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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The US Department of Energy thinks that covid may have originated in the Wuhan Lab:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-energy-department-assesses-low-confidence-covid-may-originated-chin-rcna72378">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-energy-department-assesses-low-confidence-covid-may-originated-chin-rcna72378</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh mercy. Just suggesting this crazy notion three years ago would cause one’s Twitter account to be suspended. So will the DoE now be censored?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To the credit of this list, ExI-chat did not censor anyone for saying that the lab leak theory was plausible. I did it myself. In all due false modesty, I was the moderator in those days, but even so, I didn’t put myself on moderation for posting it.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The article says that the Intelligence community disagrees. Well there ya go, who are you going to believe? The one which is more energetic or the one which is more intelligent?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’ll tell ya what it feels like: the US government is just now figuring out what plenty of us have suspected since this horrifying nightmare began. The US funded research in China that isn’t legal to do in the US because it is too risky: serial passage experiments on viruses. It got loose, millions died. It damn well is China’s fault and the USA’s fault. They were sloppy with their safety rules, we paid them to do the research to start with. The world is still paying the price.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>