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So, on the one hand, Peter Daszak is the US government's principal middle-man (via the "non-profit" EcoHealth Alliance, which he heads) for funneling American tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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Mr Daszak is this season's omnipresent British subject: He is to bats what Christopher Steele is to Russians his job is to maintain them as the McGuffin. When you boil it right down, the fledermaus theory of the WuFlu rests mainly on "scientist" Peter Daszak. Not because any new proof has emerged one way or the other: there has always been more evidence for a Covid lab leak than for the bat theory, not least because the relevant bats live a thousand miles from the Wuhan wet market. So what was a fortnight back a conspiracy theory that could not be mentioned is now acceptable in polite Zuck-policed society. Gee, it's almost like they all got the same fax from head office. But presumably the lads are modifying even as I speak. Wikipedia isn't quite so quick on the uptake: as I write, the lab-leak origin of the WuFlu still comes under " Covid-19 misinformation" as a theory used "to stoke anti-China sentiments". Commissar Zuckerberg's Facebook will now permit you to suggest that the ChiCom-19 may have "escaped" from a lab - in contrast to the rules a week or so back, when so much as raising the possibility got your account vaporized. Our chaps haven't been memory-holing quite as long, so they're not as smooth and assured about it as Winston Smith's Ministry of Truth. And to ensure that versions of the past less helpful to the regime get, in one of Orwell's many brilliant coinages, "memory-holed". Nevertheless, as you'll know if you heard my serialization of Nineteen Eighty-Four, that was literally Winston Smith's job - to go into the archives and rewrite past editions of the newspapers to conform to the needs of the present. That's Orwell 101 - although one assumes whichever of Bezos's woeful hacks was ordered to do it was unaware of his literary antecedents, or self-respect would have required him to seek alternative, less pitiful employment. Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus fringe theory that scientists have disputed.ĭemocracy dies in darkness, but stealth editing thrives there. Tom Cotton keeps repeating a coronavirus conspiracy theory that was already debunked. Until a couple of days ago the headline on this Washington Post story from February 2020 read:
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We are in a literally Orwellian world now.