It was an interesting weekend of revelations for co-conspirators following the Covid lab leak story – as we come up to the fifth anniversary of the first national lockdown. Never again…
The Mail on Sunday revealed a major scoop on its front page detailing a secret briefing given by former top spook Sir Richard Dearlove and other experts around that time. Dearlove’s briefing, escalated to the Prime Minister, pointed the finger of blame at a lab leak, saying the virus was ‘engineered in Wuhan Institute of Virology’…
The piece recounts the dismissive role played former Government Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, now – checks notes – a Labour minister:
“Lord Vallance is facing increasing scrutiny over his role in suppressing the lab leak theory. He took part in a multinational teleconference in February 2020, after which it is alleged scientists began dismissing the Chinese lab-leak hypothesis as implausible. Last week, former minister Steve Baker said Lord Vallance ‘should be fully transparent about what he knew and why he chose to be among those who avoided inconvenient questions’. A source said: ‘Boris thinks it is possible that the scientists disliked the lab leak theory because they are wary about public hostility to science. They didn’t want stories about Frankenstein viruses that would mean a threat to research funding. He also thinks they were nervous of causing offence to their international partners.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, The New York Times ran an op-ed under the headline ‘we were badly misled about the event that changed our lives’ – detailing recent developments in the investigation to find the origins of the pandemic, after the CIA publicly confirmed a lab leak was the most likely source. Possibly not the kind of content you’d ordinarily expect from the NYT’s opinion pages…
Lefties raged for years that any doubt over the natural origin theory was somehow prejudiced. Turns out it wasn’t…
Over the weekend, the CIA concluded the Covid pandemic was “more likely” to have leaked from a Wuhan lab than emerged naturally – something long labelled as a “conspiracy theory” by Chinese officials. And by left-wing media outlets…
Back in 2020, The Guardian confidently declared: “Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn’t created in a lab.” Readers were sternly warned against falling for such “false claims,” assured instead that speculation about the virus being leaked was just part of a “tale of blame, misinformation and finger-pointing.” By 2021, The Observer doubled down, dismissing lab-leak concerns as “more about politics than science.” The real culprit apparently was, “the destruction of animal habitats”, the piece arguing that “fiddling with viruses in laboratories is not the dangerous activity. The real threat comes from the wildlife trade”. Naturally…
The BBC also enjoyed pouring cold water on the ‘theory’. In 2022, it stated “Covid origin studies say evidence points to Wuhan market,” before hedging in 2023: “Those who entertain the theory say it could have leaked from a WIV lab… The controversial theory first emerged early on in the pandemic, and was promoted by then-US President Donald Trump.” The ultimate sin…
Meanwhile across the pond in 2020, USA Today published a fact-check titled, “Did the coronavirus originate in a Chinese laboratory?” concluding the lab leak theory was “false information” that was pushed by right-leaning outlets. In 2023, LA Times scoffed: “U.S. government debunks COVID lab-leak conspiracy theory, enraging conspiracy theorists.” With the CIA backing what they once dismissed, the progressive media are left red-faced once again…
Other outlets have opted to brush off the CIA’s assessment all together. ‘Slow news’ Tortoise Media put out an article today trying to downplay the conclusion, writing: “Without much conviction, the CIA says it now thinks the Covid pandemic started with a lab leak…Some scientists have admitted giving the lab leak theory a wide berth because it was always Donald Trump’s preferred explanation for the pandemic and he gave it a bad name…Others note no firm evidence of a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or any other lab has come to light.” Clearly shell-shocked…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”