Posted on 05/28/2021 10:14:44 PM PDT by John Semmens
One of the first things President Biden did upon taking office was to cancel the Trump Administration's investigation of the origins of the coronavirus. Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained that "the reason was simple. Trump was the one insisting that the virus escaped from a Chinese weapons lab in Wuhan. Since we knew that Trump lies about everything this was an easy decision to make."
"It's not as if the President had no other source of information," Psaki added. "His son Hunter has had close business connections with top Chinese firms and officials for several years. He assured his dad that Xi was 'cool' and that 'a new era of fruitful commercial interactions between our two countries could be initiated if we backed away from the adversarial attitudes expressed by Trump."
However, recent developments have forced the Biden Administration to reopen the investigation of COVID's origins. One of these developments was a story in the Wall Street Journal that the first victims of the virus were employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Another is CDC Director Rochelle Walensky's admission that the virus could have been developed in a lab. Another is a House GOP report indicating that "there is significant circumstantial evidence that the virus originated in a lab." In contrast, a State Department probe found almost no evidence of a natural origin for the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci's long-term advocacy of "gain of function" research using deadly viruses combined with evidence that the National Institutes of Health funded the Wuhan lab with $600 million of taxpayer dollars inspired some questions from the media. Fauci ultimately acknowledged that the NIH did send money to the Chinese lab and that the research conducted at the lab to increase the virus' lethality could have been the source of the pandemic.
Fauci defended the risky research, saying that "creating deadly strains in a lab is a way to improve our knowledge of how to fight a naturally occurring mutation of a virus to a more virulent form. It would have been a dereliction of duty for us not to have assisted in this research. Yes, there is a risk of an accident that could lead to an outbreak in which millions die, but this risk is a price worth paying to obtain valuable knowledge. And, as we saw during the current pandemic we learned how to deal with COVID. The lockdowns, masks, and rapid development of vaccines we used to defeat COVID are measures we can deploy in future pandemics that may be even more deadly."
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ping
biden flip flopped on the airforce one stairway too
“We had to increase the Wuhan virus lethality in order to know how to fight it when it got out.”
HerrDoktor FauxiGates to a Terre Haute chamber.
Great column, John. Although semi-satire can be difficult to parse from actual news (I sometimes need to double check.)
BTW...
Has Whitmer contacted you to see if you want to be a speech writer?
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