Under relentless pressure from the US State Department, which officially endorses the conspiracy theory, the World Health Organization disbanded its committee into the origins of the disease and formed a new one: The Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO).

Most critically of all, the report did not recommend further inquiries into the potential laboratory origins of COVID-19, cutting across the efforts of warmongers, xenophobes and demagogues of both parties to turn the scientific investigation into the origins of COVID-19 into a witch-finding expedition that could be used to accuse China of a cover-up.ДЄmericaвЂ™s yellow press howled with indignation, with leading US newspapers condemning the findings and making personal attacks against committee member Peter Daszak, the most vocal opponent of the conspiracy theory within the scientific community. It declared the possibility that COVID-19 spilled over to humans from a lab leak as вЂњextremely unlikely,вЂќ declaring, вЂњThere is no record of viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in any laboratory before December 2019, or genomes that in combination could provide a SARS-CoV-2 genome.вЂќ The report dismissed out of hand the claim that COVID-19 was developed as a biological weapon, concluding that this вЂњhas been ruled out by other scientists following analyses of the genome.вЂќ In the midst of this right-wing firestorm, led by the fascist gutter press ( Breitbart, the National Pulse, Newsmax, OAN) and supported by the вЂњmainstream media,вЂќ the World Health Organization published its interim report on the origins of COVID-19 in March, 2021. This conspiracy theory would be embraced by the editorial boards of the Wall Street JournalВ andВ the Washington Post, as well as by leading columnists for the New York Times. TrumpвЂ™s Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger would promote a variant of the lie claiming that COVID-19 was released by accident. Trump, Navarro and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would all promote the claim that COVID-19 was a biological weapon created by the Chinese Communist Party. He called it вЂњWar Room: Pandemic,вЂќ which is its name to this day.Дays earlier, BannonвЂ™s business partner and collaborator, the Chinese expatriateВ Miles Guo, published an article asserting that вЂњthe real source of the coronavirus is from вЂa lab in WuhanвЂ™ linked to its covert biological weapons programs.вЂќ On January 25, 2020, Bannon rebranded his вЂњWar Room: ImpeachmentвЂќ podcast to focus on the claim that China had created COVID-19 as a biological weapon to attack the United States. Bannon, Peter Navarro, Jason Miller, and their co-conspirators, organized around BannonвЂ™s Podcast, вЂњWar Room: Pandemic.вЂќ On January 5, the day before TrumpвЂ™s coup attempt, Bannon declared, вЂњall hell is going to break loose tomorrow.вЂќД«annonвЂ™s podcast was, however, created to promote a different lie. TrumpвЂ™s election lie was concocted by Trump advisers Stephen K. Any politician or journalist who gives the slightest credence to this claim is a fascist sympathizer.

It does not require forensic examinations of voting machines, polling booths, or electoral records. TrumpвЂ™s claim that the 2020 election was stolen had no evidence to support it and was a transparent falsification.

There is the truth, and there is a right-wing conspiracy theory. This is like saying that there are вЂњtwo broad hypothesesвЂќ about the validity of the 2020 presidential election results. The Post frames its promotion of TrumpвЂ™s racist effort to blame China for the COVID-19 pandemic as a declaration that вЂњtwo broad hypotheses have arisen about how the virus first infected humans in Wuhan in late 2019.вЂќ The Post promotes the вЂњhypothesisвЂќ that вЂњthe infection might have resulted from a laboratory accident or an inadvertent spill connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.вЂќ It adds, вЂњAt the time, the WIV was carrying out experiments using genetically modified viruses similar to the pandemic strain.вЂќ Trump repeatedly called COVID-19 Kung-Flu and the China virus. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro (right) called COVID-19 a 'weaponized virus' that created by the Chinese Communist Party.

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