{"id":301963,"date":"2025-01-15T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301963"},"modified":"2025-01-17T07:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:41:49","slug":"predicting-2025-covid-origins-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301963","title":{"rendered":"Predicting 2025: Covid Origins Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Jan 14, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This spring will mark five years since the \u201cCOVID Pandemic\u201d began in earnest. By late March 2020, most of the world was in lockdown or some variation of \u201canti-COVID measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago China marked \u2013 or rather,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taipeitimes.com\/News\/world\/archives\/2025\/01\/13\/2003830127\"> didn\u2019t mark<\/a> \u2013 the fifth anniversary of the first official \u201cCovid death\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Our fifth prediction for 2025 is that \u201cthe establishment\u201d, or whatever you want to call them, won\u2019t let this anniversary pass without incident.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the best kind of prediction because it\u2019s vague enough that it can\u2019t really be wrong. It\u2019s also an easy prediction to make because they have already confirmed it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>Today the UK\u2019s Covid Inquiry launched the fourth of<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.public-inquiry.uk\/structure-of-the-inquiry\/\"> ten planned modules<\/a> that will wrap up by the end of the year. Labour has also announced there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/government-announces-covid-19-day-of-reflection-2025#:~:text=Culture%20Secretary%20Lisa%20Nandy%20has,UK%20Commission%20on%20Covid%20Commemoration.\">\u201cNational Day of Reflection\u201d on March 9th<\/a>\u2026whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s all just general noise, and as much as it\u2019s notionally about \u201cCovid\u201d it\u2019s far more about reaping the benefits of Covid for future propaganda drives.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s looking forward, our real prediction is that they will also look backwards, tweak and retcon the Covid story to try and re-engage people who have begun to filter out anything \u201cpandemic\u201d-related as white noise.<\/p>\n<p>This fits in with the theme of all our predictions \u2013 false concession. Replacing and updating the \u201cofficial story\u201d by incorporating some previously hidden \u201ctruth\u201d to appease the sceptics. Controlling the narrative through fake revelations.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d a bone.<\/p>\n<p>And when you\u2019re talking about Covid, there\u2019s only one subject that fits that bill: The Lab Leak Theory.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve talked about Covid\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/03\/30\/wuhans-mystery-illness-is-covids-foundational-lie\/\">\u201cmysterious origins\u201d<\/a> at length, and our position on the lab leak theory (LLT) is well established, so we won\u2019t go over it all again. In brief:<\/p>\n<p>the Lab Leak Theory is a fallback narrative, served up by controlled opposition and believed by the gullible \u00a0that \u00a0serves to reinforce the idea that a dangerous new disease exists and something must be done about it.<\/p>\n<p>The two essential foundational lies they will do anything to defend.<\/p>\n<p>In fact let\u2019s say that again in italics \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>The lab leak story is \u00a0just a back door way of getting people to believe there was a real deadly new virus and a real pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There was NO deadly new disease and NO real pandemic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>However, our prediction for 2025 is that Lab Leak Theory will become at least quasi-officially \u201ctrue\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The signs were already there in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>In early December, US lawmakers concluded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20241202-us-lawmakers-back-covid-chinese-lab-leak-theory-after-two-year-probe\">two-year commission on Covid<\/a>, officially finding that the \u201cvirus\u201d did indeed originate in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was a burst of articles suggesting the LLT had been the subject of a cover-up by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>On Boxing Day, the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/ifluz\">Telegraph reported that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">FBI \u2018found evidence Covid was lab leak but was not allowed to brief president\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The same day, the Wall Street Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/eESVG#selection-2371.0-2371.77\"> published a long-form \u201cexclusive\u201d<\/a> on <em>\u201cThe Spy-World Scientists Who Argued Covid Was a Lab Leak\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, UnHerd published a column<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2025\/01\/chinas-stooges-the-real-covid-conspiracy\/\"> headlined<\/a> <em>\u201cChina\u2019s stooges: the real Covid conspiracy \u2013 The lab-leak theory is still being suppressed\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg was more subtle, lending the LLT legitimacy by discussing it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/MAFjS#selection-1449.0-1449.55\">future possibility<\/a>: <em>\u201cHow a Lab Leak Could Cause the Next Covid-Like Pandemic\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On New Year\u2019s Eve LLT received another injection of legitimacy from an unlikely source. The World Health Organization included this paragraph in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/30-12-2024-milestone-covid-19-five-years-ago\"> its press release<\/a> marking the 5th anniversary of Covid:<\/p>\n<p>We continue to call on China to share data and access so we can understand the origins of COVID-19. This is a moral and scientific imperative. Without transparency, sharing, and cooperation among countries, the world cannot adequately prevent and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>Lab leak theory has already<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/marisadellatto\/2023\/02\/26\/timeline-how-the-covid-lab-leak-origin-story-went-from-conspiracy-theory-to-government-debate\/\"> come a long way<\/a> from barely even a fringe idea to an acceptable alternative, but in 2025 we expect it to take the final step, becoming the majority view.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a <em>majority<\/em> view, not <em>consensus<\/em>. We\u2019re talking about a cultivated 55-45 split. Because the natural vs lab-leak argument is too valuable ever to end.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, as the \u201canti-establishment\u201d Trump rises so too do \u201canti-establishment\u201d ideas like lab leak theory, or ivermectin and other \u201calternative treatments\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This will play into the multipolar world psyop by reinvigorating the supposed feud between Donald Trump\u2019s administration and China.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s our theme for 2025. Scripted wins for the fostered \u201calternative\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILDCARD PREDICTION:<\/strong> There will be a high-profile legal case \u2013 either civil or criminal \u2013 regarding the \u201corigins of Covid\u201d by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/01\/14\/predicting-2025-covid-origins-revisited\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kit Knightly on why the Lab Leak Theory for the origins of Covid-19 will become at least quasi-officially \u201ctrue\u201d in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":201529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301966,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301963\/revisions\/301966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}