Covid was that special time when journalism, sociology and poly-sci majors suddenly made themselves experts in immunology, epidemiology, biology and chemistry.
thanks for compiling this. eye opening. makes you think about other "blanket coverage" of issues like Israel and other divisive issues like climate change, abortion etc.
The ultimate tragedy of this all is how effective the lies and propaganda were both at the time and still are today. So many of the sheeple not only obeyed every one of Lord Fauci's edicts, and did so enthusiasm, this still to this day wear cloth obedience masks in public and continue to poison their bodies with wholly ineffective and proven deadly "boosters".
The plandemic above all was a massive info-op to gauge the public's susceptibility and willingness to blindly comply with whatever obvious bullshit anyone shovels at them. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
They got away with it and they will do it again. And again.
Trump did fail to stop the Deep State operation, but at least Trump got Roe overturned. Sure we have more abortions now than before but I still think that alone makes his presidency a resounding success as that was the GOPe’s most important goal for 3 decades.
It opened up a hornets nest for sure. We've been fighting about it for, what, 50 years, give or take? Now, we'll be fighting about it in each State for the next 50. Well, I probably won't be, although medicine has come a long way 😉. Regardless, Roe was bad law whatever your position on abortion. Full disclosure, I see both sides of the argument, and would think we would come to some sort of compromise, maybe the first trimester or whatever the people decide. I don't think the extremists on either side are going to get what they want: no abortion anywhere ever, or abortions post-birth.
I agree. I am/was a self described center >slighty right. Then covid and all of the sudden my body my choice was not true. Then the cry went out that the left wanted abortion at any stage. I waited thinking surely someone on the left would say that is ridiculous...nope didn't . Guess what , I will never die on that hill. I think at least the morning after pill or whatever it is called should be availble-if not oh well. I was at one time areeable to abortion up to 16 wks>technology improved>12 wks>it is really ridiculous to think that an abortion would be obtained before 6 wks or before heartbeat as tech continues to improve 6 wks is really one missed period only a matter of time until it's earlier for the hearbeat.
Maybe the answer is more about-don't have unprotected sex, sex that you don't want to potentionally produce a child? I know scandalous thought.
Lastly I am an RN who worked in labor and delivery for a couple of decades. I have held stillborn babies from 16 wk and above-it is a baby-no matter what anyone may want to think. Not saying life begins at 16 wks-earlier they may have had a d&c or I just didn't happen to see any-again I am only talking about stillborn babies.
So now I am probably far right, or a far right extremist, chistian nationalist, white supremist etc etc etc. All bc one view changed.
McConnell’s priority was judicial appointments…nobody that voted for Trump in the early primary cares about judicial appointments. Trump’s original sin was relinquishing his leverage over McConnell by outsourcing judicial appointments to McGahn/McConnell/Leo.
It was a mini IQ test. If you actually believed a bat virus with obvious signs of human intervention occurred naturally right next door to a high security biolab that performs gain of function research on bat viruses you have a sub 100 IQ.
Samples of a version of this particular novel coronavirus was brought to that Wuhan Lab for study in December 2019. Whoever brought those samples to them from anywhere in China could and very likely would have been exposed within breathing distance to the virus and therefore became a carrier. This virus spread airborne very quickly and easily. It is not the least bit implausible that whoever delivered those samples was already a carrier and, while there, would have visited the Wuhan Seafood Market right down the street and exposed dozens if not hundreds of other people within an hour. There is nothing wildly or implausibly coincidental about the first notable spread of a particularly virulent airborne virus occurring in a crowded marketplace right down the street from where samples of virtually every novel coronavirus that originated by any means including bats is delivered for study.
Mike's comment is no different from the argument that pro lab leak pundits have seriously offered as proof it must have "originated" in a lab leak since the beginning. If it has ever been made in sarcasm I suspect that would come as news to them.
Great article, but even worse than the failure of the press was the failure of the scientific community which gave cover for the rejection of the Lab Leak theory. The press clearly had an agenda to debunk everything that Trump said, but scientists are supposed to be guided by a search for the truth and they intentially buried their heads in the sand regarding the source of the Covid virus.
