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why is there always a China apologist ready to jump on any mention of the following?

11 Apr: Mediaite: Jesse Watters Hosts Author Pushing Conspiracy Theory That Chinese Gov’t ‘Cover Story’ Is Hiding Truth About Coronavirus Origin
By Reed Richardson
Fox News’ Jesse Watters hosted an author that pushed a baseless conspiracy theory that the Chinese government is using a “cover story” to hide the truth about its culpability in the origin of the coronavirus.
Speaking with Population Research Institute president Steven Mosher on his weekend show Watters’ World, the Fox News host told viewers that “one theory” about how the COVID-19 outbreak began involved the virus being transmitted from bats to humans at a Wuhan, China wet market, where locals can sometimes purchase exotic animals to eat. But Watters then teed up his interview with Mosher by citing as an alternative “theory” an evidence-free claim that the virus came from a “China biolab” where “Chinese lab workers may have been contaminated while studying infected bats triggering an outbreak.” Watters did not mention that there is no hard evidence so far supporting this claim.

However, that has not stopped the spread of conspiratorial rumor-mongering that the Chinese government either accidentally leaked or manufactured the virus in a microbiology or bioweapons lab. In fact, a W.H.O. study of the virus concluded that COVID-19 is naturally occurring — not man-made — and possibly came from bats or pangolins. This China cover-up narrative has become so prevalent on the right that a Pew poll found self-identified Republicans are now twice as likely to believe coronavirus can be traced back to a Chinese lab than Democrats.
Mosher, author of a highly critical book on China entitled Bully of Asia, has been a driving force behind this claim...
https://www.mediaite.com/news/jesse-watters-hosts-author-pushing-conspiracy-theory-that-chinese-govt-cover-story-is-hiding-truth-about-coronavirus-origin/

25m10s to 30m06s: Steven Mosher segment on origins of the virus.

Fox: Watters World 4/11/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gmkXbiUvrc

listen also from 11m03s to 18m07s - very good interview with Fauci; ends with Fauci talking about re-opening the economy, etc. (watched at least 6 youtubes of this segment before I found one including this section of the interview)

18 Feb: USA Today: ‘Danger of getting coronavirus now is just minusculely low’
With China taking extreme measures to prevent further spread of COVID-19 and previously quarantined American cruise ship passengers returning to the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s point man on infectious diseases, spoke with the USA TODAY Editorial Board on Monday about the latest coronavirus developments.

Q. What about the conspiracy theories involving a bioweapons lab near Wuhan?

A. There isn’t a bioweapons lab in Wuhan. There’s a biological containment that’s studying countermeasures against natural outbreak. Whenever you have a virus that you know has been studied in a lab, and virtually every virus is studied in a lab, and there’s an outbreak of a new virus, there’s always the suspicion that something either accidentally or deliberately was released. So, I mean, I can’t say absolutely that’s not the case. It is extremely unlikely that that’s the case, but you can find out if it is or not. And there are people who are actually looking at that right now. So I think we’re going to get some sort of an answer about that...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/17/new-coronavirus-what-dont-we-know-dr-anthony-fauci-q-a-opinion/4790996002/

have never found a follow-up - FakeNewsMSM don’t want to ask Fauci about this.