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British 'Expert:' We Should Be Grateful COVID Started in China, and Stop Blaming Them

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  February 11, 2021 10:05 AM

When I first encountered this tweet, I had to make sure it wasn't satire. Sure enough, here we have the editor-in-chief of a prominent and globally-known medical journal arguing that we should be grateful that the pandemic originated in China, and that rightfully blaming the regime in Beijing amounts to "bias." I can't imagine how pleased the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda machine must be to have Western "experts" aiding and abetting their cause:

The Chinese government deliberately lied about Coronavirus in the early going, withholding crucial information about human-to-human transmission while circulating misinformation laundered through their henchmen at the World Health Organization. They falsely blamed the US military for starting the pandemic. They punished and disappeared internal medical whistleblowers, with other prominent critics vanishing. They have stonewalled and manipulated investigations into the origins of the pandemic, bullying and extorting nations that want a full and independent accounting, and using various threats and pressure to water down truthful criticisms about Beijing's program of disinformation. They covered-up the true extent of their outbreak and death toll, according to US intelligence, and literally welded doors closed to trap infected residents in their Wuhan apartment complexes. They shipped faulty and defective PPE and other supplies across the globe in a cynical public relations ploy, and they're selling governments an under-performing vaccine.


China did lie, and people did die. To pretend that accurately placing blame on the CCP is "biased" is, in fact, "complete and utter rubbish." It's embarrassing for the Lancet – which has endured its share of embarrassments – for their leader to echo this propaganda. This clip of a longtime American Sinophile columnist appearing on CNN might be almost as embarrassing:


China has fast bullet trains, in which the CCP can efficiently transport any political prisoners or dissidents they may feel like from one re-education center or forced labor camp to another (although it looks like they use other trains for such things). Friedman barely acknowledges such unpleasantness as ethnic cleansing, human rights abuses and systemic rape as he lavishes praise on the "seriousness" of the Chinese regime, compared to the United States. No mention of crushing democracy in Hong Kong, or anything mentioned above, either. He cites the controversy over Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as another unserious distraction that America, unlike China, is dealing with – which is true. China doesn't bother itself with the silly mess of "elections," in which undesirable people might actually be chosen to serve. And there's less of a concern about non-government-approved conspiracy theories spreading too dramatically because wrong think is criminalized. "I can add nothing," chirps the CNN anchor, who is a real piece of work himself.

I'll leave you with a Washington Post reporter attempting to dunk on Fox News anchor Bret Baier, swallowing whole a determination by the WHO – which is compromised by China, having spread misinformation on its behalf – disseminated with the permission of the Chinese regime. How convincing:

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UPDATES - WHO is compromised and non-credible, and Joe Biden's about-face is really something: