“The American media is doing its best to ignore the biggest news this week,” notes Alex Berenson: The fact that intelligence officials knew even in early 2020 that the coronavirus leaked from the Chinese lab where it was created. The U.S. media is largely ignoring the news, because journalists don’t want to admit they were fools for gullibly parroting claims that the coronavirus had a natural origin rather than leaking from a lab:
On Wednesday morning…two big German newspapers – Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung -broke some actual news…In early 2020, Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, took a break from her busy schedule…to ask Germany’s intelligence agency, the BND2, to figure out Covid’s origins.
You remember early 2020! The Science (TM) was very powerful back then. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci and Peter Daszak — a British zoologist Fauci had never met, except he had — were gently steering their fellow scientists towards a conclusion that Covid’s origins were 100 billion zillion percent natural.
By gently steering, I mean accusing anyone who even mentioned the weird coincidence that the epidemic started about 50 feet outside the world’s most prolific coronavirus research lab of committing thoughtcrimes against humanity.
The Fauci/Daszak campaign proved a success, thanks to the useful idiots in the American media, who were never more useful (to China) or more idiotic than in 2020.
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. As a German press agency reported Wednesday, summarizing the Zeit/SZ articles:
The BND based its conclusion on the analysis of material from the public domain and that it collected in the course of an investigation with the code name “Saaremaa.”
The material… indicated that there had been some risky research methods used there [at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, compounded by breaches of laboratory safety rules… [and] so-called gain-of-function experiments, in which viruses occurring in nature are manipulated [to become more dangerous or transmissible].
So the BND took its damning conclusions to Chancellorina Merkel….Angela stuffed that report in a drawer and got back to doing what she did best, destroying Germany’s industrial base to make Greta Thunberg happy….After Merkel left office in 2021, the BND told her replacement, Olaf Scholz, “without the results finding their way to the public” — as the British newspaper The Telegraph delicately put it.
In America, it was not until 2023 that the Energy Department and the FBI publicly stated that COVID-19 likely leaked from a Chinese laboratory. The London Sunday Times later reported that COVID-19 was engineered by the Chinese military using US funding. The U.S. funding came through the EcoHealth Alliance, as critics of Anthony Fauci previously surmised.
The coronavirus is not the only virus to come from a Chinese lab. An earlier “Russian flu” that killed 700,000 also likely came from a lab leak in China. Yet, when people like evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein suggested the possibility that the virus leaked from a Chinese government lab in 2020, they were dismissed by the mainstream media as kooks. In February 2021, Facebook banned any mentions of the lab leak, following “consultations” with “the World Health Organization.” But the possibility was always obvious to experts. In private, Anthony Fauci and NIH officials worried about the possibility of a lab leak they publicly denied as a “conspiracy theory.”
