Covid-2019 - 2021-05-28

The Wuhan lab origin narrative gains more momentum. Our lead item in "Recommended Reading," the video of the White House press briefing in which Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in her first day on the job, gives the worst possible answer to the hardest possible question. At 29:30 in the video, when asked by a persistent reporter, she says the White House has not ruled out that the release of the Covid-19 virus was a deliberate act by China. Meanwhile, today the New York Times triples down on the fear-porn with the headline "Covid’s Deadliest Phase May Be Here Soon."  The good news is that it is an editorial. At this point they are no longer pretending such things are "news."