In the latest episode of Conspiracy Theories, we take a deep dive into the possibility that China may have released a deadly strain of SARS from an experimental lab in Wuhan, China. We talk about the implications of this, and whether or not the Chinese government is to blame.
00:00:00.000So, everyone who's been paying attention for the last, I don't know, three and a half years, whatever it was since COVID became a thing.
00:00:09.800It became fairly obvious fairly early that there was at least a very strong chance that COVID came from the experimental COVID lab in Wuhan province in China.
00:00:25.040Now, there have been conspiracy theories around it.
00:00:27.560People saying matter of factly, it's proven.
00:00:30.000Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I'm skeptical of that.
00:00:32.780I don't think we really know because the Chinese government's been so opaque around this stuff, intentionally opaque, or that it was intentionally released.
00:00:43.260I'm not sure what interest the Chinese would have in releasing that in their own backyard and devastating themselves worse than anyone else got hurt, creating all sorts of unrest.
00:00:51.080The Chinese Communist Party now has to more or less tolerate protests because anti-lockdown protests aren't just for Alberta.
00:01:00.440And they did not send in the tanks, Tiananmen Square style, to kill them for doing it, which was a bit of a surprise.
00:01:06.900But it was the idea that COVID came from a Wuhan lab.
00:01:12.960Ah, we can say this on YouTube now because the government agrees.
00:01:15.820YouTube, those of you watching on YouTube, this would be censored.
00:01:18.880What we're saying right now, one week ago, if we said this here, it would be censored by the bureaucrats working for the government at YouTube.
00:01:27.340Today, we can say it because the Federal Department of Health now admits that it is not a conspiracy theory, that it is the precise origin, while not yet known, is it now recognizes the significant possibility that it came from a, quote, laboratory incident, which is government speak for the Wuhan COVID lab.
00:01:52.340The health minister at the time during COVID, when this was a thing, a reporter asked her if we can trust the information coming from China.
00:01:59.340And she says, kind of referring to the area that it came from the lab, she says, you're promoting conspiracy theories and we need to work with China and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, very Chinese.
00:02:10.340They didn't want to offend the Chinese.
00:02:13.340I wonder why the liberals are so hesitant to offend the Chinese Communist Party.
00:02:17.340No idea why three and a half years ago, they could have been so hesitant to do so.
00:02:22.340But she called everyone discussing the possibility that the Chinese might not be the Chinese Communist Party might not be totally completely untoward.
00:02:59.340Well, you know, the sad thing is that people have suffered hugely because of a government that would not accept the possibilities.
00:03:15.340They're told to get vaccinated because the vaccines were safe and effective.
00:03:21.340Turned out that some were safer than others and none of them were totally effective.
00:03:26.340We were told that, well, we could possibly be a lab leak in Wuhan.
00:03:31.340Well, you know, they did what Mr. Mendocino did, didn't they?
00:03:35.340And because this stuff is admitted now, but it cannot have been unknown three years ago.
00:03:45.340And in fact, I often go back to the briefing that Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer,
00:03:53.340gave to the House of Commons Health Committee two weeks before the pandemic was declared in Canada,
00:04:02.340the state of public health emergency declared.
00:04:05.340So much of that information that she gave those people at that time, including the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of masks,
00:04:14.340the priority of protecting vulnerable populations, principally older people,
00:04:19.340that the thing was known to have a greater impact on older people and on younger people.
00:04:25.340All of this was known, and yet they went and did what they did anyway.
00:04:30.340Now, a conspiracy theory might be why they did that, but they were wrong and they wouldn't admit it.
00:04:36.340And those people who are now calling for a public inquiry into the whole COVID incident are on the right track.
00:04:43.340It's great that we have the, you know, the private enterprise one, but nobody's paying any attention.
00:04:48.340This time, it's time for a proper Royal Commission on how the government handled that whole issue.
00:04:56.340Corey, Paul Wells had an interesting column on his sub stack yesterday about the need for a public inquiry here.
00:05:05.340The thing was the British Medical Journal, as their main editorial, demanding the need for it.
00:05:13.340Most countries have had some kind of public inquiry around their response to COVID.
00:05:18.340Now, I imagine these things would be fairly sanitized and would probably not deal very much with any violations of people's liberties and freedoms,
00:05:29.340but probably deal more on just a technical, more bureaucratic level.
00:05:33.340But so far, the Liberals have refused to have a public inquiry.
00:05:37.340They generally just don't like public inquiries, regardless of the evidence.
00:05:40.340But, you know, they said they've committed, we're going to review it.
00:05:45.340They've never said, and they just keep on stating every six months or so, they get asked by reporters,
00:05:56.340What hesitancy do you think the Liberals would have in a public inquiry in this?
00:05:59.340Because they would get to frame the terms of reference and would probably pretty strictly,
00:06:03.340I would imagine if the Liberals did this, probably pretty strictly exclude any issues around the authoritarian tendencies of the government politically,
00:06:12.340around freedoms, probably just deal with this from a purely bureaucratic public health perspective.
00:06:18.340Why do you think they're so hesitant to do this?
00:06:20.340I think some of these threads tie together and, you know, into another inquiry that they really want to avoid.
00:06:26.340I mean, there were a lot of conspiracy theories all over the place.
00:06:30.340There really were some of where this virus came from, when it was emerging, when it was happening.
00:06:35.340Ironically, the one that was the theory that was most plausible evidence based was the one they wanted to shut down and call a conspiracy theory.
00:06:42.340I mean, my theory at the time was that it was actually from an undercooked bat sandwich in the lunchroom of the Wuhan lab.
00:07:33.340And they really there's some why going on out there that they do not want us to see.
00:07:37.340And they're fighting every kind of inquiry with all their might.
00:07:40.340And I suspect there's a thread here that leads over to the Chinese thread that is just turning into that big mess they want to keep a lid on.