The Atlantic Publishes a Howler Denying Wuhan Lab Leak Origins

We sincerely hope that a whistleblower at The Atlantic magazine will tell James O’Keefe how much the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is paying them to publish hilarious propaganda. In a true howler of an article published on March 16, 2023, The Atlantic has discovered two different possible “natural” causes for the Wuhan coronavirus, which don’t involve the Level 4 military lab in Wuhan.

To muddy the waters even further, CNN got Anthony Fauci to say that it’s sort of a “natural occurrence” for a virus to leak from a big lab like this anyway. Huh?!

Before we get to The Atlantic’s hilarious new theory, this is kind of new for even Fauci. (Then again, he flip-flops every day, so…) Fauci has now admitted that the lab leak is the most likely source of the outbreak. The Chi-Coms were tinkering with bat coronaviruses, and a modified bat coronavirus with a patented strand of DNA created by Moderna is the COVID-19 thing we’ve all caught over the past three years, so yeah. It’s a lab leak.

But now Fauci says that even if a virus leaks from a lab, he would consider that “naturally occurring.” This is a tremendous leap in logic. Maybe he means it’s “natural” for communists in one of their sloppy labs with weak protocols to let one of their bioweapons leak out? This is like claiming that the meltdown at Chernobyl was “naturally occurring,” since it was natural commie sloppiness that led to that debacle.

Being totally serious, though, that’s not what Fauci means. He’s most likely suggesting that the virus got out when Wuhan researchers were transporting a bat from a cave in China to the lab. If that were true (which it’s obviously not), the Chinese government could have just gone and found more bats in the same cave to prove this was caused by an animal outbreak. Since they didn’t do that, and since Sars-COV-2 has strands of manufactured DNA that were patented by pharmaceutical companies as far back as 2013, it’s almost a near-certainty that this came from the Wuhan lab.

Which brings us to The Atlantic’s hilarious new theory. The magazine is now claiming that there were raccoon dogs at the wet market in Wuhan, at the same time that the coronavirus was present. The Atlantic calls this, “The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic.”

And we’ve known for a couple of years that the coronavirus can spread to raccoon dogs and back to humans. The fact that COVID-19 can pass to animals and back to humans is why it was always a ridiculous fantasy that a vaccine would get us to “COVID Zero.” It’s not like the government was going to go out in the forest and vaccinate every deer and opossum on the planet. COVID is here to stay, whether we like it or not.

The Atlantic is dead set on this new narrative, though. Since there’s genetic evidence that raccoon dogs and COVID-19 were in the Wuhan wet market at the same time, it didn’t come from the Level 4 military bioweapon lab down the street in Wuhan. Case closed!

We don’t know for certain that the virus came from that lab, but… it came from the lab, right?

Since I don’t trust anyone in charge anymore when it comes to anything having to do with COVID or the vaccines, I’m still keeping my personal “Never eat bat soup” rule in effect. And I will certainly add a new “Never eat a raccoon dog sandwich” rule to the list, just to be on the safe side.

But why is The Atlantic still clinging to this wet market BS? We’ve known for a couple of years now that raccoon dogs are sold and eaten at the market, and they can carry the coronavirus. Even the New York Times has admitted that it’s a near impossibility that an infected raccoon dog could have spread the virus to a human. It’s far more likely, the Times has noted, that an infected human from the Level 4 lab spread the virus around to animals and people at the wet market.

This latest howler from The Atlantic is behind a really expensive paywall, so we won’t bother linking to it. If you want to pay $80 to go read the nonsense for yourself, feel free.

One thing that’s certain from this “breaking news” story is that the Atlantic is still taking cash to run interference for the CCP.