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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Dr Fauci is NOT a virologist. I just finished reading through a VERY DEEP DIVE into a real virologist’s paper which came to a conclusion that such a possibility is NOT out of the range reasonable hypothesis and there is extant evidence in the COVID19 sequencing that seems to show it may have be an engineered Chimera.
Why were the first briefings to Congress about this virus classified due to national security?
When has that step ever before been taken over a naturally-occurring virus?
Why should I not believe that if there information about a virus that has to be classified for national security it is a good indication the virus may be a biological weapon?
Evidence is very strong that Dr. Falsey funded Coronavirus research at Wuhan.
Coincidence?
Now why would the Leprechaun say that?
Fire his sorry A$$!
Yeah, it “evolved” from bats containing the exact protein strings in the S protein from HIV. That “H” is abbreviation for HUMAN.
The same gain of function testing that Fauci was doing prior to his work being suspended in 2014 for violating ethics. Solution? Outsource it to China, specifically to Dr Zhengli.
Fauci should be swinging.
https://ponderwall.com/index.php/2020/04/18/lab-grown-coronavirus/
The Doc who won a Nobel for studying the HIV virus dares to go off plantation about man created virus inserts. Nature did not put hiv into corona.
He is not that stupid. Why would he believe that we are? He must be a tool.
Nobody contends that ALL the virus types in such a lab are manipulated or produced. It could very well be that MOST are naturally occurring. Some naturally occurring virus' might actually escape. But not in Fauci's world, because that would be "circular".
Shut up, you quack!
He isn’t in the IC, is he?
This person is an expert at lying.
TRUMP he is a liar that CAN NOT be trusted!
I don’t believe anything this Ferret says
Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research
Trust me, you’ll get lost. . .
Of course he said it he gave the same Wuhan lab MILLIONS of dollars from the NIH..he probably was happy this virus was created..notice his a@@ isnt worried about getting the virus, he’s 79 years old you would think he would be worried about contracting it, doesnt seem to show much fear, I wonder why
Chris Martenson’s question that he says should be asked repeatedly until someone provides a satisfactory answer:
“How did that polybasic furin cleavage site PRRA get into Covid-19?”
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2008/montagnier/facts/
Scientist who won Nobel for HIV virus discovery says WuFlu is human-created chimera
Trump knows Dr Fauci is NOT on his side but what can he do, if he fires him now would make things worse..he has to wait for this insanity to end before he fires him
Trump has got to expose and prosecute this fraud.
‘Zoonotic’ viruses are pretty well known.
That’s the term for viruses that jump from other species to humans.
Doesn’t make a lot of sense. It jumped species...just like that. It would seem that it would have happened ages ago if it was wild.
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