Max Taibbi Racket news article
Public news at substack written by MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, MATT TAIBBI, AND ALEX GUTENTAG
read the entire article and weep. Because this was all highly suspected for years, but the experts pushed back to stop these rumors. And major MSM and medical journals went along with the ruse to the point of punishing those who promoted these theories. But the Racket article ends hopefully saying that the MSM still has some honest reporters so maybe we will find the truth.
One reason that this story is appearing now: First of all, because Elon Musk allowed an investigation on censorship on Twitter.
Second, this article in the very liberal UK Times (behind paywall) LINK
this goes beyond China lying about it (heck, China lies all the time). It is about lies by experts in the USA who silence voices who dared to point fingers and say it needed to be investigated. And it is about major medical journals who went along with the propaganda.
For example, ecohealth funded the Wuhan lab research, but no one blinked when the head of ecohealth got a bunch of scientists to write a letter to Lancet to deny it was a lab leak very early in 2020.
and as the evidence continued to leak out, the slowness of the MSM continued.
For example, this article in May 2021 in the WAPOST admits it could be a lab leak, and hey maybe someone should look into it.
so why didn't they? The article essentially say the reason it wasn't looked into by their intrepid reporters is because those trying to publicize the theory were Republicans. They even blame Trump because when he hinted this might have been the case, " The Trump administration’s messaging was often accompanied by anti-Chinese rhetoric that made it easier for skeptics to ignore its claims."
by the way: the anti Chinese rhetoric was because he called it the Chinese virus, and because he stopped travelers from arriving from China at a time when the W.H.O. said it wasn't infectious and that one shouldn't stop travelers. That is why Nancy Pelosi encouraged Chinese new year celebrations that probably spread the virus (and the BLM demonstrations were allowed because they didn't spread the virus either)
OF course by then it was too late: already it was spreading in Italy (and spread to NYC) and was making people sick in Seattle etc.
But it points out another way the anti Trump obsession resulted in news stories that were not just inaccurate, but resulted in people dying because no one dared to question the experts (and those who dared were ignored).
And guess who was the first to point out the lab leak as the source: according to that WAPO article:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) from the start pointed to the lab’s location in Wuhan, pressing China for answers, so the history books will reward him if he turns out to be right.
Yup. what the article doesn't point out: He is a practicing physician, but of course he was a Republican from Oklahoma so could be ignored.
So those behind this propaganda (that slowed the original shutdown at a time that might have saved lives) are the same ones who later proposed over the top lockdowns that were not needed, and vaccines to children who were not at risk.
and don't forget those who placed infectious covid patients into nursing homes.
Governor Cuomo sometimes is condemned for this since he allowed it, but of course he was following advice from experts. And of course, we need to blame those experts who followed out of date Medicare rules to do this because the Medicare rules insiste that well trained staff (/s) in (understaffed) nursing homes could keep people safe. But will anyone blame those who wrote those rules? Of course not.Nor will those experts who told governors this practice was safe be punished.
Indeed, Dr. Levine, who approved of this in Pennsylvania has actually denied reality and defending her actions, and denied that placing infected people into nursing homes caused deaths because as Newsweek points out she didn't do it (she merely ordered them to do it, but never mind).
(although) Levine serve(d) as the Pennsylvania secretary of health and was active in that position when the state's health department issued the guidance to nursing home facilities saying they can accept patients from hospitals and patients who formerly had COVID-19, that (fact) does not prove she placed coronavirus-positive patients in nursing homes or contributed to thousands of elderly deaths in the state.
so Levine was rewarded with a high government job, because hey, he is a she and can't criticize a trans person for incompetence or you will be called a bigot.
so why is it important to bring all these things up?
Because those who lied should not be left in power to lie again.
and because of the "boy who cried wolf" problem: When a real epidemic starts, no one will believe them.
We saw this in the Philippines, when children died from an experimental Dengue vaccine, so some parents didn't trust vaccines that had been around for decades: They refused to get their kids vaccinated against routine childhood illnesses, so kids got measles, diphtheria, etc. and some of them died.
so now that some of the problems the establishment covered up (such as the side effects of the vaccines) are being revealed, the conspiracy theorists are being believed by some, often in an exaggerated form.
But what is worse, is that the establishment types who were behind the coverup are being rewarded:
and very real questions on risky research are not being asked by those who should be discussing the risk/benefit problems.
according to Nature
NIH reinstates grant for controversial coronavirus research
EcoHealth Alliance lost funding during the Trump administration, but can now proceed with its research — under extensive restrictions.
yup. But did EcoHealth learn their lessons? Who will be inspecting these facilities? And why are only those evil Republicans trying to stop them when distrust of Big Pharma is a traditional liberal position?
By the way: EcoHealth got a grant to put one of these labs into the Philippines...it's aim?
REDUCING THE THREAT OF VIRAL SPILLOVER FROM WILDLIFE IN THE PHILIPPINES
and some here are not pleased. Inquirer editorial Feb 2023 insists that this needs to be looked into:
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) doing work on weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives. Isn’t this funding suspicious? This role of civilian and agricultural cooperation rests with the US Department of Agriculture, not with agencies within the US DoD, clearly. Will the DFA and DND ask US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during his visit to clarify the US position?
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update: UKGuardian opinion article on the UK investigation of the Covid response, and the complexity of deciding what to do
But it’s vital that the inquiry separates out what were scientific questions, that independent adCpvvisers and academics could provide data and input on, and what were leadership decisions. Policy measures such as closing gyms or schools or play parks, or the introduction of mandatory face coverings, were conveyed as “scientific” decisions, but they weren’t. Scientists could present the probable risks and benefits of certain policy options, but the final decision didn’t lie with them.
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