Declan Hill: The Slow Motion Chernobyl - Part 1

It was a slow motion Chernobyl.

Here is what, the balance of probabilities tells us about the origins of this Covid epidemic that haunts us all.

It was the worst industrial accident in the history of humanity.

In general, Chinese laboratory technicians are so badly trained, so ill-paid and so mis-guided that some of them used to sell infected research animals to local butchers.

The specific virologists in Wuhan lab played God. They created super-virulent viruses, more powerful than anything natural.

Their methods like “finding a gas leak with a match”.

Their science so misguided nine years ago an academic warned of an 80% chance of a global epidemic.

When the near-inevitable leak came, they covered it up.

The Communist Chinese jailed anyone brave enough to warn the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) helped them.

More than 12 million people have died and continue to die.

It could happen again.

This week on crimewavespodcast.com - in celebration of the Winter Olympics - we examine the ‘Crime of the Century’.