We’re sick of ‘low confidence’ from president

The Biden administration reports — with “low confidence” — the coronavirus was a zoonotic event. That sums up the White House these days.

Low confidence oozes from the West Wing, East Room, Rose Garden and private quarters. Now the low confidence emanates from the report on the origin of the coronavirus.

The Associated Press reported Friday that “four members of the U.S. intelligence community say with low confidence that the virus was initially transmitted from an animal to a human.” The bad bat theory. Or, the bat-to-pangolin-to-human highway.

The story goes on to add “a fifth intelligence agency believes with moderate confidence that the first human infection was linked to a lab. Analysts do not believe the virus was developed as a bioweapon.”

How about undeniable proof? Without question. The path was: Pick one and don’t stop until the world is told where COVID-19 crawled out from. Only complete transparency from Communist China will deliver that answer. How many need to die — 4.48 million worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins COVID tracker — before President Biden and the rest of the free world stop politicking and demand answers.

The next pandemic won’t wait. The AP story adds “Beijing’s cooperation would most likely be needed to make further progress.”

It’s time to take this matter out of the hands of the politicians. Scientists worldwide must shun any funding from China and pressure them to come clean. Use the power of the free press to post all findings and links back to China.

Anything tied to Chinese science and industry should be exposed right down to the dollar. Global outrage needs to intensify, not soften.

The Washington Post reported statements from multiple Chinese embassies around the world were planted ahead of the report. China, the Post said, encourages its diplomats to be more forceful in defending the country.

It’s all about money. But if China can’t land any deals in the free world, maybe they’d reconsider the hard line over the origins of COVID-19.

It’s too late for countless innocent COVID victims, but the focus must be on what’s next.

Vox reports that researchers say the world urgently needs to do more to prevent both lab leaks and so-called “spillover” infections from animals. Tracing the route of the virus is an important scientific question, but countries can and should take steps to reduce these risks now, even without a final answer.

“We don’t have to wait for all these results to start acting,” Andrew Weber, senior fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks and a former assistant secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs under President Barack Obama, told Vox. “There’s some big policy decisions that we can make now.”

He’s seeing the urgency. The time to act is now. We can’t wait. The virus isn’t.

The Democrats need to learn that you can’t appease terrorists, dictators and communist governments. They don’t care about First Amendment rights and the rule of law.

Heck, toss in disdain for the Hippocratic Oath, freedom of religion, women’s rights, child protection, copyright and patent protections and artistic freedoms.

We’re at a crossroads and strong leadership is required from D.C. The debacle in Afghanistan and now this coronavirus report is proof Joe Biden is not up to the job.

All he’s producing is low confidence across the board. Bowing his head while being hit with tough questions is not the show of strength our nation needs right now.