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When I first heard about the coronavirus outbreak, the fact that it emerged in a city with a controversial virology institute was beyond suspicious. My initial mental model for the incident was Chernobyl — a catastrophe caused by brutal totalitarian rule. Yet there was a massive crackdown on any mention of a laboratory incident. Seeing that Fauci was directly linked to the crackdown, while also having pushed forward gain-of-function research via EcoHealth Alliance in an end run around the carefully written regulations and review process, disgusted me.
As if this were not bad enough, it turns out the intelligence agencies were directly involved in this cover-up/disinformation operation (hat tip to Ed Morrissey at HotAir). The intelligence community ignored their own experts in the National Center for Medical Intelligence, who concluded it was man-made and pushed aside the FBI for coming to a similar conclusion.
The real question to ask here is why. Why was it so crucial to view the Wuhan Coronavirus as having a natural origin? Were our bureaucrats so devoted/bought & paid for by the PRC? Was it a massive status quo bias refusing to rock the diplomatic boat? I understand why people are seeing a grand conspiracy here, even if I'm not ready to take that particular leap.
What do you think?
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Avoiding blame, of course.
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I had read about the FBI being pushed aside, but I thought their opinion was that it was a lab leak, not necessarily that it was man-made. I realize there can be a grey area between the two. I had better start reading more carefully.
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Whatever we think, it is worse.
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I said in another conversation some months ago that it’s like a Tom Clancy book plot. The highest paid, longest tenured government employee arranges for dangerous viral research outside the US, in direct violation of strictly established protocols. The virus breaks out and kills millions. A cover up that aids the communist Chinese government is aided and abetted by federal employees from multiple agencies for years, and no one is held to account.
We lived though it and it’s still hard to believe that no one but the innocent have paid a price.
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If you on going full Clancy, add in a vaccination later discovered to cause genetic mutations and the offing of the offspring of the vaccinated. With that, you could go full evil circle.
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