More than three years later, the truth is finally emerging, slowly. Like the dross impurities that rise to the surface in the refinement of gold, the lies are surfacing as the heat of the furnace turns up. This heat is the result of the change of power that the mid-term elections determined, with Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives.
The U.S. Department of Energy has just released a report that concludes that the Covid-19 virus likely leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. The case is not described as definitive, but it is more evidence that the media and public-health groupthink about Covid was mistaken and destructive, according to the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
They say the salient detail is that DOE’s judgment is based on “new” but still secret intelligence. Yet DOE’s new judgment is nonetheless made with “low confidence.” The FBI has also concluded that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the “most likely” origin of the virus, but other U.S. intelligence agencies either don’t believe they have enough evidence or believe it had a natural origin. That’s two U.S. agencies, DOE and the FBI, that have come forth to acknowledge the lab leak is the explanation that makes the most sense.
Naturally, Dr. Anthony Fauci still clings to his claim that the virus originated in a “wet market.” The White House also won’t acknowledge this additional evidence that points toward a lab leak of the virus. With this weak response, and the weak response to the Chinese spy balloon, it’s becoming very evident that President Joe Biden cannot be trusted to hold China accountable for anything. The only reason there is any doubt left is that China has done everything possible to hide their responsibility, blaming the virus pandemic on a natural origin. But the old saying is, “If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” Why would anyone be skeptical of a determination that a virus that emerged from Wuhan, China, probably came from a Wuhan China laboratory studying the same virus?
Comedian Jon Stewart said it well; “If an outbreak of chocolaty goodness was discovered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, would anyone doubt it came from the Hershey chocolate factory? If a novel coronavirus is discovered in Wuhan, China, home of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Lab, would anyone doubt it came from the Wuhan virus laboratory?”
Yet anyone who suggested such a logical conclusion in 2020 was vilified by the media. On April 22, 2020, WSJpublished an Op-ed by Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton that pointed to the possibility of the lab leak and raised doubts about Beijing’s claim that it had originated in an animal “wet market.” The media conformity caucus immediately derided Mr. Cotton for peddling a “conspiracy theory” that had been “debunked,” as the Washington Post put it at the time. Former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield also favored the lab leak theory, but was called a racist and received death threats for daring to disagree with the prevailing theory.
We have since learned that public-health officials wanted to hide that U.S. financial aid to the Wuhan lab from the National Institute of Health (NIH) may have contributed to the “gain-of-function” research that could have led to the leak. We know from emails released that NIH director Dr. Francis Collins and NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci colluded to obfuscate the research they were supporting by coordinating the scientific community response that denounced the lab leak theory. The main stream media were happy to promote this disinformation.
The WJS editors conclude: “Because of China’s refusal to cooperate in the investigation, we may never know with certainty how the virus emerged. But Americans deserve to know the facts about the relationship of the U.S. National Institutes of Health to the Wuhan lab and to promoting gain-of-function research. The early deception also needs to be exposed.”
Republicans are calling for President Biden to declassify all intelligence on this issue immediately, instead of letting it dribble out in half-hearted spurts. But Biden’s cozy relationship with the Chinese makes it unlikely he will do anything to embarrass the Chinese Communist Party.
