... and with more people dying from covid-19 outside of China, questions are again swirling what the real source of the pandemic was, and this time - with countless lives at stake - China will no longer be able to give a vague, undefined response like "oh, someone ate a bat at the primitive food market in Wuhan", especially if Beijing has decided that it will soon need a scapegoat to distract the increasingly furious population from its own disastrous handling of, and ongoing lies about, the viral pandemic.

In that vein, we found it fascinating that none other than China's nationalist propaganda mouthpiece, the Global Times, published a report overnight which dramatically changes the narrative, namely that a "New Chinese study indicates novel coronavirus did not originate in Huanan seafood market."