Askin' questions: Covid-19 edition

Askin' questions, raisin' concerns over at the Unz:

Was Coronavirus a Biowarfare Attack Against China?
OLDMICROBIOLOGIST • MARCH 13, 2020 • 3,400 WORDS • 464 COMMENTS • REPLY
[The following is the republication of several long and very detailed comments by an unidentified purported expert on biowarfare that originally appeared on a recent thread of the Saker blogsite.] I’ll throw my 2 cents in here. I have zero proof other than my gut feeling that this is a bioweapon. I do have 40... READ MORE

Was the 2020 Wuhan Coronavirus an Engineered Biological Attack on China by America for Geopolitical Advantage?
METALLICMAN • JANUARY 27, 2020 • 15,300 WORDS • 803 COMMENTS • REPLY
[Portions of this article were drawn from various sources as cited. However, additional portions seem to have been quoted from Larry Romanoff at Global Research without proper citation.] It does seem farfetched, doesn’t it? That the United States will risk World War III, using nuclear weapons, by launching a coronavirus inside China during the 2020... READ MORE

Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself?
PHILIP GIRALDI • MARCH 5, 2020 • 1,100 WORDS • 759 COMMENTS • REPLY
The most commonly reported mainstream media account of the creation of the Coronavirus suggests that it was derived from an animal borne microorganism found in a wild bat that was consumed by an ethnic Chinese resident of Wuhan. But there appears to be some evidence to dispute that in that adjacent provinces in China, where... READ MORE

Bats, Gene Editing and Bioweapons: Recent Darpa Experiments Raise Concerns Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
WHITNEY WEBB • JANUARY 30, 2020 • 5,700 WORDS • 285 COMMENTS • REPLY
WASHINGTON D.C. – In recent weeks, concern over the emergence of a novel coronavirus in China has grown exponentially as media, experts and government officials around the world have openly worried that this new disease has the potential to develop into a global pandemic. As concerns about the future of the ongoing outbreak have grown,...

There is a rule in journalism for any headline containing questions and concerns and Problematics: the question has an answer, and the answer is "NO!".

The shared frame of all these Concerns is a rhetorical chess-move: instead of arguing the point, you're positioning yourself as a disinterested questioner to elicit such a response that you can then cry help help muh free speech is bein' oppressed. I WAS JUST SAYIN'

Contrast The Saker, on that same site. His post "Looking at the Military Aspects of Biological Warfare" does just what the title promises. Having done that, he can state the bloody, phlegmatic obvious.

Ron Unz ought to feel shame to have allowed the run of his site to such insanity, and dishonest insanity at that. I expect he won't.

VERDICT 5/30: Natural. Obvious to everyone at the time who wasn't either a paranoiac or an opportunist.

ROMANOFF 5/16/22: I'll be saying more, of him. I've been brought back into this fray since Romanoff's self-outing as a Protocols crank.