For a while, it was just drips. Drip, drip, drip. That's all we got. As the first days of the COVID pandemic turned into months, which turned into more months, we couldn't help but get the feeling that the the government wasn't being completely open and honest with us about a lot of things.
Like about how the pandemic started, for example. That was a big one. Did it really all start with a wet market? Even though Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists had literally been messing around with bat coronaviruses for a while and scientists who had tried to inform the public were being disappeared or "reprogrammed," at least until they died from COVID.
Anyone who suggested a possible lab-leak origin for COVID was immediately labeled a xenophobic, science-hating, right-wing conspiracy theorist. Tom Cotton was raked over the coals for saying that a lab leak could be one explanation for how the pandemic started. Liberals and their devoted media allies falsely accused proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis of saying that COVID had been developed as a bioweapon. You'd have to be crazy to think that a global pandemic could have begun when a deadly virus got out of the lab where it was being studied!
Well, now we know that the lab-leak hypothesis was not just plausible, but actually pretty damn likely. And we know that thanks to hard evidence that we were never supposed to find out. Evidence like private Slack messages that reveal a coordinated coverup effort by people who violated their responsibility to the public:
There can be no doubt the Proximal Origin authors consciously and inappropriately downplayed the #COVID19 research-related origin hypothesis and coordinated efforts manipulating media coverage. They also interacted like noxious frat boys.
— Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) July 20, 2023
No longer private Slack excerpts below.
— Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) July 20, 2023
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— Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) July 20, 2023
Looking for something to get genuinely outraged over? There you go. There's your thing.
This is a huge scandal. Scientists like @K_G_Andersen believed a lab leak was extremely plausible, if not likely, they concocted a plan to deceive the public about it, and they've been caught red-handed. There's not really any ambiguity here. They are unethical as it gets. https://t.co/Wj7eD93kxJ
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) July 21, 2023
What they did is downright criminal. And if the fish rots from the head, we know who's ultimately responsible:
Important to note that these scientists who believed a lab leak was extremely plausible, if not likely, while concocting a plan to deceive the public about it, seem to have done so at the behest of Anthony Fauci.
— Eli Klein (@TheEliKlein) July 21, 2023
Anthony Fauci is not only not a good man, but he appears to be outright evil. And if there were any justice, he'd be ridden out on a rail, made into a pariah, and banished from polite society for his remaining time on this earth.
But, well, we know all too well how these things always ten(D) to turn out.
Lol it's not going to be a scandal at all. https://t.co/9p6nReHxoO pic.twitter.com/A8XTIgVTtS
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 21, 2023
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