Oh-Boy.
Posted on 06/01/2021 10:54:33 PM PDT by conservative98
The theory that the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China was dismissed as a “conspiracy” by National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins in April of last year, newly released emails show.
The email from Collins to current White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci and others is part of a tranche of more than 3,200 pages of emails obtained by Buzzfeed News and published Tuesday.
On April 15, 2020, Fox News anchor Bret Baier reported that US officials were increasingly confident that the virus “likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory … not as a bioweapon but as part of China’s attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States.”
Baier discussed his reporting on that night’s edition of “Hannity,” saying that officials were “100 percent confident that China altered the data, the statistics, they did a lot of things to contain the information. Meanwhile, they cut down … travel from Wuhan internally, but left the international flights going, and there obviously is how you have a spread like this.”
The following day, April 16, Collins forwarded a link to a Mediaite writeup of Baier’s “Hannity” appearance to Fauci, NIH Deputy Director Dr. Lawrence Tabak, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Deputy Director Clifford Lane, and NIH spokesperson John Burklow under the subject line “conspiracy gains momentum”. The rest of the message is redacted.
Fauci sent a reply to Collins at 2:45 a.m. April 17. That response is also redacted.
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“From my perspective, your comments are brave, and coming from your trusted voice, will help dispel the myths being spun around the virus’ origins,” Daszak added.
Quelle surprise.
Love how everything is redacted. Certainly don’t want to let people know what was actually said.
The government, in its paranoia, redacts virtually everything and then wonders WHY there are so many conspiracy theories. Hell, government paranoia is the bread and butter FEEDING conspiracy theorists.
Not a single Federal agency in Trump’s tenure, served him. Deep State all. Every one. Every single agency opposed him. Not one did their job and took the direction of the US president.
We are so screwed.
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