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Fauci In 2012: Gain-Of-Function Research Into Bat Viruses Is Worth The Risk Of A Pandemic
Tbe Federalist ^ | May 28 | By Tristan Justice

Posted on 05/28/2021 1:27:07 PM PDT by RandFan

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci defended “gain-of-function” research in 2012 — wherein scientists extract viruses from the wild and engineer them to infect humans in order to study potential therapeutics including vaccines — as research worth risking a pandemic over.

“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Fauci wrote in a paper reported on by The Australian. “Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

The revelation of Fauci’s 2012 defense of the research comes as new reports emerge, breathing new life into the lab-leak theory among the political establishment that dismissed the origin hypothesis, which was always credible, as a conspiracy theory.

Reporting on previously undisclosed intelligence this month, the Wall Street Journal published a story of three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology who were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in November 2019, preceding the pandemic’s first outbreak in the Hubei province. The lab, known for its relaxed safety protocols, was reportedly collaborating with the Chinese military and conducting gain-of-function research into bat coronaviruses, according to the Trump State Department in a fact sheet not disputed by officials in the Biden administration.

Two years after Fauci’s defense of the high-stakes research, the U.S. government deemed the work so dangerous it was banned. According to longtime journalist and former New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade, however, Fauci circumvented the U.S. moratorium and supported gain-of-function with grant money from the NIAID funneled through EcoHealth Alliance, operated by Dr. Peter Daszak. .

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 2012; braking; chinavirus; coronavirus; covid19; daszak; ecohealth; fauci; faucicorrupt; gainoffunction; nicholaswade; nytimes; search; sidebarabuse; vaccine
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To: lodi90
I sense a retirement in Fauci’s near future. He’ll never testify to Congress again.

I’m guessing that Fauci wants the last word, so will be itching to explain what he wrote.

21 posted on 05/28/2021 2:42:55 PM PDT by Fury
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To: RandFan
“In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” Fauci wrote in a paper reported on by The Australian. “Scientists working in this field might say — as indeed I have said — that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

This is the sort of soulless statement a sociopath might make.

22 posted on 05/28/2021 2:43:02 PM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: RandFan

Bannon’s War Room has this subject on right now...With Sharri Markson.

Very timely...

Can watch live on Real America’s Voice or go to War Room webpage and listen to replay.

Excellent!


23 posted on 05/28/2021 2:45:35 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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To: RandFan

“Fauci wrote in a paper reported on by The Australian. “

What journal, which issue?


24 posted on 05/28/2021 2:48:59 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: RandFan

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/05/28/bombshell-fauci-said-studying-bat-viruses-was-worth-a-potential-pandemic-n2590169


25 posted on 05/28/2021 3:24:27 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Brown Deer

Fauci went behind EVERYONE’s back and funded this BS in China this bastard has blood on his hands!!! He should lose his retirement PERIOD!! He should also be sued in a class action lawsuit by all the families who lost loved ones! This was done deliberately NO ONE will ever convince me otherwise!!


26 posted on 05/28/2021 3:30:06 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: RandFan

Bookmark


27 posted on 05/28/2021 3:53:28 PM PDT by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: RandFan

btt


28 posted on 05/28/2021 3:54:07 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: RandFan

Fauci, “I do knot know how many times I can say it, Madam Chair. We did not fund gain of function to be conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
He was under oath, right?


29 posted on 05/28/2021 4:16:47 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: griswold3

“We did not fund gain of function to be conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

He repeated that precisely, word for word, several times. Parse it carefully.

The UN/WHO/CDC/NWO/Soros/Gates/Democrat plan: Mark of the beast, 2021 style.

Some supporting links:

Event 201, pandemic response practice Oct. 2019 - highlight video:

https://youtu.be/AoLw-Q8X174

ID2020, Bill Gates and everything about you:

https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines

Along with ID2020, Bill Gates is pushing quantum dot vaccination tattoos:

https://savedmag.com/bill-gates-quantum-dot-digital-tattoo-implant-to-track-covid-19-vaccine-compliance/

ImmuniPass - Your vaccination data card; will you be allowed to enter businesses?

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/515743100/the-world-s-first-covid-19-immunity-passport-has-been-issued

Blockchain Digital Identity Alliance - your credit data and leash:

Https://youtu.be/F1EVs2GMsRg

Satan’s minions have been working very hard on this.


30 posted on 05/28/2021 4:43:14 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: ETCM
Dr Fauci, ... did not alert senior White House officials before lifting the ban on gain-of-function research in 2017.”

Didn't Fauci publically state in 2017 that there would probably be a pandemic in the near future? How could he possibly have known?


31 posted on 05/28/2021 4:43:37 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: RandFan

If Fauci had never been born - the world would not have experienced the Covid-19 virus.

He funded it, he vouched for it, he promoted it, he believed in it, he knew all about it, and he was the “go-to” guy from the jump. He’s guilty of sponsoring the creation of these Frankenstein viruses that have ravaged the world.

He did this, he drove this bus right off the cliff, and he needs to be held accountable.

Arrogant little prick.


32 posted on 05/28/2021 4:45:50 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: magooey

Yes, Paladin2 provided a link in post 27. That’s what I was replying to.


33 posted on 05/28/2021 4:53:45 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: magooey

Just wondering how many diseases could become deadly when you withhold early treatment? Is Covid 19 one that could have had successful early treatment protocol?


34 posted on 05/28/2021 5:02:16 PM PDT by griswold3 (NBA/ Plumlee Ball. = poor entertainment value while insulting the audience gets you broke )
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To: RandFan; All

PRINT THIS UP AND GET THIS OUT THERE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THIS
Get News about corruption spiked by MSM Presented and sourced in Free Republic. com/ An all sides news collecting site by volunteers with no ads or fees which uses donations below just a sample Punch up link for http://www/freerepublic.com/
THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

The CCP Effort praised by a CCP scientist doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


35 posted on 05/28/2021 5:25:04 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: polymuser

Source of the Fauci paper...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484390/


36 posted on 05/28/2021 5:27:17 PM PDT by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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To: RandFan

NAIVETE MY ASS!!! he is EVIL with an ELF face!!! EVIL!!


37 posted on 05/28/2021 5:27:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Titus-Maximus

Have you seen this one on PEPFAR? It’s 45 minutes, connects the player$.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/RSfP8sXtMbk/

In a nutshell:
CDC/PEPFAR (Birx, Fauci, Pence) > Global Fund (Birx, Gates, vaccines, $10’s of billions from Fed>via PEPFAR) > UN Development Program (oversees GF spending with closed books via “special immunity”, gets $100’s of millions from Fed for administering) > GF grant recipients (Chinese labs)


38 posted on 05/28/2021 5:54:26 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: Herosmith

Fauci is fascinated by Pandora’s Box.


39 posted on 05/28/2021 5:59:28 PM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.d)
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To: Responsibility2nd; All

“He planned it. He funded it. He denied it. He admitted it.”

But most importantly? He PROFITED from it!

*SPIT*

I’m adding this POS to my ‘Piss On their Graves’ list. He’s after Fonda and Hillary, but has moved ahead of John Kerry.

I want this last YEAR of my LIFE back! I want to go back and hold my dying Father’s hand. (And I know I’m not alone!)

I have loathed Mother Government and her Minions with the white hot intensity of a THOUSAND suns...but I’m WAY beyond that now!


40 posted on 05/28/2021 6:43:29 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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