> It is immensely unfortunate this issue became politicized.
This comment is over a year too late. Almost immediately after COVID became the topic du jour the technocrats and media were aggressively shutting down anyone who noticed the circumstantial evidence that the coronavirus emerged in close proximity to a lab conducting sloppy coronavirus research. That, coupled with China's refusal to allow anyone outside the CCP apparatus to investigate should have, at least, given thinking people pause. But clearly, "thinking people" doesn't characterize the media or the technocrats and their speech police.
And we shouldn't forget the astonishingly sudden about-face by the media (almost all of whom work for companies who also sell their entertainment properties in China) who routinely called COVID the "China virus" or "Wuhan virus" one day and the next day castigated anyone who dared to do so as an irredeemable racist.
This comment is over a year too late. Almost immediately after COVID became the topic du jour the technocrats and media were aggressively shutting down anyone who noticed the circumstantial evidence that the coronavirus emerged in close proximity to a lab conducting sloppy coronavirus research. That, coupled with China's refusal to allow anyone outside the CCP apparatus to investigate should have, at least, given thinking people pause. But clearly, "thinking people" doesn't characterize the media or the technocrats and their speech police.
And we shouldn't forget the astonishingly sudden about-face by the media (almost all of whom work for companies who also sell their entertainment properties in China) who routinely called COVID the "China virus" or "Wuhan virus" one day and the next day castigated anyone who dared to do so as an irredeemable racist.
It was political from the beginning.