Who Can You Trust?

A friend posted on Facebook, without comment, a very long Vanity Fair article on the possible origins of the COVID-10 virus. In the midst of news about Anthony Fauci’s emails and the administration’s sudden-but-very-late interest in the origins, I thought I’d read it.

image from the Vanity Fair article

As you’d expect from Vanity Fair, they slip in blame on Trump at every opportunity—and there doesn’t have to be an opportunity; they will make one.

Example 1—in reference to a group of researchers called DRASTIC [Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19], who were looking into the virus origins, doubting the wet market story:

At times, it seemed the only other people entertaining the lab-leak theory were crackpots or political hacks hoping to wield COVID-19 as a cudgel against China. President Donald Trump’s former political adviser Steve Bannon, for instance, joined forces with an exiled Chinese billionaire named Guo Wengui to fuel claims that China had developed the disease as a bioweapon and purposefully unleashed it on the world. As proof, they paraded a Hong Kong scientist around right-wing media outlets until her manifest lack of expertise doomed the charade.

With disreputable wing nuts on one side of them and scornful experts on the other, the DRASTIC researchers often felt as if they were on their own in the wilderness, working on the world’s most urgent mystery.

This is several years after Bannon’s advisory role in the Trump campaign.

Example 2—in reference to the February 19, 2020 statement by the medical journal The Lancet, signed by 27 scientists saying, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” which shut down open discussions on the issue:

And yet, in the wake of the Lancet statement and under the cloud of Donald Trump’s toxic racism, which contributed to an alarming wave of anti-Asian violence in the U.S., one possible answer to this all-important question remained largely off-limits until the spring of 2021.

There was no alarming wave of anti-Asian violence—although that was a storyline invented by the legacy media. Dennis Prager goes through the actual facts here. And anything Donald Trump said against China was clearly against the CCP, not the people. Nor is there any evidence cited (because there wasn’t any to cite) of his “toxic racism.”

Example 3—in reference to former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield’s report—after leaving his position as Trump left office—to the threats and ostracizing he received for trying to voice an opinion that didn’t align with the prescribed narrative as stated in the Lancet:

With President Trump out of office, it should be possible to reject his xenophobic agenda and still ask why, in all places in the world, did the outbreak begin in the city with a laboratory housing one of the world’s most extensive collection of bat viruses, doing some of the most aggressive research?

The fact is that President Trump didn’t have a xenophobic agenda, and reference to such a statement has nothing to do with the subject of this article.

Example 4—in reference to a dossier showing problems with the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s research, compiled by Miles Yu, the State Department’s principal China strategist, who had given it to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had made it public, following which the Director of National Security attempted to put out an ambiguous statement in support of the “it was natural” narrative:

Then, the bomb-thrower-in-chief weighed in. At a press briefing just hours later, Trump contradicted his own intelligence officials and claimed that he had seen classified information indicating that the virus had come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Asked what the evidence was, he said, “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that.”

Trump’s premature statement poisoned the waters for anyone seeking an honest answer to the question of where COVID-19 came from. According to Pottinger, there was an “antibody response” within the government, in which any discussion of a possible lab origin was linked to destructive nativist posturing.

Worker inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, China, on Feb. 23, 2017.
(Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images), image found here

Oddly, the point of the article, in short, is that Deep State operatives prevented the truth from being sought or revealed.

So, if you get past the obvious toxic bias, you can glean some actual facts.

The facts were available a year ago, and were presented accurately, and with good substantiation, in the Epoch Times documentary Tracking Down the Origin of Wuhan Coronavirus, from April 2020. I re-watched it after reading the article. It has held up well. I prefer the straight news of the maligned-as-biased-but-actually-accurate Epoch Times to the snarky, Trump-derangement-syndrome perspective of the Vanity Fair writer. And it was also good to know in April 2020, instead of waiting until June 2021.

Joshua Philipp discusses Fauci emails on Crossroads

The point here is, if you are just now suddenly learning that the virus very likely came from a Wuhan lab just up the street from that wet market they blamed, then you’re listening to the wrong news sources.

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Capitol Hill, May 26, 2021
(Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images), image found here

One thing the Anthony Fauci emails have been showing is—what we already knew—his willingness to lie to the American people in order to get behavior that he wants to elicit, rather than simply showing the science and letting the people make decisions.

That willingness of officials to lie to us has been a real plague.

I’m still struggling to know for certain when I’m getting accurate information, as I assume everyone is. So, since you can’t get good information from regular news sources, you might as well experiment with some other sources and practice using your discernment. With that in mind, here are some articles and videos that caught my attention lately. Even the most unconventional sources, where you ought to be skeptical, are likely to bring you more truth than the media that conforms to some propaganda narrative. And whatever is true is likely to come out even in the biased MSM eventually.

