Civic Register
| 6.3.21
A Majority of Americans Now Believe COVID-19 Originated From a Lab in China - Do You?
Do you believe that the spread of COVID-19 originated from a lab in China?
What’s the story?
- A poll conducted by The Economist / YouGov from May 2nd through June 1st that was released this week found that an outright majority of Americans now believe that coronavirus (COVID-19) originated in a Chinese laboratory, an increase from the large plurality who believed that to be the case in May 2020.
- The poll asked respondents whether it’s true or false that a lab in China was the origin of COVID-19 ― regardless of whether it was created by scientists or naturally mutated. Among U.S. adults, 58% said that it was “definitely or probably true” that COVID-19 came from a lab in China, while 18% said “definitely or probably false” and 24% said they don’t know.
- That’s an increase from May of last year when 49% of American adults thought COVID-19 probably or definitely originated in a lab, 29% thought it probably or definitely did not, and 22% were unsure.
- The shift in attitudes about the pandemic’s origin can also be seen in the partisan breakdown of the poll. Republicans’ belief or suspicion that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab rose from 72% to 77% over the last year while those doubtful declined from 15% to 9%; Independents went from 48% thinking the Chinese lab was the true origin in May 2020 to 65% having that belief or suspicion in May 2021; while Democrats went from a split of 33% true, 44% false, and 23% unsure last year to a breakdown of 43% true, 26% false, 31% unsure this year.
- The poll also asked respondents about their specific beliefs regarding how COVID-19 emerged which were more fragmented: among all U.S. adults a 33% plurality were unsure; 24% believe COVID-19 was created in a lab and released on purpose; 18% believe it was created in a lab and released on accident; 12% believe it was a natural mutation that was released from a lab by accident; and 13% believe it was a natural mutation that occurred in the wild.
- These findings come amid renewed scrutiny of the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from a lab that was sparked by reports that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology ― the primary lab in China that researches bat coronaviruses ― were sickened with symptoms similar to COVID-19 in November 2019 before the outbreak grew; the World Health Organization’s inability to conduct a full investigation into the possibility of a lab leak; a lack of conclusive evidence pointing to a Wuhan wet market as the origin; and ongoing probes into a possible lab leak by the intelligence community and congressional committees.
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— Eric Revell
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This whole China and Wuhan lab thing is a ploy by the right to continue blaming the Chinese and steer away from the real point, this country was simply not prepared for a pandemic or the havoc that would be raised because of it.
I knew it from the beginning.
Hold Communist China accountable. Make them pay.
Yes
I knew this in March 2020. Like others I do not watch MSM, because they lie repeatedly just like our government.
The origin of this virus is no more clear today than when the main theory supporting natural transmission was generally considered the cause. The fact is that China’s cooperation has always been suspect from the beginning, and that BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS claim that government is wasteful, the US oversight of the Wuhan Virology Lab was pulled mere months before the nexus of this virus. Now we may never know. Huh.
Yes
Of course Covid 19 came from the Wuhan lab in China. Anyone that can't figure that out is an idiot and/or a Democrat.
a lot of red flag and Occam's razor points the the lab!
The genome sequencing pattern for COVID-19 is 'CGG-CGG,' which is one of 36 possibilities. Although it is often utilised in gain-of-function research, it is generally viewed as 'abnormal.' Experts claim that a CGG-CGG combination has never been seen in a naturally occurring coronavirus like SARS or MERS Lab produced Lab escaped Congress needs to step up and make China pay for covid 19 Dumbkopf and gop pay for exacerbating the pandemic
Do you really care where it came from? Or is the interest the result of the new farcical attack on Dr Fauci a person who has saved more lives than sitting Congress person! Mr Trump and GOP media (Fox News) have made it their new operation distraction to attack Dr Fauci! I am more interested in community response to Covid and shots in arms and so are my neighbors! Say Covid did originate in Wuhan we can maybe work to prevent lab accidents but how does that help Americans get better; to help the country get vaccinated more? See getting vaccinated should be the FOCUS rather than the political football being tossed around! Covid still threatening our country and you want to talk about Wuhan? My community is more worried about Russian cyber attacks threatening their life savings! Let’s focus on real crimes and threats rather than high school petty popularity contests! Fauci is popular because of how focus he has been throughout his career on saving lives! Making him the new Hillary Clinton is not saving my community but his efforts for the vaccine show is helping so do the same!
At this point, what does it matter where the virus began? It has spread throughout the world. The important thing is we now have vaccines that seem to be working.
If we can trace variants to individuals then we can trace origins too of the original source & spread Of course politics interferes with everything as usual Who is going to be held accountable for all & excessive deaths and liable for trillions lost?
