Covid came out of a US lab — Lancet’s Jeffrey Sachs

Covid came out of a US lab — Lancet’s Jeffrey Sachs. By Ron Unz.

At very long last, our Western media outlets may finally be forced to confront the issue that they have so carefully avoided for more than two years. …

Sachs’ incendiary suggestion came a month after he had co-authored an academic paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pointing to the strong evidence that Covid was the genetically-engineered product of a lab and calling for an independent inquiry into America’s possible role in creating the virus that has killed up to 20 million people worldwide. …

Two years ago, the Covid commission that he chaired had concluded that the virus was probably natural, a verdict soon uniformly adopted by the American media, even leading Facebook to ban any contrary views. So Sachs’ public reversal on this crucial question represented a gigantic bombshell, but with the exception of a single piece appearing in the Intercept, it was totally ignored in the media …

But a well-crafted Tweet has now attracted such enormous attention that the cat is probably out of the bag, and the media may finally be forced to cover the issue.

As I glanced over that massive Twitter thread, the only substantial push-back I noticed came from Prof. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers, an influential virologist heavily involved in the Covid debate, who argued that Sachs’ words were being misinterpreted. According to Ebright, Sachs was merely suggesting that American biotechnology rather than an actual American lab had been responsible for Covid.

Is covid a bioweapon? By China against the West? Or by the US against China? Or just an accident that escaped from a lab? Or a depopulation measure launched by the usual suspects? Don’t expect the mainstream media to go there.