ANALYSIS – Thankfully the pressure continues to build on the establishment media and scientific community for its massive failure and cover-up of the COVID-19 lab leak origin theory.
From day one of the COVID outbreak in Wuhan, China, I argued that it would be a dereliction of duty for any intelligence analyst worth his/her salt, or any journalist or expert, to ignore the elephant in the room – that there was a rare Chinese government Level 4 Biosafety Lab (BSL-4) within a few miles of the alleged ground zero for the virus.
Compounding this fact with the understanding that China has a robust bioweapons research effort and shoddy safety protocols at the relatively new lab in Wuhan, it should have been a no-brainer; everyone should have been all over this scenario.
But sure enough, for partisan, ideological and just plain stupid reasons, the establishment mob quickly dismissed that possibility outright, calling it a conspiracy theory and, even worse, racist.
Many of these players wanted to stay on the good side of China, some had vested interests in keeping a lid on it, others instinctively rebuked anything President Trump proposed and others simply wanted to obsessively focus on how Trump was allegedly failing on COVID rather than on where this deadly virus originated.
Meanwhile, Big Tech social media platforms openly censored any views, including mine on LinkedIn, that simply reported on and explored the facts and available intelligence on the Wuhan lab and its potential relation to COVID.
Over time, however, this subpar reporting and the massive effort bordering on a conspiracy to suppress the truth on COVID’s origins began to crumble.
The June 9 World Health Organization Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens report, and various other serious investigations, concluded that deliberate human involvement, or at least human error, may ultimately have been at the root of the pandemic that has killed over 15 million people worldwide.
In December, reports The Blaze, Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence also concluded in their interim report that it was “plausible” that Chinese military researchers possessed the COVID-19 virus “as part of bioweapons research” prior to its release into the world as a consequence of a safety incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Many of the obtuse big media outlets, colluding Big Tech, and the misguided science experts have begun to retract and recant. Some even quietly admitting they may have been wrong on the lab leak origin theory.
But that isn’t enough, far from it.
As reported by The Blaze:
A group of national security experts published a letter this week denouncing those in the mainstream media who downplayed, ignored, or outright denied the possibility that the COVID-19 virus originated in a Chinese communist lab in Wuhan.
The January 11 letter addressed to the editors of the Lancet, Nature Medicine, The New York Times and Time magazine, was signed by 43 national security experts, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas, former Defense Intelligence Agency acting Director David Shedd, former national security adviser Robert O’Brien and numerous former State Department and National Security Council officials.
The Blaze continues:
The letter implicates news outlets like the New York Times and scientific journals such as the Lancet in an apparent campaign to censor or displace dissenting voices around the pandemic’s origins.
Not only was journalists’ and editors’ failure to entertain the possibility that the Wuhan Institute of Virology — controlled by the genocidal Chinese regime and notorious for performing gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses — a dereliction of duty, it “served to hamper national and international policy discussions about how to mitigate against future pandemics of any origin — natural, accidental, or deliberate.”
Their letter calls for those who intentionally or not helped absolve the Chinese communist regime of any guilt in originating and spreading the deadly COVID virus to be held accountable.
The authors also called on major news organizations “to carry out deeper investigations into the pandemic’s origins, particularly by examining all credible origins hypotheses.”
This is the minimum they should do.
As the letter states, American security and prosperity depend upon “rigorous scientific debate, research, and scholarship, as well as an intrepid and independent news media.”
And all these media outlets, scientific journals and individual journalists and experts “failed in their duty.”
They should all be called out and shamed publicly, and they should provide the nation, and the world with a very public apology.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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They were IN ON IT
There are two aspects to this story: First, that the gain of function research was essentially what was described as “germ warfare.” We couldn’t do it in the US legally, so we hired it to be done in the country of an erstwhile enemy. This type of research is not new. It started before WWI. (Remember mustard gas.)
Second, they had to get rid of Trump. Any action or policy that would get rid of Trump would gravitate to the top. This was an imperative of all globalists in power, whether they were from industry, politics or government. Globalists are still united in their hatred of Trump. It is the most powerful unifier in political history.
Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)
Ringleader of gain of function research and funding it: Fauci. Retribution must be exacted so that this can never happen again. Publicly.
You can also add our phony government who was/is complicit.
Being right isn’t enough. Until the fake, phony, fraud Fauci goes to jail and loses his pension for funding the gain of function research in a ChiCom lab (via an intermediary to give him cover) none of the chest-thumping does any good.
The lame stream, lyin’-azzed, liberal left-wing loony, fake news media is the BIGGEST existential threat to America today, domestic or foreign.
They need regulated something fierce. No other problem this country faces will ever be satisfactorily resolved unless something is done about these yay-hoo buffoons first.
AMEN!!!
The trio spews whatever the government wants so they can continue getting money from them. It’s all fake.
Is any commentary out of Chinese officialdom worth the paper it might be printed on? How, by the way, might one apply this to Biden et al?