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The New York Times Has Been Wrong Before
So has American media in general
When I was a kid, I loved to read the Sunday New York Times. I would get up, have breakfast while watching my favorite cartoons, and then spend a couple of hours with the Gray Lady.
Yes, I was a nerd.
Recently I read that, according to the U.S. Energy Department, the COVID virus was probably due to a lab leak. No lesser news source than the Times reported this. Yet, early on, the paper of record reported the virus originated in a wet market.
What really happened?
When the virus was first reported by Dr. Li Wenliang, he was reprimanded by the Chinese government. However, the first person to report the novel coronavirus was Dr. Zhang Jixian, whose prior experience dealing with SARS made her sensitive to the signs of a new epidemic.
However, the CCP tried to cover up what was going on.
Former President Trump was accused of xenophobia for calling it the “China flu”. However, many diseases are named for their likely places of origin, such as German measles, West Nile virus, or Spanish flu.
And many people who thought that COVID originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were accused of spreading conspiracy theories and some were cancelled. One of…
