The NYT has finally come around. It’s been a long wait. Way back in May of 2021, NYT Science reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli lectured us that it was “racist” to be concerned that scientists concocted COVID in a lab.
Fast forward to June 3, 2024: A guest essay in the NYT argues that the pandemic “Probably stared in a Lab.” All in five easy steps. Well illustrated, including this graphic:
I woke up this morning to the news that—after four years of printing lies—the New York Times has finally published an Opinion piece acknowledges the evidence that SARS-CoV-2 did not originate in nature, but in a lab.
Why would there be a three year moratorium on discussing what is arguably the most important story of this century? I’m back to the same questions I keep asking myself: Who is controlling the information that we are allowed to read and hear, especially in corporate media and social media? What is their long range plan? Given that we are purportedly in a democracy, why is there almost no public deliberation and debate on key issues, but rather top-down ham-handed edicts? Why have so many of the pronouncements from our public health “experts” been so incredibly wrong? Such as the mask problem pointed out here:
We have a big problem in the U.S.. It is seemingly insurmountable. I’m not yet despondent, but heading there too often. I have repeatedly come to the conclusion that being being curious, distilling the facts with care, and sharing my ideas might make a difference. That can only happen, I believe, in a culture that is not locked down with military-grade censorship. That’s where are already are, I fear. Arguments are not being won on the merits, but because someone, eventually, decides that it is no longer “bad” to say things that made sense all along. Or perhaps, the NYT noticed that the stench of its censorship of real stories was becoming grotesquely embarrassing, so it became time to hit the limited hangout button on lab leak. Limited Hangout:
[A] limited hangout is “spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, they resort to admitting—sometimes even volunteering—some of the truth while still managing to withhold the key and damaging facts in the case. The public, however, is usually so intrigued by the new information that it never thinks to pursue the matter further.”
We who do not have any significant power/money don’t have the main tool for winning arguments. As Rob Henderson pointed out (paraphrased by Claire Lehmann: “people who are high in status don’t actually have to point out where an argument is wrong, just that an argument (or speaker) is low in status.”
It’s at times like these that, strangely, George Orwell brings me some consolation:
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial…when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society…can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.
[From The Prevention of Literature]
Or I could have ended with this passage by James Melville:
Literally everything is questionable now. The lines between fact and fiction have become blurred. What our leaders and mainstream media peddle as the truth is often misinformation. And what is really the truth is smeared as misinformation. In an era of rolling news and social media, the bamboozle has captured us. In particular, our ‘elites’ masquerading their greed as virtue.
The modern world is a simulacrum, where reality has been replaced by false messaging and imagery, to such an extent that one cannot distinguish between the real and the unreal. And as a result of this, everyone squabbles through the prism of their own confirmation biases to claim what they consider to be their own truths, when actually they are blindsided by their own false superiority of sanctimony and virtue.
We are ruled by a nefarious group of individuals that have an unquenchable thirst for power, control and money, and they don’t care what they have to do to get it. And that includes tricking people into thinking they are the virtuous good guys who are here to keep us all safe. And tragically, millions of people are completely duped by this. What we have witnessed over the Covid response, the war in Ukraine, the Net Zero agenda on climate change and many other current issues is a movement of faux-virtue that has been carefully crafted by corrupt politicians, messengers within legacy media outlets, greedy corporations, messiah delusional billionaires and undemocratic technocrats to create the impression that they are the virtuous ones who are our friends.
These people are not our friends. Their primary objective is to hoodwink us into believing and complying to their virtue, but in reality being tricked into giving away more freedoms, power, wealth and assets to these virtue vultures.