Good morning, I’m still reporting on the coup.
So many governmental lies have been perpetrated concerning COVID-19 that its political usefulness has nearly come to an end. The average person just doesn’t believe much now of what the government has to say about it.
So, just in time for the next election in the United States comes the Monkeypox virus.
Step one started in May. This is known as the “Strawman Knockdown” phase. This is the new signal to the hippest YouTubers. Stay away from this topic if you want to keep your channel alive.
This Newsweek story illustrates the beginning of the new virus lifecycle. “Theories Linking Monkeypox to Wuhan and Ukraine Labs Torn Apart by Experts.”
The rumor they are knocking down is that MonkeyPox came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China – just like COVID-19.
Newsweek – apparently living in the journalistic dark on this issue – makes the following comment:
“The Wuhan Institute of Virology is the same Chinese lab implicated in COVID lab leak theories that have circulated throughout the pandemic.”
But then they go on to admit that experimental work on the MonkeyPox virus, known as MPV, has been done at Wuhan, and was discussed in a February 2022 article edited by a WIV researcher.
“The February research article discusses the creation of a fragment of a monkeypox virus in order to demonstrate a way of assembling large DNA constructs without errors….”
Newsweek quickly noted that there is no way that this research could result in an infectious virus:
"’This assembly product is fail-safe by virtually eliminating any risk of recovering into an infectious virus,’ the researchers said.”
Well, that’s quite a relief.
Newsweek then sought out the opinion of a viral genomics researcher in Scotland, David Robinson, who quickly dismissed the lab leak theories of both COVID-19 and MPV.
“Both theories were baseless, said David Robertson, head of viral genomics and bioinformatics at the University of Glasgow.
Hmmm, as an American medical reporter of long standing, the gold standard for quotes is an American teaching professor of medicine at an accredited U.S. school. I’m sure Prof. Robertson is brilliantly credentialed in his field. It’s just not the first phone call I would make to write a story to sell in the U.S. market.
But undeterred, Newsweek continued on with Prof. Robertson:
"This is just speculative and mischievous nonsense. There's no evidence for either SARS-CoV-2 or monkeypox being generated in a lab.”
Ahem, any medical reporter who has followed the COVID story since Jan. 2020, knows that there is evidence – just not to the liking of this Newsweek reporter.
