The Lie That Just Won't Die: COVID Lab-Leak

In spite of all available evidence to the contrary, the COVID lab-leak conspiracy fantasy just refuses to go away as anti-China sentiment rises in the West.

I expect ignorant, dishonest dumbfucks such as Jimmy Doreknob, Joe Rogaine-Averse, Bobby “Genocide Those Palestinians” Kennedy, Jr., and other Red MAGA buffoons to lie about the origins of COVID 19. They all have vested monetary interests in denying its zoonotic beginning. But otherwise respectable activists like Jessica Wildfire really have turned out to be major disappointments as of late. It’s also dangerous, but I’ll get to that in a bit.

In a recent post on Ok Doomer, Wildfire repeated the often-debunked lie that the virus somehow began in the laboratory at Wuhan and spread from there. She pretends to back this up citing dishonest government and media sources that have never been able to support their assertions. I won’t go into this in depth today, as I haven’t the time, but here is a good video from virologists at Microbe.TV, that explains far better than a layman such as myself can why SARS-CoV-2 could not have come from a laboratory and instead most likely originated in nature.

What makes Wildfire’s embrace of the lab-leak lie so dangerous is its contribution to the increasing Sinophobia now taking place in the West as it tries desperately to start a war with China to try and prop up the rapidly crumbling U.S. global empire. When you spread unfounded accusations asserted as fact, you’re helping spread pro-war propaganda that aids the empire in pressing its agenda. I don’t know why I have to explain that initiating a war with a nuclear power, a war based entirely on deception and driven by racism, is a horrendously bad idea.

It also undermines efforts by COVID-conscious activists to warn the public about the still-present dangers of repeated infection. Conspiracy fantasies such as the lab-leak lie feed into false claims that the virus is somehow no big deal despite it causing severe cumulative damage to every organ of the body including the brain and heart, immune system depletion, and mitochondria exhaustion. As well, it feeds anti-vaxxers’ lunacy, which claims that the vaccines, and not the supposedly “mild cold”, are the bigger danger. You simply can’t expect people to take you seriously about the very real threat posed by SARS-CoV-2 when you push blatantly false claims made by people who want to convince everyone that it’s some kind of bioweapon cooked up in a lab that is simultaneously no worse than the common cold.

The truth is that, like too many on the left, Jessica Wildfire is perpetuating what she knows for a fact is an outright lie, because she has bought—knowingly or unknowingly—into white supremacist notions of threats from potential Chinese overlords. At a time when Western leaders have become so unhinged at the prospect of having to share geopolitical power with non-white nation-states, to the point they are perfectly willing to usher in a nuclear holocaust if they can’t have uncontested dominance of the planet and its resources, participating in the madness is unconscionable.