 2019. Even top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, while still maintaining his belief that the virus likely jumped species in nature, says he cannot dismiss the possibility that it leaked from a lab, and supports further investigation.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Pompeoan early and loud proponent of the Wuhan lab leak theoryfound himself pressed on what he personally did to gather enough evidence to support the claims.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/chris-wallace-challenges-pompeo-you-had-almost-a-year-to-prove-lab-leak-theory/ar-AAL008v
As I keep saying, what does it change if it leaked from a lab? The Trump misadministration still bungled the handling of the pandemic.
Ocelot II
(115,836 posts)inexcusable failure to handle the outbreak competently, but it's important to explore anyhow to learn more about how covid and other viruses are transmitted, and how lab safety protocols might have been violated or need to be improved, in order to prevent future pandemics.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)But... but that would required me to do some work, rather than just grifting along with Trump!
JohnSJ
(92,394 posts)months before the pandemic, the only reason based on his previous actions was because of his hatred of President Obama. and he wanted to undo everything the Obama administration did and accomplished
Trump is a sociopath, and the Republican Party has embraced that
brush
(53,845 posts)the lab leak gambit. As if that's going to exonerate trump's colossal and inept bungling of the nation's pandemic response.
JohnSJ
(92,394 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)His reason for the disbanding & recall was because "We can't pay people to sit around in case something happens."
A country with a GDP of >$20 trillion couldn't afford a few hundred grand to prevent catastrophe.
Not surprising for a guy who is so devoid of strategic thinking that he declared bankruptcy a half dozen times.
Oh, and had he just invested his daddy's "loans" & his inheritance, he would have been worth more than he pretended to be.
He not only knew nothing about governance, he knows nothing about business & finance.
Johnny2X2X
(19,114 posts)We had early detection systems in place that he removed.
JI7
(89,264 posts)was going to go away.
They are trying to push this to take attention away from their failures.
But their failures are even worse if you assume it was lab created by China.
dflprincess
(28,082 posts)that won't mean it was developed in the lab. But we'll never convince the Trumpers of that.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)He didn't have time to do his job, let alone back up his propaganda.
monkeyman1
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panader0
(25,816 posts)It only matters that it's here.
If a couple of people did a home invasion on your house, would you want to know where they were
born?
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)To all countries who suffered economically from the virus and lockdown.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Lab leak.
Zoonotic transmission.
Aliens from the planet Gleepglorp.
What matters is what the administration did once they knew the pandemic was happening.
They delayed.
Lied.
Called it a hoax.
Obfuscated.
Lied.
Deflected.
Offered quack cure after quack cure.
Lied some more.
It is entirely inconsequential where it originated.
Really.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Pompeo, what can Biden do that you and Trump refused to do to get to the bottom of this?
Johonny
(20,888 posts)a dumb ass makes accusations and never realizes he can literally get proof. Trump never bothered to look for answers because the truth doesn't matter to him.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)sounded extremely credible. When she first heard, she was SO scared that it could have leaked she ran down to her lab and tried to match to any sequence they had and found nothing. She was so relieved. I'll always remember that.
HariSeldon
(456 posts)If they were engaged in gain-of-function research and this virus escaped, the US government can lead in creating oversight standards for this kind of research: required containment measures, international observers, mandated compliance overseers and procedures, etc.
It's not necessarily about placing blame; we need to do our best to see this doesn't happen again.
Takket
(21,625 posts)Which could have just been them catching it in public like everyone else did...
the lab leak theory was a lot more about politics than it was about science.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Exactly.
There is no there there.
mainer
(12,029 posts)The virus was already out in the wild and circulating in November. It probably got to Italy via Chinese tourists.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing/researchers-find-coronavirus-was-circulating-in-italy-earlier-than-thought-idUSKBN27W1J2
station agent
(385 posts)Continuing: "That's always tougher than the touch. You know, the touch - you don't have to touch things, right? But the air, you just breathe the air. That's how it's passed. And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than your - you know, your - even your strenuous flus."
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,675 posts)He figured out quickly, If I only work for myself, no one will ever notice and that is all he has ever done.
This man is the definition of self interest under the guise of faith