Thomas Fazi: The Lab-Leak Theory Isn't Dead

   For most of the time since the emergence of the batflu, based on the information publicly available, the lab-leak theory has, in my estimation, been the lead/most-likely hypothesis. For a little while now and again, it seemed to me to be the less-likely one--but that never seemed to last long.

   As Fazi basically notes: even if the theory turns out to be false, it doesn't matter much to the point about political correctness: the lab-leak theory was illicitly rejected/downplayed on ideological grounds.

   I haven't read the latest round of death notices for the theory. By induction, I conclude they are ideologically motivated. Fazi says they are, as were past attempts to refute the hypothesis, pretty thin gruel.

   The left's bizarre friendliness toward China, combined with its TDS, that seems to mainly be driving this. But to some extent, as with many of its positions, it's arbitrary. They deemed the term 'China virus' racist--like everything else they take an anti-shine to--and that term got associated with the lab leak hypothesis. Which makes no sense, since the wet-market hypothesis is every bit as Chinese as the other one. Of course the left at first REEEEed that the wet market hypothesis was racist....sorry: racist too...because reasons. Actually: because these "wet markets" are disgusting. So they ultimately chose to defend that hypothesis out of desperation. At least then China and the CCP seemed less culpable. If the lab-leak hypothesis weren't so far in the lead, they wouldn't be insisting so hard on the other one--and so they could do a PC two-step, arguing for the wet market hypothesis because racism and then arguing against it because racism. Actually it just came from wild bats flying around! Despite their massive propaganda apparatus consisting of all of academia, science, and the media, I think that would now be a little hard even for them to pull off, given how hard it's been to tamp down the lab-leak theory. 

   Of course if they turn out to be right, they'll insist that none of their politically correct lying and cheating matters--they'll contend that they were right all along, and those of us actually interested in the evidence are and have always been "conspiracy theorists." 

   And also of course: we're all losing our patience with their crazy PC nonsense...which, in my case, anyway, is making it harder for me to evaluate the evidence objectively. 

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