“Nice piece by a opinion writer for the nyt, who has been writing on the subject for sometime”
So one needs to ask, why is this commie rag letting this be published?
Possibly to hide the fact that it wasn’t an accident but deliberately released? Such a terrible accident.
“why is this commie rag letting this be published?”
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They have to build a narrative to deal with the flood of evidence coming.
They want the narrative to be “lab leak while doing good science for benevolent purposes” instead of the truth which is gain of function bioweapon research for nefarious purposes by the Chinese Liberation Army in cooperation with elements in our government and private sectors.
“So one needs to ask, why is this commie rag letting this be published?”
Denying it and banning talk of it served their purpose and they feel no need to control the narrative in that manner.
Now they will seek to control what they denied in their own way, creating the new Ministry of Truth narrative.
Debunked conspiracy theory is forgotten, never existed.
Brilliant liberals have now discovered this.
They never denied it will be the hew narrative.
That is how brazen they are.
“So one needs to ask, why is this commie rag letting this be published?”
People hired to help politicians handle a scandal will always advise them to let the story out. Get ahead of it. Don’t let someone blind side you with it at a news conference. When it does come up, it’s old news. (How many times did we hear Hillary complain, “that’s old news!”? “Can’t we just move on?”)
And why has it been censored until now?
“why is this commie rag letting this be published?”
It’s obvious what is happening now. The CCP sees that every part of their plan has been a success. They setting the stage to openly boast about this attack on their enemies.
Soon COVID will be unveiled as the greatest Communist victory in 50 years, and status of Xi holding a SARS virus will be in every town center in China.