Jonah Goldberg: Anti-Trump sentiment fueled premature dismissal of Wuhan lab theory
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
May 28, 2021
3 minutes
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan, China.
Just to set the stage, the lab-leak theory isn’t that China deliberately unleashed the virus as some sort of biological attack. If that were the plan, it seems unlikely that Chinese leaders would deploy this bioweapon on their own people first.
No, the theory is that this
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