Look up what Rand Paul has to say on this subject. And I recognize this sounds tinfoil, but the explanation that best fits is that the US govt was funding research at WIV in order to keep an eye on Chinese bio capabilities. And then the project accidentally unleashed a pandemic, and then they tried to cover it up. The outlets weren’t just anti-trump, they were serving as CIA mouthpieces. China was right, the US did play a role - it all fits.
Covid was weaponized against Trump. That, along with the Floyd case, were the weapons used to bring down the Trump administration and install Biden and his Biden comics, I mean, Bidenomics.
We would have had immeasurably more Intel on whether or not it further spread from a lab leak after those first cases emerged at the Wuhan Seafood Market if only Donald Trump had not defunded and removed the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams from those labs by September 2019, contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid. Only Xi's people were on hand who, as expected and the whole reason those Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams were stationed there in the first place, allowed it to spread for weeks or months and develope into a Pandemic in relative secrecy.
By March 2020 Trump was admitting to Bob Woodward in a recorded interview that somebody should have told us what was happening before it became too obvious to deny (January 2020) and that just a "2 month" earlier heads up would have been plenty of time to avoid "all the problems", gee why weren't there any responsible monitors there to tell us earlier. lol.
Huh. Not a single word—not one syllable—about the evidence on which the scientists based their conclusions. Evidence rooted in both the distribution of early cases (the wet market was not "down the street" from the lab but, as your own map shows, a half-hour drive away), or the sorts of genetic markers that show up in manipulated DNA. Not a word. Nothing. Zero.
You have no interest at all in the truth, or you would have at least attempted to address the scientific issues.
The phrase "just down the street" has a meaning in English. If you said a bakery was "just down the street" from your house, and your friend came, and then you said it was 12 miles and a 30 minute drive away, he would rightly complain you lied. "Just down the street" suggests immediate transmission from one place to another is easy. Transmission 12 miles away is not easy. Transmission in the wet market from an animal in the wet market to a person in the wet market is easy.
The statement made in the article is a lie. And the people really worried about where the virus originated would find a 12 mile gap one that destroys the hypothesis. A bunch of people who had been at the wet market got sick. The fact that the lab was a half-hour drive away has no bearing on that. You don't understand what virologists do, or the sort of evidence they require.
I recently heard that the loss of credibility of the media is intentional. It allows anyone to call into question what is reported, because there is reason to believe it isn't true.
That is decidedly different from depicting the media, mostly, as willing fools of the leftists. They could as easily be misreporting things from the right, and still destroy the credibility of the media.
I very much like the idea of the media purposefully trashing their credibility as a way to establish control over an electorate that necessarily ends up confused, at best. Probably not the agenda of the editorial staff at any given outlet, and certainly not reporters, however few are left. Most likely the agenda of the barons who own the outlets, who think we, the people, too ignorant to know what is best for ourselves, much less for the country and the world.
Oh, wait, a conspiracy theory? Sure. Why not? Like the lab leak theory, it does a far better job of explaining much of what is going on and has gone on than a simple liberal v. conservative debate. Almost certainly, that debate is pure theater, with a few exceptions, to lead the populace into believing that someone actually cares about them.
Why are you conflating the idea of the virus' "origin" with the idea of it being leaked (or not) from a petri dish or merely breathed from test subject to technician where it was being studied in a nearby lab after it could easily have found its way to that nearby lab by all the usual perfectly logical means and pathways? If you concede that the first cases emerged at the Wuhan Seafood Market, as you do, right down the street from where it of course most certainly would have logically been carried to that nearby lab, samples taken and studied, how can you also argue that it probably "originated" in some leak in that lab and not in nature? Aren't the people who visited the Wuhan Seafood Market and in whom the first cases emerged more likely to have been exposed to it in nature rather than in a bio lab down the street?
Covid was that special time when journalism, sociology and poly-sci majors suddenly made themselves experts in immunology, epidemiology, biology and chemistry.
You are providing a real service by screenshotting so much of this before it succumbs to stealth revisions and/or link rot. Never forget.
thanks for compiling this. eye opening. makes you think about other "blanket coverage" of issues like Israel and other divisive issues like climate change, abortion etc.
Good work! Keep the receipts.
