This page displays “Origins” articles by theme rather than chronology. Together, they examine the stories, assumptions, tests, classifications, emergency-declaration logic, and counter-narratives used to support the claim that a novel SARS-related virus emerged and spread human-to-human in late 2019/early 2020.
Orienting / Current Position: What are we fundamentally asking when we ask about the “origins” of SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19?
- Is There Any Possible Way for SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19 to Have a Lab Origin and Origins Distinct from One Another? — 12 May 2025
- Do the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 Matter? — 18 December 2024
- Yes, the Origins of the Virus Matter and Are Inextricably Linked to the Origins of the Response — 7 June 2025
- The Most Basic Questions About SARS-CoV-2 — 18 October 2024
- Views on the Things Called Viruses, Including SARS-CoV-2 — 7 April 2025
First Cases, Early Spread & Transmission Claims: What evidence was used to establish the first cases, early spread, and human-to-human transmission — and does it withstand scrutiny?
- Questioning the First Known Person-to-Person Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 — 24 August 2022
- If It’s So Deadly, Then Why Wasn’t It Deadly? — 11 March 2025
- Was there ever any evidence for human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV? — 27 April 2025
- The Department of Defense 2019 World Military Games Report Does Not Provide Evidence of Early Spread of SARS-CoV-2 or Incidence of COVID-19 — 10 April 2025
- Are January 2020 U.S. deaths attributed to COVID-19 evidence of ‘early spread’ of SARS-CoV-2 or a new disease?— 9 September 2025
- The Earliest Seed — 10 April 2026
Naming, Classification & Emergency-Declaration Logic: How did naming, classification, and emergency-declaration rules help turn a reported sequence into a feigned global crisis?
- The SARS-CoV-2 Name Game (Long Read) — 20 July 2024
- Does a SARS Virus Automatically Trigger a WHO Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)?— 6 August 2025
- Q&A with Dr. Alexander Gorbalenya, Lead Author on the Paper That Named and Classified SARS-CoV-2 — 28 February 2026
Testing, Sequencing & “Finding” SARS-CoV-2: How was SARS-CoV-2 sought, defined, detected, and “found” before its existence, novelty, and spread were established?
- Did the Corman-Drosten Protocol Rely on Social Media Reports to Seek Then Find SARS-CoV-2? — 19 February 2025
- PCR: Little more than ‘dark arts’? — 31 March 2025
- It’s Time for All Living Authors of the Corman-Drosten Review Report to Confront Social Media Science — 25 August 2025
- Yes, Corman-Drosten et al. Designed a Test Based on a Rumor — 3 September 2025
- SARS-CoV-2 novelty, identity, and testing: X conversation with Dr. Tau Braun — 22 September 2025
- Early Emails Between Virologists Who Developed the First RT-PCR Test for 2019-nCoV Suggest Low Certainty About Sequencing, Novelty, and Transmission — 11 November 2025
Lab Leak, Gain-of-Function, Bioweapon & Countermeasure Claims: Do lab-leak, gain-of-function, bioweapon, and countermeasure narratives clarify what happened — or preserve the assumption of a spreading novel virus?
- 14 June 2023 Tweets Challenging Michael Shellenberger About COVID Starting in a Lab and Subsequent Scolding from Debate with Justin Hart — 14 June 2023
- Can Bats Pass Coronaviruses to Humans? — 6 July 2024
- Lab Leak Dialogue with Clare Craig — 10 September 2024
- Thinking About Lab Leak — 8 October 2024
- COVID-19 Did Not Come from a Lab — 14 November 2024
- Sunetra Gupta’s View on the Origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the Threat Posed by Gain-of-Function Research — 17 November 2024
- Opinions on the Use of “Bioweapon,” Whether the U.S. Activated Counter-Measures in Response to SARS-CoV-2— 18 November 2024
- Conversation with Meryl Nass on Gain-of-Function Research — 25 January 2025
- Attempting to understand Toby Rogers’ ‘released bioweapon’ hypothesis — 20 July 2025
Responses to Lab-Origin Proponents: Why do prominent lab-origin arguments fail to resolve the deeper problems with the official COVID narrative?
