Fact - Obama told Fauci and our health bureaucracy to stop “gain of function” research because common sense would indicate that the biggest threat might be a “lab leak” of a man-made pathogen.
Fact - Fauci and our health bureaucracy made an end-run on Obama by using eco-health alliance to do same research in a CCP bio-lab. A bio-lab that DID NOT even meet “Western” safety standards according to the French government.
Covid would have still probably leaked from that lab absent funding from Fauci and others because the people we partnered with (the Chinese military) have an interest in bio-weapons. However, we did help fund research at this facility.
After the “leak”, the efforts by Fauci and the bureaucracy to protect themselves (by lying to us) to hide the origins helped to make the pandemic worse because their primary focus was NOT public health - it was self-preservation. They also realized pretty quickly that big pharma (and them) stood to make billions providing the cure. The same old Fauci playbook (look at his actions during HIV).
A truth like this would kill any man, but Fauci and his ilk were saved because the use of the pandemic to hurt “Trump” aligned with the wishes of the elites so instead of a “zero” they made Fauci into a hero to tank the “Trump economy” and change an election. Big pharma and big profits came in on the backside to pay the politicians and here we are.
Hillary would have hung him by his heels if she had been in office. Obama would have done the same. Instead, they lied on his behalf because getting rid of “Trump” and making billions for big pharma was more important than the truth. History will not be kind to Fauci, but because “orange man bad” he went on to become the “man of the year”.
Up is down and down is up.
I think Fauci probably had two different strategies for AIDs and Covid. Both designed to make his drug company friends rich. Note: his family was in the drug store business as he grew up.
For AIDs he might have started out seeking a vaccine, but it eventually became apparent that people could live a long time if they used certain combinations of drugs EVERY DAY OF THEIR LIFE. Think how much more drug companies could profit by providing daily doses of several drugs, rathar than giving an annual vaccine, or if it was like tetanus, once every 10 years.
On the other hand, providing a vaccine to billions of people that has to be repeated every few months as new variants develop (like flu) is a guaranteed $billions maker. Covid vaccines could have gone on untouched for years if they had not started giving serious symptoms to a significant number of people. And now there appear to be signs of serious damage to human immune systems, like IgG. These immune system dangers need MUCH LARGER studies for confirmation.
A big difference between AIDs and Covid is that AIDs requires direct physical (and often intimate) contact to be spread. ON the other hand, Covid, like the common cold and flu can be spread through the air. This difference guarantees that Covid will infect many more people than will AIDs. How quickly did Fauci or the drug companies realize that the big money in AIDs was in daily, lifetime drug treatment rather than in vaccines?