Just like the horrifying amount of dual-use technology transfers that China was caught in during the 1990s, the facts of which were plainly detailed in declassified reports, reporters are equally lacking in curiosity when it comes to the origins of COVID.
I knew 30 years ago that reporters were idiots. Despite being a working wife and mom, I took the time to understand complex military terminology and acronyms so I could read those reports. Once I did, the threat was obvious.
Research? Digging? Questioning the narrative?
Too much work for most, apparently.
And since they can’t or refuse to understand the information, it’s easier to dismiss it than to admit their ignorance.
Many people died because of the arrogance and ignorance of the NIH-NIAID, Fauci, Peter Daszak, and all those whose path to publication, research funding, and academic ‘stature’ were facilitated by doing relatively pedestrian but inherently dangerous gain of function research.
This was criminal negligence at the least, and in the context of the later cover-up was even more clearly criminal.
It’s the competency bias.
Because someone on TV says it, it’s easily assumed that it’s valuable information. Especially on topics unfamiliar to you.
But when you hear them talk about something within your field of expertise, you see how absolutely stupid they sound.
I find it hilarious when I hear TV talking heads talk about how safe computer election software is.
It’s like the joke of people saying “It must be true, because I saw it on THE INTERNET”