A Wuhan biosafety laboratory, bat blood, a wet market, scientists, pangolins, politicians looking for someone to blame: the perfect ingredients for a story that won’t go away
Then, of course, came Cotton’s Fox News commentary and the flurry of articles rejecting it. As the Daily BeastOne journalist can often be enough to achieve mainstream penetration, and the April 2 Ignatius column put the hypothesis back on the radar. “U.S. intelligence officials don’t think the pandemic was caused by deliberate wrongdoing,” wrote Ignatius, who is well-sourced within the national security apparatus.
Owen also reported that “despite its reputation for high security, there have been unverified local reports that workers at the institute became infected after being sprayed by blood, and then carried the infection into the local population.” Downing Street’s comment was that it “did not [recognize]” claims that the virus originated in a Chinese lab.
In a massive crisis of this kind, rumors flower and mutate. The Wuhan theory propagated as we’ve been bombarded by a dizzying volume of information, disinformation, and oftentimes confusing or conflicting information, about a mysterious illness that confounds brilliant scientists and tireless frontline doctors alike. In such an environment, it can be difficult even for the most measured and reality-based among us to gauge the truth. Masks don’t work, except when they do.
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