On Sunday, for example, Fox News’s Chris Wallace pressed the speaker to reconcile her claim that the Trump administration’s sluggish response to the coronavirus pandemic cost thousands of deaths with the fact that she was encouraging people as late as Feb. 24 to go out and visit San Francisco’s Chinatown district.
Hilariously, Pelosi claims her downplaying of the virus in late February actually helped prevent its spread. Good luck figuring that one out.
It was not just a matter of Trump Administration sluggish response to Covid, it was also a matter of planned misdirection and serious errors of omission.
In February 2020 there was little awareness of the Covid issue in the puhlic at large. The move to carefully examine travelers coming into the US from China was useful. However, months later it was already known that the large population of Chinese fashion workers around Milan, Italy, had returned from holidays in China and brought illness killing many elderly Italians. However the Trump Administration did not have the tourists returning from Italy being examined the same as the Chinese entering the US. Thousands in New York and New Jersey became victims of this oversight as infected returnees from Italy circulated on the east coast or connected to planes traveling elsewhere.
A second serious mistake occurred when the March 23, 2020 letter from Dr. Vladimir Zelenko was misrepresented by Fauci and Trump. For a few days in late March they spoke of a treatment using HCq, zinc, and Azithromycin. At that time a treatment course using those ingredients cost about $20. Zinc was a virus stopper/killer when it entered infected cells, HCQ (an ionophore) helped the zinc get into cells more easily, and Azithromycin protected vulnerable lungs from bacterial infection (Zelenko later said Doxycycline was a safer antibiotic). Zelenko also urged very early treatment, even before testing confirmed Covid. After a few days, Fauci/Trump no longer mentioned the essential ZINC. Kind of like failing to send soldiers (Zinc) to the front on troup trains (HCQ). Who decided to eliminate the word ZINC?
Around May 11, 2020, Fauci announced a study of HCQ and Azithromycin on HOSPITALIZED Covid patients. No early treatment and no ZINC. Designed to fail???
Not long after, Fauci announced the availability of a new drug, Remedesivir, for treatment of hospitalized patients. It was only going to cost about $3,000 a treatment course, subsidized by our tax dollars. Later President Trump was successfully treated for Covid at Walter Reed Army Hospital. As he walked from a helicopter back to the White House, I heard him praising the various treatments he had received at Walter Reed, including Remdesivir. Then as Trump continued to walk with an angry look on his face, he also muttered “and I took ZINC.” I think by that time he was coming to the conclusion he had been played.
Subsequent studies or retrospective analysis of the exact Zelenco 3 drug protocol, have shown significant reduction in death rates when used for early, and even late treatment of Covid. Personally, I estimate that failure of our government to initiate early study and use of this treatment cost at least 500,000 unnecessary deaths in 2020 and 2021.
Regarding the possible spread of Covid from the wuhan lab, even in high safety labs, mistakes can be made, workers can go home infected accidentally. Can you imagine having to tell ruler Xi, “gee, I think I made a mistake.” Can you imagine keeping this a secret instead? China has not released meaningful statistics on how much this infection has cost them. One measure looked at renewal of cell phone accounts. I seem to recall the figure of 23,000,000 not renewed. A frightening figure if meaningful. In the paper Epoch Times, it was reported that Wuhan was an area where followers of a forbidden cult were being taken to and punished. It was even suggested organs like kidney and liver were being harvested without permission for transplant surgery. We are definitely hearing reports now that China has labor shortages due to population changes.