Obviously, this is not the first report. There have been plenty of those. This one just seems to be making it more official, having moved from a conspiracy theory to a “you know, this kinda makes sense” conspiracy theory, to a “this is likely true” theory
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.
Everyone pretty much knew that the lab was doing risky research, and gave known that for a long time. There’s reasonable certainty that both Sars and N1H1 escaped from the lab. To what purpose? Labs doing research on viruses and such all over the world. Some look to weaponize them
U.S. Embassy officials warned in January 2018 about inadequate safety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab and passed on information about scientists conducting risky research on coronavirus from bats, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Consider this
Israeli Professor Shows Virus Follows Fixed Pattern
Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel of Tel Aviv University, who also serves on the research and development advisory board for Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, plotted the rates of new coronavirus infections of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, Italy, Israel, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Spain. The numbers told a shocking story: irrespective of whether the country quarantined like Israel, or went about business as usual like Sweden, coronavirus peaked and subsided in the exact same way. In the exact, same, way. His graphs show that all countries experienced seemingly identical coronavirus infection patterns, with the number of infected peaking in the sixth week and rapidly subsiding by the eighth week.
The Wuhan Virus follows its own pattern, he told Mako, an Israeli news agency. It is a fixed pattern that is not dependent on freedom or quarantine. “There is a decline in the number of infections even [in countries] without closures, and it is similar to the countries with closures,â€Â he wrote in his paper.
“Is the coronavirus expansion exponential? The answer by the numbers is simple: no. Expansion begins exponentially but fades quickly after about eight weeks,†Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel concluded. The reason why coronavirus follows a fixed pattern is yet unknown. “I have no explanation,†he told Mako, “There are is kinds of speculation: maybe it’s climate-related, maybe the virus has its own life cycle.â€
Let’s speculate: the Wuhan lab was messing around with it, playing around, changing it, and it got out. Let’s go further, as many have suggested: they intentionally created an easily transferred virus which would create panic and destroy the economies of 1st World nations before just fading away. Which seems to be happening right now.
Another theory being bandied about is that it was meant to kill off the elderly and sickly in China, a nation which has never been overly concerned with its people, especially ones that the State has to take care of, considering the massive population. But, it got out by accident. Or, maybe not.
Or, perhaps it was meant to decimate 1st World Nations. One has to wonder just how it spread like it did so easily. Maybe they knew that most would get sick but not die, and China would get to sell ventilators, test kits, and so forth to nations. This is China we’re talking about, and their intentions are not honorable.
Palo Alto’s evolving plan to curb carbon emissions faced a sharp rebuke Monday from numerous local environmentalists, who argued that the city is overstating its achievements while falling well short of its targets for combating climate change.
A 60-year-old woman has been fined for breaking Italy’s lockdown measures—her excuse: she was walking her pet turtle.
In addition to the arrest with the Reopen NC protest, anti-abortion protesters were arrested in Greensboro and Charlotte earlier this month. 
Like many who are in self-isolation right now, actress Jane Fonda is delving into the world of comfortable outfits. Today, she modeled a heather gray tracksuit in the corner of her living room with a fresh lacquer of red lipstick. (She was also petting a puppy.) The set featured a rainbow jersey stripe with “Fonda†printed down the sides. But it’s no ordinary sweatsuit. They’re 
