Thread by @rising_serpent

1. While the sudden arousal of Media Muppets from their year long self-imposed coma towards considering origins of COVID other than the state sanctioned zoonotic spread is hardly a surprise, it is patently disingenuous for them to claim that there was no earlier evidence for it.

2. It was widely reported that China destroyed early samples, ostensibly because they were following biohazard procedures. They so much as admitted to it, but in typical CCP modus operandi, after many months, and not before first denying that it happened. businessinsider.com/china-confirms…

3. The first step in investigating a new pathogen is *never* discarding samples that could possibly hold critical information and elucidating epidemiological and genomic clues. And the very suggestion is nothing short of ludicrous and preposterous.

4. The samples, as would be common procedure, should have been transported to specifically designated laboratory facilities for further analysis.
This was classic destruction of evidence in the middle of an investigation, and no one in the media seemed to question it.

5. While the media was effectively shutting down public discourse, social media banning accounts and labeling racist any mention of the origin of the pandemic, a report that China obliterated the research of a group of bat researchers went completely unnoticed.

6. A bat research team had their samples confisticated and their research shutdown.
The CCP issued a gag order on their ability to speak to the press.

7. A team of AP reporters were
tailed by plainclothes police and had their access to roads and sites blocked.
Forget outrage, there wasn't even a whimper of protest.
Our media continued to run articles assailing "conspiracy theorists"
apnews.com/article/united…

8. The AP themselves reported on the death grip of informational flow within China and how everything was deliberately structured such that only official narratives were given oxygen while the rest smothered to death.

9. I mean, for crying out loud, the corporate media was telling you that there was a complete information blackout, while the same corporate media was telling you to trust the information coming out.
If this is not journalistic malfeasance, I don't know what is.1

10. Turning our attention to the Wuhan seafood market, the AP themselves reported that while 33 environmental samples from the market had tested positive for the coronavirus, not *a single sample* from the animals had tested positive.
Why wasn't that breaking news?

11. As if that wasn't egregious enough, AP made sure they included statements from Chinese officials saying it was "pointless to blame"anyone for it.
Nobody in the media bothered to point out the incredible hypocrisy. This while China was suggesting the virus came from the US

12. This year we learned that China refused to turn over 2019 pandemic data to the WHO. This while WHO praised China for their transparency as did their media mouthpieces.
Again, nobody in the media bothered to seize upon this glaring contradiction.
bbc.com/news/world-asi…

13. We can debate furin cleavage sites and the fact that for belonging to a family of viruses that mutates more often than my mother-in-law changes her mind, the genome appears to be remarkably stable and adapted for human to human transmission till the cows come home.

14. But the real smoking gun is that at every step, and every turn, there was deliberate cover up and obscuration, and to date, no animal reservoir, not so much as even a single sample has tested positive for the virus.

15. But that did not prevent the media, American scientists and even the high priest of the COVID church, Anthony Fauci, from declaring with remarkable confidence that zoonotic hypothesis was the only plausible one, when in fact arguments against it existed from the beginning.

16. Establishing with ironclad certitude the origin of the outbreak will be arduous, if not well nigh impossible, but the basic premise in any investigation, to look where you are told repeatedly not to, was not only ignored, the people looking were ostracized as conspiratorial.

17. The media had no credibly left to lose at the start of pandemic, so they've survival unscathed, in a manner of speaking.

18. But the scientific community has emerged as the new army of lobotomized zombie automatons. And for what?
The lure of CCP funded tenured positions and research grants?