A while back, I asked Unreported Truths readers what stories you wanted me to press.
I was somewhat surprised to hear most of you didn’t care about Covid’s origins. You thought the question wasn’t worth our time, because anyone paying attention has known since 2020 that Sars-Cov-2 almost surely escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology following botched Chinese lab work.
As Jon Stewart – hardly a conservative –
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Second, the origins matter going forward.
In the very unlikely event Sars-Cov-2 was natural, the world should redouble its efforts to find and defang similar coronaviruses. Scientists and governments should continue animal research and explore the caves where the bats that harbor so many coronaviruses live. They should even run carefully controlled gain-of-function experiments that will give us insight into how dangerous these viruses may become.
But if, as is far more likely, Sars-Cov-2 is lab-created or manipulated, we will have to consider not just coronavirus research but a broad swath of virology research, particularly on flu. International monitoring similar to that the world uses to manage nuclear programs may be necessary. Perhaps all forms of dangerous private gain-of-function research should be outlawed and respiratory viruses treated akin to chemical and nuclear weapons.
Such rules would be technically complicated to write, much less monitor or enforce. Many virologists will protest any efforts to restrict their research, just as they did a decade ago when this debate first erupted.
Still, if we learn beyond doubt that the deadliest pandemic in more than a century resulted from laboratory work, we will have no choice but to act.
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(Nice to see the world’s most powerful private citizen hasn’t forgotten the truth. Thanks Elon!)
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Finally, even if Chinese malfeasance means the investigation into Covid’s origins cannot reach a definite answer, it is only one of three separate coverups.
The first, which for now appears to be primarily Chinese but may have been aided by Western researchers, is of the actual origins of Sars-Cov-2 in 2019.
The second, which is the primary current focus, is the concerted effort in 2020 to steer investigations away from the possibility that Sars-Cov-2 did not have natural origins by calling such speculation conspiratorial and racist. That investigation clearly aims primarily at American scientists (including Daszak, who is British but lives in the United States) who must answer to American subpoenas. Thus it has a real chance of reaching definite conclusion.
The third – which does not appear criminal but is a massive journalistic scandal – is the elite media’s unwillingness to investigate either of the first two coverups, even as evidence of both pours out.
That offense is ongoing. And it doesn’t look like it will end anytime soon.
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(I need your help. For 20 cents a day.)
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And so I think this is the moment to push hard on the lab leak – and hope that the wall of silence and deceit built by the world’s top coronavirus researchers and the bureaucrats at the National Institutes of Health finally cracks.
I hope you will bear with me.