NYT: Trump Was Right About The Wuhan Lab-Leak Hypothesis...But He Is Still Wrong And Made Us Wrong Because...Uh...Something

Trump politicized the LLH?

Trump did?

Because he and Pompeo said they'd seen evidence, but didn't produce it? Nonsense.

   One of the first moves in politicizing all this was the media's unhinged, groundless shrieking about THE WORDZ THE WORDZ THE WORDZ. When we still thought this might be the big one, the WH press corpse started shrieking that the already-accepted-as-standard term 'Wuhan virus' was TEH RAZZIZZT!!!!111 'Wuhan virus' is actually the correct term for relatively informal discussions of the virus. 'China virus' or 'Chinese virus' are also fine. These terms aren't in any way racist. This shouldn't have to be said at this point, but: progressives simply call whatever they don't like "racist." How can that possibly still need to be pointed out? And they did and do anything they can think of to attack Trump. They were willing to waste time and energy and the attention of the nation on yet another groundless, bullshit, purely impressionistic accusation of racism--even when it was still possible that this damn thing was going to kill us all. Their obsession with mere words can't even be dampened by their own hysteria.

   Their attempts to obscure the Chinese origin of the virus also fit--not coincidentally--with their new love affair with China. Which has somehow become the flip side of their paranoid obsession with Russia. They were willing to denigrate the perfectly reasonable and extremely important lab-leak hypothesis purely in order to pursue their crackpot racialist religion. Well...also to count coup against Trump. And to strike a small blow for their new totalitarian BFFs. So...for several crazy reasons, actually.

   But, as has been true pretty much all along: the lab-leak hypothesis is a serious one. I'd say it's been--given the information as it trickles down to me/us--the most plausible hypothesis most of the time. 

   Some good could come out of this if it led progressives and the media and public-facing parts of science (but I repeat myself) to admit they were goddamned wrong about this because they have lost their damn minds. They politicize everything now--see everything through the warped lens of their warped, cultish politics. 

   Of course Trump doesn't help things. He should have stuck with 'Wuhan virus,' said in normal tones. Instead he had to go for CHY-NA virus, said with great emphasis. But he was right. The media was wrong. The fact that Trump didn't act perfectly isn't important. He was right to stick with useful and established terminology, and right to push back against the left's deranged linguistic totalitarianism--it's important to refuse to comply with their idiotic, politically-non-neutral linguistic dictates. And, of course: it was all a not-so-subtle way of directing critical attention away from their BFFs the CCP...

Sorry. Repetitive. 

More repetition: if we survive this, we can never, ever, EVER allow the left to forget how wildly, abjectly, thoroughly insane they have been. These aren't normal political disagreements. This is a kind of sub-cultural insanity.