Foreign Policy Mag Cries About Covid Lab Leak
Episode 15: Foreign Policy magazine, a favorite of the global media’s Davos sycophant and those in the faculty lounge, says China’s lab leak theory is “just a narrative”. Oh, and the author has TDS.
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Justin Ling has Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is for this reason that his latest story in Foreign Policy, titled The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up, says it is preposterous to blame China for a lab leak leading to a global pandemic.
Why? Because “right-wingers” are saying so; therefore it is just narrative.
To stereotypical media types like Ling, who once wrote that Q Anon is Trumpism, hates fossil fuels, and of course, sees White terrorists under his bed, anyone who talks about the likelihood of a lab leak, like Dr. Fauci, (who really didn’t want to, according to the NYT, which is running cover and using the word “claps back” like the paper is run by 20-year-olds), is a right-winger.
The entire left-winger (hey, you started it) press – HuffPo, NYT, soon NPR, BBC – is now going to run the counter-narrative to blow this story out of the water. Sure, Covid was never about narratives. It was always about public health. That was always crystal clear.
To guys like Ling, only the established view, of the kind that is published in Foreign Policy, and read and blessed by the Party of Davos, are correct. The sky is green they say. No, I kinda see blue. Wrong! Ya pleb!
The “the virus didn’t leak from a lab” is just counterspin to “maybe the virus leaked from a lab after all.” These elite institutions, whose legitimacy is worn thin, can’t bear being wrong. They must be right, lest they lose even more of their clout by the lumpen proletariat riff-raff of the heavily propagandized Western world.
The G7 recently convened, about two weeks ago. They said the lab leak is plausible. They called for yet another investigation into the lab leak Ling thinks has no link to Covid. (See what I’ve done there? This is why you read the Double Plus. It’s the sense of humor inside…)
I suppose all of these scientists are MAGA right-wingers from right-wing universities that are transphobic and racist (of course).
1. Letter from scientists calling for a better investigation into the lab leak.
2. NYT reports on more calls for inquiries within the scientific community.
3. Over a dozen biologists from universities worldwide call for inquiries.
You can bet your first child, the farm, and your life, that if scientists said Covid came from a bat to pangolin jump and it was peer-reviewed by the Lancet; and 20 scientists from around the world said a bat from a cave bit a person and gave him Sars 2; and a dozen virologists from NY penned a letter to the NYT saying a bat bit a pangolin and some dude ate it and gave it to his family who worked at the Wuhan Lab, it would be used as an example that the lab leak was fake. That’d be the correct narrative, of course. The other narrative is, well, just a right-wing fairy tale for the right-wing media to talk about. This is the perennial argument.
The truth is, it serves Big Pharma and Big Government and Big Bozos (aka Big Media) then the narrative is correct. It’s science.
Dr. Tedros did not ever say that the WHO already investigated the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
More work needs to be done. This may all be a magic bullet, impossible to really know. But the State Department diplomats in China had said at least a year before the outbreak that the lab was full of holes, security was weak. Josh Rogin wrote of this in The Washington Post before, my guess, they put the lid on him because Trump was saying it.
One of the main side effects of TDS is it disables a person’s curiosity and causes knee-jerk impulses. If your opposition says Covid came from a lab, you must believe it came from a bat, or wherever else China said it came from.
Sadly, there is no vaccine for that.
If there was, for sure, those suffering from it would not take it.
The lab leak theory has not been disproven. Unless EcoHealth, one of the big lab partners in bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, can show in its research that Sars can leap from a bat to a pangolin to a human, we’ve got a lab leak. That doesn’t mean the CCP meant it to leak. And that doesn’t mean the virus was GMOd to the extent that it was intended to be more deadly. It just means scientists were studying bat coronaviruses. Something went wrong. Someone got sick. It spread from the lab. Then all hell broke loose.
Let those who believe the Russians elected the last president and white supremacy is destroying the U.S. and Canada bitch and moan about the lab leak. They’ve clearly got nothing else better to do.
Meanwhile, from the only WHO that matters.
“Meet the old boss. Same as the new boss.”