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Politifact Forced to Pull ‘Fact-Check’ That “Debunked” Lab Leak Origin of COVID

More proof ‘fact checks’ are designed to protect the establishment.

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Politifact has been forced to pull a ‘fact check’ that claimed it had “debunked” the lab leak origin theory of COVID-19 after more prominent voices suggested the explanation was a reasonable possibility.

The original ‘fact check’ was entitled ‘Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab’ and was rated “pants on fire,” meaning that the lab leak theory was completely untrue.

However, the entry has now been updated with an editor’s note which basically reverses the judgment.

“Editor’s note, May 17, 2021: When this fact-check was first published in September 2020, PolitiFact’s sources included researchers who asserted the SARS-CoV-2 virus could not have been manipulated. That assertion is now more widely disputed. For that reason, we are removing this fact-check from our database pending a more thorough review. Currently, we consider the claim to be unsupported by evidence and in dispute. The original fact-check in its entirety is preserved below for transparency and archival purposes. Read our May 2021 report for more on the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19.”

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As we highlighted yesterday, even Biden’s own CDC Director Rochelle Walensky admits it’s a “possibility” the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, an opinion more than shared by her predecessor Robert Redfield, who told CNN in March that it was the “most likely” explanation.

Numerous other credible individuals and scientific groups have also asserted that the lab leak is the most likely source and demanded the World Health Organization conduct a proper investigation.

However, up until recent weeks the media has long characterized such claims as “dangerous misinformation” or “conspiracy theories” and sought to expunge them from social media networks.

“Is Politifact going to get blacklisted by Google and banned from social media for publishing this “misinformation”?” asks Chris Menahan. “Are they going to have their PayPal and bank accounts closed? Of course not, instead they’re going to continue being artificially propped up by Google and shoved in everyone’s face for social engineering purposes.”

This once again illustrates how ‘fact checks’ are routinely abused in order to falsely discredit stories and narratives that are damaging to establishment entities.

By slapping a ‘fact check’ on a story and claiming it’s been “debunked,” the establishment media can then push for those who still insist on discussing the issue to be silenced and deplatformed.

How many other matters dubbed “conspiracy theories” and ‘fact checked’ over the years have since also turned out to be true?

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Video: After Two Years, CDC Head Admits PCR Tests Produce False Positives

Yet the guidance for quarantining and CDC’s case numbers was based on them all this time

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CDC head Rochelle Walensky admitted Wednesday that the agency has rejigged its guidance, including cutting COVID isolation times in half, based on the fact that PCR tests are producing massive amounts of false positives.

Noting that PCR tests for COVID can stay positive for up to 12 weeks after infection, Walensky stated “we would have people in isolation for a very long time if we were relying on PCRs.”

Er yeah, that’s been happening for two years now.

It’s a startling admission given that, as pointed out by commentator Yossi Gestetner, case numbers and people having to isolate, cancel events and close businesses was all based on potentially false positives from oversensitive PCRs.

In a separate interview, Walensky also admitted Wednesday that the agency’s latest guidance on COVID was based on what the government perceived people would accept.

“It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,” Walensky starkly admitted.

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    Fauci Admits Kids Are Not Being Hospitalised From COVID, But Says Vaccinate Them Anyway

    Not vaccinating children “Doesn’t make any sense”

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    Anthony Fauci admitted Thursday that children are not being hospitalised from COVID, rather the reason for an increase in children in hospital WITH COVID is because of an increase in testing. The kids are being admitted for OTHER reasons. Still, Fauci said to not vaccinate kids wouldn’t make any sense.

    Fauci made the admission on MSNBC:

    However, in a further appearance on NewsNation’s ‘Morning in America’ Fauci said “We vaccinate children for any number of childhood diseases when the mortality of those diseases is far less than the mortality and the morbidity of Covid-19 in children.”

    He further stated that the rationale of parents who don’t want to vaccinate their kids “doesn’t make any sense,” and that it is a parent’s “responsibility” to get their child vaccinated.

    Despite admitting that Children don’t on the whole get seriously ill from COVID, Fauci said some are “suffering” and “dying,” and that this would be “avoidable” if their parents vaccinated them.

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    Rand Paul: Thousands Dying Every Month Because Of Fauci’s Obsession With Pushing Vaccines

    “It’s everything about the vaccine, and if you’re not vaccinated you’re unclean. You’re like a leper.”

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    Senator Rand Paul has warned that thousands of Americans are dying from COVID every month because Anthony Fauci is obsessed with pushing vaccines in place of therapeutic treatments that are effective in treating the virus.

    Appearing on his Father Ron Paul’s Liberty Report, the Senator noted that Fauci has displayed a bias toward vaccines since he attempted and failed to produce a vaccine for AIDS and HIV in the 1980s and 90s.

    “I would venture to say that thousands of people die in our country every month now because [Fauci] has deemphasized the idea that there are therapeutics,” Paul urged.

    “Because he’s made this mistake of deemphasizing natural immunity, I think thousands of people have lost their lives,” the Senator continued, adding “For instance, I’ve already had it [Covid-19] I should be at the end of the line.”

    “Many older people die, and many 35-year-old people are being vaccinated, that makes no scientific sense,” Paul emphasised.

    Ron Paul then asked his son if he believes the pandemic was brought about as part of a conspiracy.

    “Do you think there was a plan to bring this about, and Fauci was there, and part of the plan with Gates, or do you think something was happening at a more modest rate and they jumped on it and twisted it and made a big deal of it?” the Senior Paul asked.

    Rand Paul responded “So the pandemic comes, there’s this natural worry media plays up worry, because it sells,” adding “I would call it less of a conspiracy and more of a philosophy.”

    “I think Fauci is of the philosophy that vaccines are incredibly successful and are the way to go versus therapeutics, for example.”

    “I blame Dr. Fauci because he was never on TV saying if you get sick there is a treatment,” Paul explained, adding “Because it’s everything about the vaccine, and if you’re not vaccinated you’re unclean. You’re like a leper.”  

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