For the past year, any questions about the origin of the covid-19 virus have been brushed aside as promoting “conspiracy theories”. The belief was that the coronavirus could only have originated in the way the WHO or the US Centre for Disease Control said it would
The theories of an artificial origin of covid-19 were derided as anti-scientific nonsense. Those who did post about it on social media were immediately blocked and subjected to corporate censorship. Trump was continually accused of promoting such conspiracy theories himself.
A year goes by, Trump is no longer in the White House, and the nature has cleared so much that it has become possible to discuss it again. Even Dr Fauci himself, the talking head of the entire US medical community, is no longer convinced that the coronavirus occurred naturally.
And up until a year ago, he was constantly refuting any theories ) about the origin of the virus from a test tube in a laboratory. And now suddenly the concept has changed. And even liberal “fact-checkers”, who always keep their noses to the wind, have retroactively corrected their old “denials”.
For their part, US intelligence agencies reported that Wuhan Institute of Virology staff had contracted something strange in November 2019, which could have been covid-19. And now US officials, including Fauci, are demanding an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus.
Of course, it is unlikely that any of those who received lifetime bans will be able to recover their accounts. But it has turned out to be another cautionary parable about how attempts to shut the mouths of dissidents in the name of “science” end up turning into the modern-day equivalent of persecuting Galileo Galilei.
With Trump gone, the anti-Chinese sentiment in the US hasn’t gone anywhere. And the covid-19 origin story will be used in the confrontation with the Middle Kingdom. So we will soon see more cases of overweening airwaves on the part of the establishment and pundits in Washington.
Malek Dudakov