The administration’s COVID lab leak page – and why there was such an initial push to deny the lab leak origins of COVID
The Trump administration has a 500-page online report explaining how the COVID pandemic was from a lab leak. You can find it here.
Summary:
1. The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
2. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.
3. Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.
4. Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.
5. By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.
But for quite a while Democrats, the press, and health agencies went all in on the idea that the lab leak theory was “debunked” and not just preposterous but racist. And this was the message despite the fact that it was always a credible explanation for COVID and that points one through three were known quite early on.
And yet all talk of this was quashed, probably for the following reasons:
(a) To protect China.
(b) To protect Fauci.
(c) To protect “science.”
(d) To follow the principle of “if Trump suggests something is true, say it’s false.”
All of them are of interest, and for all of them books might be (and probably have been) written. But at the moment I’ll discuss “c” in particular: the idea that in order to save “science” we had to undermine it. The end result of that tactic has been the public’s increased distrust in science, health agencies, the government, and the press.
In the case of COVID origins, science was actually the culprit. That is, as number three at the website says, the pandemic came from conducting “gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.” Poorly controlled and irresponsible science causing a worldwide pandemic of major proportions has long been the stuff of horror science fiction novels and films, a Frakenstein’s monster of fearful proportions. If this time it was true – and it was (at the very least; some think the release was deliberate but I don’t favor that idea), and they had to know it was true – the authorities felt that fact had to be suppressed or the public would become more anti-science than before.
Which is what happened anyway, of course, with the public’s added distrust that results from having been lied to and manipulated about such as important thing.
In addition there was the snobbery of health authorities and government officials who believed and believe that much of the public and especially the MAGA right are science-hating troglodytes. The idea of giving them any evidence for hating science even more was abhorrent, even if the evidence was true. Maybe especially if the evidence was true.
But little by little, the very inconvenient truth came out.
The Left will say it is fake. Few will read it, or care.
Don’t forget that Douge uncovered $40 million given to Wuhan by USAid for gain-of-function research, which was and is illegal in the US. This directly implicates the CIA, a very bad look for them. This was in addition to Fauci’s indirect contribution via the Ecco Health alliance.
The second component is the mRNA vaccine that appeared like magic only a few months after the appearance of Covid. How convenient when it usually takes about a decade to make sure a vaccine is safe and works.
So we have two components here, a test of a bio-weapon and the huge money making opportunity presented by vaccinating most of Earth’s population. No one was going to admit to any of this, nor will they ever if possible. The local NPR station is selling tickets to an up coming lecture by Dr. Anthony Fauci. Do you think he’s going take any blame for the disaster he helped create?
I would swap a) and b).
If I got my facts correct, some (all?) of the Covid gain of function research funding at Wuhan was funded by the NAIAD through a “cut out,” a third party, and Fauci was the head of the NAIAD and he was well aware of all of this. It was Fauci that approved the funding at the Wuhan lab.
In denying a lab origin of Covid , Fauci was covering his ass.
I believe that gain of function research in the USA is illegal so Fauci, to get around the law, financially supported it at the Wuhan lab.
Fauci belongs in jail, but alas, this is just wishful thinking.
The amount of trust lost in our institutions because of the entire Covid event has been tremendous and will reverberate for years. My patients are questioning well researched vaccines, their medications, their treatments, and the medical profession in general. I spend far more time than in the past convincing patients of the right thing to do, and I expect their follow through is far less than it once was.
Dr. Fauci and others have caused far more harm than we realize.
Gain of function research is a war crime.
“ The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), which entered into force in 1975, bans the research, development, production, stockpiling, or acquisition of biological and toxin weapons. ”
The amount of trust lost in our institutions because of the entire Covid event has been tremendous and will reverberate for years.
Dr. Mike:
Quite so.
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If expertise is dead, it’s because those who claimed it overplayed their hands. It’s not the death of expertise, so much as a suicide.
–Glenn Reynolds, “The Suicide of Expertise”
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/glenn-reynolds/2017/03/23/suicide-expertise-glenn-reynolds/99533014/
I’m glad the Trump White House hammered down this stake for all to see.
Sure the Usual Suspects won’t read it and will denounce it every which way they can.
But those in the middle, who were sure something was rotten in Denmark, can read it and understand that they were right.
The report, which I have browsed but not read fully, is not a scientific argument for the lab leak, but a blow-by-blow description of Fauci & Co.’s rush to judgment to quash the lab leak hypothesis. With receipts.
Likewise for much of the other Covid disasters like Cuomo’s Covid nursing home scandal or the lockdown effects on children.
As I understand it, investigations are continuing and prosecutions may emerge.
Trump is settling all family business.
@ huxley – thanks for the Reynolds link. I note that he wrote that article BEFORE Covid hit. No wonder the government cabals felt like they had to actively suppress and censor any voices contradicting their “expertise.”
“The second component is the mRNA vaccine that appeared like magic only a few months after the appearance of Covid.”
The vaccine was the result of Trump’s Operation Warp Speed. Pfizer finished testing it about a week before the 2020 Presidential election (~8 months after Covid appeared). Pfizer didn’t report that the vaccine was ready until after the election.
I posit that if Pfizer had not delayed reporting that the vaccine was ready, Trump would have been elected.
And let us not forget that the so called “Vaccine” was really an experimental gene therapy and not truly a vaccine. They lied.
And that this shot and the subsequent “booster shots” were / are filled with all sorts of poison that has resulted in the deaths of far more people than the damnable man-made virus caused. Yes, they lied.
And that the gain-of function research was unlawfully funded by Dr. Fauci…..and lied about.
And please don’t forget that among those who died, because they trusted “the science” were some very talented and wonderful people, like your friend and friend of many here — Gerard Van der Leun.
Gerard was one of 8 people who I knew that took the shot and died. Additionally,
I know 5 others that contracted some form of cancer post jab, as well.
We have been lied to on many levels and by many individuals (looking at you, mainstream media) that should have instead been warning us.
There needs to be accountability. I just don’t know how we get there at this point. Public hangings would be a fitting end for such malicious bastards, possessed by the Malthusian Doctrine, but I would be okay with deporting them to a Salvadoran prison.
Gerard was one of 8 people who I knew that took the shot and died. Additionally, I know 5 others that contracted some form of cancer post jab, as well.
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Not buying.