BIDEN ADMIN ACCUSED OF HIDING COVID EVIDENCE THAT CONTRADICTED CHINA’S NARRATIVE

Imagine a global disaster that killed over seven million people, left hundreds of millions ill, shattered economies, and traumatized a generation. This sounds like a world war — yet what makes it so disturbing is that we still don’t fully understand how it started, and many in power seem uninterested in finding out.

It’s as if we fought World War II and then collectively shrugged at the question of what ignited it.

Fresh attention is now being paid to long-suppressed information that contradicts not only the Chinese government’s official COVID-19 narrative, but also statements from the Biden administration, academia, and the mainstream media.

From the beginning, China claimed the virus emerged from a wet market in Wuhan in December 2019 — supposedly from a natural animal-to-human transmission. But many questioned that explanation, pointing instead to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a nearby government-run lab known to conduct risky coronavirus experiments on bats, and one that had a history of poor safety practices.

The so-called “lab-leak theory” — which many believed was the most plausible from the outset — gained more credibility when scientists noticed what appeared to be unnatural modifications in the virus’s structure, particularly in the spike protein that allows it to infect human cells. This pointed to a potential “gain-of-function” experiment gone wrong. Still, despite its scientific merit, this theory was quickly silenced in favor of the politically safe “natural origins” claim.

China wasted no time in covering its tracks. Scientists were muzzled, the Wuhan lab was sealed off from international investigators, and global health organizations — heavily influenced by Beijing — dismissed or ignored the lab-leak scenario.

Now, a newly declassified U.S. military report, released under the Trump administration, shows that American service members experienced COVID-like symptoms after attending the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019. This predates China’s public timeline and suggests the virus was circulating earlier than admitted — raising the possibility of a broader, deliberate cover-up. Several other countries also reported similar illnesses among their military personnel who attended the same games.

While this raises serious concerns about China’s actions, it also points to disturbing behavior within our own government.

Rumors about U.S. troops becoming sick after the games had been circulating for years. Congressional Republicans repeatedly pressed the Biden administration for information. But in June 2021, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby claimed the military had “no knowledge” of infections from those games.

Even as reports of illnesses mounted, the Biden administration refused to confirm any U.S. cases. A 2022 military report on the matter was kept hidden from both lawmakers and the public. If these allegations are true, the administration knowingly withheld critical information from the American people and the world.

It gets worse. A Wall Street Journal report revealed that U.S. government scientists who found evidence supporting the lab-leak theory were actively silenced. Some were even barred from briefing President Biden. Agencies like the FBI and the Department of Energy found the lab theory plausible, yet their findings were suppressed, and dissenting voices within the government were told they were “off the reservation.”

While government experts were being sidelined and silenced, the public was fed a single narrative — the one crafted by China. American academics and media personalities pushed this view aggressively. Scientists who questioned it were publicly attacked or pressured into silence. Letters and op-eds condemning the lab-leak theory as racist or conspiratorial flooded the press.

Once President Trump voiced support for the lab theory, media hostility intensified. MSNBC, CNN, and others dismissed the theory as debunked nonsense. When Senators like Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz brought it up, they were ridiculed by fact-checkers and pundits who claimed there was no scientific basis for the idea.

Even after new evidence surfaced in 2021, the media doubled down. New York Times science writers warned journalists not to mention the lab theory for fear of fueling “racism.” Social media platforms, often in coordination with the Biden White House, censored posts that raised legitimate questions. Experts were blacklisted, their work hidden or flagged as misinformation.

It’s now clear that the virus may have been spreading in Wuhan long before the wet market outbreak. These lost months could have made all the difference in containing the virus. Instead, China allegedly covered it up — and worse, turned around and accused the U.S. of releasing the virus during the military games.

Back in 2020, some analysts argued that China might escape accountability simply because the disaster was too massive to confront. Like Stalin once said: “A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” In this case, over seven million deaths seem to have been brushed off as just that — a statistic.

Congress and members of the former Trump administration are now trying to piece together the truth. Much is still unknown, but the world has already paid a staggering price. For the families of the dead, the sick, and the permanently injured, these questions are far more than political talking points — they’re personal, and they deserve real answers.

COMMENTARY:

What we are witnessing today is not just a health crisis of unprecedented proportions — it’s a betrayal of trust, and it demands accountability at every level. The evidence emerging about the origins of COVID-19, and the systematic effort to bury alternative theories, silence scientists, and suppress speech, is nothing short of outrageous. It’s time for those responsible — in China, in Washington, in academia, and in the media — to face consequences for what can only be described as a global deception.

