commentariat smells a rat

The Instapundit commentariat is a good place to go if you're testing the winds of conservative opinion. There's a decent mix, there, of optimists and the black-pilled. There's even a recurrent troll who goes by "Johnny," and he keeps conservative feathers ruffled with his by-now-boring-yet-still-irritating shtick.* On Instapundit's main page a few hours ago, a link appeared to an article titled "Senate passes bill demanding pandemic origin info be made public." My first thought was: Senate? That's not the side of Congress that's Republican-dominated. And when I went to look at the comments, I saw that everyone was way ahead of me: people in the comment thread pretty much all smell a rat. The bill apparently had unanimous bipartisan support, and some commenters are theorizing that the current anti-China swing has to do with China's support for Russia. Here are some sample comments:

There's something fishy about a bill that passes unanimously.

If SloJoe signs it, we'll know something is up.

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Something going on here. First, congress gets all hard-nosed with the Chicoms. Now this. It ain't natural. Something's weird. I don't trust them.

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>> Senate passes bill demanding pandemic origin info be made public.

Uh huh. I smell a massive con game going on with this. What will the Uniparty do from the shadows while we are following their shiny squirrel of a bill?

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The Senate? Unanimously? I smell Uniparty bullshit.

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And this passed the Senate unanimously?

Just what is the game here?

One contrarian commenter notes that a similar bill passed unanimously last year, which calls into question whether the current bill's timing is, in fact, suspicious. I have to add that, if a similar bill passed last year, and we still don't have official confirmation of the virus's origins, there's little hope that the current bill will result in government openness.

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*Hilariously, Johnny is aware that people block him, so he regularly re-enrolls using a different email address to re-create his "Johnny" screen name—just so he can momentarily get past the blockers. This only results in his getting blocked again (repeatedly blocking Johnny has become routine for me, too). And the cycle continues.