Inconstancies in Pandemic Reporting - April 25th, 2020.
Eric Renderking Fisk | April 25th, 2020
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Jason Cousineau and Eric Renderking Fisk talk about how the media is all over the map in reporting the dangers of the Coronavirus, inconsistencies in whether or not social distancing works, and the lack of consensus on where the virus came from. We also talk about how the State Department and the United States Embassy in Beijing sent reports to Washington about containment problems in the two Viral facilities in Wuhan, China.
And what does it really mean when you do your own research when it comes to the topic of government conspiracies in times of crisis. And no, it does not mean insisting people watch the same poorly made YouTube videos.
We finish off the show talking about how the realm of politics changed with the end of Bernie Sander's Final Presidential Campaign.
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Show Notes and Links
Washington Post: "State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses," [Can still be read on cell phones and some tablets... on desktops and laptops it appears to be behind a pay-wall.]
New York Post: US officials raised alarms about Wuhan coronaviruses lab in 2018 By Tamar Lapin | April 14, 2020
FLASHBACK - New York Post: "Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab," By Steven W. Mosher | February 22, 2020 |
Xi didn’t actually admit that the coronavirus now devastating large swaths of China had escaped from one of the country’s bioresearch labs. But the very next day, evidence emerged suggesting that this is exactly what happened, as the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled: “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”
Read that again. It sure sounds like China has a problem keeping dangerous pathogens in test tubes where they belong, doesn’t it? And just how many “microbiology labs” are there in China that handle “advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus”?
It turns out that in all of China, there is only one. And this one is located in the Chinese city of Wuhan that just happens to be … the epicenter of the epidemic.
That’s right. China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, called the National Biosafety Laboratory, is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Experts know the new coronavirus is not a bioweapon. They disagree on whether it could have leaked from a research lab," By Matt Field | March 30, 2020
Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently wrote an article for Foreign Affairs that is dismissive of conspiracy theories about the origins of the pandemic but also mentions circumstantial evidence that supports the possibility that a lab release was involved. That evidence includes a study “conducted by the South China University of Technology, [that] concluded that the coronavirus ‘probably’ originated in the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention,” located just 280 meters from the Hunan Seafood Market often cited as the source of the original outbreak.
Nature Medicine: "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2," Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes & Robert F. Garry |
