Thread by @JASmius

"For Democrat and ]MAGA] partisans alike, COVID-19’s origins have little political use." nationalreview.com/2023/06/when-t…

"An informed reader will likely look at this incomplete but highly indicative set of data and conclude that the pandemic that stole years of his life, stultified his children’s development, restricted his access to his loved ones, and maybe even took them from him was...."

"....avoidable. A conspiracy executed by the unscrupulous and paranoid Chinese Communist Party backed by funding from, among others, American public-health institutions created the conditions for COVID-19 to spread across the globe. And when the outbreak was upon us, these...."

"....same forces worked diligently to obfuscate their roles in its origins. Even granting that there is much we still do not know about the source of this disease and the horrors it wrought, these revelations alone are sufficient to deem this the scandal of the century. But...."

"....as a partisan cudgel, the scandal no longer has much use. Why? Because the U.S. executive agencies that helped fund what was apparently PLA-linked research at the WIV, including research on a pathogen that is 96% similar to the COVID-19 virus, provided that help in the...."

"....Trump years. And while Beijing was covering up the emerging plague, Trump himself echoed the assurances the Chinese Communist Party was providing the rest of the world." politico.com/news/2020/04/1…

"He boosted the 'terrific' Xi as 'a man who truly loves his country,' assured Americans that China was 'working very hard to contain [COVID-19],' and marveled at the 'great discipline' that produced the Potemkin public-health projects designed to fool the globe into...."

"....believing the CCP was taking Covid seriously. We can’t expect partisan [Trump]licans and their media organs to promote these revelations with excessive enthusiasm. Nor will most of Donald Trump’s challengers emphasize too strenuously the former president’s complicity...."

"....because to even hint at the notion that Trump was anything other than a victim of his own administration is to be tarred by the loudest voices [in #Cult45] as 'suspiciously in thrall' to '['progressive'] narratives'."

"Today, the Biden administration seems committed to engineering a rapprochement with Beijing." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"It has already forgotten the brazen Chinese military incursion into U.S. airspace in February — a violation of U.S. sovereignty that it resolved with an AIM-9X missile. It won’t upset the applecart now by risking a public fracas over China’s complicity in the onset of a...."

"....global pandemic. Both Democrat and [Trump]lican partisans have few incentives to appear scandalized by these revelations. Neither party’s [extrem]ists enjoy the psychological satisfaction associated with hammering their domestic political opponents over this. It’s too...."

"....stale to juice the cycle of dunking and debunking typical of any modern political controversy. And, after all, the true culprits are abroad, safely insulated from partisan political fallout. This is not about accountability, because it seems clear at this point that no...."

"....one will be held accountable. What these revelations do demand, though, is a full accounting, so that we can prevent a similar outbreak from happening in the future. Particularly given China’s increasing risk tolerance, expansionist ambitions, growing technological...."

"....acumen, and utter disregard for best practices and fail-safes, American voters deserve to know just how the COVID-19 pandemic happened, and they deserve elected representatives who are properly prepared to prevent the next global disaster. They won’t get any of that...."

"....of course, in no small part because the politics of the moment are not conducive to good governance. The purgatorial pandemic years may be behind us, but the factors that caused them are still with us, still making the next nightmare inevitable."

"And no one seems inclined to do much of anything about it. After all, if no one is 'owned,' or 'destroyed,' who cares?"