The “Lab-Leak Theory” returns…as yet another fake binary

Guest Post by Kit Knightly

The theory that “Covid” originated in a bio-lab has been back in the headlines over the last few weeks, serving as a prime example of the type of fake binary OffG has been warning you about.

The “lab-leak theory” – which pushes the idea Sars-Cov-2 was bio-engineered in a lab as a “gain-of-function” program, and then either accidentally or deliberately released on an unsuspecting population – first came to the front pages as early as January 2020.

At the time it was deemed a “racist” “anti-china” conspiracy theory” by the vast majority of the media, and it fell away from the narrative.

It had a resurgence in 2021, suddenly & inexplicably becoming not racist anymore.

In February 2021 the World Health Organization published a report finding the lab origin for Covid19 “extremely unlikely”. But WHO chief Tedro Adhanom was obviously keen not to let the idea die completely, publicly stating “more investigation was needed”.

Overall, around this time, it suddenly became much less taboo to suggest the “virus” originated in a lab.

The BBC had an explainer article titled “Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously”, the New Yorker reported:

Scientists and political commentators are no longer dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 emerged from a Chinese laboratory.

As the Wikipedia page notes:

Since May 2021, some media organizations softened previous language that described the laboratory leak theory as “debunked” or a “conspiracy theory”

We did a brief coronavirus fact-check on “Covid is a bio-weapon” at the time.

Then, in December 2021, the Daily Mail reported that Dr Alina Chan had told the UK’s Science Select Committee that it is ‘reasonable to believe [the] virus was engineered in China’ and that “the lab origin is more likely than not”.

But after a brief furore over that, it again faded from the front pages.

Now it’s back. And gaining momentum.

In May, 18 scientists (including Chan) published an open letter in the Science journal demanding authorities properly “investigate the origins of Covid19”.

Two weeks ago the World Health Organisation released a report that they were still investigating the origins of Covid, and that no hypothesis had been completely ruled out.

On June 15th, the WHO chief told reporters at a press conference that ruling out the lab-leak theory had been “premature” and there had been a “push” to do so. He called on China to “be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic.”

This time China responded, dismissing the lab leak theory as “lies” and “anti-China propaganda”, whilst suggesting that the real lab leak likely came from the US bioweapons lab in Fort Detrick.

Then, on June 18th, The Daily Mail reported that despite maintaining public neutrality Tedros Adhanom “privately believed” that Covid had originated in a lab.

In short, two apparently oppositional camps are springing up – the West is laying the groundwork to blame China for the pandemic, whilst China (and probably Russia, down the line) blame the USA.

This is a textbook fake binary.

What you need to notice is that both these allegedly opposing sides agree on the most important aspect of the pandemic lie – that Covid is a unique new and dangerous disease which needs be treated with masks, lockdowns and vaccines – and only disagree violently about where this “real and deadly new disease” might have come from.

You are supposed to take your cue from them.

They want you to forget  “covid” is just a meaningless new name for an old familiar cluster of “seasonal” symptoms. They want you to forget the whole thing was a scam – and to instead take a “side” in a scripted &  noisy & totally phony “origin” debate.

The minute you sign up for it they have you – because by agreeing to debate where “it” comes from you have accepted “it”  – ie a deadly new pathogen – exists & needs to be dealt with.

And that is all they want from you.

We think you should politely decline this staged “controversy”. Because however real the East-West divide actually is in other areas, when it comes to covid both sides are the same side & pushing the same story.

And it suits both East & West to encourage this fake binary  – and  “bioweapon” fear porn – at the expense of wider and more honest enquiry.

Just say no.

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9 Comments
hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
June 23, 2022 7:05 am

If you read something in the MSM it is a fiction. There may be facts included- dates, places, names- but the actual narrative thrust is always slanted towards a specific end that has nothing to do with informing people of the truth.

If you haven’t figured this out, then you aren’t really in the game.

Sarah Eliabeth
Sarah Eliabeth
  hardscrabble farmer
June 23, 2022 8:42 pm

I am making $92 an hour working from home. i was greatly surprised at the same time as my neighbour advised me she changed into averaging $ninety five however I see the way it works now. I experience mass freedom now that I’m my non-public boss. That is what I do.. http://www.profit97.com

flash
flash
June 23, 2022 7:22 am

This. They attacked US in the Gulf of Tonkin , after they bayoneted babies thrown from cribs and turned all the gypsies , jews , homosexuals, trans genders and furries into saddle oxfords…reeeee

https://www.unz.com/runz/an-independent-inquiry-into-the-american-origins-of-covid/

” As most are surely aware, for more than two years I have been pointing to the strong perhaps even overwhelming evidence that the Covid outbreak that devastated our own country and the world was very likely the result of an exceptionally reckless American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran).

Under my analysis, the million American deaths and massive social disruption we have suffered would constitute the most disastrous blowback of any military operation in the history of the world, and if it became widely accepted, the domestic political consequences would be monumental.

My suggestion of a central American role in the creation of this global epidemic has been excluded not only from the mainstream media but from virtually all of the alternative media as well, presumably because the possibility is simply too horrific to contemplate. However, this situation may now be starting to change.

Last month, the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences carried an opinion article authored by prominent Columbia University economist Jeffrey D. Sachs and a medical colleague suggesting an American role in the creation of the virus and arguing for an independent inquiry into that possibility.”

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  flash
June 23, 2022 7:32 am

How many biolabs were there in the Ukraine?

One might even be excused for thinking that the entire purpose of the deliberate provocation of Russia and the subsequent destruction of those areas where the labs were could be to destroy evidence of some other type of shenanigans.

flash
flash
  hardscrabble farmer
June 23, 2022 7:45 am

There were only 46 US funded bio-labs in the Ukraine and they were only created for the employment of cold war Russian scientists, to keep them from doing bad stuff on their own. It was a job creating mission, by Uncle Shlomo, nothing more. Fauci can vouch for this.

GNL
GNL
  hardscrabble farmer
June 23, 2022 11:57 am

Provoke a war to cover up bio-death-evil by having your adversary destroy the labs? That would put you in a very bad spot seeing that your adversary would/could simply expose it to the world. Not that it would make any dif.

Jdog
Jdog
June 23, 2022 1:25 pm

I now know what the Germans and Japanese felt like when their government led them down a path of self destruction. I wonder if the world will judge the American people as harshly as the Germans and Japanese for allowing our government to commit crime against humanity?

Ken31
Ken31
  Jdog
June 23, 2022 6:05 pm

Don’t compare those populist and nationalists countries to this whore of Babylon. It is not fair to anyone.

VOWG
VOWG
June 24, 2022 6:49 am

“Covid”, the worst, least effective bio-weapon ever. The governments reactions to it, the best psyops ever. Now take your shots and die.