For months, as coronavirus brought the American way of life to a halt, our scientific establishment ignored the most basic question of all: Where did this illness come from?
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Good evening and
welcome to Tucker Carlson
tonight
its one of the deepest
paradoxes of the moment that we
are living in
all of a sudden. Nobody believes
anything, and yet nobody is
allowed to ask questions about
anything.
So, in a moment like this, its
worth reminding ourselves that
skepticism is the essence of
science.
Scientists challenge every
assumption. They test every
hypothesis.
Scientists believe nothing until
they can prove it.
The scientific method doesnt
just occur. Israel was
questioning of everything. It
requires that
scientists who simply believe
what they are told arent
scientists at all. They are
dangerous posers.
Suddenly we have a lot of those
in this country
for months as a strange new
disease brought the american way
of life to a halt. Our
scientific establishment ignored
the most basic question of all.
Where did this illness come
from
to this day we still dont know
the answer to that
in place of verifiable facts are
leaders accepting the story
theyve been handed by
propagandists in the chinese
government.
The virus came from a food
market in the industrial city of
Wuhan, where somehow it jumped
from an animal, possibly a bat,
coming to a human being
thats. What the chinese
government told our leaders and thats what our leaders told us
thats what our leaders told us.
There was never any evidence. It
was true.
They called the new virus, Covid
short for coronavirus disease.
They wanted the most generic
possible name for it. They
wanted to obscure any
relationship between this new
virus and the chinese government
government.
From its very first days. This
pandemic was shrouded in lives.
Scientists who asked too many
question were swiftly punished.
Some appear to have been killed.
China is required to rewrite
history and claimed it was
transparent all along
just two weeks ago, the head of
emergency at Wuhan Central
Hospital, Dr Fife income, also
went public. She has now
disappeared, whereabouts, unknown,
unknown,
sat in the
United States in twenty twenty. We have to
play the tape from the Stronong
his organization to get close to
whats really happening in the
world.
In a few minutes, we will try to
get even closer. We will speak
to a chinese virologist, who is
one of the first people in the
world to study this new
coronavirus early in the
outbreak.
What she found shocked her and
she did not stay quiet about it. For that reason, in late April.
For that reason, in late April
she was forced to flee China and
they came instead of from a
laboratory in Wuhan.
The chinese government does not want you to know that and
want you to know that, and
neither does the american left.
They refused and then thats a
problem for the left in the
country,
thats why they are trying to
shut them down.
She is living testament to the
fact that everything progresses
Claiaim, that America is
genocidal, totalitarian,
systematically, racist and
environmentally destructive
China, actually is their ally. Is
everything that we claim we are
Tom. Cotton was one of the few
american politicians who refuse
to believe what the guy chinese
government said.
No expert here had thought to
do. He looked at what
specialists call a map
notice, something Interestingng o
that map
the Wuhan wet market. Whwhere, we
were told to coronavirus
originated, was very close to a
chinese laboratory that worked
on exotic virus research
heres. What we do this virus
did not originate in the Wuhan
Animal market.
Thats researching human
infectious diseases
we dont have evidence of this
disease originated there, but
because of Chinas duplicity and
dishonesty from the beginning, we
need to at least ask question.
We need to at least
ask the question. Senator cotton
says
what explained our media
stooges.
No questions allowed.
The Chinese have spoken.
Anyone who questions the chinese
government is, by definition,
deranged
Tom cotton. A couple of days ago, spotted a conspiracy theory
ago, spotted a conspiracy theory that the Chinese made this fire
that the Chinese made this fire
is
in the 1980s. I remember when
the far left traffic in rumors
about HIV, which hasnt been
invented in CIA labs.
Why are these
people all of them with college
and high paying
and trtrying to get good with
their new leaders,
its scary
ifif, you keep asking questions,
will attack you as a mentally
ill and we will lie as we do it
as they always do.
They knew that Tom Cotton never
claimed the virus was invented
in a laboratory.
He asked if it originated there
and its not a crazy question,
maybe an animal transmitted to
researchers and then the chinese
government to quarantine those
researchers
thats as reasonable as any other explanation, but to the
other explanation, but to the
news networks in this country.
It was a little awkward when, in
March, the Chinese Foreign
Ministry accuse the
United States of inventing
coronavirus.
In fact, it may be the: U Dot S army
who brought the epidemic to
Wuhan,
be transparent and make the
public your data,
the spokesman, who brazenly said
that went on to argue that
anyone who suggested the virus
had anything to do with China is extremely irresponsible,
extremely irresponsible.
So the media says that China
Virus Wee are tracing the origi
of the virus.
So ask yourself, as you watch
that is that how innocent
people talk?
No its, not
thats. How guilty people try to
wipe away their crimes,
but our media class to see a
problem with that at all and
more to the point they
understood their marching
orders.
They argued the Chinese
Communist Party, a group that
puts minority populations in concentration camps was actually
concentration. Camps was actually
the victim of racism
that snacking of his xenophobia
and where he thinks the only
path now is where we declared
virus public enemy number one
at such a common thing, its
incredibly dangerous and its
problematic and its scary, and
we just really want to call that
out.
Why do you keep calling it?
The chinese virus
is not
racist at all.
It comes from China
thats. Why
really of all the
outrages committed by armed the
class in the last four years?
That may be the one it was the
longest
and it causes a machine
that is essentially betraying
your country right there.
So there is a reason: CNN
published a piece in January
thats an example of trump
administrations, lack of
diversity. The same reason that the
the same reason that the
Joe Biden campaign and meanwhile,
meanwhile, the layers kept lying
lying
public radio boasted that half a
dozezen scientists have research
on how coronavirus is conducted
it. There is virtually no chance
that the new coronavirus was
released as a result of a
laboratory accident in China or
anywhere else.
So Tom cotton must be a mental
patient.
Strangely NPR forgot to
mentioned the two releases of
the Sars virus. No chance and it
never happens.
They mostly ignored the twenty eighteen
State Department report that
concluded Chinas Wuhan
Laboratory, a serious shortage
of appropriate leaks, trained
technicians and investigators
needed to seemingly operated
this high containment, app
laboratory. No chance ignore the data,
no chance ignore the data.
Otherwise you are racist.
The early coronavirus patients
in Wuhan had no connection
whatsoever to the met, wet
market
watch
from the very beginning
throughout December it was
spreading and we now know it was
spreading human to human,
but the official line of the
chinese government was this is
all related to an animal market
and once they closed the market,
it would all go away.
Did they know differently? At
that time?
Absolutely
we were seeing cases coming, I in
the hospitals, but it had nothing
whatsoever to do with the animal
market.
It had nothing
whatsoever to do with the animal
market.
Oh okay.
No chance
the Associated Press meantime
found that top chinese officials
knew they were facing a pandemic
for nearly a week in January, but
didnt tell anyone.
Instead, the chinese government
hosted a banquet for tens of
thousands of people and millions
came in and they spread all
around the world about the virus
with them
for them to blame the
United States. They blame the
United States for everything.
This was all bad news, better,
ignore it
worth learning about, because we
dont want another pandemic. If
we can prevent it,
science is the only answer.
Subverting science will make it
much more likely that we get
sick again,
but even now, months later, only
beginning to fully understand
the levels of economic and
cultural damage that this virus
from China did to this country
and to the world, and we are Onln
just beginning to understand the
extent to which our own
politicians and our media class
were complicit in that
the only way to get to the truth.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-16.