Well, Trump, and just about everyone else with half a brain and the ability to think critically.
Years after the pandemic ravaged the American economy, caused irreversible learning loss in America’s youth, and left many infirmed elderly patients to die alone due to visitation restrictions, the federal government is finally coming around to the idea that the Coronavirus that caused Covid-19 originated from the virology lab in Wuhan, China.
It used to be sneered at as a “wild conspiracy theory” when former President Donald Trump said it back in 2020. Like many things, Trump was ahead of the media and ahead of the bureaucratic health industrial complex that was bent on pushing the idea that Covid-19 came from a bat or some other animal nearby the Wuhan wet market.
The reason for the aversion to the lab theory eventually became clear. The Wuhan lab, like many others around the globe, was being funded with money overseen and distributed by Dr. Anthony Fauci through a series of third-party organizations intended to keep dangerous “gain of function” research off American soil but still funded by American taxpayers.
The latest government agency to affirm the lab leak theory is the Department of Energy (DOE). As it turns out, the DOE operates and oversees many research labs around the globe and has a vested interest in lab safety. The agency was directed, under orders from President Trump and eventually from President Biden, to perform its own investigation into the Covid-19 origin.
What the DOE found was first reported over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal and has since been picked up by other media outlets:
Now, the U.S. Department of Energy has assessed with “low confidence” that it began with a lab leak, according to a person familiar with the report who wasn’t authorized to discuss it. The report has not been made public.
The DOE’s conclusion was first reported over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal, which said the classified report was based on new intelligence and noted in an update to a 2021 document. The DOE oversees a national network of labs.
White House officials on Monday declined to confirm press reports about the assessment.
Unfortunately, the report itself has not been made public yet so all we have are scant headlines and excerpts of the findings.
This is another one of those historical moments, of which there have been many, that previously discussing would’ve got you banned from social media and generally derided as a kook. When the media and government establishment decide on a narrative, you’re not allowed to even so much as ask a contrary question or explore an alternative theory.
Even as it’s reported, the LA Times, the source of the above quote, does its best to emphasize that the lab leak is “low confidence” which is their way of dismissing the report entirely.
It’s worth noting that the FBI also came to a similar conclusion on the lab leak theory with “moderate confidence” and did so based on a different set of evidence than the DOE. As many journalists are quick to point out, other agencies, such as the CIA, are still “undecided” on the origin of Covid-19 while others still cling to the animal origin story.
The Biden administration remains averse to the lab leak theory even as some of its own agencies are now leaning in that direction.
There will be no forthcoming apologies for former President Trump or anyone else who sincerely floated the Wuhan lab leak theory back in 2020 as a possible origin story for the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, like much of the “truth” that was present during the height of the panic, there was no scientific consensus at the time but questioning the narrative was forbidden.
Nearly a year ago, comedian John Stewart slapped a very uncomfortable Stephen Colbert with the Wuhan lab leak theory in a hilarious exchange on The Late Show:
