Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Some of it is scientific ignorance on the part of the public.

And some of it certainly has to do with political loyalty.

 

How seriously should we take the US DoE’s Covid lab leak theory?

 

Why the hell am I on a work call having to hear about someone’s theory of masks in the year of our Lord 2023?

 

The Covid origin issue is a perfect one for our current states of political dialogue and intellectual inquiry. Definitive evidence is and will remain impossible to obtain. US government inquiries have reached conflicting conclusions, but we don't know what information led them to reach them. We do know their conclusions came with the admission they were hardly definitive, indeed, with labels that shrieked, "for God's sake don't make policy off this report." So anyone on planet Earth on the Internet can put forward any hypothesis whatsoever on the origin of covid-19 without the possibility of being proven right or wrong anytime soon. A more fertile situation for bad faith arguments and conspiracy theories could hardly be imagined.

 

It’s unserious and arguably gaslighting to suggest the lab leak theory was always “in play”
the way it has been in recent months. Even if the answer is “unknowable” now, The thumb was placed firmly on the scale of “wet market,” which is how a LA Times columnist can write “not a speck of evidence” without having to hedge or backtrack and do anything other than suggest a lab leak is a “zombie theory.”

Imagine having the confidence to write that. Imagine editors who don’t blink an eye at running such certitude. You don’t get that confidence if the lab leak theory had been considered in any serious manner.

The matter has never been a chin scratcher to most journalists. There has been, in most media circles, certainty.

 

Part of the early push back against the lab theory was that it was coming initially from Trump - "the China Virus", and all his minions who were raving that Covid was a Chinese conspiracy, a bioweapon that got out of the lab and was killing thousands of Americans - and Chinese.

 

The motivations of Fatfuck and his affiliated minions are this:

1) When COVID first broke, to minimize and trivialize its impact. Just a few years earlier they had hoped to hang a devastating Ebola epidemic on the ass of the Mooslim Neegro, which turned out to be a dud, in no small part due to effective anticipatory actions by health officials including the federal government. So they wanted to soft play COVID so nobody could claim it was any worse than Obama's shot at handling an epidemic.

2) When it became apparent COVID was indeed going to become a big thing, Find Somebody Else To Blame It On. Preferably somebody Non-White so Fatfuck could paint them as the evil boogeyman -- CHYYYNA. Remember in the first few weeks of the pandemic was the time when caravans of dirty smelly Latino immigrants were still storming toward the border, and for a while the screech machine was screeching they were teeming with COVID. So it was either evil sneaky Chyyyneese or sweaty smelly Mexkins.

3. Once it became apparent COVID was real, was going to spread quickly and widely, the focus shifted to management. Here we run into MAGGAT Nation's compulsion to deny and defy all forms of authority: NOBUDDUH GUNNA TELL US WHUT TA DEW!! SPECIALLY NOT NO KOLLEGE BOY DOKTERS! WE'RE SMAHHHT!! WE KIN HANDLE THINGS!! WE GUNNA DEW OUR OWN REESERCH!!

So we were off to the land of horse paste and putting Fauci on trial for genocide.

 

Focusing on the origin is as the cliche goes "not seeing the forest for the trees."

What damned us the most was not "where did it originate" but the pathetic response by the US, the White House telling the CDC and all intelligence agencies to stand down. Did China stonewall? Yes, but we could have done so much more to protect ourselves and our borders yet we were told, "nothing to worry about, we don't need to investigate."

 

I'm just glad that we, as a country, stand ready for the next pandemic.