For once we agree. China and to a great degree American politicians and press strived to downplay and cover up the Lab origin story. Now they are falling over themselves to affirm it. What is the public to think? Yet another instance that further erodes trust in those very same institutions and people...and you wonder why so many question the current narrative?
Media Tripping Over Themselves to Reverse Position On COVID Lab Leak Theory
After more than a year in which left-wing media outlets, Democrat politicians, and Dr. Anthony Fauci insisted that the claim by former President Trump that the virus likely emerged from a Chinese lab was nothing more than a ?debunked conspiracy theory,? those who mocked the notion are now shamelessly backpedaling while nonetheless refusing to admit their role in misleading the public.
The so-called ?lab leak? hypothesis suggests that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The WIV is the only Biosafety Level-4 lab in China ? which means it is certified to handle the most dangerous biological specimens. The lab happens to be located just miles from the ?wet market? where Chinese authorities have maintained the virus originated. Trump?s suggestion?one he first made in April of 2020?was not without basis. For one thing, Chinese labs have a history of safety breaches; a SARS outbreak in Beijing in 2004 was eventually traced back to another Chinese lab.
Despite the early evidence, the media slandered former President Trump, Republican lawmakers, and independent-minded journalists and scientists as conspiracy theorists. When Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) raised the possibility that the virus could have been created in a lab,
The New York Times accused him of spreading a ?rumor? and ?repeating a fringe theory.? The Washington Post also called the theory ?debunked.? Dr. Fauci said that the scientific evidence ?is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.? Even the World Health Organization (WHO), which has served as a propaganda arm for the Chinese Communist Party from day one of the pandemic, said it was ?extremely unlikely? the virus escaped from a lab.
As late as March 31 of this year, CNN published a headline describing the lab leak theory as ?something out of a comic book.? During the 2020 election cycle, mainstream media outlets and Congressional Democrats repeatedly labeled former President Trump and his Republican allies as racist and ?anti-science? for pursuing an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
https://amac.us/media-tripping-over-themselves-to-reverse-position-on-covid-lab-leak-theory/
