@HansMahncke Today we learned that German intelligence had early information—known with a high degree of certainty—that Covid originated in a lab, and the German government deliberately buried it. This isn’t some academic point for historians. The virus’s origin had enormous implications for how the pandemic unfolded.
Natural viruses don’t spread like wildfire overnight. They need time to adapt and become more infectious. But this wasn’t the case here, and the authorities knew it. They lied.
Had the truth not been covered up—had it been revealed that Covid was engineered for maximum infectivity in humans—the response would have looked very different. There would have been no futile lockdowns, contact tracing, or masking—measures that were senseless against a virus designed to spread rapidly. The virus was built to infect everyone, so resources would have been focused on protecting the elderly while allowing healthy individuals to live normally, sparing us the farce of endless Covid theatrics.
The past five years would have looked entirely different. No mass psychosis, no mass unemployment, no mass school closures, no mass cancellations of vital medical care and screenings, no Biden presidency. The ripple effects are endless.
FRANKFURT, March 12 (Reuters) - Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, two German newspapers reported on Wednesday. According to a joint report by publications Die Zeit and Sueddeutscher Zeitung, Germany's spying agency BND had indications that the institute had conducted gain-of-function experiments, whereby viruses are modified to become more transmissible to humans for research purposes. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/german-spy-agency-concluded-covid-virus-likely-leaked-lab-papers-say-2025-03-12/
Today we learned that German intelligence had early information—known with a high degree of certainty—that Covid originated in a lab, and the German government deliberately buried it. This isn’t some academic point for historians. The virus’s origin had enormous implications for how the pandemic unfolded.
Natural viruses don’t spread like wildfire overnight. They need time to adapt and become more infectious. But this wasn’t the case here, and the authorities knew it. They lied.
Had the truth not been covered up—had it been revealed that Covid was engineered for maximum infectivity in humans—the response would have looked very different. There would have been no futile lockdowns, contact tracing, or masking—measures that were senseless against a virus designed to spread rapidly. The virus was built to infect everyone, so resources would have been focused on protecting the elderly while allowing healthy individuals to live normally, sparing us the farce of endless Covid theatrics.
The past five years would have looked entirely different. No mass psychosis, no mass unemployment, no mass school closures, no mass cancellations of vital medical care and screenings, no Biden presidency. The ripple effects are endless.
Creating the virus and letting it leak was one of the greatest crimes against humanity of all time. Covering up the truth was even worse.
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