China virus

Covid is a case study in how politics interferes with science. Early on the democrats asked what shall we do and Trump asked whom should be blame. In August 2020 Trump said China could have stopped it, but they allowed it to come out. What should be done was answered by Biden using the Trump vaccine to vaccinate everyone. Whom to blame is yet to be answered. Trump hoped from the start that China would be blamed to exonerate him from claims of mishandling. Democrats wanted to blame Trump so they were reluctant to look into the cause. Now with many more facts available China is becoming more and more the blame. They first withheld information and later gave false information by saying the virus will not spread human to human. Even though the lab at Wuhan looked liked the best source China said it was from an animal. When workers in the lab came down with unexplained flu like symptoms it was covered up and then scientist were told to keep quiet and some were arrested and some just disappeared. Later China got the WHO to agree with their ideas about where the virus started. If it was the lab the US would be implicated since the US was funding the lab. In order to deflect responsibility the US government went all out to say it was from an animal and they also went all out to say anyone who says it came from the lab is just offering conspiracy theories. Starting early on and continuing through the summer months the press joined forces with the government scientists and the WHO to denounce the idea of an escaped lab virus and pushed hard on the idea that it came from an animal. When scientist came out and said the obvious place was the lab the government responded by asking where is the proof. Of course the proof that it came from an animal was what China and the WTO said. This is an ongoing investigation but China will not help.