The “kooky” conspiracy hypothesis that in 2019 a Wuhan laboratory that had been rebuilding viruses to make them better, stronger, faster then somehow unleashed the COVID-19 virus on the world has been gaining traction lately.
Three years ago, such a thing was declared to be impossible, or at least extremely unlikely. After all, the Chinese government itself, which always tells the truth, had repudiated this explanation, even going so far as to conscientiously refuse to cooperate with investigations into the origin of the pandemic.
Many policy makers and media mavens in the West nodded vigorously. No need to inquire further.
But the dam has been breaking in recent months. Now, even U.S. government agencies — government agencies themselves! — are saying yeah, probably a lab leak.
The FBI has hopped on the probably-lab bandwagon and, according to its director, has been on the wagon a while.
FBI director Chris Wray says: “The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan.”
Quite some time now? And kept quiet?
Author James Kunstler wants to know if the FBI knew during all the time that fey Wray “was in charge of a battalion of FBI agents assigned to managing Twitter, Facebook, and Google … to make sure that anyone who opined about Covid coming from the Wuhan lab got censored, banished, cancelled, reputationally destroyed.”
It’s hardly “kooky” to inquire as to what the FBI was thinking, simultaneously believing something to be true and, yet, in contravention of the First Amendment, working to suppress that very belief.
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We may be sure that those atop the commanding heights have begun to reverse themselves in order to hold onto what remains of their perceived credibility…
…and, sadly, they will be relatively successful. The people who accepted earlier versions of the main-stream narrative will treat the very evolution of that narrative as proof of its integrity, not-withstanding that the disingenuousness of earlier forms was long ago rationally explained by some of its opponents.
Indeed, the failure of those opponents to change their own beliefs will be treated as proof of their metaphoric wearing of tin-foil hats, though to abandon rational thought is madness.
Those very many people who were foolish and often cowardly don’t want to admit as much even implicitly. And the cowards amongst them will not face the very frightening truth that we are ruled by evil people.
Truth? Do these bureaucrats know what that is?
Their main problem is they have lost all credibility. Nothing they say about anything can be taken at face value, ever again. They must show us the proof of what they say. Their word isn’t good enough, anymore. Trust has been broken, all in the pursuit of power. Until all the bad apples are gone, skepticism must reign supreme.
This information is a threat to their (the Democrats’) democracy.
The FBI lies!
The FBI lies!
The FBI lies!
The FBI … wait, the FBI agrees with me? HEY, EVERYONE, THE FBI AGREES WITH ME, IT MUST BE TRUE!
No one here is arguing that the lab-leak theory must be most probable because the FBI says that the theory is most probable. Instead, we are discussing why the FBI has acknowledge that probability now, especially in the context of the agency’s claiming that it reached that conclusion significantly earlier.
Please see Daniel’s response below.
I refer you to Daniel’s response below. What he said.