From the beginning, there were serious doubts about the official narrative that COVID-19 emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan. Many scientists and security experts noted how suspiciously close the outbreak was to the Wuhan Institute of Virology — a lab known for experimenting with coronaviruses and gain-of-function research on bats. But instead of a serious investigation, we got a narrative. A narrative so aggressively pushed and defended that any other idea was labeled “misinformation,” and worse — “racist.”

Social media platforms joined the cover-up. Whistleblowers, independent journalists, and even well-credentialed scientists who dared to question the origins of the virus were censored, demonetized, deplatformed, or had warning labels slapped on their content. These were not fringe conspiracy theorists. Many of these individuals were seasoned virologists, epidemiologists, or reporters simply following the facts. But the truth was too dangerous for those who had already decided what story the world needed to hear.

This suppression wasn’t accidental. It was deliberate, coordinated, and shamefully political. Once President Trump and Republican lawmakers voiced concern about a lab leak, the media went into attack mode. Networks like CNN, MSNBC, and major publications dismissed the theory as “debunked.” In truth, it had never been thoroughly investigated. In fact, it was the most plausible theory from day one.

Meanwhile, we’re now finding out that inside the U.S. government, agencies like the FBI and the Department of Energy believed the lab-leak theory was not just plausible, but likely. Some scientists within these agencies reportedly tried to sound the alarm — only to be warned that they were “off the reservation.” The Biden administration allegedly silenced those voices, excluded them from important briefings, and withheld critical reports from Congress and the American people. That’s not just incompetence. That’s obstruction.

Now we know U.S. military personnel began showing COVID-like symptoms after the 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan — before China even acknowledged the virus. Reports of these illnesses were denied and buried. The Pentagon even claimed it had “no knowledge” of infections, despite mounting evidence. When this type of information is hidden from the public during a global health emergency, it’s not just bad policy — it’s a crime against transparency and the democratic process.

The Chinese government also played a massive role in suppressing the truth. They gagged Wuhan researchers, blocked international access to the lab, and used their influence over the World Health Organization to stifle the lab-leak theory. Then, in a twisted turn of propaganda, they even suggested that the U.S. might have introduced the virus at the military games. And yet, even with all this manipulation, many American leaders were more interested in defending Beijing than defending our right to the truth.

Let’s be clear — this isn’t about hindsight. People were raising red flags about COVID’s origins as early as January 2020. Social media posts, blog entries, independent video reports — all pointed to the possibility that the virus had escaped from a lab. These were voices that should have been taken seriously, or at least investigated. Instead, they were shouted down and purged from digital platforms.

The damage of this coordinated disinformation campaign is incalculable. Over 1.2 million Americans dead. More than 7 million worldwide. Mental health devastation. Ruined businesses. Children robbed of years of education. Families torn apart. And all this was made worse because the people in power refused to ask the hard questions — or worse, refused to let others ask them.

This wasn’t just about a virus. This was about control — control over the narrative, control over public opinion, and control over the flow of information. Social media giants acted like public health authorities, declaring what was and wasn’t “misinformation” even though they had no scientific expertise. And they did it at the behest of government officials, as we’ve seen in the Twitter Files and congressional investigations.

If a foreign adversary launched a cyberattack that led to this level of devastation, we would call it an act of war. But when a government — or multiple governments — engage in a global cover-up that leads to millions of deaths, we’re supposed to move on? That is unacceptable. We cannot allow those who orchestrated or enabled this deception to walk away without consequences.

Congress must act. Investigations must be reopened and intensified. We need full declassification of all COVID-related communications, especially those between the U.S. government and Big Tech companies. We need public hearings, and not just political theater — real accountability. Names must be named. People must be fired. If necessary, criminal charges should follow.

The victims of this pandemic — the sick, the dead, the traumatized — deserve the truth. The families deserve answers. And the world deserves to know whether this disaster could have been prevented if honesty hadn’t been sacrificed for politics.

This isn’t about vengeance. It’s about justice. It’s about restoring trust in the institutions that failed us. The longer we ignore the truth, the more damage we allow for the future. This is the moment to stand up and say: never again. Not without accountability. Not without transparency. Not without consequences.

ARTICLE:

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5245895-covid-origins-cover-up/amp/