Posted on 06/01/2024 7:50:38 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, remained steadfast that the "probability weighs much more heavily" that the COVID-19 pandemic was a "natural occurrence" and not a lab leak.
Fauci also admitted that social distancing guidance "sort of just appeared" and that he "might have" seen studies to support masking children, but that he's not sure.
The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released transcripts of Fauci's testimony that he gave to the panel behind closed doors in January. Committee Chair Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, released the trove of transcripts — and a 17-page memo of key takeaways — ahead of Fauci's public hearing on Monday on Capitol Hill, his first since leaving government.
While Fauci acknowledged the lab leak theory was not a conspiracy theory, even allowing for keeping an "open mind" about it, he remained steadfast that COVID-19 was far more likely a "natural occurrence."
"I think people have made conspiracy aspects from it. And I think you have to separate the two when you keep an open mind, that it could be a lab leak or it could be a natural occurrence," Fauci said in January. "I believe the evidence that I've seen weighs my opinion towards one, which is a natural occurrence, but I still leave an open mind.
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Trump should give RFK Jr. Fauci’s old job.
Never give up the con
Fauxi continues to pee on our shoes and tell us it’s raining.
Does anyone, anywhere, still believe this clown?
After the fair trial...
For a second opinion one could ask the people at the novel bat coronavirus laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, perhaps they have some idea where this novel bat coronavirus came from.
To be fair, he may be correct. If you are running a bioweapon lab in a slipshod manner over years, it’s only natural you’ll have some (doozy of) mistakes.
Fauci is example 1A of why I do not support term limits for Congress
Because Congress are the only people we get to choose, even if they are flawed.
Who ever elected Fauci? 40 years in Government, highest salary of any gov’t apparatchik, made $millions off patents obtained via his government job, shut down the country with a propaganda campaign, lied to and manipulated the President, Congress and the American people.
TERM LIMITS need to start with government bureaucrats - NOT your own elected officials.
The terrorists who unleashed covid on the world got mega rich off it, and apparently wont be held accountable for their terrorism!
“Likely”
Right, just like Hunter’s laptop “had all the earmarks” of Russian disinformation.
Deep in the article
Fauci also denied that he had any conflict of interest of his opinion of the virus Origins
“Just because I approved funding of the Chinese lab working on killer viruses identical to COVID-19 that killed millions, doesn’t mean that i haven’t ruled that out but I’m 99% sure it was natural” Fauci said
(Just kidding )
natural occurrence\ in the sense that if you monkey around with stuff in a lab, NATURALLY there will OCCUR results of the monkeying around.
One day, his pants ARE going to burst into flames.
Even the Chinese scientists admit Covid could be the result of a lab leak. Heck, even CNN admits it! Fauxci needs to give up the con, because nobody believes it anymore.
See my tagline.
“Likely”???
Well....That’s THIS week
Despite testifying to Congress that it was created in a lab. Why doesn’t Congress shout this from the rooftop?
LYING BASTARD
When all of the evidence points towards a spillover event from bats to an intermediate animal to humans with the epicenter at Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, then, yeah, it’s easy to conclude that SARS-CoV-2 occurred naturally.
I seriously do not understand why people have to invent these conspiracies about other-than-natural origins for pathogens. Human history is full of spillover events, which is when an animal pathogen infects humans. Smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, etc. are all animal pathogens that became endemic in people.
We do not have the technology to create a new virus from scratch and have it function exactly how we want. Even altering a naturally occurring virus to become a more virulent human pathogen is more difficult than non-scientists realize. It would take years of work, including testing to see if it has the desired properties. Don’t base what you think is possible on science fiction shows, where the “science” was made up in someone’s imagination and often bears little resemblance to reality.
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