When adrenaline strikes my veins, a thrilling, yet sometimes unnerving rush flushes over me. That sensation? It's striking me now, as TableMag and other have broken ground on an evolving story that seems to have more shadowy corners than a murder mystery. We have all become unwilling players in the deadly drama of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we may have received the most chilling twist yet.
The story unfolds like this: a senior CIA officer blew the whistle, suggesting that six of the CIA's seven virus inquisition specialists were convinced that SARS-CoV-2 came from a lab in Wuhan. These experts had high confidence, and then—boom! They fell mysteriously silent after receiving hush money from the CIA. The six “financially incentivized” experts dialed back their certainty about the pandemic’s origin. CIA strikes back, denying the allegations, but the Pandora's box is already ajar.