OUR GALILEO MOMENT

Covid 19 almost certainly resulted from a leaked virus experiment at the Wuhan Laboratory in Wuhan China.  That is the conclusion of scientists at the Department of Energy and investigators at the FBI after nearly three years of research; results that were leaked to the Wall Street Journal.  Worse, the researchers suspect the virus was engineered in the Chinese lab.

Thank God for leaks.  Covid claimed more than a million Americans and nearly eight-million people worldwide.  Victims of the virus are still dying.  These victims and their families deserve the truth.

The conclusions of the American researchers are a win for common sense and another black eye for the American media.  Led by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and trumpeted by reporters and anchors at CNN and MSNBC and the legacy networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, those who dared suggest China was at fault were derisively dismissed and denounced as racists.  Worse, their views were banned from Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.  Call it America’s Galileo moment. 

There was widespread support of such censorship by mainstream media outlets.  To their credit, Facebook and Twitter have since revoked those bans, but not before the damage to our sacredly held freedom of speech, enshrined in the second amendment, had been done.  Worse, this comes after the American media has suffered yet another embarrassing episode for paralyzing the Trump Administration in its early months with near constant headlines about the former president’s alleged involvement with Russia.  That story has since been debunked.  For its erroneous reporting, both the Times and the Post were jointly awarded journalism’s most coveted honor, the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.

Facts and truth are stubborn things.