This guy always cracks me up:<p>> A Freedom of Information Request has shown that Daszak organized a letter to squash rumors that COVID leaked from a lab, in a way that did not link back to collaborations between WIV and EHA. Before his organizing role was revealed, Daszak called the lab leak theory terms such as "preposterous," "baseless," and "pure baloney," and claimed the WIV wasn't culturing viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2.<p>> It later emerged that WIV had been working with RaTG13, one of the closest know relatives of SARS-CoV-2. Daszak had denied WIV had been actively working on RatG13, telling Wired: "We thought it's interesting, but not high-risk... So we didn't do anything about it and put it in the freezer."<p>I'm surprised the calls are only that he resign. He should be under criminal investigation for unleashing one of the most disruptive contagions in human history.
I wonder who made the call that the WIV virus leak was a conspiracy, that we shouldn't believe in it, and that anybody spreading such a preposterous idea were racists, idiots, conspiracy theorists, horse medicine eating luddites?<p>It's amazing how easy it is to control the narrative. Just plant a couple seeds at the highest level of media organizations and the journalists/social media companies, etc. do the social policing themselves.