John Stewart Bravely Goes Where I Did a Year Earlier...
Seems like only yesterday that it was Feb, 2020, and I was posting on FB about the likely Wuhan lab origin of Covid, while speculating that because the US had funded gain of function research there, it well knew what was going on behind its walls and the outbreak could well have been planned/planted in order to incriminate China. In other words, that it could have been a genuine leak/accident, or it could have been a false flag designed to convince the Western masses that China was to blame.
Fast forward 16 months later, and John Stewart delivered a very funny bit about how obvious the lab leak theory was, and always had been. This after the mainstream media was roundly shown to be a bunch of lying scum, along with big social media companies that were colluding with the US government and censoring any speculation that the virus might not have been naturally occuring.
As with all mainstream narratives, the question is why this, why now?
Why, after silencing anyone who speculated about the obvious lab origins of the virus for over a year, was a popular celebrity name given a platform to establish the narrative as credible?
My take is that the powers that be were forced to acknowledge that their gaslighting attempt at manufacturing “scientific consensus” that the lab leak theory was all but impossible had been revealed in too many places and with too much damaging evidence, so they did what any good PR group would, which is to get out in front of the story and reclaim the narrative so as to control it. The lab origin is out of the bag, but to spin it they need to shape it, and the best way to do so is to own it now that the censorship hasn’t worked.
A fair question is what’s next? Depends on what misdirection they want to employ from here on out. They have proven that the American public is especially easy to gaslight - Russiagate, Syrian gas attacks, WMD’s in Iraq, Novochok have all proven as much. So my bet would be to distract via a China demonification campaign, as that is the only real way to pivot now that the origin has been acknowledged.
As the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times…