Lab leak confirmation ends the era of noble COVID-19 lies

“Several years ago, when I was working in this press shop, and President Trump would take to this podium to brief the American people on COVID-19, he suggested that COVID well may have come from a lab in Wuhan, China,” said Leavitt, “and many members in this very room mocked him for that said he was spewing conspiracy theories. He was not. We now know that to be the confirmable truth, it took many years for it to come out, but the president was right in this instance again.”

Longtime skeptics of the regime-approved pandemic narrative savored the scene. For five long years, the legacy media censored and slandered lab leak proponents, and Leavitt, from behind the presidential seal, served them their medicine. 

However, it needn’t have been this way for the legacy media. A formidable body of evidence and reason had emerged for a lab leak incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the early going of the pandemic. Off-ramps from “natural origins” dogmatism were aplenty. 

Yet, they continued to cling. Even Jon Stewart, the millennial’s answer to Walter Cronkite, couldn’t talk them to reason. Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in 2021, Stewart famously attempted to slide the lab leak theory into mainstream discourse in the form of a joke. However, his old running mate, now a vanguard of the establishment, reacted as if Stewart spat on a holy statue. 

This diseased information system was cultivated by many hands. The entire legacy media had to march in lockstep to bend and obscure reality during the COVID-19 era, lest the public fall headfirst into Trumpian wrongthink. Covering up the lab leak was about saving us from ourselves.

Apoorva Mandavilli, the New York Times’s lead COVID-19 reporter, let the mask slip briefly on X, then Twitter, in 2021, posting, “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.”

She deleted the post and issued a correction hours later, saying the “origin of the pandemic is an important line of reporting,” as if uncovering the source of a history-altering catastrophe was merely academic, not the story of the century. 

Mandavilli’s post revealed a key truth behind the legacy media’s manic insistence on the natural origins theory. For them, even positing the idea that COVID-19 was made in a lab was racist. It’s worth remembering that in the peak-woke year of 2020, “people of color” could not be publicly accused of doing evil. Creating a super-virus in a sketchy biolab was only the sort of thing white men could be accused of doing. 

The lab leak theory also had to be suppressed because it was proposed by the paragon of evil himself, President Donald Trump. Allowing that Trump could be right about anything was tantamount to enabling “literal” fascism. So the press insisted the lab leak theory was “debunked” despite contrary evidence. The people could not be trusted with a robust inquiry and discussion on the matter, they maintained, let alone the truth. 

And when it became clear that no such debunking ever took place and that the establishment’s most revered scientist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, may have played a key role in inventing the virus, the legacy press sprinted from the subject. After all, if the worst were true, people would lose all trust in the scientific establishment, and possibly the establishment more broadly. 

From that point on, the establishment seemed to adopt a “what’s the difference, anyway?” attitude.

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In a 2023 op-ed in Newsweek titled “The Origin of COVID-19 Does Not Matter,” Dr. Robert Morris gave the game away, writing, “A laboratory origin of COVID could be taken to support the notion that there was some vast conspiracy on the part of scientists to deceive the public on everything from masks, to school closures, to vaccines.”

We wouldn’t want people to look into all that, would we? Best keep them in the dark — for their own good.