{"id":13564,"date":"2021-06-17T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13564"},"modified":"2021-06-17T12:09:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T19:09:40","slug":"a-chinese-lab-virus-so-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-chinese-lab-virus-so-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese Lab Virus? So What Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over a year, the American establishment and media borg have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Chinese military-sponsored, level-4 biosafety Wuhan Institute of Virology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, \u201cjournalists\u201d and \u201cexperts\u201d concede that the nearby Wuhan lab may well be the most likely genesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the abrupt change? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump is no longer president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness For over a year, the American establishment and media borg have ostracized anyone who dared to connect the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic with the Chinese military-sponsored, level-4 biosafety Wuhan Institute of Virology.  Then, suddenly and without apologies for their past demagoguery, \u201cjournalists\u201d and \u201cexperts\u201d concede that the nearby […]<\/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-3wM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12305,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-power-of-media-ignorance\/","url_meta":{"origin":13564,"position":0},"title":"The Power of Media Ignorance","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Almost two weeks ago I offered at NRO a few\u00a0synopses\u00a0of various theories about why California \u2014 which, for a variety of reasons, had seemed so ripe for a New York\u2013style epidemic \u2014 had nonetheless strangely been exempt at least for a while from the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12255,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/china-boomeranging\/","url_meta":{"origin":13564,"position":1},"title":"China Boomeranging","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Sometime\u00a0in late November the Chinese Communist Party apparat was aware that the ingredients of some sort of an epidemic were brewing in Wuhan. 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