·        “Live Q&A: Fauci Emails Suggest Lab Coverup; Gain-of-Function Research Enters Spotlight” Joshua Philipp on Crossroads, EpochTV  (may require subscription). Philipp speaks about the Vanity Fair article and his documentary from last year. He also covers the Fauci emails. The first ¾ of the program are available on YouTube. 

 

·        “Fauci Team Scrambled in January 2020 to Respond to Lab Leak Allegations, Emails Show” by Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke for The Epoch Times, June 3, 2021. 

 

·        “Dr. Fauci Under Fire for Sending $600K in Funding to Wuhan Lab; ‘Virus Origin’ Theory Getting Traction” Roman Balmakov on Facts Matter, EpochTV, May 29, 2021. 

 

·        “US government officials helped China cover up COVID origins” Tucker Carlson Tonight, June 2, 2021. 

 

·        “Study Claims Mask Mandates Didn’t Slow Pandemic” by Dr. Rebecca Deurlein, Katy Christian Magazine, June 3, 2021.  In summary, data shows that “states that mandated masks saw no discernable difference in the spread of Covid-19 from those that did not.”

 

·       "Lawsuit Filed Against Houston Methodist Hospital System for Illegally Requiring Employees to Take Experimental COVID-19 'Vaccine'” by Dr. Steven Hotze, Katy Christian Magazine, May 31, 2021. Here are the concluding paragraphs of this fact-based opinion piece:  

o   This is the first time in the history of the United States that an employer is coercing and forcing its employees to participate in an experimental “vaccine” trial as a condition for continued employment. Methodist Hospital is forcing its employees to be human guinea pigs for this experimental “vaccine.” / In writing to his Methodist employees, David Bernard, CEO of Houston Methodist, Baytown Hospital stated, “100% vaccination is more important than your individual freedom. Every one of you is replaceable. If you do not like what you’re doing you can leave, and we will replace your spot.” This is coercion and it is illegal.

 

·        “117 employees sue Houston Methodist over COVID-19 vaccine requirement” by Janelle Bludau, KHOU 11 News, May 28, 2021.  This is a news piece on the same issue as above.

 

·        “Vaccine researcher admits ‘big mistake,’ saysspike protein is dangerous ‘toxin’” by Celeste McGovern for LifeSite News, May 31, 2021.  The piece begins with this:

o   New research shows that the coronavirus spike protein from COVID-19 vaccination unexpectedly enters the bloodstream, which is a plausible explanation for thousands of reported side-effects from blood clots and heart disease to brain damage and reproductive issues, a Canadian cancer vaccine researcher said last week.

 

·        “Urgent Warning—Teens Experiencing Heart Problems After Jab—Dr. Jane Ruby” on the Stew Peters Show, May 30, 2021.  Dr. Ruby points out that there is nothing “mild” about myocarditis. The numbers that the CDC considers “small” are 148 and growing—higher than a usual trigger for concern and possibly ending a vaccination program—with a surge in cases under 18, now that there is a push for vaccinating teens, who are at very low risk from COVID-19.

 

·        “CDC investigates dozens of reports of heartinflammation in teenagers and young adults that occur four days after theirsecond dose of Moderna or Pfizer vaccines” by James Gordon for The Daily Mail, May 22 (updated May 23), 2021.  This is the story referred to in the video above. While much of the story tries to press the importance of vaccination and the danger of the disease, one paragraph says this:

o   Children generally face low risks of Covid, with the fatality rate well below zero, which has raised questions about whether getting them vaccinated against COVID-19 is for kids' own protection or to protect more at-risk adults.

 

·        “Dr. Hodkinson Interview—Covid-19 Vaccines, Infertility & Spike Protein Dangers” Independent journalist Taylor Hudak interviews Dr. Roger Hodkinson, uploaded to BitChute May 30, 2021.  Dr. Hodkinson claims to be pro-vaccine, but he fears dangers to young people, and risks of permanent infertility in males and females from the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

 

·        “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: a review of SARS Lab Escapes” by Gilles Demaneuf, Nov. 16, 2020. This is the DRASTIC report referred to in the Vanity Fair piece referenced in today’s post. 

 

·        “How Trump’s Vaccines Prevent the Great Reset and Save Humanity” James Fetzer blog post April 30, 2021.  The part that connects the pandemic to what is called the Great Reset, an intentional collapse of world economies in order to replace them with a controlled (socialist) economy is at least an explanation worth examining. Much of the rest of this—the plan to modify humans to be part robots, for example—is too far-fetched for me to entertain as a possibility at this time. But there are bits of information mixed in here. It’s a long read. It also links to this:

o   “FULL REPORT: The Plan To Control The Whole World” by David Sörensen for Stop World Control, which looks to be a blog or website. Again, the “take over the world” conspiracy seems far-fetched, but many of the things he talks about I have observed, and he does provide a pretty good list of citations at the end.