“What if Robert Redfield is right about the Wuhan labs?” inquires Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin.
Redfield is the former director of the Centers for Disease Control under President Trump and a virologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he co-founded the Institute of Human Virology. He told CNN he thought “the most likely etiology of this pathogen [SARS-CoV-2] in Wuhan was from a laboratory.”
The doctor was clear: this is his educated conjecture, lacking incontrovertible evidence — which all of the other operating theories also lack.
“Before Redfield,” Rogin writes, “the mere discussion of the still-unproven theory that the covid-19 outbreak might have been connected to human error at a research laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan was considered taboo.”
Which is not to suggest that Dr. Redfield was not attacked and marginalized for mentioning the quite viable “lab theory” for human transmission of the contagion. “Redfield tosses viral kindling,” The Baltimore Sun’s editorial ridiculously accused, “on anti-Asian fires.”
Last week, I lamented our incurious media and the Chinese cover-up. But Rogin takes the charge much further: “The Chinese government and U.S. scientists who are close associates of the Wuhan scientists doing bat coronavirus research have tarred anyone who uttered it as conspiracy theorists, or worse (in their eyes), as pro-Trump.”
Yet, “the Biden administration has confirmed some of the Trump team’s factual claims about suspicious and still-undisclosed work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” added the columnist.
“Conspiracy theorist” is a handy way to deflect attention from bad acts. Conspirators love the term, as do all cover-up artists.
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Let’s just stipulate Redfield is correct.
May we also stipulate that Trump’s claims carried no evidence, no facts, just finger-pointing. Trump was looking for a scapegoat, otherwise he would have supported his claims with information developed by our massive resources.
May we also stipulate that Trump’s terminating our long-standing scientific presence—in Wuhan— contributed to our lack of knowledge?
Finally, may we stipulate that the US leads the world in infections and deaths, and lost millions of jobs, for want of leadership and competent management?
Yes, stipulate the virus began in a lab in Wuhan. Then stipulate the obvious, with facts to back it up, that Trump/Kushner caused the American pandemic killing 550,000 people, and counting
Given the apparent fact that ground zero for this virus was Wuhan which is a significant distance for the habitat of the bats, Dr Redfield’s hypothesis is more reasonable than most.
As for blame, if true this was a human, not Chinese error for ALL of humanity to learn from.
The old adage of “those who play with fire will get burnt” still applies, especially where the fire is enhancing viruses which appears to be part if the Wuhan labs mandate.
Pure science can have it’s dangers as Shelly and others have been attempting to teach us over time. We can only pray that the knowledge gained will eventually worth the price paid.
In point of fact, the virus has never actually been isolated.
Even the CDC admits it does not have a pure sample of the virus.
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So what is this all about if not a big.gov attempt at total control of the citizens?
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This is really common sense.