This week, the Wall Street Journal released an alarming report on how the Biden administration may have suppressed dissenting views supporting the lab theory on the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Not only were the FBI and its top experts excluded from a critical briefing of President Biden, but government scientists were reportedly warned that they were “off the reservation” in supporting the lab theory.
The problem was that FBI researchers had concluded that the lab theory was the most credible explanation. But their lead researcher, Dr. Jason Bannan, was kept out of the key meeting, and their opposing research was discounted or ignored.
They were not alone. The Journal reported that Defense Department experts John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien conducted a genomic analysis that found evidence of human manipulation of the virus. It also concluded that it was done using a specific technique developed by the Chinese at the Wuhan lab. They suggested that the Chinese appeared to have altered the “spike protein” that enables the virus to enter the human body in a “gain of function” operation.
They were reportedly told to stop sharing their work and warned that they had to effectively get with the team. Later, the three wrote an unclassified May 2020 paper that was prevented from being shown outside the medical intelligence center.
At the same time, letters and articles that dismissed the lab theory were organized for public consumption. The government worked with social media companies to censor those with opposing views.
What’s not clear cut about the wet market theory? Do you know why native Americans were devastated by European diseases, while Europeans had no such problem with any native American diseases? It’s because Europeans lived in crowded cities in close proximity to livestock. Almost every historical epidemic can be traced back to “wet market” theories. Viruses can swap genes and do so frequently when infections from different species come into contact - especially in crowded conditions where bodily fluids are present, like in a meat market.
If a conspiracy theory is true, it’s just a conspiracy. What makes a conspiracy theory isn’t the potential conspiracy, it’s the insane lengths people will go to believe them. The simple explanation is the virus evolved in exactly the same ways other viruses have evolved throughout all of history.
There are far more detailed arguments that could be made but, frankly, I don’t see the point. If you are interested in reality than the information is freely available. If not, then nothing I say will matter.