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Good news for an unnamed pangolin accused of starting the Covid-19 pandemic. It turns out that the CIA, MI6 and Germany's BND have all revealed that they believe the source of the pandemic was the Wuhan Immunology Laboratory. Not only that, but they have high confidence and made their conclusions way back in the spring of 2020.
Five years is a long time to wait when you only live 20 years. FYI, a pangolin can eat about 600 pounds of insects with its 16-inch long tongue in five years. The pangolin looks like an armadillo, but it is not related. Pangolin are under threat because their meat is considered a delicacy and its scales (which are like fingernails) are thought to have medicinal properties. But the most threatening feature for this creature is that they can carry coronaviruses, and that made them the perfect scapegoat for whoever was funding gain-of-function research at the biosecurity level 2 lab in Wuhan. It was none other than the recently pardoned Dr. Fauci who put the blame on the innocent pangolin.
With the recent spy agency revelations and a nice long article by the New York Times, the pangolin is now off the hook for the biggest medical crisis in a century. The NYT journalists were "misled"--some would say they did the misleading. After half a decade of scorn and late-show ridicule, to paraphrase Ray Donovan, to which office can the pangolin go to get its reputation back?
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a special place in hellspecial attention from the right wing press, Congress, and the administration. Their lies about Covid are just the tip of the iceberg.To read this bio, please join Ricochet.
I don't always trust science, but I really don't trust the people who claim there is a 'the science'.
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Amen.
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This makes me insane out of my mind. There are health situations that require government force to fix, and these guys have completely blown it. I hate government.
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Lost in the shuffle was the fact that a huge pile of dead critters at the Wuhan wet market were tested and NONE had the the COVID-19 virus. They found a species of SARS virus that was 96% similar and said close enough, that must be the source. Which is bit like saying a chimpazee couple could have easily produced that human baby over there--and chimps are genetically closer to us than that virus was to COVID-19.
The wet market origin story was always a lie.
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