OPINION: The Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Should Have Never Been Labeled A ‘Conspiracy’

When the COVID-19 pandemic began last year, the legacy media repeatedly told the American people the virus emerged from bats in a Wuhan wet market. Some were skeptical about the narrative, particularly after a 15-page international document was leaked from Five Eyes — a coalition of intelligence agencies from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand — which indicated that China lied about the virus and its origins.

“China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an ‘assault on international transparency’ that cost tens of thousands of lives, according to a dossier prepared by concerned Western governments on the COVID-19 contagion,” The Daily Telegraph reported last year after obtaining a copy of the document. “It states that to the ‘endangerment of other countries’ the Chinese government covered-up news of the virus by silencing or ‘disappearing’ doctors who spoke out, destroying evidence of it in laboratories and refusing to provide live samples to international scientists who were working on a vaccine.”