by Bruce O’Hara
January 6, 2025
Dogs That Didn’t Bark,
What doesn’t happen is often as important as what does
I remember a Sherlock Holmes story where dogs not barking in a situation where they normally would do so became a clue for the great fictional detective to determine the identity of a murderer.
Things that don’t happen can tell us a lot. I remember early in the COVID pandemic when Anthony Fauci orchestrated the release of the Proximal Origins Lancet journal article which said definitively that COVID was a naturally-occurring virus; that there was no reason whatsoever to think it had been made in the Chinese lab next door to the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China.
When that story first came out, it had me scratching my head. I scoured my memory to try to think of a time when the US Government had missed an opportunity to be critical of China. Even with news stories about China that were questionable or patently false, if it made China look bad, the US Government and its media proxies were all over the story. Always.
Here was an incredible opportunity to portray China as the negligent creator of a nasty virus that was killing millions. It’s not like it would have been hard to do. Inserting something called a furin cleavage site is a very common intervention in genetic research, and a very uncommon occurrence in nature. Nowhere else in any known corona virus’ genome was there a furin cleavage site, but lo and behold there was one in the COVID virus, just at the very exact point which made the virus far more deadly and infectious. It would have been dead easy to argue that a Chinese lab origin for COVID was orders of magnitude more probable than natural origin.
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