Sorry Irreal readers but I’m about to embark on another rant about journalists and the origin of COVID-19 story. At first, it was a matter of curiosity. I read the reports of what the “experts” were saying and alarms went off. It’s not that a zoonotic explanation was outrageous or even unlikely. It’s that the zoonotic explanation was presented as the only reasonable answer: anything else was unequivocally dismissed as a conspiracy theory. But the real tell was when they declared that asking questions about the cause was racist. That’s when you have to ask yourself why the experts are trying so hard to shut down any inquiry.
The pretext of protecting people from dangerous misinformation that they used to excuse their other lies about COVID-19 obviously didn’t apply because, after all, how was the origin of the pandemic going effect people’s health decisions one way or the other. A reason for the panicked lying is not hard to find. As Jamie Metzl said
“If the pandemic started as part of a lab leak, it had the potential to do to virology what Three Mile Island and Chernobyl did to nuclear science.”
These people were protecting their rice bowls. All the talk about lying may seem harsh but the lies—from Fauci on down—have been well documented and are no longer in doubt.
What brought about the current rant is this mashup from Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea. It’s 9 and a half minutes of journalists smugly pontificating on how the idea of a lab leak had been “debunked” and was a “conspiracy theory”. They mock everyone who disagrees as a yahoo, conspiracy theorist, and racist. At first it’s pretty funny but as it relentlessly drags on it becomes infuriating. It’s journalists, who are supposed to question and investigate official pronouncements, not only swallowing the government’s story whole but actively discouraging any questioning of it. Over and over they describe the lab leak theory as “debunked” despite that fact that it had never, in fact, been investigated.
These people deserve our contempt and should not, in any event, be listened to or relied on to deliver the news. If you want to know what’s going on in the world, I don’t know what to tell you but I do know that you should stop listening to these clowns: nothing they say should be believed.