{"id":398592,"date":"2021-05-20T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=398592"},"modified":"2021-05-21T17:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T21:31:32","slug":"rush-said-it-before-it-was-cool-covid-19-leaked-from-wuhan-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/20\/rush-said-it-before-it-was-cool-covid-19-leaked-from-wuhan-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Said It Before It Was Cool: Covid-19 Leaked from Wuhan Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRETT: A great piece of writing from Jim Geraghty over at National Review Online: “The Taboo on the COVID Lab-Leak Theory Lifts.” He notes, “On the menu today: Out of nowhere, it\u2019s seemingly hip and cool to point out the long-obvious fact that SARS-CoV-2,” which is covid-19, “could well be the result of a lab accident in Wuhan. And Politico drives me to do the unthinkable: call for people to get off Kamala Harris\u2019s back.”<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s a separate concern, but what he notes in this piece is that he\u2019s happy. He\u2019s happy because, “Some of us are COVID-origin hipsters,” who were the people who believed in the “lab-leak theory before it” was cool are starting to be justified. “I\u2019m glad Donald G. McNeil Jr., the prize-winning former science reporter for the New York Times, has concluded that, ‘the argument that [covid-19] could have leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology or a sister lab in Wuhan has become considerably stronger than it was a year ago, when the screaming was so loud that it drowned out serious discussion.'”<\/p>\n

Jim Geraghty writing, “I\u2019m glad that 18 scientists have written to Science magazine that, ‘We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data.'” We remember what happened a year ago, when anybody who mentioned that thought you were crazy.<\/p>\n

There are 18 scientists speaking and writing with a single voice and a message. A number of the publications on the left and the right, from National Review to the Washington Post and back again, now identify the lab in Wuhan as being the potential source. It\u2019s incredible. Do you remember? When you mentioned that a year ago, you were nuts?<\/p>\n

(impression) “Tom Cotton was saying it; he\u2019s practically out of his mind! Where is his medical degree?” Now people are like, “Eh, you know, it may have just leaked,” because believing people are eating bat soup and civets that ate bat soup or whatever weird wet market narrative that was out there from the Chinese Communist Party?<\/p>\n

That totally made sense! That totally made absolute sense. Geraghty notes, “Back when this pandemic began, I was like most people; I thought the virus most likely jumped from an animal at a wet market, because virologists had been warning about this sort of scenario for years.”<\/p>\n

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But when he published pieces like “The Trail Leading Back to the Wuhan Labs,” oh, now you start cutting a little close to the bone marrow there of the scandal. “The Wuhan Institute of Virology was indeed studying novel coronaviruses found in bats, as was the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control. Wuhan is indeed a great distance away from the natural habitat of bats…<\/p>\n

“Shi Zhengli, the Chinese virologist nicknamed ‘Bat Woman\u2019 for her work with that species, told Scientific American that when she heard about the outbreak, her first thought was, ‘Could they have come from our lab?'” It just goes on and on and on and on and on and still they try to dismiss you as a kook.<\/p>\n

Rush made it clear it should not be shocking at all to hear the ChiComs released the virus intentionally.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Paul in Greensboro, Georgia. I\u2019m glad you waited. It\u2019s great to have you here with us. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, two nights ago Tucker Carlson had a scientist on who worked in the Wuhan lab in China, and she basically stated that this virus was a designed virus. It was not something that was in nature. And I wanted to talk about that. And I don\u2019t want to go with the obvious where Google, Facebook, and Twitter censored her, but there\u2019s two things very interesting about that interview.<\/p>\n

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