In 2018, US Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab
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The context is that the US diplomats were asking for continued US funding for a program that trained Chinese lab technicians. The people writing this memo were not even experts. They were diplomats, and were merely relating what their Chinese hosts at the lab had told them - that the US training program was important and should be continued. Rogin has been trying to twist that into a claim that the lab was unsafe, and that diplomats were raising red flags.
I think this is the biggest story of our time and no-one, not even the United States government, knows what the hell to do about it.
If Western civilisation was healthy, a major focus of public conversation would be what we are supposed to do about this.
Instead? That royal kid and his actress wife. Despair doesn't cover it.
It's funny how the whole story is dripping in the victimization narrative too, proving that you can be literal royalty and claim oppression & injustice.
They're among the most privileged people on the planet, and we're supposed to think this speaks to anything important, especially given the state of the world and immense suffering of average people.
Bingo, there's a weird curation of news and pop culture that seeks to fit everything into the media narrative.
So you've got the upper echelon of society portrayed in ways that are supposed to key into the narrative applied to common people, as though there's anything relatable between the two.
Of course, the people that inhabit the media are anything but down-to-earth, so it's an uphill battle already.
They've got their own class bias and relatively monolithic, conformist worldview as a starting point.
As far as anyone can generalize an entire profession like that, it seems like this is the only way to explain the mismatch between society & media.
The conversation doesn't seem to correspond with reality or any sense of proportion.
If you're surprised that this wasn't the default narrative from the mainstream US news networks then you should look into China's ownership stake in the big news networks.
That's... a strong statement.
I'm starting to become bemused at the people are now talking about the lab origin as having been somewhat obvious all along.