Posted on 05/05/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, rejected the notion that the CCP virus, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, originated in a Chinese lab.
Fauci made the remarks to The National Geographic in an in-depth interview that ranged from virus origin theories to lighter topics prompted by questions like “Wow, how do you unwind?”
Asked whether he believed the virus was made in—or accidentally released from—a Chinese lab, Fauci said there was overwhelming evidence it came from the wild.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what’s out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this [virus] could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” he said, adding that the mutation pattern of the virus is highly suggestive of a natural origin.
“A number of very qualified evolutionary biologists have said that everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that it evolved in nature and then jumped species,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.
A widespread theory, reiterated by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday, is that the virus made the leap from animal to human at one of Wuhan’s wildlife wet markets.
Some claim the virus occurred naturally but was brought into the Wuhan lab for study, from where it escaped, a theory Fauci dismissed as a “circular argument.”
“That means it was in the wild to begin with. That’s why I don’t get what they’re talking about [and] why I don’t spend a lot of time going in on this circular argument,” he said.
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Wait till the 100% proof positive reports from the Intel community come out proving that it does and his own treasonous connections and others to the CCP! He is a dead man walking!!
Respectfully, I do not agree.
A better approach is to solicit second opinions, keeping Fauci on board and in the "loop".
Involve other public health physicians and epidemiologists and the like, and have an open discussion.
Firing Fauci gives the Dems a huge win, and delays prudent public health input and planning as we open things up.
That Fauci is completely wrong re the wuhan Lab will damage his rep when all the facts are out, and that's a big thing.
Fauci’s misdirection here is downright Clintonian.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats, and what’s out there now is very, very strongly leaning toward this [virus] could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated,” he said, adding that the mutation pattern of the virus is highly suggestive of a natural origin.
However, the allegation is that SARS-CoV-2 likely escaped from Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory (either the Level 2 lab nearby the seafood market or the Fauci-funded Level 4 lab about eight miles distant.) Whether SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera created in the Fauci-funded Wuhan lab or an unaltered specimen from a captured horseshoe bat or collected feces from a horseshoe bat is another issue entirely.
The story about its having escaped from the seafood market doesn’t add up. Horseshoe bats (genus Rhinolophus) are the variety that host SARS-like coronaviruses. Horseshoe bats are microbats that live something like 1000 miles away from Wuhan. The bats in the genus Rhinolophus are not preferred by those who enjoy bat cuisine. They only weigh about 10 grams, which is way too small to be worthwhile. Chinese bat aficionados prefer dishes prepared from the larger bat species in the genera of Cynopterus, Hipposideros, and Rousettus. Furthermore, bat cuisine is only popular in southern and southwestern Chinese provinces (far south of Wuhan.) There is one exception to the popularity of bat in Hubei and other regions: during Chinese New Year, eating bat is thought to bring good luck because the word for bat is similar to the word for luck. However, patient zero for COVID-19 presented in either late November or early December, about two months before Chinese New Year. Dozens of witnesses have reported that bat was never sold in the seafood market.
He cannot possibly be that F’ing stupid.
Fauci is not stupid. But he knew that his ABC News interviewer was stupid, and was confident that most ABC News viewers are gullible.
He’s not contradicting Trump at all on this. If you read what he’s saying, it is consistent with what Trump has said.
“Evidence is very strong that Dr. Falsey funded Coronavirus research at Wuhan.”
The evidence is not merely “very strong”. It is unimpeachable. Many of the Wuhan scientific papers openly acknowledge funding by Fauci’s NIAID as well as other NIH, the US Defense Department, and USAID.
Your tax dollars at work, suckers.
Fauci trying to cover his butt or a friend’s.
To throw you off the head line fuaci is involved at the wuhan virual lab
Keeping Fauci pissing out on occasion beats having him do the reverse.
Removing him is dumb and would feed much DNC Media stupidity.
No reason for it. President Trump is managing it all.
I read the “Lab-Made?” article at Medium last week after Bret Weinstein mentioned it on his podcast.
Like you, I got lost but I plugged through to the end.
Dr. Weinstein is the progressive evolutionary biologist who got run off Evergreen College for failing to kowtow to political correctness. He’s a very unusual progress because he seems to be scrupulously intellectually honest. Dr. Weinstein noted that the scientific analysis in the paper is solid. Since my biology education ended in high school, I have to trust his expertise to a large extent.
One thing is certain: Both UNC Chappel Hill and Wuhan Institute of Virology have engaged in “gain-in-function” research involving the creation of coronavirus chimeras and have published papers that document some of their research. Many knowledgeable biologists object to such research, arguing that its risks far outweigh any potential benefit.
The lab he and NIAID funded? That lab?
That’s because his “Gain of Function” research that was outlawed here as too dangerous was moved to China. Then Fauci continued to FUND THE WUHAN LAB with 3.7 million taxpayer dollars.
He is a criminal and should be arrested.
Your list is the mostly hype the DEEP STATE and fear mongers have been pushing to keep the sheep controlled and is full of half-truths and outright falsehoods.
When the Novel Coronavirus-19 first charged out of China, we did not know what we were looking at and took the measures as if it was a MONSTER, but as more and more was learned, it became apparent it was NOT THE MONSTER the mainstream media was trumpeting 24/7 is STILL screaming at the top of the progressive Liberal lungs it is.
The first two are only semi-true.
Your third point is absolutely true.
The next is another half-truth:
This last three are actually not at all true. In fact they are false.
this is really mind blowing if you think about it.
Fauci vehemently denying the virus is man made or from the lab.
Trump says there’s alot of evidence that is WAS from the lab.
Gates and Fauci are both after the vaccine
This guy (Montagnier) says the virus WAS partially man made specifically to make the vaccine.
Fauci sent at least $3.7m to the lab AFTER a moratorium was put out on funding
Judicial Watch issued a FOIA for all correspondence this year between WHO and fauci (and was granted an expedition of the documents).
I have no clue if he is Israeli or not. His name is Yuri Deigin. The paper is not yet peer-reviewed merely for lack of time. Is that who you are thinking of?
Fauci gives us double talk instead of answering the question if the virus spread from an infected person at the lab.
Fauci is a con man who funds and covers for a dirty Chinese communist virology lab.
Allowing Fauci into the tent and continuing to give him a platform is what now makes removing him problematic for Trump.
Fauci is already countering the Intel assessment of the origin of the virus. Herr Doktor is right where he wants to be.
He is inside the wire now.
Good link! Thanks!
How can Fauci counter intel with none?
No one is fooled.
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