The ultimate tragedy of this all is how effective the lies and propaganda were both at the time and still are today. So many of the sheeple not only obeyed every one of Lord Fauci's edicts, and did so enthusiasm, this still to this day wear cloth obedience masks in public and continue to poison their bodies with wholly ineffective and proven deadly "boosters".
The plandemic above all was a massive info-op to gauge the public's susceptibility and willingness to blindly comply with whatever obvious bullshit anyone shovels at them. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
They got away with it and they will do it again. And again.
Trump did fail to stop the Deep State operation, but at least Trump got Roe overturned. Sure we have more abortions now than before but I still think that alone makes his presidency a resounding success as that was the GOPe’s most important goal for 3 decades.
It opened up a hornets nest for sure. We've been fighting about it for, what, 50 years, give or take? Now, we'll be fighting about it in each State for the next 50. Well, I probably won't be, although medicine has come a long way 😉. Regardless, Roe was bad law whatever your position on abortion. Full disclosure, I see both sides of the argument, and would think we would come to some sort of compromise, maybe the first trimester or whatever the people decide. I don't think the extremists on either side are going to get what they want: no abortion anywhere ever, or abortions post-birth.
I agree. I am/was a self described center >slighty right. Then covid and all of the sudden my body my choice was not true. Then the cry went out that the left wanted abortion at any stage. I waited thinking surely someone on the left would say that is ridiculous...nope didn't . Guess what , I will never die on that hill. I think at least the morning after pill or whatever it is called should be availble-if not oh well. I was at one time areeable to abortion up to 16 wks>technology improved>12 wks>it is really ridiculous to think that an abortion would be obtained before 6 wks or before heartbeat as tech continues to improve 6 wks is really one missed period only a matter of time until it's earlier for the hearbeat.
Maybe the answer is more about-don't have unprotected sex, sex that you don't want to potentionally produce a child? I know scandalous thought.
Lastly I am an RN who worked in labor and delivery for a couple of decades. I have held stillborn babies from 16 wk and above-it is a baby-no matter what anyone may want to think. Not saying life begins at 16 wks-earlier they may have had a d&c or I just didn't happen to see any-again I am only talking about stillborn babies.
So now I am probably far right, or a far right extremist, chistian nationalist, white supremist etc etc etc. All bc one view changed.
McConnell’s priority was judicial appointments…nobody that voted for Trump in the early primary cares about judicial appointments. Trump’s original sin was relinquishing his leverage over McConnell by outsourcing judicial appointments to McGahn/McConnell/Leo.
It was a mini IQ test. If you actually believed a bat virus with obvious signs of human intervention occurred naturally right next door to a high security biolab that performs gain of function research on bat viruses you have a sub 100 IQ.
Samples of a version of this particular novel coronavirus was brought to that Wuhan Lab for study in December 2019. Whoever brought those samples to them from anywhere in China could and very likely would have been exposed within breathing distance to the virus and therefore became a carrier. This virus spread airborne very quickly and easily. It is not the least bit implausible that whoever delivered those samples was already a carrier and, while there, would have visited the Wuhan Seafood Market right down the street and exposed dozens if not hundreds of other people within an hour. There is nothing wildly or implausibly coincidental about the first notable spread of a particularly virulent airborne virus occurring in a crowded marketplace right down the street from where samples of virtually every novel coronavirus that originated by any means including bats is delivered for study.
You missed the obvious sarcasm of his comment.
Mike's comment is no different from the argument that pro lab leak pundits have seriously offered as proof it must have "originated" in a lab leak since the beginning. If it has ever been made in sarcasm I suspect that would come as news to them.
So you must have been triple masking and cutting in line for the vaccine knowing that it was a Chinese bioweapon! Good for you!
Recalibrate your sarcasm detector 🙃
So Chinese bioweapons aren’t dangerous??
Great article, but even worse than the failure of the press was the failure of the scientific community which gave cover for the rejection of the Lab Leak theory. The press clearly had an agenda to debunk everything that Trump said, but scientists are supposed to be guided by a search for the truth and they intentially buried their heads in the sand regarding the source of the Covid virus.
I just found out about your Substack. This is a great compilation. I’m looking forward to your work going forward.
