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It's the Story of the Century, and the Media Yawn By Fletch Daniels
American Thinker.com ^ | September 9, 2021 | Fletch Daniels

Posted on 09/09/2021 2:38:39 AM PDT by Kaslin

Never before in human history has a global pandemic resulted in the dismemberment of first-world economies, highly divisive universal vaccine and mask mandates, education-stunting school shutdowns, and the isolation of entire societies to the point of extreme mental health damage.

Throughout all this, the media have remained incurious as to how this historic misery happened.

Anyone with a half a brain cell already knew that a new virus that started within a stone's throw of a biosafety level 4 laboratory in an authoritarian nation likely either leaked or was released from that laboratory. But acknowledging this obvious fact immediately led to expulsion from "polite" society, or at least from social media.

But the fact that Saint Fauci is the director of an organization, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, that provided U.S. funding on "gain of function" research to the tune of nearly $600,000 on several types of coronaviruses at the very lab where the leak happened may well be the biggest story of the last fifty years.

Gain of function is shorthand for research that adds a new function to an existing virus, which in this case is the rather inconvenient function of infecting humans. We were literally funding research by our biggest geopolitical rival on how to turn a harmless virus to humans into one that could wreak chaos in human populations. Mission accomplished. That's an earth-shattering story that fully vindicates Senator Rand Paul, who has been at the forefront of this, even as he was lyingly insulted by the guilty Fauci himself.

If I submitted a novel manuscript with a supervillain who conspires with his nation's chief rival to do research that causes a global pandemic, and then is tasked with leading the response to this disaster,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; corruption; fauci; gainoffunction; mandate; vaccine

1 posted on 09/09/2021 2:38:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The other night I happened to pause on Tucker Carlson’s show when the guest host was interviewing a congressman who said that Fauci had lied to Congress about this. My question: Does the big story not go farther than just Fauci’s involvement with “gain of function”/US dollars going to research? I mean, if he lied about this...


2 posted on 09/09/2021 2:46:49 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: Kaslin

The US has had a very large economy for decades. We have used our economy to provide social programs for our people, and to build up an enormous military so that we can be the policeman of the world.

China has only recently had a truly huge economy. They aren’t big on social programs. And although they have built up their military, they aren’t sending it all over the world. No, they mostly use their wealth to purchase foreign politicians who then clandestinely push China’s policies in the West.

China gets more bang for their buck than we do.


3 posted on 09/09/2021 3:02:34 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. Weaker, a Jr partner good at losing wars.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Very accurate description of the ChiComs.

Corruption in DC is destroying the USA. And our “elected” leaders are owned by our enemies.

Very bad poison pill.

Trump's America First, is still incredibly valid. There is no good reason we to be dependent upon foreign finance and production.

The Solution?

It's TIME to DownSize DC!

Restore the Constitution!Size DC!

4 posted on 09/09/2021 3:26:03 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Kaslin
It was a PLANdemic purely so the cheat-by-mail-in ballots could be used on a wide scale to steal an election.

The Dems and their minions can NEVER admit that the story that covid-19 was another ebola was fake. They have to keep coming up with new variants in order to steal the 2022 MidTerms.

5 posted on 09/09/2021 3:43:32 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Kaslin
Anyone with a half a brain cell already knew that a new virus that started within a stone's throw of a biosafety level 4 laboratory in an authoritarian nation likely either leaked or was released from that laboratory.

Add this to the cost of those communist made paint brushes you free traitors saved $.10 on.

6 posted on 09/09/2021 3:45:01 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
And although they have built up their military, they aren’t sending it all over the world.

Yet...

7 posted on 09/09/2021 4:25:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Texas Fossil
Corruption in DC SIN everywhere is destroying the USA.
8 posted on 09/09/2021 4:26:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Yes, good analysis.

We used to buy corrupt foreign leaders.

But our Progressive politicians screamed we were too scrupulous to do that!

They made it illegal, but their less scrupulous successors happily grabbed chicom money and honey traps...

9 posted on 09/09/2021 4:58:21 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: MarDav
I mean, if he lied about this...

Fauci is lying about much more. It will all come out eventually.

10 posted on 09/09/2021 5:30:36 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Kaslin

I have normal blood pressure, but our PC society is not helping.


11 posted on 09/09/2021 5:35:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: Kaslin
Two absolutely huge blockbuster stories have broken in recent days. Either one of them could be described as the story of the century:

1) Joe Biden instructing the president of Afghanistan to lie about the Taliban military advancement. Joe did the same to the American public, leading to deadly and disastrous consequences. And they impeached Trump for something less than 1% as bad.

2) It is now proven Fauci lied about the illegal funding of "gain of function" research in China. Had none of this illegal research taken place, Covid would not have been unleashed upon the world.

What do these events have in common? Not a word about them has been uttered by the MSM. They and Big Tech are keeping a lid on it. Only folks paying attention to the alternative media know anything about it. The precious moderates who decide elections know as much about these developments as they did about Hunter's laptop prior to the election.

The media and Big Tech truly are the enemy of the American people.
12 posted on 09/09/2021 5:59:52 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Kaslin

I think Robin Cook already wrote that book..Contagion?


13 posted on 09/09/2021 7:38:27 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: Elsie

Correct.


14 posted on 09/09/2021 8:38:09 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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