Extremely Unlikely

Dwyer, 22 Feb 2021:  As I write, I am in hotel quarantine in Sydney, after returning from Wuhan, China. There, I was the Australian representative on the international World Health Organization’s (WHO) investigation into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Great - so what did you find out?

Dwyer (article heading):  Extremely unlikely the virus escaped from a lab  (Dominic's bold)

The most politically sensitive option we looked at was the virus escaping from a laboratory. We concluded this was extremely unlikely.

That’s extremely extreme Dominic.  Are you an extremist?

Dwyer:  We visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is an impressive research facility, and looks to be run well, with due regard to staff health.

That might be true - US intelligence reports did say three researchers were well cared for in hospital after becoming sick with Covid-like symptoms in Nov 2019.

Dwyer: We spoke to the scientists there. We heard that scientists’ blood samples, which are routinely taken and stored, were tested for signs they had been infected.

You heard? What - CCP whispers style?  Why didn't you test them yourself?

Dwyer: No evidence of antibodies to the coronavirus was found (so we heard).  We looked at their (CCP-run) biosecurity audits.  No evidence.

The old No Evidence line. That’s like knocking on the door of your chief suspect in a murder investigation and when he says “Fuck off, dickhead”, you say he must be innocent, coz there’s “no evidence”. Case closed!

When asked if the CCP might have been withholding evidence, Dwyer has this neat answer:

Dwyer: (timestamp 2:25) (T)hey were pretty open with what they gave. But of course as to whether they hid things - by definition we wouldn’t know.

Dominic, there’s a stack of stuff they hid.  Hide, by definition, means cover-up.  Access to the lab’s data-bank of studied/stored viruses werre hidden for one thing!  As were sewerage and blood samples from around the time of the first outbreak. These are not unknown unknowns - it's simply the case that they said:  No.   Report what we tell you to report.

Which you did. With embarrassing gusto.

Dwyer: I think one of the features of these WHO missions is the people come in without their national viewpoints, biases or the politics. That’s one of the advantages of WHO.

Huge advantage if you’re the CCP:  Why bother with democracy when you can have one unified viewpoint?