This is the piece, along with Fillipa Lenzo’s piece in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (of all places) that really broke the dam wide open in terms of reporting the lab-leak hypothesis.
Nothing had changed, really, and plenty of posters here on FR, myself included, thought it likely that the Wuhan lab was the real source of the original outbreak.
That said, one has to question why this is suddenly breaking now, when it’s been kind of obvious for months that a lab leak was probably the most likely source. And why in a far-left outlet like the BAS? This was followed up a week ago by Vanity Fair (!), which now has Fauci well and truly on the hot seat. The original plan seemed to be to simply throw him under the bus, and hope the media would move on.
That hasn’t happened yet for some reason, so one is left wondering how the media and the Democrat machine and the ruling Junta plan on spinning this. Chris Wallace tried blaming Trump, and that went over like a lead balloon, so maybe it’s just hard to come up with a new narrative.
Possible outcomes of this investigation have the potential to shake the world even more. I understand the debate raging over the vaccines; but this stuff, election fraud and PRC pandemic responsibility, can also be explosive. The media may be stumbling around like a stunned duck. Who knows?...Eventually some lights may go on and wake up some people.