Posted on 07/27/2021 12:11:25 PM PDT by RandFan
... The U.S. knows something about the research conducted at the WIV, because American taxpayer dollars helped fund it. This was the crux of last week’s dispute between Sen. Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci, who had cast doubt on the lab-leak hypothesis in the past. In their latest bout, the Kentucky Senator accused Dr. Fauci of lying to Congress, a federal crime, when he said this year that the National Institutes of Health had never funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. The exchange descended into shouting.
The reality is complicated. The NIH gave almost $600,000 to the WIV through a nonprofit over several years to study bat coronaviruses. Mr. Paul cited a 2017 paper from WIV researchers that included experiments combining parts of viruses to study how to better infect human cells. But Dr. Fauci said the project was “judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain-of-function.”
This might be technically true, as a 2014 federal government definition describes such research as that which “increase the ability of infectious agents to cause disease by enhancing its pathogenicity or by increasing its transmissibility.” But some scientists think the government definition is too limited and can allow de facto gain-of-function research to bypass safety protocols. Rutgers molecular biologist Richard Ebright says the NIH-funded work “was—unequivocally—gain-of-function research.”
In early 2020, Dr. Fauci emailed his deputy a paper co-written by gain-of-function pioneer Ralph Baric and a Wuhan scientist. The official responded that they would “try to determine if we have any distant ties to this work abroad.” The next day Dr. Fauci organized a call with several nongovernment virologists, but the email chain after the meeting was redacted.
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This is Fauci doing his best CYA impression. From his patents onward, he’s been lying through his teeth...and he, and others, know it.
“Never ask the witness a question to which you do not know the answer”...... TV Defense Lawyer 201
Ok so what has President Trump known all along and how much of that was transmitted to the designated hitter Sen Rand Paul?
Besides Fauci, there are certainly several others that are more loyal to America than to Dr Fauci and leaked tons of evidence to the President early on
Fauci has been known as a snake for years since he tried to take credit for HIV research that the French did.
Gee I don't remember the reality being complicated for any of the wild-ass accusations the MSM-Democrats made against Donald Trump, up to and including that he was a Nazi sympathizer and a Russian agent.
Let’s make income tax voluntary for those under 1 million per year. Then the govt might feel more answerable about where they give our money, esp outside our country.
Duszak, head of Eco-Health Alliance, is long-time collaborator with Dr. Fauci. For example, by October 2013, the Wuhan Institute of Virology 1 coronavirus S1 spike protein was described in Fauci’s NIAID-funded work in China. This work involved NIAID, USAID, and Daszak. This work, funded under R01AI079231, was pivotal in isolating and manipulating viral fragments selected from sites across China which contained high risk for severe human response as noted in an October 2013 article,"Isolation and Characterization of a Bat SARS-like Coronavirus that Uses the ACE2 Receptor" published in Nature.
Duszak in 2015 said, “We need to increase public understanding of the need for medical countermeasures such as a pan-coronavirus vaccine. A key driver is the media, and the economics will follow the hype. We need to use that hype to our advantage, to get to the real issues. Investors will respond if they see profit at the end of the process.”
Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events; Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation; Forum on Microbial Threats; Board on Health Sciences Policy; Board on Global Health; Institute of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases: Enabling Sustainable Capabilities Through Ongoing Public- and Private-Sector Partnerships: Workshop Summary. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2016 Feb 12. 6, Developing MCMs for Coronaviruses.
It’s not hard to figure that SARS-Cov-2 was not a public health crisis. This was an opportunistic marketing campaign to address a stated objective. And it’s the easiest thing to describe because they are the ones that said it. And the Ocham’s Razor reality is they've said they needed to get the public to accept a pan-coronavirus vaccine countermeasure. And they needed the media to create the hype and investors would follow where they see profit.
When I see a person wearing a ski mask, waiving a gun, and standing with a bag of money in front of a bank; I will make the assumption that that person might be a bank robber.
Similarly, if I have somebody who says we need to use the media to hype a medical countermeasure which is in fact the injection of a synthetic, recombinant chimeric protein developed off of a computer simulation, I’m actually going to listen to the motivation for why that might be being done; I will listen to the person doing the manipulation who says investors will follow where they see profit.
You do not have anything else you need to rely on to explain the events of the last 20 months than the actual statement of the actual perpetrators.
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