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2023-03-01 Government Corruption

The Left hates that COVID may be from a lab leak

[Hot Air] The Left is circling the wagons around the risible notion that COVID has a purely zoonotic origin.

I say the notion is risible despite several Intelligence agencies and many "experts" maintaining that the virus jumped species at a wet market in China because...it really is laughable. There is no identified animal reservoir for the virus, no evidence of "bat soup" at the market, and the Wuhan Insitute of Virology—a few blocks away—did research on bat viruses and even gain-of-function research that was funded by the EcoHealth Alliance, using NIAID money.

And we all know that China has been covering up since the beginning of the pandemic. It would be a hell of a coincidence if this weren’t a lab leak.

Occam’s razor says the virus escaped the lab, almost certainly by accident. I don’t buy the intentional release scenario because China has paid an enormous price for its Zero-COVID strategy. I doubt it was biological warfare research, but maybe I am just naive. I think it was arrogant scientists doing what arrogant people do: playing God.

The recent change in the Department of Energy’s position regarding the origins of COVID—and I expect that over the coming years, the rest of the Establishment will similarly admit the obvious—is driving the Left nuts.

There really is no explanation for this if you assume that they actually care about the facts. Even should they disagree with the analysis, about which we have relatively little concrete data, the origin of the virus is a matter of fact, not ideology. Right?

Well, no. Just as the issue of whether masking works or not is hardly a matter of science, but of commitment. When the Left speaks of The Science™ they are actually asserting the importance of authority. Science is about discovering what is, authority is about obeisance to the powerful.

It is the latter that matters to the powers that be.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-01 05:56|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 The possibility of a lab leak needed to be debunked in 2020 because Donald Trump pushed the idea, and he could never be right. The world was divided between The Science™ and The Orange

The Orange. I like it!

Posted by Bobby 2023-03-01 08:22|| 2023-03-01 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^ I highly dislike the term science being applied to those who disdain the scientific method for their political purposes.

Posted by AlanC 2023-03-01 08:59|| 2023-03-01 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 "don’t buy the intentional release scenario because China has paid an enormous price"
I do. People, particularly governments, do counterproductive things all the time. Usually short term limited gains versus unanticipated results.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-03-01 12:33|| 2023-03-01 12:33|| Front Page Top

#4 They did add the TM although quotes would have been a nice addition to add a bit more sarcasm to it.

Posted by ruprecht 2023-03-01 12:35|| 2023-03-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Bit rich, remembering how much Covid Narrative was pushed from Hot Air. AllahPundit still contributing?

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-01 12:45|| 2023-03-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Allahsquish got pink-slipped

Posted by Frank G 2023-03-01 12:52|| 2023-03-01 12:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I think it was arrogant scientists doing what arrogant people do: playing God.

A plausible theory if you believe Chinese scientist ever do anything without CCP approval.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-03-01 13:32|| 2023-03-01 13:32|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ Chinese scientist ever do anything without CCP approval.

Yes of course, but only once.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-01 13:36|| 2023-03-01 13:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Now, That Guy was at least an active statist sympathetic willing to dress up a cudgel in conservative clothes for anyone who was more than a gimmie-putt away from the current directive.

"don’t buy the intentional release scenario because China has paid an enormous price"

A government who sponsors various cards of violence against its citizens, its deplorable hobbits if you will, who may not be on board with their leadership?
-looks around-

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-03-01 13:38|| 2023-03-01 13:38|| Front Page Top

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