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New York Times COVID Reporter Says It’s “Racist” to Discuss Wuhan Lab Leak Theory

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New York Times COVID Reporter Says It’s “Racist” to Discuss Wuhan Lab Leak Theory [summit.news]:

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A New York Times reporter who specializes in COVID-19 coverage tweeted that it was “racist” to even talk about the Wuhan lab leak theory.

The lab leak issue has received a wave of attention following the Biden’s administration’s announcement that a 90 day investigation would be conducted into its veracity.

The NYT itself also reported yesterday that the U.S. intelligence community has been sitting on a “raft” of evidence pertaining to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

However, Apoorva Mandavilli, who in her bio says she reports for the NYT “mainly” on COVID, asserted in a tweet that even discussing the issue was “racist.”

“Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here,” tweeted Mandavilli.

Hi @apoorva_nyc [twitter.com]! Why did you delete this? pic.twitter.com/Htl8KighnT [t.co]

— AntifaBook.com (@JackPosobiec) May 26, 2021 [twitter.com]

She faced immediate pushback and subsequently deleted the tweet.

“It damages the NYT’s reputation to have a key reporter on the most important story of the year say a valid news angle shouldn’t be discussed because it has “racist roots.” Aren’t they supposed to be in the news business?” asked Josh Barro.

It damages the NYT’s reputation to have a key reporter on the most important story of the year say a valid news angle shouldn’t be discussed because it has “racist roots.” Aren’t they supposed to be in the news business? https://t.co/OVaQ0ysCzz [t.co]

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) May 26, 2021 [twitter.com]

“Oh my god: I didn’t realize what her job is,” remarked investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald. “Can someone explain to me why it’s racist to wonder if a virus escaped from a Chinese lab, but it’s not racist to insist that it infected humans because of Chinese wet markets? If anything, isn’t the latter more racist?” he asked.

Oh my god: I didn't realize what her job is.

The NYT's COVID reporter is saying we should stop talking about the lab leak theory — *even if it's how COVID entered humans *– because that theory (unlike, I guess, the wet market theory) is racist.

Who cares what happened: NYT. pic.twitter.com/NAtI9N2mJx [t.co]

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 26, 2021 [twitter.com]

For nearly a year, President Donald Trump was repeatedly smeared as a racist by the media merely for pointing out that the virus originated in China.

The World Health Organization also advised countries [summit.news] not to impose border controls in the early weeks of the pandemic so as to avoid the “stigmatization” of Chinese people.

This advice was taken by the British government, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser revealing earlier this week [summit.news] that Johnson didn’t want to shut down the border for fear of being labeled “racist.”

Apparently, not being called racist is more important than stopping a deadly pandemic or investigating the origin of where it came from.

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“There was almost no evidence.”

A former State Department official says that the idea the COVID-19 virus emerged naturally out of a zoonotic situation is “ridiculous.”

David Asher told Fox News that the scientific community consensus that the virus emerged in Wuhan as a result of a mutation in animals is completely inaccurate.

“We were finding that despite the claims of our scientific community, including the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Fauci’s NIAID organization, there was almost no evidence that supported a natural, zoonotic evolution or source of COVID-19,” said the former State Department official.

“The data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated that it was coming out of a lab or some supernatural source,” he added.

Asher spearheaded a team to investigate whether a zoonotic source or a lab leak was the most likely scenario for the outbreak of the pandemic and they concluded that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was overwhelmingly the likely culprit.

“That was the epicenter of synthetic biology in the People’s Republic of China, and they were up to some very hairy stuff with synthetic biology and so-called gain-of-function techniques,” said Asher.

He concluded that the zoonotic explanation was “ridiculous” and that the odds of a natural origin were “extremely long.”

As we highlighted earlier [summit.news], a “raft” of evidence that U.S. intelligence agencies have been sitting on concerning Chinese communications and the movement of Wuhan lab workers points to the lab leak origin being a likely explanation.

