March 13, 2023

Where did COVID-19 originate? Was it a lab leak, or spread from a Chinese wet market?

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Any scientist or researcher suggesting that COVID-19 originated in or was released from a lab had been ridiculed as a “conspiracy theorist.” 

But the lab in question, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is the “largest BSL4 lab in the world” which is exactly where such research would have been conducted.

Wikipedia already has a page devoted to this “conspiracy theory,” titled “COVID-19 lab leak theory.” The page concludes, “The prevailing scientific view remained that while an accidental leak was possible, it was highly unlikely.”

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Unlikely? Says who?

Aside from the fact that: “There is no current confirmed intermediate host for the SARS-CoV-2,” as published in the Journal of Medical Virology in 2022 and the fact that “3 Wuhan lab researchers fell ill in November 2019,” as reported by NBC News, the lab origin theory of the virus is still considered fringe conspiracy theory. Say otherwise and risk censorship and ridicule.

Just like when Galileo had the audacity to challenge orthodoxy by asserting that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa.

Who were the voices critical of a lab leak? MSNBC crank Nicolle Wallace called the idea of a COVID-19 lab leak a “conspiracy theory,” as did many of her fellow travelers. Fox News reported, “MSNBC’s Joy Reid took things even further, calling the lab leak theory “debunked bunkum” being pushed by Trump.” New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli, described the lab origin talk as “racist.”

CNN laughingly touts itself as “the most trusted name in news.” They lost their little remaining trust in their handling of discussion of the origins of COVID-19.  As Fox News reported, “In the early months of the pandemic, then-CNN president Jeff Zucker would not allow his network to chase down the lab-leak story because he believed it was a Trump talking point.”

CNN and other corporate media followed the political science rather than the actual science in their analysis and reporting. Just as they did with masks, distancing, vaccines, off-label therapeutics, and many other aspects of COVID-19 policy that were called “conspiracy theories” and are now turning out to be true.