The political left is still light years ahead of Republicans when it comes to repeating a thing so often that it becomes accepted as fact. It comes naturally to their jack-booted Orwellian proclivities and is foundational to the movement’s goals. And while the political right isn’t without its own skillset, beating the left at this game has never been the most reliable tool in its toolbox.
COVID changed that. It eroded the faith of a significant number of Americans in the government and the public health establishment. Side effects included undermining the scientific consensus mantra attached to global warming (doing business as climate something) and the mugging of expert consensus narratives in general.
If certain people say certain things, what used to be ignored or absorbed as reality is often suspect in a brave new world where conspiracy theory is more likely to prove true than whatever the elites in science or government are peddling.
Healthy scepticism is reasonable if it encourages exploration and education. Dogmatic “no, it isn’t,” whilst just as likely and common, should be left to the Left. Trump and DOGE Derangement syndrome are two examples. How do you get Democrats to oppose [blank]? Get Donald Trump to support it.
An argument isn’t just saying no it isn’t, yes it is, no it isn’t.
Lab Leak Leaks Into Collective Consciousness
The Chinese Flu was advertised as a zoonotic wet market manifestation that jumped to humans and then spread across the planet. And it may be that the “no it isn’t,” folks have gotten so overwhelmed with pushing back on “vaccines cause autism” that they’ve given up defending arguments against SARS-CoV-2 leaking from a lab in Wuhan. You can almost step up to a watercooler and put the words lab and leak together in a sentence without getting eye-rolled back to whatever rock you most certainly must have crawled out from under.
Lab leak. It’s a thing. It is so much a thing that LawyerLisa on Substack is suggesting that it’s time to advance the narrative to a logical conclusion. “What if it was simply a deliberate poisoning. A strategic release. Not a leak. A deployment.”
“WASHINGTON (TNND) — The World Military Games in October 2019 brought together 9,000 athletes from 100 countries in the city of Wuhan, China, to compete in an Olympic-style event for service members.
As it turned out, many who attended soon became very ill with symptoms that we later learned were very similar to those of a new virus named COVID-19.
I confess that this is the first time I’ve heard this.
“Seven service members who attended the games exhibited COVID-19-like signs and/or symptoms during the timeframe of October 18, 2019, through January 21, 2020.”
While the report was released to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees at the time, the Biden administration is now being accused of suppressing it.
Andrew Kerr, a Washington Free Beacon reporter, said in an interview Thursday, “Congress required the Biden administration, through the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, to do this report into potential COVID links to these military games in October 2019. And the Biden administration didn’t release it to the public.”
The timing fits. A large event with athletes from across the globe. Not well reported. In Wuhan, where the Virus originated. Close contact, lots of people, and not everyone needs to take it home, but enough of them will.
Early cases were reported in October. Global spread began shortly after. It’s better science than what passes for consensus across the climate cult.
Don’t expect it to catch on as quickly as the Chinese Flu, but it’s out there waiting for someone to lose their mind and deny it at decibel levels capable of turning heads.
Lawyer Lisa suggests writing off all US debt to China as reparations for the death and economic destruction.
That would start a war, but I can’t say I wouldn’t like it as a negotiating chip.
