Guest Post by Ann Coulter
After a year of being browbeaten by “the scientists” not to wear a mask, to wear a mask, to wear double masks, to get vaccinated and still wear a mask, our analytic overlords are still no closer to determining the tiny little issue of where this virus came from.
Recently, the widely respected science writer Nicholas Wade published an article in Medium pushing the idea that — contrary to what “the scientists” assured us — COVID-19 might have come from the Wuhan virology lab, not the wet markets.
According to Wade, the virologists attacking the lab theory were claiming scientific certainty for something unknowable, and at least one of them has a gigantic conflict of interest. Even at a time when “TRUST THE SCIENCE!” has become a liberal mating call, I’m shocked at the deceptions of these guys.
Wade cites two groups as leading the attack on the lab theory.
Kristian G. Andersen, [Tweet him] a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in California, was the lead author of a paper published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, claiming: “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”
Talk about influential — not only did The New York Times cite Andersen, but I did!
Now, a year later, Wade says, “Dr. Andersen and his colleagues were assuring their readers of something they could not know.” While Andersen claimed that two of the virus’s characteristics couldn’t be made in a lab, Wade describes exactly how they could be.
The second group of experts denouncing the lab theory was led by Peter Daszak, [Tweet him] the president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Daszak got two dozen other scientists to sign a letter to The Lancet that portentously declared: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” Scientists, the letter said, “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.”
Well! No uncertainty there!
But Wade notes that Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance had helped fund the Wuhan lab.
I have a problem when a guy with a financial and reputational stake in a lab organizes a group of scientists to say, It’s absolutely not from the lab!!! Daszak’s letter concluded with what only the deeply cynical might suggest was a lie: “We declare no competing interests.”
In response to the obvious question, “Why didn’t any other scientists speak up?” Wade says: “Perhaps because in today’s universities speech can be very costly. Careers can be destroyed for stepping out of line. Any virologist who challenges the community’s declared view risks having his next grant application turned down by the panel of fellow virologists that advises the government grant distribution agency.”
If we could give them a truth serum, I wonder what these experts would say about transgenders, IQ, the COVID shutdowns and any number of pressing social issues we’re all supposed to shut up about because of “science.”
And of course there was the fact that Trump had floated the lab theory. Before a liberal will answer any question, he needs to know:
1) Has Trump ever offered an opinion on this?
2) What is the 180-degree opposite position?
Wade claims to have no preference for one theory over another — he’s just laying out the facts! But it’s pretty clear that he is coming down on the side of the lab theory.
He doesn’t mention that 27 of the original 41 Chinese people who contracted COVID-19 had been to the Wuhan wet market, known the world over for its delectable porcupine anus and snake innards. Several other carriers were family members of those infected there. By contrast, no one from the Wuhan lab appears to have been infected.
No, Wade’s argument is a purely scientific one. Not my bailiwick. But I can see when experts disagree, and, oh my gosh, do they disagree!
One of Wade’s main points is that COVID-19 is the only coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. (You don’t need to know what it is — substitute the words “chocolate bunny.”) “So,” Wade concludes, “it’s hard to explain how the [COVID] virus picked up its furin cleavage site naturally.”
Last month, the World Health Organization released a major report on the origin of the coronavirus, so I checked to see what its scientists said about this “furin cleavage.” They say COVID-19’s “furin cleavage” is, in fact, like that in another bat coronavirus, RmYN02, “providing evidence that such insertion events occur naturally in animals.”
I can’t evaluate the science, but I can line up words, and those conclusions don’t match. In fact, they are direct opposites.
Like you, I’m inclined to believe Wade over the WHO, but that’s not the point. Do you see how absurd this is, trying to ascertain a scientific fact as if we’re assessing the credibility of witnesses in a sexual harassment case? Well, he lied about the lingerie, but she seems to have been stalking him …
We’re talking about SCIENCE, our new religion! Wear a mask — it’s “SCIENCE”! There’s no such thing as race — it’s “SCIENCE“! Global warming is incinerating our planet — it’s SCIENCE! The mere invocation of “SCIENCE” is used to slam the door on any argument.
This week on MSNBC, a host actually said, “There are no bad apples at the CDC.” Every hour of every day, I have to hear about the “bad apples” in policing. But at the CDC? Nope! They’re SCIENTISTS.
