Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The last tweet in that thread is the best one.

 

Most - all? - of those links feature stories written a year after COVID began.

And yesterday, of course, you have a LA Times columnist suggesting there’s “not a speck” of evidence. Not sure what qualifies that guy to make that assessment, but some secret “Z division” of the government thinks it’s more likely than not.

 

That's the point.

The 'lab leak' theory was reported on from the very beginning. And got exactly as far as that Z division investigation got: maybe / maybe not.

wuhan leak - Google Search

There isn't any new evidence. There's new analysis of existing evidence. Of which very little can be confirmed or trusted, as you yourself point out. Supersecret Chinese government lab practices made sure of it.

So, low-confidence Z division "investigation" gets us to what, 50/50?

Not much news there, and certainly no different than all the pieces I posted about the lab leak theory from 2 years earlier.

The squawking on the MAGA right, and the overheated rhetoric about this "story" being blackballed from social media, was that the Wuhan lab leak was deliberate.

For which there is no evidence at all.

 

meanwhile,

 

He may as well have ordered an official review of the meaning of life, for all that would concretely come out of it.

 

Exactly.

Absent a whistleblower inside the Wuhan lab with accompanying documentary evidence, we're unlikely to advance this story in the way Nate Silver suggests.

 

One part of coverups is neutralizing pesky witnesses. Any evidence that 2019 employees of the Wuhan lab have taken early retirement in the form of disappearing, or been transferred to research in the Uighur region, or like that would be suggestive, but if any such exists, US intelligence is keeping it to itself.

 

The closest we're likely to get to a satisfying narrative version of a Wuhan lab leak is this speculative piece from New York magazine by Nicholson Baker.

January 2021.


https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

 

The people who are super heavily invested in this story want to use it as a crowbar. “See, we were right about voter fraud and people aborting babies a year after they were born, and third graders identifying as cats and shitting in a litter box at school, and women shouldn’t work outside the home, and deport all the Mexicans” and all the other foul swill that is bubbling inside their smooth, underdeveloped brains. They think it is the Rosetta Stone that will finally make the rest of us understand and bow before their imaginary kingdom of the damned.

 

They won't change their mind about anything, no matter how many facts are shown to them.....but they expect others to do the same. Very on brand.