On Sunday, John Hinderaker posted a commentary titled “Cui Bono,” [‘who benefits?”] voicing his opinion that it was unlikely the Covid-19 pandemic was an accident: Could the Chinese have deliberately arranged for the worldwide dissemination of the Wuhan virus? Yes, rather easily. They could have created the virus, too, but that isn’t necessary. Once the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, by means unknown, the rest was probably inevitable. Considering the unusual structure of Covid-19 for a bat virus and the fact that the Chinese dispatched a veritable army of carriers from Wuhan to the rest of the planet, Mr. Hinderaker’s view seems not at all unreasonable, especially since it coincides with my own! And so, I sprang into action and fired off an email to those unfortunates who reside in my correspondents list to apprise them of this discovery. You can just imagine the tone of some replies. The instant and categorical denial of...(Read Full Post)