by Ron Unz, The Unz Review:
The Fifth Anniversary of the Global Covid Epidemic
In recent years the sharp decline in quality of the New York Times has left the Wall Street Journal as America’s best major newspaper, a development that no one had expected when Rupert Murdoch purchased that venerable publication in 2007. Over the last couple of years, I’ve spent fewer and fewer minutes each morning reading the nonsense that the Times publishes, and one of these days may finally give up on it entirely.
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Consider, for example, the global Covid epidemic that began in early 2020 and dominated all the world’s headlines for the following couple of years. According to the careful analysis of the Economist, “excess deaths” due to Covid probably totaled around thirty million, and the disease certainly disrupted the lives of many billions more, while most of the American population spent much of the next year or two living under intermittent lockdowns.
The massive Covid coverage in the Times was led by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., a 45-year veteran of the newspaper, whose byline graced countless front-page stories during that period. But in 2021, the Times organized a lucrative Peru outing for wealthy high school students and the reluctant McNeil was cajoled into leading it. Unfortunately, some of those students reported McNeil for the “politically incorrect” language he had casually used, and despite his illustrious career the journalist was summarily purged from the Times, later telling the shocking story in a widely-discussed, four-part essay on Medium.
As the world suffered under the pandemic, the Times and every other Western media outlet had declared that Covid was a natural virus, denouncing as “conspiracy theorists” anyone who suggested otherwise, with Facebook enforcing that consensus by banning anyone who dissented from it.
But in May 2021, that established narrative was suddenly transformed by Nicholas Wade, a very distinguished science journalist who had spent decades at the Times including serving as its Science Editor. Wade self-published an 11,000 word blockbuster article pointing to the overwhelming genetic evidence that Covid was artificial and arguing that it had likely leaked from a lab.
