Covid․gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy websiteThe webpage purports to reveal the ‘true origins’ of covid | @verge
｢ Navigating to the website reveals a prominent banner with the words “Lab Leak” and a photo of Donald Trump, as spotted earlier by Wired’s Andrew Couts.
Covidtests.gov, where you could order free covid tests, also redirects to the new webpage ｣
https://www.theverge.com/news/651825/covid-gov-lab-leak-conspiracy-website
The Verge · Covid.gov now points to a ‘lab leak’ conspiracy website
![Heather Cox Richardson A Shift 4/17/25
That shift has apparently swept in New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who is generally a good barometer of the way today’s non-MAGA Republicans are thinking. In an interview today, he said: “[M]y feelings about not only Trump, but the administration, are falling like a boulder going into the Mariana Trench. So the memory of things that this administration has done, of which | approve, is drowning in the number of things that are, in my view, reckless, stupid, awful, un-American, hateful and bad—not just for the country, but also for the conservative movement.”
Stephens identified Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance's bullying of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office as the event that turned him away from Trump. “America should never treat an ally that way, certainly not one who is bravely fighting a common enemy,” he said. Stephens also noted the meeting had "delighted” Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, who is now “"emboldened...to press the war harder.”](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/359/427/782/065/129/original/8750d8e63ede3c72.jpeg "Heather Cox Richardson A Shift 4/17/25
That shift has apparently swept in New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, who is generally a good barometer of the way today’s non-MAGA Republicans are thinking. In an interview today, he said: “[M]y feelings about not only Trump, but the administration, are falling like a boulder going into the Mariana Trench. So the memory of things that this administration has done, of which | approve, is drowning in the number of things that are, in my view, reckless, stupid, awful, un-American, hateful and bad—not just for the country, but also for the conservative movement.”
Stephens identified Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance's bullying of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office as the event that turned him away from Trump. “America should never treat an ally that way, certainly not one who is bravely fighting a common enemy,” he said. Stephens also noted the meeting had \"delighted” Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, who is now “\"emboldened...to press the war harder.”")
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