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Some readers might notice that I don't opine on the trillion-dollar question: Where and WHEN (and how) did this virus first originate ... and then begin to "spread?" I don't know the answer. All I know is that the authorized narrative that says this virus began to spread in late December from Wuhan doesn't pass the logic or common-sense test. The first link in my article is a piece written by Jeffrey Tucker of The Brownstone Institute. Jeffrey presents compelling evidence that the virus was already spreading in Wuhan by September 2019 - several weeks before the start of the World Military Games in mid-October in Wuhan. This would explain why so many athletes at those games got sick while at the games (another story that's apparently off limits to the press). This scenario probably WOULD allow enough time for this virus to be spread to America and other countries by October. However, if the virus was already spreading widely in Wuhan and China in September, it's strange that we had this high-profile "outbreak" in the same city beginning at the end of December. That's more than 3 months after the virus was probably spreading.

Still, the "Wuhan outbreak" of late December 2019 was enough to get the ball rolling. Unanswered though is why this ball wasn't set in motion in September?

I know this: We'll never find the real answer to the origination question if we can't even investigate people who were sick in November or December 2019. And apparently we can't do this.

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In my story I mention that I emailed the New York Times via the paper's "news tip" link and suggested that someone with the paper try to contact "Shane" (the possible first known Covid case in the world). I didn't get a reply the two times I did this many months ago. After this story was first published by The Daily Sceptic and The Brownstone Institute, I tried again. This time I provided a link to this story.

Again, crickets.

This is far from the only news organization that has ignored my emails asking someone to contact me and read information or stories I have provided. The Palm Beach Post and Seattle Times did excellent journalism on this topic in early May 2020. I thought for sure these reporters and editors would be interested in my stories that corroborate their own reports, but I was wrong. The impression I get is that someone sent them a memo to drop this line of inquiry.

For months, I thought a reporter for The Wall Street Journal was going to follow up on my story on Tim and Brandie McCain, the Alabama couple who definitely had Covid in December 2019. Brandie McCain has now tested positive for antibodies at least THREE times. Her husband Tim had a very severe case and nearly died (He was in the ICU for 24 days.) This means Tim has copious medical records that show he had all the clinical markers of a severe case (he also tested positive for antibodies). But a WSJ story never appeared and the reporter I corresponded with for so long no longer responds to my emails. (I even sent her hard copies of some of Tim's medical records and she did finally interview Brandie McCain. Both she and Brandie told me the interview went "great.")

What should I make of the disinterest in this story from .... truth-seeking "watch-dog" journalists?

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