Whether the virus that destroyed the world economy and has already killed more than 3 million people came from a Chinese lab or a Chinese wet market, or a Chinese restaurant on the Upper West Side (unlikely), it’s China’s fault. What is mind-boggling about Wade’s article is the overweening and baseless pomposity of our high priests of SCIENCE.
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TPTB are blaming the Chinese wet market because: 1) TPTB provided millions of dollars to develop CV-19 at the Wuhan Lab. 2) TPTB want to blame meat (wild and domestic) saying that diseases come from animals; that animals consume large amounts of food that should go to feed humans (Most cows, goats, sheep, etc, eat rough grass); animals produce CO2 and methane which over heat the Earth (that’s BS, but their jets & boats don’t?). TPTB are waging a campaign to ban all livestock and pets (but they want to protect the wild animals that harm farming/ranching like wolves, rattle snakes, deer; and migratory birds which do spread diseases etc); TPTB want you to buy & eat their vegetable/chemical substitutes so you wind up being malnourished like the urchins of India. How many of their stupid lies can we stand?
I remember when a place that sold meat was called …… a meat market.
When in the fuck exactly this this “wet market” shit pop into the vernacular??
Seems like it comes for the old trade term for a snuff job. Often referred to colloquially as “wet work”. While meat market has connotations of a cleanly butcher shop, a ‘wet market’ brings connotation of a dicey bloodbath.
FWIW, most of the pros i knew ran a cleanly butcher shop.
Just tryna be helpful…
I wouldn’t want Fauci around my grandkids. He’s got that creepy old uncle thing goin’.
I wouldn’t want Fraudchi around my pet rat …. wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.
What’s worse than Ants in your Pants?
Uncles!!!!
My wife had elective surgery today at a rural hospital. Upon walking in the front door, a typical Amerikan Babushka (Fat surly young fembot) ordered us to don our holy rag and stand before the electronic totem (A selfie camera image appears as you stand before the post and snaps your temp and prolly your image automatically). My wife didn’t hear the instructions and I translated loudly that you are to don the “holy rag” and get your temperature checked. Stickers were provided as we were instructed to place the “screened” sticker on to our upper chest. I pulled out my holy rag which I’ve used maybe a dozen times since March 2020, and as I looped the mask upon my ears, noticeable evil eye wafted from the Babushka. Who could blame her, in big block letters “OBEY” stretched across my face. I affixed the “screened” sticker onto my forehead…I was now cleared to enter this secure facility.
A couple of wheelchaired elderly women were hanging out in the lobby as well, even they managed a wrinkled scowl. I have value ;). Another elderly pink uniformed lady (Not the Candy Stripers that I remember) saw the mask and started laughing out loud and commented that she liked it, as we walked through the lobby toward a corridor. I took off the holy rag while cruising down the corridor toward the pre-op waiting room. I did put it on when called into pre-op area, but not before another discussion ensued with the nurse about the necessity for it. I did receive three “I like your mask” and accompanying giggles from female staff during my stay. Nothing from male staff…hmmmm. We need to test all the time; make ourselves pains in the arse, alternating between smiles and blazing contemptuous scowls.
PS: I should note that we had to register prior to going to the preop area, wherein a massively fat masked woman sporting a nameplate like object with the reminder: “I am vaccinated, are you?” Yeah, vaccinated but still suffering from leprosery apparently, explaining the need for the Covid-Burqa.
Ann- The WuHuFlu did not destroy the economy, government overreaction is what caused the economy to tank. It had to be done to rid the nation of Bad Orange Man.
I would agree.
Although Ann’s article isn’t really tied to what I’ll say, it has been a provoking thought exercise.
If 3 (“vaccine”) companies can be granted liability waivers for 350MM people, why can’t 350MM employers, retailers, and service providers be granted *ONE* waiver for covid-19(84) liability?
But “Orange Man” was part of the “government overreaction”…..
It is hard to believe in the science, when the science is all bullshit…
Just like politicians, science is bought and paid for by the highest bidder.
The actual headline makes it even better — “I Will Not Be Scienced!”
I never liked Ann Coulter until I actually read her stuff.