11 Questions Now That the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Is ‘Politically Correct’
Our betters, in effect, did the CCP's bidding. They need to be held to account.
11 Critical Questions Now That the Lab Leak Theory Is ‘Politically Correct’
It only took a year, but the always-plausible theory that the Chinese coronavirus originated with a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has finally gone to credible from conspiracy among our Ruling Class.
What changed?
The most remarkable thing about this episode is how little there is in known new evidence to have effectuated this seismic shift, making this the most damning episode for our betters since Russiagate.
We’ve long known about Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stonewalling, that WIV engaged in research into bat-based coronaviruses, and in dangerous gain-of-function exercises, and since at least January when the still-Trump-led State Department put out a fact sheet regarding activity at WIV that there was evidence several Wuhan researchers became sick in fall 2019, before the first identified outbreak case, “with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.”
The primary changes seem to be that prominent scientists and science reporters started challenging the groupthink of their peers, additional reporting further corroborated the plausibility of their arguments in favor of lab leak, and the Biden administration seemed to awaken from its slumber and deference to the CCP-dominated World Health Organization (WHO), calling for a 90-day intelligence community (IC) review into the origins of the pandemic—only after news broke it had quashed the Trump State Department-led probe into a lab leak, just as momentum was picking up behind it.
The failure to seriously consider the lab leak theory was particularly epic because it was borne of the dereliction of duties of the political class tasked with defending our national interest, the should-be apolitical scientific community over which it exerts control, which failed to sufficiently test the hypothesis, and that of a media that has readily admitted it refused to do so because the likes of President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Sen. Tom Cotton, among others, said it might be so.
An election season might have had something to do with it as well.
Making this failure even more outrageous is that in effect, our Ruling Class did the CCP’s bidding by obscuring focus from the WIV and China’s culpability in the spread of the pandemic. Beijing has been doing the same since the earliest days of the pandemic because the more closely the regime is linked to this global disaster, the greater the risk to its hegemonic ambitions.
Now that the lab leak theory has been deemed politically correct, in the Epoch Times I ask 11 questions that need to be answered regarding this entire saga.
Read the full piece here.