After a worldwide pandemic and unprecedented shutdown, we still do not know how the pathogen emerged and spread, something necessary not to finger-point, but cause this knowledge can enhance our understanding of risks and strategies for prevention, preparedness, and mitigation. Yet well into the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the debate about its origins continues. The two major hypotheses are a leak from Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market and a laboratory leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). “A CIA whistleblower told Congress that the agency offered officials on a team investigating COVID-19 origins ‘significant monetary incentive’ to change their positions, from that it originated out of a leak from the Wuhan lab to ‘unable to determine’ the origins,”
There has been a lot of confusion with the COVID origins and the CIA was just given a deadline of September 26, 2023, to turn over all records regarding the establishment of the COVID Discovery Teams; records regarding communications from those teams; all documents and records involving CIA communications with all members of federal government agencies including the FBI, State Department, Health and Human Services, Energy Department and more. Two of the people interviewed in the article Wenstrup and Turner said that the allegations come from “a seemingly credible source.”
It seems like everyone says something different about where COVID-19 came from; some people say it came from a lab and was man-made, while others will say it’s just a new virus spreading through the air or that they don’t know where it came from and they don’t think anyone ever will. Everyone seems to say something different so having a deadline to figure out where Covid-19 originated so that everyone can say the same thing will be different but that won’t stop people from having opinions.
