As the untold history of the Covid pandemic's murky beginnings began to unfold, the detailed scientific explanations slowed me down but held my interest. Markson has uncovered so much information about the virus that has been concealed or buried by multiple cooperating entities--the United States included.
The last two chapters took me many weeks to complete, not because they were dull (quite the contrary), but because the level of US culpability and complicity revealed and documented made me feel ill. I couldn't read more than a few pages at a sitting without groaning aloud and shutting the cover in disgust. I forced myself to finish the book on New Year's Eve, so that I could begin 2023 with the sickening history of Covid behind me.
I'm angry that China will never be made to answer for Covid-19, because the US is involved in its genesis. The whole alphabet soup of administrative agencies on both sides of the world are implicated. WHO, CDC, NIH, and many others, along with the Chinese CCP, PLA and Wuhan's Institute of Virology--WIV--all played their parts in the run-up to the Covid pandemic and in the sweeping destruction left in its aftermath.
What's worse is that this could easily happen again. In fact, it most likely will. Markson's in-depth investigation shows that China is intent on continuing research in how to make viruses more deadly to humans, and they are doing so with impunity. So unfortunately for humanity, there is no happy ending to this story.
The book is a shocking education in previously unknown facts. Markson interviewed many key public figures and behing-the-scenes individuals who worked together throughout this global catastrophe. In addition to many international scientists and Australian officials, her American sources include former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien.
Reading What Really Happened in Wuhan is an eye-opening, if nauseating, experience. If you want to learn what actually happened to us in 2020, I recommend you read it. But do so only if you have strong stomach.