While the mainstream media and social media networks treated the lab leak theory as “dangerous misinformation” for the best part of a year, they are now having to backpedal, with Facebook announcing [summit.news] it will no longer censor lab leak information.

Yesterday, China predictably blasted [summit.news] the entire premise as a “conspiracy theory” and demanded an global investigation into U.S. bioweapons labs.

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Biden mealy mouthed on whether it will be released.

U.S. intelligence has been sitting on a “raft” of evidence pertaining to the Wuhan lab leak origin of COVID-19, according to a report published by the New York Times.

After Joe Biden announced a 90 day investigation into the theory, it has been revealed that there is “a raft of still-unexamined evidence that required additional computer analysis that might shed light on the mystery,” according to senior administration officials quoted by the newspaper [nytimes.com].

“In other words, the US government has been sitting on a large collection of intelligence in perhaps the most important investigation into an economy-wrecking global pandemic, as China destroyed evidence and has refused to cooperate with international probes,” reports Zero Hedge [zerohedge.com].

When asked by reporters yesterday about the investigation, Biden vowed to make it public but with the proviso, “unless there’s something I’m unaware of.”

President Biden says he pledges to release the full report on COVID-19's origin after 90 days "unless there's something I'm unaware of" https://t.co/yfsqs3e1t7 [t.co]pic.twitter.com/9YTl0ggmZV [t.co]

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 27, 2021 [twitter.com]

Either that was yet another Biden throwaway verbal gaffe, or preparations for a whitewash are already in place. Don’t forget that Biden’s administration nixed a previous effort to investigate the Wuhan lab started under Trump.

The unexamined evidence consists of “databases of Chinese communications, the movement of lab workers and the pattern of the outbreak of the disease around the city of Wuhan,” according to the report.

Biden is also leaning on America’s allies to produce similar evidence following the revelation, provided to the U.S. by one such ally, that three lab workers got sick and had to be hospitalized from COVID-19 symptoms in November 2019, two months before China was still telling the WHO there was no “human to human transmission” of the virus.

“The White House is hoping that allies and partners can tap their networks of human sources to find additional information about what happened inside the laboratory,” reports the Times.

As we highlighted [summit.news] yesterday, while the results of any such investigation are, at best, likely to conclude the leak was accidental, others have different views.

According to President Trump‘s former national security advisor Michael Flynn, COVID-19 “was a weaponized operation by the nation of China with some collaboration… with other countries.”

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But he was only following WHO advice.

According to his former chief adviser, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson initially refused to close the borders to stop the spread of coronavirus because he thought it would be seen as “racist.”

Yes, really.

Appearing before a parliamentary committee investigating the government’s response to the pandemic, Dominic Cummings said there was a form of “groupthink” within Johnson’s cabinet that it was “basically racist to call for closing the borders and blaming China and the whole China New Year thing.”

“And that was basically nonsense,” said Cummings, adding that it was “madness” that people from severely infected regions of the world were still arriving in the UK in March 2020.

“Fundamentally, there was no proper border policy because the Prime Minister never wanted a proper border policy,” Cummings told MPs, adding that Johnson wanted to be like the Mayor from Jaws who kept the beaches open to protect tourism.

As we highlighted [summit.news] at the time, the World Health Organization itself repeatedly advised countries during the early weeks of the pandemic not to impose border controls in order to avoid the “stigmatization” of Chinese people.

Numerous Democratic Party politicians in the United States, including Nancy Pelosi [summit.news], also urged people to congregate in Chinatown in large numbers to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Meanwhile, in Italy, the Mayor of Florence and other government officials encouraged people [summit.news] to “Hug a Chinese” as a stand against racism.

The hashtag campaign also led to the production of a video literally showing Italians hugging a Chinese man in the street even as the pandemic began to spread.

Italy subsequently because the most severely infected country in Europe.

But at least no one was able to call them racist.

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