A finding that Covid was caused by a lab accident would be devastating to the health bureaucracy and pharma.
The world needs an inquiry that considers not just natural origins but the possibility that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, escaped from a laboratory. The WHO team, however, plans to build on reports by Chinese scientists rather than mount an independent investigation.
Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of the New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, orchestrated a statement published in The Lancet medical journal in February, prior to any serious research on the origins of COVID-19, condemning “conspiracy theories” that suggest the virus doesn’t have a natural origin.
The possibility cannot be entertained. From a strategic point of view a lab accident would be similar to an accidental nuclear strike during the Cold War, a scenario explored in the 1964 movie Fail Safe. The priority would be containment.
If someone — hypothetically — had definite proof Covid resulted from a researcher’s error it would be a biotech Chernobyl.