I recently saw a credible but not yet at all fully corroborated account that could explain the origins of the SARS-COV-2 as being both from nature and a lab accidental leak. The contention is that roughly 12 years ago miners were tasked with shoveling out deep deposits of bat guano from a cave populated by the same bat species responsible for SARS-COV-1. many of them got quite ill and at least one died. Supposedly, a masters thesis was found which carefully documented the disease symptoms and progression, particularly from those that died. The symptoms were supposedly very similar to those of Covid-19. Further, it is asserted that viral samples were taken for study at the WuHan lab and labeled with a serial number and that the illness was never reported to the WHO, since it only involved a small number of people. Again, it was implied that the WuHan lab decided to study this virus after the trump removed the CDC staff assigned to work in WuHan because of their wet markets as were other CDC scientists removed from working in pathogenic ‘hot’ spots around the globe to help with new outbreaks and flag potential pandemic pathogens around the world. If all of this is true, I would suspect that the WuHan lab was looking to get a jump on developing a vaccine to this virus or newer ones like it. … … … In socialist autocracies, the party officials in charge of specified regions can expect to be greatly rewarded for benefitting the state and punished for embarrassing the State. So it would be plausible for those officials to want to get a jump on developing a new vaccine that could be rapidly distributed world wide if a like virus were spreading. In fact, the successes of the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna came from years long ongoing proprietary vaccine research for treating potential coronavirus outbreaks and did have an edge in rapidly developing their very successful SARS-COV-2 vaccines. So, the WuHan’s interest in studying this older naturally occurring virus would be quite normal. That’s the ‘reward’ side of party officials potentially wanting to get ahead of the next pandemic by getting vaccines developed. … … … The ‘punishment’ side of embarrassing the state would have them hold back announcement of WuHan lab workers getting ill due to a potential breech of containment protocols by hoping that the illnesses were due to other causes and hoping to be able to contain the virus before an out of control community spread could develop. (One of the dangers in any autocracy and similar to those in this country who refused to speak out about the trump’s abuses because they feared swift and overwhelming reprisal from the State entities commandeered by the trump). When the central committee began to receive reports of an unknown illness in WuHan they sent one of their leading virologists from a different province to investigate and when he reported that WuHan was the epicenter of a spreading pandemic from an unknown pandemic, they reported it to the WHO and called the trump to report it. There were further unsubstantiated reports that the serial numbers from the 12 year old samples were re-labeled to appear to be new samples. … … … Even if all of this is true, before the trump cultists start jumping up and down and demanding that China pay - this was still an accident not unlike Chernobyl and not unlike our country’s denial of researching nerve agents long after they were banned, researching intense microwave weapons to disable ground forces and remotely detonated ordinance or exposing our populace to chemical agents to see how they might effect enemy populations. … … … If the potential lab leak of a 12 year old viral sample turns out to be true, the only actionable result would be to establish international protocols for the better prevention of potential lab accidents. China will never agree to acknowledge a cover up of any of this and neither would our country, if we had a lab accident.
You go my bro, jimK! 😊❤️😊❤️ That, as usual, was exceptional! So many people on here adore you! The others are just plain fools or just plain jealous you are so popular and right!
Right on, Jeanne! 👍🏻👏🏻😊❤️ How can ANYONE even believe that something as horrendous as the crap they are vomiting is real? Show me one child who was taken and killed or eaten, by anyone you are accusing of such a thing. With all the media out there, SOMEONE MUST HAVE SOME EVIDENCE. Ask your QANON leader for pictures, ANYTHING, TO SUPPORT THIS OUTRAGEOUS 💩 HE SPEWS. I WANT TO SEE ACTUAL PROOF. I SWEAR HE IS LAUGHING HIS HEAD OFF AT YOU FOOLS. SHOW ME OR SHUT THE FUCK UP! While you’re at it, tell me ONE THING YOUR DUMP DID THAT BENEFITED YOU? HE TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING THAT PROTECTED YOU NITWITS! PLEASE, I AM SO ANXIOUS TO KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT MAKES YOU ADORE HIM SO. SERIOUSLY, F-thunker, B.R., OR ANY OF YOU IGNORANTS, I’D LOVE TO KNOW. AND PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN SEE AND FACT CHECK THESE IDEAS AND PLACES. IF YOU CANNOT, PLEASE JUST GET THE FUCK OFF OF THIS SITE! DEAL?
Fantastic one eireprof! 👍🏻👏🏻😊❤️
Carina says she expected that it came from a lab! I am belly laughing. 😂😂😂😂😅😅😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪. What a FOLLOWER SHE IS! NO PROOF OFFERED, AS USUAL!
Go, Jeffrey! 👍🏻👏🏻😊❤️
I believe that most countries are looking for biological weapons..yes even in the US. But there needs to be evidence and as of yet I do not see any.