OPINION: Instead of indignation at the censorship of our scientists, this nation is consumed by an irresolvable, politically driven dispute over the origins of Covid — lab leak or zoonotic spillover? That debate is all but pointless.
The New York Times recently reported about a horrific situation at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when COVID-19 first appeared. No, it wasn’t about whether a bat or a pangolin or an experiment gone wrong had set off an epidemic. It was far worse.
Why couldn’t those scientists warn the public? The CDC was under intense pressure from the country’s political leaders not to tell the truth. Trump administration officials were not allowing the world’s leading public health authority to say what it believed.The details of what happened behind the scenes at the Epidemic Intelligence Service are new, but the political throttling of the CDC played out in plain sight at the time.
Isn’t this demonstrable decision to politicize, censor and ultimately conceal the dangers of COVID as unacceptable as anything the Chinese government may have done to obscure its origins and silence whistleblowers?
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