Did SARS COVID-2, the COVID19 virus originate in a lab, and if it did, why would that matter?
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| Dr. Paul Offit |
If it came out of a lab in China, then that opens a cascade of conspiracy theories, that the work in the Wuhan, China lab was funded by Tony Fauci at the NIH in cahoots with President Xi to cause a pandemic to bring down Donald Trump and crush the 2nd amendment and enslave the White world...
Or something.
Enter the New York Times, or the "Failing New York Times" as Dear Leader Trumpsky calls it, whose editors saw fit to publish a full page "opinion piece" by a molecular biologist, Dr. Alina Chan, who wrote a book saying it was a lab leak and then the opinion piece giving 5 arguments for this possibility.
Even Dr. Fauci has said it's best to keep an open mind about the possibility, but he adds the preponderance of evidence is this virus, like almost all viruses which have become epidemic or pandemic, is derived from nature, from bats most likely, conveyed to other animals and then leaping into human beings.
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| Semmelweiss |
The anonymous editors at the New York Times saw fit to publish Dr. Chan's piece, complete with artwork, without publishing a response from anyone else who might know this field substantially better than Dr. Chan, who though a PhD, does not apparently know much about virology, epidemiology or public health.
Why the NYT decided to leap into the National Enquirer arena, as if possessed by the spirit of "Men In Black," is known only to God and the lost souls on the editorial board of the New York Times.
Paul Offit, of the University of Pennsylvania, who does know a lot about virology, vaccines, the sequencing and structure of viruses, has published a point by point rebuttal, which the NYT should have requested and published side by side with Dr. Chan's article. It is linked below on Substack in written form, or you can watch it on youtube.
Dr. Offit provides everything you will ever need to know when you are at the barbecue this holiday and some blow hard starts bloviating about the lab leak theory.
Basically, what Dr. Offit says is the viruses at the Wuhan lab are well known, gene by gene, and look nothing like the COVID 19 virus, could not have been changed into that virus and the COVID 19 virus was found in blood on the stalls which contained the animals at the Wuhan market, after the Chinese government swooped in to cull all the animals there. The Wuhan lab released the genomic sequence quickly after it was isolated, allowing for the astonishingly swift production of an effective vaccine which saved millions of lives worldwide, before the Chinese government laid the iron fist down on the scientists in a hamhanded way sparked by a paranoid fear they would be blamed for the virus, which happened anyway.
As Jonathan Swift noted: "Falsehood flies; the truth comes limping after."
For me, there will always be people like Alina Chan, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Aaron Rodgers, who claim public attention, to scream about bizarre stuff, the Area 51 syndrome, and I waste little energy getting agitated about them. For me, it's the people who you thought well of, like the NYT folks, who, inexplicably, behave to support and enhance those who should be ignored, dismissed and denigrated.
That is the real mystery and exasperating thing here.
As Martin Luther King, Jr. once observed, "In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Watch Dr. Offit on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv9H6iAn7A
Or read his Substack article
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