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2021-06-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
WAPO: The Biden administration has no real plan to get the truth about COVID from China
[Hot Air] As Jazz pointed out yesterday, Sec. of State Blinken told Axios he was determined to uncover the truth about the origin of the coronavirus. He also echoed what appears to be an administration talking point about how uncovering the truth was in China’s best interest. But Aaron Blake has a piece at the Post which points out how hollow those assurances really are. In fact, no one in the Biden administration seems to have an answer for the next, obvious question: What do you do if China decides its interests are in covering up the truth? That’s the question that was put to Dr. Fauci last week.
Top government infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci was pressed on this Thursday on MSNBC. When he said that "it’s obviously in China’s interests to find out exactly" how the virus came about, Willie Geist logically followed up with a counterpoint: Isn’t it also in their interest to conceal that information "if there was a lab leak — or worse?"

Fauci demurred.

"I don’t want to be speculating on that, because every time I say something like that, you know it as well as I, it will get completely taken out of context, and go into the Twitter world like crazy," Fauci said. "So, I mean, I’m going to leave that to other people and not surmise and guess who’s interest it is. It’s not helpful."
With that non-answer in mind, let’s circle back (as Jen Psaki might say) to Sec. Blinken’s answer about the importance of getting transparency from China. You really need to watch this clip to appreciate it. It’s only 2 minutes long. The first minute is spent with Blinken saying repeatedly how critical it is that we get this information from China. We "have to have" this information Blinken said. And then, like Fauci, he’s asked the obvious question: "So what’s the real pressure the US will put on China for access to the lab?" Sec. Blinken gives a great impersonation of a deer in headlights.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-09 03:11|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ]  Top
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#1 Everybody, who matters, already knows the truth - and it'll never become public (at least in relevant future) because nobody wants war with China.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-09 05:20||   2021-06-09 05:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Fauci gave money to a US organization, who gave it to the Wuhan lab for gain of function research. Because that research is illegal in America - but not in China! Obviously he doesn't want the truth out, nor does anyone in the US government.

Usually this would be a job for a crusading journalist, but since they've all betrayed us by going over to the government's side, all we've got is alternative media. And Big Tech can silence them at any time.
Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-06-09 06:02||   2021-06-09 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The truth has no place or value in leftist schemes.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-06-09 06:43||   2021-06-09 06:43|| Front Page Top

#4 They're all bought and paid for. The Manchurian candidate caste.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-09 08:01||   2021-06-09 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Secret report by respected US government laboratory concluded in May last year that it WAS plausible coronavirus leaked from Wuhan lab - and said theory deserved further investigation
Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-09 08:03||   2021-06-09 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 The more it is reported in the mainstream media that there’s talk among respectable authorities about this deserving investigation, the more it becomes thinkable to those who firmly believed claims that it is anti-SCIENCE!! to be concerned about the possibility. The tipping point is close, if not already reached.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-06-09 08:39||   2021-06-09 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 My point about all of this really isn’t whether COVID came out of a lab or not. The reality is nobody, at least nobody here in the west, actually has enough information to say one way or the other. But the mainstream media has been saying one way, and not the other, without evidence, as if it were fact. They were doing so long before it was remotely possible to do so. That’s narrative, and that’s power of media. When you combine that with Big Tech lubricating the rails for pre-determined narratives and attenuating everything else, you have a near overwhelming combination for shaping beliefs on a mass scale. “Few understand this.”


The evolution of the COVID-19 lab origin narrative via the New York Times (scroll about halfway down to see this section, with many NYT links)
Posted by KBK 2021-06-09 10:27||   2021-06-09 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Everybody, who matters, already knows the truth - and it'll never become public (at least in relevant future) because nobody wants war with China.

I think it's important to be realistic about the fact that China is at war with us whether we want war or not.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-09 12:29||   2021-06-09 12:29|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm not saying we should nuke the bastards although that is tempting. But we should recognize the fact that an attack has taken place and understand that we are dealing with the type of people who would do such a thing, who, in fact, have already done it.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-09 12:33||   2021-06-09 12:33|| Front Page Top

#10 We should not wait passively for the next attack.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-09 12:35||   2021-06-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Already happened:
China Drafts Law to Punish Countries that Sanction It for Human Rights Atrocities
Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-09 12:55||   2021-06-09 12:55|| Front Page Top

#12 #8 - #10 I never said we shouldn't deal with them - covertly
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-09 13:42||   2021-06-09 13:42|| Front Page Top

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