Washington Post Suddenly Interested In Getting China To Tell The Truth On COVID

Since this whole thing started, the Washington Post has been hot on demonizing anyone who dared suggest that Wuhan Flu came from a lab, not some rando eating a bat. In fairness, there have been a few pieces, most coming in 2022, that were Just Wondering about the chances of it coming from a lab. Remember this one?

Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed

Yeah, that was about the lab leak, and the thinly veiled opinion piece was in the straight news section. Not so disputed now, as we see from the Editorial Board

China should answer how covid-19 began. Propaganda is no substitute.

Three years after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China, the origins of the coronavirus pandemic are still a mystery. The latest reports of a shift in the conclusion of one U.S. intelligence agency — for reasons that have not been disclosed — underscore the uncertainty. What is clear is that answers exist in China, and that finding them requires far more investigation than has been carried out so far, which Beijing has refused to allow.

The WP was super excited when the intelligence agencies while Trump was president failed to find a smoking gun

What is China hiding, and why?

Yeah, we’ve been asking this since day 1, and were told we were unhinged, loony, racist, conspiracy theorists.

Two broad hypotheses exist about the origins of covid-19. One is that it jumped from a natural source, probably a bat, perhaps through an intermediate animal host, to infect people. This has ample precedent in earlier viral pandemics. Bats are a reservoir for coronaviruses and live in Southeast Asia, albeit those in China are located far from Wuhan. But no samples — none — have turned up to identify the animal source or the intermediate host. Positive samples weredetected in the Huanan Seafood Market, where wildlife was sold, but they were probably from infected humans, not animals. The market was quite clearly the venue of an early superspreader event.

Nothing found, and China has offered zero evidence this happened. Remember early on when you had people in full medical suits spraying stuff in the air? That was not the action of a government which though it was a simple virus from someone eating something

The other hypothesis is that some kind of research-related incident or inadvertent laboratory leak allowed the virus to escape. Large numbers of bats were captured by Chinese researchers for study at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a major center of research on bat coronaviruses. Other Chinese scientific research centers also worked on coronaviruses and vaccines.

There’s actually a third, which is that it was released on purpose, but, we’ll ignore that for now.

All of this suggests that we need to know more. The Biden administration should declassify the Energy Department’s update, ask other intelligence agencies to refresh their reporting, and offer a new report to the public.

Only by understanding how the pandemic began can the world start to prepare for the next one.

They’re forgetting about penalizing China, and anyone involved in supporting and funding the research. Anyhow, I guess it’s now OK to discuss a lab leak without getting kicked off social media.

Elsewhere, here’s another wackadoodle leftist chiming in

Abcarian: Mask mandates? COVID origins? Why are we still having these debates?

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Bottom line: We may never have a definitive answer to the virus’ origins. Beijing has refused (mostly) to cooperate with the world scientific community. It has resisted sharing information and has blamed other countries for the outbreak, including the United States.

As a regular old civilian, I can live with the uncertainty. We know that lab accidents will occur from time to time because human beings and their safety systems are fallible. We also know that diseases can leap between animals and human beings — plague, rabies, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, to name a few.

Yeah, lab leaks that kill almost 7 million happen all the time, no biggie, right?

I reserve my anger for the way the government under former President Trump bungled its response to the disease, the way that some conservative ideologues still push bogus theories, dismiss proven science about the effectiveness of masks and vaccines, and generally demonize experts like Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who devoted a long career to protecting the health and lives of his fellow Americans.

No ire for China, eh? Or the despots implementing unproven mandates and lockdowns that we knew wouldn’t work, were shown not to work as implemented, and they still wanted them.

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