WHO has announced that the planned second phase of their study to determine the origin of COVID-19 has been canceled. Exactly no one is surprised by this. The reason given for the cancellation is China’s refusal to provide access to their researchers and records although there are certainly factions in the U.S. with no appetite for exploring the question.
As I’ve said many times before, when I have my scientist’s hat on it’s currently impossible to come to a definitive answer regarding the genesis of COVID-19. If, on the other hand, I put my informed man-on-the-street hat, there’s a lot of cogent evidence pointing to a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology resulting from the gain of function research that was reportedly being performed there.
The cancellation of the phase 2 study is a further datum providing yet another reason for suspicion. A reasonable person could ask, “What are you afraid of having revealed?” As Paul Graham pointed out, the cancellation itself tells us a lot about the origin of COVID-19:
Well, well, well. Curiously enough, this study, by being shelved, still managed to achieve its objective of telling us more about the origins of Covid.https://t.co/jsXxZpwzx4
— Paul Graham (@paulg) February 15, 2023
Again, none of this is definitive but it’s getting harder and harder for a thoughtful person to escape the conclusion that COVID-19 did indeed result from an accident in a laboratory performing gain-of-function research.