“ The people who believe that a novel virus emerged from somewhere (whether it be Wuhan or elsewhere) and spread round the world causing a novel illness, detected by tests, whether they be PCR, serology or RATs) seem to be roughly divided into 2 groups:
There are what I would term the “original pandemicists”1. These people believe in the power of science to save us from the ever-increasing threat of pandemics, and believe that the timeline above really happened as they say it happened. I am not sure anyone can say anything to help them really.
But then there are the “covid dissident novel virus believers”2 with whom I actually share many views, apart from in relation to whether there was a novel virus causing a novel disease.
To the people in the second category, I would like to ask:
In light of the evidence of spread of the pathogen you call SARS-CoV-2 for months before the Chinese claim to have found the first cluster of cases, do you believe the timeline above?
If they answered yes, I would think this person belongs in the original pandemicist category. But actually most people rationalise the paradox with something like:
“Yes I believe that is roughly what happened, though perhaps not on the dates claimed”.
When pressed further, the clarification received is usually something like:
“it was part of a cover up for the lab leak which they became aware of months before”.
To which I would ask:
So your theory is that they discovered there'd been a lab leak of a dangerous virus with pandemic potential at some point earlier in 2019, and at that time they formulated a plan to lay an evidentiary trail with a specific timeline which would support an emergence of the novel virus at the end of 2019?
Given that there is no contemporaneous3 evidence available anywhere of any unusual illness being reported anywhere prior to late Dec 2019 (and even that wasn't really that unusual), how did they know all those months before - and before they even had a “test4” - that they needed to lay that trail of evidence?”
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/p/its-all-in-the-timeline
“ The people who believe that a novel virus emerged from somewhere (whether it be Wuhan or elsewhere) and spread round the world causing a novel illness, detected by tests, whether they be PCR, serology or RATs) seem to be roughly divided into 2 groups:
There are what I would term the “original pandemicists”1. These people believe in the power of science to save us from the ever-increasing threat of pandemics, and believe that the timeline above really happened as they say it happened. I am not sure anyone can say anything to help them really.
But then there are the “covid dissident novel virus believers”2 with whom I actually share many views, apart from in relation to whether there was a novel virus causing a novel disease.
To the people in the second category, I would like to ask:
In light of the evidence of spread of the pathogen you call SARS-CoV-2 for months before the Chinese claim to have found the first cluster of cases, do you believe the timeline above?
If they answered yes, I would think this person belongs in the original pandemicist category. But actually most people rationalise the paradox with something like:
“Yes I believe that is roughly what happened, though perhaps not on the dates claimed”.
When pressed further, the clarification received is usually something like:
“it was part of a cover up for the lab leak which they became aware of months before”.
To which I would ask:
So your theory is that they discovered there'd been a lab leak of a dangerous virus with pandemic potential at some point earlier in 2019, and at that time they formulated a plan to lay an evidentiary trail with a specific timeline which would support an emergence of the novel virus at the end of 2019?
Given that there is no contemporaneous3 evidence available anywhere of any unusual illness being reported anywhere prior to late Dec 2019 (and even that wasn't really that unusual), how did they know all those months before - and before they even had a “test4” - that they needed to lay that trail of evidence?”