Where is the Biden administration's passion, intensity, anger in pursuing the origins of COVID? 1/7 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
In 2016, Russia tried to interfere in US election. No evidence Russians ever touched any ballot or influenced votes. Yet US political/justice/media worlds became consumed by investigations. (And ultimately failed to find 'collusion.') 2/7 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Now 600,000 Americans have died in pandemic that began under suspicious circumstances in China, about which Chinese government is stonewalling all meaningful investigation. 600,000 dead is a lot bigger than a few Russian Facebook ads in Wisconsin. 3/7
And yet leading figures in Biden administration and Democratic Party seem to have far less zeal about pursuing origins of a disease that killed 600,000 Americans than they had in investigating what Russia did in 2016 election. 4/7 washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…
Where is the big, screaming, wall-to-wall effort to find out what happened? Why are people who couldn't get enough investigations of 2016 Russia affair relatively incurious about origins of disease that has had vastly more consequential effects? 5/7
The answer, unfortunately, is Trump. Russia investigations took off when what-Russia-did probes became get-Trump probes. Politics/media became RussiaRussiaRussia. 6/7
Now, there is a far more important topic to investigate -- 600,000 Americans dead, 3.2 million more worldwide. And Biden administration is kinda, sorta pursuing an investigation. Does anyone doubt that it should be doing much, much more? 7/7 End. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/byron-…

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