Look up what Rand Paul has to say on this subject. And I recognize this sounds tinfoil, but the explanation that best fits is that the US govt was funding research at WIV in order to keep an eye on Chinese bio capabilities. And then the project accidentally unleashed a pandemic, and then they tried to cover it up. The outlets weren’t just anti-trump, they were serving as CIA mouthpieces. China was right, the US did play a role - it all fits.
Covid was weaponized against Trump. That, along with the Floyd case, were the weapons used to bring down the Trump administration and install Biden and his Biden comics, I mean, Bidenomics.
Excellent article! THANK you for not letting this die. I will never ever forget but many...seem to want to forget.
We would have had immeasurably more Intel on whether or not it further spread from a lab leak after those first cases emerged at the Wuhan Seafood Market if only Donald Trump had not defunded and removed the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams from those labs by September 2019, contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid. Only Xi's people were on hand who, as expected and the whole reason those Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams were stationed there in the first place, allowed it to spread for weeks or months and develope into a Pandemic in relative secrecy.
By March 2020 Trump was admitting to Bob Woodward in a recorded interview that somebody should have told us what was happening before it became too obvious to deny (January 2020) and that just a "2 month" earlier heads up would have been plenty of time to avoid "all the problems", gee why weren't there any responsible monitors there to tell us earlier. lol.
Wait till you hear about what the media did with Joe Biden's 81 million real, lawful, American votes.
How about the scenario put forth by Ron Unz that US officials, in Wuhan for military games, released the virus to cripple China?
Huh. Not a single word—not one syllable—about the evidence on which the scientists based their conclusions. Evidence rooted in both the distribution of early cases (the wet market was not "down the street" from the lab but, as your own map shows, a half-hour drive away), or the sorts of genetic markers that show up in manipulated DNA. Not a word. Nothing. Zero.
You have no interest at all in the truth, or you would have at least attempted to address the scientific issues.
It's 20 km, 12 miles. When talking about a world wide pandemic, 12 miles is a bullseye 🎯
The phrase "just down the street" has a meaning in English. If you said a bakery was "just down the street" from your house, and your friend came, and then you said it was 12 miles and a 30 minute drive away, he would rightly complain you lied. "Just down the street" suggests immediate transmission from one place to another is easy. Transmission 12 miles away is not easy. Transmission in the wet market from an animal in the wet market to a person in the wet market is easy.
The statement made in the article is a lie. And the people really worried about where the virus originated would find a 12 mile gap one that destroys the hypothesis. A bunch of people who had been at the wet market got sick. The fact that the lab was a half-hour drive away has no bearing on that. You don't understand what virologists do, or the sort of evidence they require.
I recently heard that the loss of credibility of the media is intentional. It allows anyone to call into question what is reported, because there is reason to believe it isn't true.
That is decidedly different from depicting the media, mostly, as willing fools of the leftists. They could as easily be misreporting things from the right, and still destroy the credibility of the media.
I very much like the idea of the media purposefully trashing their credibility as a way to establish control over an electorate that necessarily ends up confused, at best. Probably not the agenda of the editorial staff at any given outlet, and certainly not reporters, however few are left. Most likely the agenda of the barons who own the outlets, who think we, the people, too ignorant to know what is best for ourselves, much less for the country and the world.
Oh, wait, a conspiracy theory? Sure. Why not? Like the lab leak theory, it does a far better job of explaining much of what is going on and has gone on than a simple liberal v. conservative debate. Almost certainly, that debate is pure theater, with a few exceptions, to lead the populace into believing that someone actually cares about them.
Here's a hint: Almost no one in Washington does.
Why are you conflating the idea of the virus' "origin" with the idea of it being leaked (or not) from a petri dish or merely breathed from test subject to technician where it was being studied in a nearby lab after it could easily have found its way to that nearby lab by all the usual perfectly logical means and pathways? If you concede that the first cases emerged at the Wuhan Seafood Market, as you do, right down the street from where it of course most certainly would have logically been carried to that nearby lab, samples taken and studied, how can you also argue that it probably "originated" in some leak in that lab and not in nature? Aren't the people who visited the Wuhan Seafood Market and in whom the first cases emerged more likely to have been exposed to it in nature rather than in a bio lab down the street?