Boy who cried wolf

Senator Cotton wants to us to know he was attacked for his accusations that the Wuhan lab may have been the source for the coronavirus. While he did say that early on, he suggested it was not an accidental release of a naturally occurring virus. He suggested it was a biochemical weapon intentionally released.

Frank Lockwood’s article points to his interview on Fox and quotes an ethics expert as saying it was “pretty nuanced.” Unfortunately, this was not the only interview, article, tweet, etc., he did at the time, and if media personalities are trying to paint something as biological warfare, “pretty nuanced” is a pathetic response from a U.S. senator with full knowledge of the U.S. intelligence community and the scientific community’s assessments.

The article also mentions Dr. Richard Elbright and his concerns the virus was accidentally released. He fails to mention that he placed that probability at 50/50 odds recently. The scientific consensus was that the genome sequencing proved it was not a manmade virus, and that was the primary push-back to what Cotton said last year. Cotton’s willingness to obfuscate and allow conspiracy theorists plenty of room in this case is pretty much standard procedure for him. He is the boy who cried wolf. He doesn’t say the words himself much of the time, but he doesn’t stop the people who do.

If Senator Cotton understood how bad everything was, and where it came from, why did he not tell us that Donald Trump was wrong that it was under control, etc., etc.?

Pretending someone’s a savant for telling us where a virus may have come from while ignoring the fact they did nothing to counter our president minimizing the effects of it is a sad joke on Arkansas and America!

GREG ROUNTREE Scott