Imagine a world war that left more than seven million dead, hundreds of millions became ill, wrecked the global economy, and left a generation with lasting psychological and developmental injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have seen such wars in history. What is different in this circumstance, however, is that all of that happened, and yet, years later, we still have no agreement on the original cause or possible culprits behind a pandemic that ravaged the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Worse yet, many politicians, experts and journalists do not seem inclined to find the answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is like fighting World War II and then shrugging off the question of what actually started it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New questions are being raised over long-withheld evidence on the origins of COVID, information that contradicted the accounts of not just the Biden <\/a>administration but also allies in academia and the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chinese first reported the outbreak in December 2019 and insisted that it came from a wet market in Wuhan \u2014 a natural or \u201czoonotic\u201d transfer from bats sold at the market. Others were skeptical and pointed to the nearby Wuhan government virus lab, known to have conducted coronavirus studies with bats. This lab had a history of safety and contamination concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201clab-leak theory,\u201d which was always the most obvious explanation, was further reinforced by scientists who saw evidence of possible manipulation of the virus\u2019s genetic code, particularly the \u201cspike protein\u201d that enables the virus to enter the human body in a \u201cgain of function\u201d operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was (and still is) a serious controversy over the origins of the virus, but any debate was quickly scuttled in favor of the natural theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chinese immediately moved to crush any speculation of a lab-leak. Wuhan scientists were gagged and the Chinese refused to allow international investigators access to them or the lab in question. The Chinese also used their considerable influence over the World Health Organization and other groups to dismiss or downplay the lab theory..<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, a long-withheld military report<\/a> has finally been released by the Trump administration. It appears to confirm what was once denied by the Biden administration: U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms after participating in the World Military Games in October 2019 in Wuhan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That contradicts China\u2019s timeline. It suggests a longer cover-up in that country, which allowed the virus to spread not only to the U.S. but to countries around the world. Other nations also reported that their military personnel had fallen ill after attending the same games, suggesting that the virus was not only spreading but already raging in the area at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The most disturbing aspect of this report is not the alleged conduct of the Chinese government, but that of our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rumors of U.S. military personnel coming down with the virus had long been out there. Republicans in Congress repeatedly asked the Biden administration about any report on the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then-Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told The Washington Post<\/a> in June 2021 that the military had \u201cno knowledge\u201d of COVID-19 infections among the troops participating in those games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even as the illness associated with the games became known, the Biden administration repeatedly refused to confirm the U.S. cases, and a 2022 report was withheld from both Congress and the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If true, the level of duplicity and dishonesty is shocking. In the U.S. alone, more than 1.2 million died and more than 111 million were made sick by this virus. Yet the Biden administration is accused of withholding this information from the world. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This disclosure follows an equally troubling disclosure that scientists in the Biden administration actually found support for the lab theory but were silenced by their superiors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last December, the Wall Street Journal released<\/a> an alarming report on how these scientists supported 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 Biden, but government scientists were reportedly warned that they were \u201coff the reservation\u201d in supporting the lab theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As scientists were being attacked publicly and blacklisted for supporting the lab theory, experts at both the FBI and the Energy Department found the lab theory credible. Although no theory could be proven conclusively, it was deemed a more likely scenario than the natural-origin theory. The CIA also found the lab theory credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What the public was hearing was entirely different. They were hearing the same narrative laid out by the Chinese government in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chinese relied upon western scientists to form a mob against anyone raising the lab-leak theory as a possible explanation. Many were enlisted to sign letters or publish statements denouncing the idea. It became an article of faith \u2014 a required virtue signal among university scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The western media were equally primed to quash the theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After President Trump embraced the lab theory, the Chinese had the perfect setup. The media was on a hair-trigger in opposition and denounced his comments as not only unfounded but also racist. MSNBC\u2019s Nicolle Wallace mocked Trump and others for spreading \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d MSNBC\u2019s Kasie Hunt insisted<\/a> that \u201cwe know it\u2019s been debunked that this virus was manmade or modified.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid called the lab leak theory \u201cdebunked bunkum.\u201d<\/a> Over at CNN, reporter Drew Griffin criticized the \u201cwidely debunked\u201d theory and host Fareed Zakaria told viewers<\/a> that \u201cthe far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory\u201d in the lab leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Washington Post was particularly dogmatic. After Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) raised the lab-leak theory, he was chastised<\/a> for \u201crepeat[ing] a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Post\u2019s \u201cfact checker\u201d Glenn Kessler mocked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for entertaining the theory<\/a>. \u201cI fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus to jump from the lab,\u201d he posted. \u201cOr the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even in 2021 when countervailing evidence was surfacing, the unrelenting attacks continued. New York Times science and health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli<\/a> urged journalists not to mention the \u201cracist\u201d lab theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Social media companies also enforced the narrative and, with the coordination of the Biden Administration, experts raising the lab theory were targeted, censored, and blacklisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It now appears that the COVID outbreak may have occurred months before the alleged wet market release \u2014 months that could have been used to contain the virus. Instead, China is accused of suppressing the news and allowing the virus to spread worldwide. Our military personnel alone went home from the Wuhan games to 25 states, potentially carrying it with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When information on these infections connected to the games was reported around the world, China even suggested that the U.S. used the games to release the weaponized virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n