The Wuhan Virology Laboratory in Wuhan, China. Operated by the Communist Chinese government and Communist Chinese military, financed in part by Dr. Fauci and the National Institute of Health. U.S. taxpayer dollars to work on developing “gain of function” protocols for various coronaviruses, and to weaponize various coronaviruses for Communist Chinese military biological weapons warfare. Do not be naive or deceived. Nothing done in Communist China is done for the “good of mankind,” or to “make the world a better place.” Communist, evil, godless governments and nations do no such work or make no such effort. And we the taxpayers of America, along with the evil man revered and idolized by the name of Anthony Fauci helped the Communist Chinese in their efforts of “gain of function” diabolical virus work — and in case unfamiliar, “gain of function” is how humans manipulate viruses, bacterias, germs in order to make them more easily transmitted and also more deadly than they naturally occur. (photo caption was provided by the administrator of A Crooked Path and did not appear in the original The Daily Caller article).
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…as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
“Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
in their paths are ruin and misery,
and the way of peace they have not known.”
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 3:10-18 — English Standard Version
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds;
there is none who does good.
The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,
who seek after God.
They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers
who eat up my people as they eat bread
and do not call upon the LORD?
Psalm 14:1-4 — English Standard Version
Media Dismissed Lab Leak Theory Because Trump Talked About It, According To A Senior Washington Post Reporter
May 24, 2021
By Andrew Kerr
Reprinted from The Daily Caller
- The corporate press spent the better part of a year calling the lab leak theory a conspiracy because former President Donald Trump talked about it, according to Washington Post senior reporter Aaron Blake.
- “Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited. That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting,” Blake wrote.
- Blake said the Trump administration provided no evidence to back up its early claims that it had evidence showing COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan.
- Evidence pointing to the legitimacy of the lab leak theory was printed in the Washington Post by opinion columnist Josh Rogin as early as April 2020.
The corporate press spent much of the pandemic dismissing the theory that COVID-19 could have accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology because former President Donald Trump talked about it, according to Washington Post senior reporter Aaron Blake.
“It has become evident that some corners of the mainstream media overcorrected when it came to one particular theory from Trump and his allies: that the coronavirus emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than naturally,” Blake wrote in an analysis piece published Monday. “It’s also true that many criticisms of the coverage are overwrought and that Trump’s and his allies’ claims invited and deserved skepticism.”
Blake explained that the media was justified in being skeptical of the lab leak theory because Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had leaned in “hard” to the theory without providing “even piecemeal evidence” to support their claims.
“Given everything we know about how Trump handled such things, caution and skepticism were invited,” Blake wrote. “That (very much warranted) caution and skepticism spilled over into some oversimplification, particularly when it came to summarizing the often more circumspect reporting.”
“Given how the Trump administration handled intelligence, there is very little doubt that, if some kind of proof had existed, Trump would have pushed hard for its release,” Blake added. “Trump could have done so whenever he wanted. It never happened. The best evidence for it has emerged a year later, with Trump out of power.”
But evidence pointing to the legitimacy of the lab leak theory was printed in the pages of the Washington Post as early as April 2020, when its opinion columnist Josh Rogin revealed that the State Department sent two cables in 2018 warning of safety and management issues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). One of the cables stated the WIV’s work on bat coronaviruses represented the risk of a new pandemic.
And one of the Washington Post’s quoted experts, Rutgers University molecular biologist Richard Ebright, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in April 2020 that it was entirely possible that COVID-19 could have been unleashed into the human population due to a leak from the WIV. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Expert Says Virus Could Have Leaked From Wuhan Lab)
Rogin was also one of the first to highlight that one of the most outspoken American scientists that spoke out in defense of the WIV during the early stages of the pandemic, Dr. Peter Daszak, had a potential conflict of interest due to his longtime collaboration with the lab.
Daszak was responsible for orchestrating a statement in The Lancet medical journal in February 2020 that condemned “conspiracy theories” suggesting COVID-19 doesn’t have a natural origin.
A spokesman for Daszak would later reveal to The Wall Street Journal in January that the statement, which was cited by numerous news outlets — and by fact check organizations to censor unwelcome inquiries — during the onset of the pandemic, was meant to protect Chinese scientists.
The corporate press has made an abrupt about-face in its framing of the lab leak theory in recent weeks after spending the better part of the year casting down the origin theory as a baseless conspiracy.
Blake pointed to reporting from The Wall Street Journal on Sunday that three researchers from the WIV became so sick in November 2019 that they became hospitalized as the latest piece of evidence pointing to the legitimacy of the lab leak theory.
The Journal’s report came months after Trump’s State Department released a fact sheet on Jan. 15 that claimed that “several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak. The symptoms were reportedly consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.”
Another early critic of the theory, Dr. Anthony Fauci, told PolitiFact in May that he was “not convinced” when asked if he was “still confident that it developed naturally.”
PolitiFact also retracted a fact check from September 2020 in May that had called a Hong Kong virologist’s claim that COVID-19 was a lab-created virus a “debunked conspiracy theory.”
An editors’ note explaining why PolitiFact removed the fact check from its website stated that the assertion from experts at the time that the virus could not have been manipulated is “now more widely disputed.”
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