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URGENT: They knew it was a lab leak all along. And now, thanks to a couple of German newspapers, we know they knew
https://alexberenson.substack.com ^ | 3/13/2025 | Alex Berenson

Posted on 03/13/2025 8:07:49 PM PDT by bitt

The American media is doing its best to ignore the biggest news this week.

Nope, not Covid’s fifth anniversary. You may have noticed that every legacy media outlet is reminding you it’s been exactly five years since the Little Epidemic That Could started its long chug into your lungs, or at least your upper respiratory tract.

In reality, they’re as wrong about the date as everything else Covid. People started getting sick in Wuhan in December 2019. Or was it November? Maybe even October? Whatever, the Chinese have made sure we’ll never know.

But it was March 11, 2020 when the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic - and the National Basketball Association postponed its season. You know it’s serious when the sportathons get turned off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average went down 1,200 points that day too.

Worst of all, Tom Hanks said he and his wife Rita Wilson had tested positive for Covid. Everyone’s favoritish movie star made the announcement on Instagram. His words turned out to be oddly prophetic in their matter-of-fact description of the great nonplague to follow: We felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too.

Slight fevers, you say? Better shut the world!

Anyway, here in ‘Merica, which as we all know is the only place that counted, March 11 is Covid Day (TM)! And it’s being celebrated, I mean commemorated, with articles like, “They Lost Someone to Covid. Here’s What They Learned About Grief.”

Because no one ever died before Covid. We were all immortal before March 11, 2020. How I miss those days.

But I digress.

On Wednesday morning, as American outlets festooned themselves in Covid retrospectives, two big German newspapers - Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung1 -broke some actual news.

Turns out in early 2020, Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, took a break from her busy schedule of welcoming knife-wielding Afghan refugees to ask Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND2, to figure out Covid’s origins.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: 2019; 2020; anthonyfauci; bioweapon; coronavirus; covid; covid19; covidorigin; covidstooges; gainoffunction; germany; kungflu; lableak; obamacare; r; vaccinemandates; wiv; wuhan; wuhanflu; wuhanlab
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1 posted on 03/13/2025 8:07:49 PM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 03/13/2025 8:08:02 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: Jane Long; ransomnote; grey_whiskers

ping


3 posted on 03/13/2025 8:13:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: bitt

Everyone who is not spiritually blinded and actually has an inner monologue knew it was leaked from the lab and the covid was used to against the world for globalist control


4 posted on 03/13/2025 8:16:20 PM PDT by Skwor
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To: All

Many people will never trust the government or the media's messaging again after the Covid mess.


5 posted on 03/13/2025 8:17:05 PM PDT by chud
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To: bitt

11 paragraphs and still haven’t made the point.

Moving on to some real news ….


6 posted on 03/13/2025 8:20:33 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: kiryandil

Where’s Dingbat and Dorkway and the FRoctors?


7 posted on 03/13/2025 8:22:24 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: bitt

It seems highly likely it was engineered in a lab. The story that it came from a wet market is a bat shite crazy excuse unless the workers from the Wuhan lab brought it there (accidentally or intentionally).

And it is NOT the 5 year anniversary. It is just the 5 year anniversary from the day Democrats acknowledged it was serious. We all knew Wuhan had an outbreak by November of 2019, and that nursing homes in the Pacific Northwest were seeing “fit like” symptoms that caused a high mortality rate among the aged frail. Trump stopped all travel from Asia at the end of January 2020. Democrats called him a racist and went on TV telling people to go out and eat in Chinatown. Chinese food is delicious (at least the Americanized dishes are) but there was certainly some irony with Dems saying it was racist. Sure if people thought you would only catch a virus from Chinese people they are silly or stupid. But my wife was visiting her brother in the stix and I told her to take the truck to the most rural Costco and to buy all the dried and canned foods she could get. But she waited a day and by the time she got there they were sold out. That was on Feb 2. So obviously many people knew weeks or months before the “anniversary” date.


8 posted on 03/13/2025 8:22:55 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: grey_whiskers

They haz disappeared...

Great article, BTW - just finished reading it.

I remember when The Powers That Lie attacked Alex Berenson...


9 posted on 03/13/2025 8:24:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Skwor

Within 2 weeks of official declaration of a pandemic, there were detailed analysis made on alternate media (the first was on Zero Hedge, as I recall) showing the added spike proteins must have been bio-engineered, and linked it to published research from working being done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Anyone paying attention knew it from the start.


10 posted on 03/13/2025 8:24:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Uncle Miltie

“But the BND had its own sources. And the agency concluded with 80 percent to 95 percent certainty that the virus had in fact leaked from a Chinese lab.”

The BND spilled to “Jerkel”, and she was too busy fellating Musloids to give the rest of us a heads-up.

Same with her suckcessor Oaf Doltz.


11 posted on 03/13/2025 8:29:03 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

Thanks for being the journalist.

And everything else you do around here.

“I appreciate you!”


12 posted on 03/13/2025 8:30:50 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: PGR88

The whole cell phone signal map thing was also memory holed.

You could see from cell phone pings disappearing around the lab that the chi coms knew they had a leak there.


13 posted on 03/13/2025 8:32:18 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Ukraine stands as a warning that countries must sufficiently provide for their OWN defense.)
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To: bitt

Hang’em in the public square


14 posted on 03/13/2025 8:33:54 PM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: PGR88

Bump


15 posted on 03/13/2025 8:34:46 PM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: bitt

So the question is “why did the Germans cover up the lab leak from Wuhan?”


16 posted on 03/13/2025 8:34:52 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: chud
>> "Many people will never trust the government or the media's messaging again after the Covid mess." <<

Many, many people will also never trust doctors anymore.
17 posted on 03/13/2025 8:38:28 PM PDT by ANKE69 ( 🇺🇲 Let's MAGA 🇺🇲)
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To: bitt

No, it was not a lab leak. That is the fallback position when the wet market natural occurrence story failed. remember when they pushed THAT story they knew it was a lie.

Wuhan and Hong Kong were having protests that were growing, spreading and becoming more violent. The Tiennamen Square solution was a non-starter in the world of modern China. They were not vulnerable to pressure back in 89 due to almost no trade.
Add in that Trump was a runaway freight train headed for re-election.
So in collusion with Fauci and DC, China deliberately released it to stop Chinese protests and Trump’s reelection.

It was a bad flu, SARs to be exact. So they flooded the internet with videos of people dropping dead in the street, the hazmat suit people spraying disinfectant, etc.
Massive fear porn.

The disease had to merely be detectable, make you noticeably sick, and justify locking everyone indoors in China and utterly stopping the US economy.

When the “wet market” fraud failed, they couldn’t exactly say it was deliberate. So that is the new story... “lab leak”. Who could be mad at a lab leak? Just an accident you know....


18 posted on 03/13/2025 8:51:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: ANKE69

I remember during the first year or maybe it was going into the second of covid my doctor, when I asked him about it, was pro-vaccine. At my annual physical on the third year he admitted that he had reservations about it.


19 posted on 03/13/2025 9:06:12 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: kelly4c

“leak” makes it sound like it was an accident…fat chance of that.


20 posted on 03/13/2025 9:58:37 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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