Something that had been suspected for nearly three years is finally getting its due credence from American media.
Another government agency has found a laboratory leak to be the most likely explanation behind the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the Department of Energy recently revised its assessment of the origins of the pandemic to conclude that a lab leak was the most likely origin of the disease. While the assessment was made with “low confidence,” the department switched from its previous stance, “undecided,” after receiving new intelligence, studying research on the topic, and consulting with experts.
The Journal reports this Department of Energy analysis was conducted by “Z Division,” the intelligence arm of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which specializes in assessments of the nuclear- and biological-weapons activities of foreign states; their work is rarely declassified, and, when it is, it is often heavily redacted. It is worth noting that in June 2021, the same Journal reporters reported that Z Division studied the genomes of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, and concluded that “the hypothesis claiming the virus leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan is plausible and deserves further investigation.”
There’s still no airtight evidence that proves any theory outright, and the intelligence community remains split between the possibility of a lab leak and that of a purely natural, or zoonotic, origin. But the embarrassing failure of opinion-makers who decried the lab-leak theory as unscientific and racist looks even worse with each new development.
Instead of being introspective, prog talking heads blamed their inaccurate reporting and/or smug dismissiveness on those who speculated (as it turns out, correctly) about the virus's origin.
It’s hard to have a good faith disagreement about a major issue if the issue itself has been hijacked by bad faith folks.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 26, 2023
The best explanation I can come up with is that Trump's racist "China virus" bullshit, which resulted in lots of anti-Asian bigotry and attacks on Asian people, put liberals understandably on the defense against any theory that seemed to blame China for Covid.
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) February 26, 2023
Heck, even the left's fake news hero understood what was up last year.
Even Jon Stewart knew the lab leak was an obvious conclusion. pic.twitter.com/Y9vfMNwpeT
— Jiminy Cricket (@jim1ny_cricket) February 26, 2023
Let's face it. The lack of curiosity by today's corporate media had nothing to do with "reserving judgement" or "giving credibility to conspiracy theorists." It was, as has been the case since July 2015, Trump-centric.
"It's racist to say Covid came from a Chinese government lab" is the equivalent of "It's racist to say all that radiation in Ukraine came from the Soviet nuclear plant in Chernobyl."
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 27, 2023
Y'know what would make "conspiracy theories" disappear in a millisecond? If a collection of individuals banded together to convey cold, hard facts to a populace and did so on such a consistent basis that said populace could easily trace a story's conclusion back to the original reporting of it.
Sadly, such a collective appears only interested in their "truth" as opposed to indisputable facts.
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