{"id":12366,"date":"2020-05-13T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12366"},"modified":"2020-05-13T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:48:43","slug":"unbearable-truths-about-our-current-political-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/unbearable-truths-about-our-current-political-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbearable Truths About Our Current Political Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the truth is like mythical kryptonite. It radiates power and yet promises great destruction. And so reality is to be left alone, encased in lead, and kept at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take the Chinese genesis of the COVID-19 epidemic. We started in February with the usual Chinese deceptions about their role in the birth, transmission, and worldwide spread of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one, apparently except Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates, was surprised by the accustomed politically correct prevarications of the Chinese-purchased World Health Organization, whose transparent lies were passed off as truth\u2014and led to tens of thousands of deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On cue, our own obsequious media accepted Chinese and globalist myths\u2014their shared antipathy for President Trump meant whatever he is for or says, they are against and deny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But by late March the bits and pieces of the truth&nbsp;<em>had<\/em>&nbsp;emerged. All that gobbledygook talk of a Chinese wet market, of patient-zero bats, snakes, pangolins and such, were likely ruses to deflect attention from a conveniently nearby level-4 Chinese virology lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are beginning to learn that Chinese scientists were conducting research on\u2014surprise, surprise\u2014coronaviruses in general, and in particular, methods to enhance their lethality, all for the ostensibly exalted humanitarian aim of discovering cures and vaccinations, although how that was to be so was never quite disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/05\/10\/unbearable-truths-about-our-current-political-moment\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Sometimes the truth is like mythical kryptonite. It radiates power and yet promises great destruction. And so reality is to be left alone, encased in lead, and kept at bay. Take the Chinese genesis of the COVID-19 epidemic. We started in February with the usual Chinese deceptions about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ds","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13034,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-nature-of-chinese-contempt-for-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":12366,"position":0},"title":"The Nature of Chinese Contempt for US","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 26, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness LAST WEEK IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, CHINESE diplomats dressed down Biden Administration Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. 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