- Two Sides of the Same “Spreading Novel Virus” Story — 17 February 2025
- Matt Ridley’s “Believe It or Not” — 28 February 2025
- The Unconvinced: Alina Chan — 10 March 2025
- Somehow It Must Have Escaped — 20 March 2025
- COVID Origins Ping-Pong — 1 May 2025
- Response to Matt Ridley and Lab-Origin Proponents: This COVID Narrative Collapses Under the Slightest Scrutiny — 30 June 2025
CIA, White House & Official-Origin Theater: What role have intelligence agencies, official statements, and political theater played in managing the origins question?
- The CIA’s 25 January 2025 Statement About the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic — 26 January 2025
- Follow-up: CIA Assessment of COVID-19 Pandemic Origins vs. New CIA Director John Ratcliffe — 27 January 2025
- The New White House Web Page Is Basically Another Episode of a Long-Running Hyperreality TV Show That Needs to Be Canceled ASAP — 19 April 2025
- Q: What Did the CIA Formally Say About the Origins of SARS-CoV-2? A: Nothing — 25 November 2025
- Observations and Comments About the 30 October 2025 Document Release Involving Ralph Baric and the CIA — 19 November 2025
- The CIA’s COVID Cover-Up Cover-Up — 14 May 2026
Virus Ontology / “No Virus” Debate: What are viruses, what is SARS-CoV-2 alleged to be, and how should dissent address those questions without becoming trapped in slogans?
- On dividing a resistance, the existence of viruses, ‘the COVID response’, & spreading-non-deadly threats — 21 March 2025
- Reactions to Meryl Nass’s Perspective on the “No Virus” Narrative — 26 March 2025
- Do You Believe in Viruses? Yes or No? — 3 April 2025
- Views on the Things Called Viruses, Including SARS-CoV-2 — 7 April 2025
- Is “No Viruses” a PSY-OP? — 13 July 2025
Non-Unique Disease, Flu Disappearance & Respiratory Illness Claims: Was COVID-19 a novel disease, or were existing illnesses, symptoms, and mortality patterns renamed, recoded, and reinterpreted?
- Setting the Stage for the Flu’s Disappearing Act — 1 July 2023
- ‘Spikeopathy’ does not explain the ‘novel’ symptoms associated with COVID-19 — 21 December 2023
- Our response to Dr Pierre Kory on whether ‘Spikeopathy’ explains the ‘novel’ symptoms associated with COVID-19 — 16 January 2024
- Dr Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer Executive, on Transmission of Acute Respiratory Illnesses, Flu Shot Efficacy, and Gain of Function Research — 31 January 2025
- COVID-only deaths: U.S., New York City, UK, and beyond — 9 October 2025
- Preliminary reaction to “Disappearing Flu Data with Dr. Robert Malone, J.J. Couey, PhD, and Others” — 10 October 2025
Staging, Data Fraud & Pandemic Construction: How easy is it for governments, institutions, and data systems to construct the appearance of an outbreak or pandemic?
- On staged sudden spread, the New York event, and potential data fraud — 24 August 2023
- A Spectacular Commitment to Spectacular Lies — 23 September 2023
- “Question Everything” (Except That Thing) — 14 October 2024
- How Easy and Legal It Is for Governments to Fake or Construct Outbreak and Pandemic Events — 19 May 2026
Historical Analogies & Re-Runs: What can earlier outbreak stories, vaccine campaigns, and disease scares reveal about the COVID event?
- Re-run: An October 1957 BBC Story About the Asian Flu Vaccine Has Some Familiar Elements — 15 October 2024
- The 1916 New York City Polio Virus Lab-Leak Hypothesis — 11 August 2025
Last updated 11 June 2026