Thread by @ggreenwald

How many employees of media corporations who repeatedly mocked the COVID "lab leak" theory as a "debunked" lie that only insane conspiracy theorists believe (because Fauci told them to say that) will apologize now that much of the USG believes this?

It is absolutely astonishing that the NYT's lead COVID reporter -- who became that only because the pape fired their real reporter because he upset rich teenagers who they made him take to Peru -- said it's racist to consider the "lab leak" theory.

A huge number of NBC and CNN employees repeatedly said the "lab leak" theory was "debunked." That was a total lie. It was never debunked. That lie was concocted by Fauci and Peter Daszak, who had major, undisclosed personal conflicts in protecting the Wuhan Lab.

In the weeks before the notorious, debate-closing Lancet letter, Fauci had numerous emails from top epidemiologists saying they regarded the lab leak as highly plausible at least. At the very least, Fauci knew it was a lie to endorse the idea that the zoontic theory was proven.

The same thing happened here as happened as with the media's CIA-mimicking lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation." Fauci and Daszak invented a false consensus to ensure dissent from their beliefs was censored off the internet. It worked for more than a year

These lies and state censorship campaigns succeed for one reason: employees of corporate outlets are very cowardly and lack critical thinking skills (that's why they're hired). So they always mimic state disinformation, including outright lies like this:

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1630280382795902976

The worst part of Twitter is how much stupidity it surfaces. My point isn't that the debate over COVID's origins is resolved. My point: it was never resolved. That's why it was so wrong and immoral for the Govt and media to declare it resolved in the 2nd month and ban all dissent

It wasn't just the NYT's COVID reporter who said the "lab leak" theory is racist. Much of the liberal-left said it, too.

All that matters is the truth, but the far more racist theory was *theirs*: that COVID occurred due to primitive, unsanitary Chinese bat-eating wet markets.