Fauci "commissioned" paper to refute lab leak

Anthony Fauci has almost no actual intelligence regarding the source of COVID. Two eminent scientists had informed him of their judgment that the virus was likely manufactured, not natural. The virus emerged right next to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Chinese were being very cagey, hiding the evidence they had about the virus.

Fauci’s response? Hold an emergency conference call with the authors of the paper alleging an engineered origin, bully them into recanting, and “commissioning” them to write a paper saying the opposite of what they had claimed just hours before.

Then, once the paper was written, wave it around as proof that other scientists believed what he did. And, eventually, ship $9 million in grant funds to the scientists he bullied into writing the paper.

New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.

They show he “prompted” or commissioned — and had final approval on — a scientific paper written specifically in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.

Eight weeks later, Fauci stood at a White House press conference alongside President Trump and cited that paper as evidence that the lab leak theory was implausible while pretending it had nothing to do with him and he did not know the authors.

“There was a study recently,” he told reporters on April 17, 2020, when asked if the virus could have come from a Chinese lab, “where a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences… in bats as they evolve and the mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.

“So, the paper will be available. I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.”

“I don’t have the authors right now, but we can make it available to you.” Said the man who told the authors to write the paper. He was the final editor of the paper, and hence something of an author himself.

We all know why Fauci would do this. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon or even a supremely intelligent and articulate blogger like myself to know why, and I have written about this several times in the past. Ed just wrote about this in his post on Trump’s Op/Ed in the Daily Mail as well.

The reason: if the virus was engineered at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and escaped, chances are near 100% that funding from Fauci himself had paid for the research through the EcoHealth Alliance. We already know that the NIAID has admitted that the organization has used government grants to fund gain-of-function research, against US government policy, and it would be really bad news for Fauci and company if it got out that a virus that would eventually kill millions and cost trillions of dollars was paid for by him and his organization.

Best to keep the possibility off the radar, and attack anybody who suggests it as a conspiracy theorist.

Does this mean Fauci knew then or knows now the actual origin of the virus? Of course not. Whether he knew or believed the virus was natural or engineered, escaped from the wild or a lab, he had exactly the same incentive: ensure that any speculation or argument that the virus escaped from the WIV was squashed.

I have been having a friendly argument with a dear friend about whether being cynical about the motives of our government overlords is destructive or not. She asserts that we should cut them slack and assume the best; I assert that they have done far too much damage, lied far too much, and exposed such venal motives that ignoring it is destroying our country.

But I see the point. If you only pay modest attention and wish away the damage as an inevitable consequence of incompetence and good intentions, then I suppose it makes sense to give the benefit of the doubt. I certainly do for the first few weeks of mistakes.

But no, at some point accountability has to kick in, and the viciousness with which debate was squashed and dissenters attacked gives the lie to good intentions. The intentions were tyrannical, and there were winners and losers. The winners are now asking for forgiveness–while retaining all the power and money they stole during the “emergency.”

No. The Canadian truckers? They threatened their children, stole their money, and beat some of them up. People were censored, slandered, canceled, and impoverished. Educations were stolen. We were yelled at for questioning the evidence over useless interventions. The list of offenses is long.

It matters that Fauci lied and covered for himself. He did enormous damage that will persist for decades. How many crises exist, or are exacerbated by the lies he told?

And Fauci committed some of these offenses for no higher purpose than to cover his own ass.

VIDEO: 15min23sec: 6 March: New American: Nurse Debilitated by Covid Jab Demands Justice as VAERS Reports Disappear
by Alex Newman
It is essential that those responsible for the devastation wrought by the Covid injections be brought to justice and that victims are acknowledged and cared for, explained registered nurse Danielle Baker, whose health was totally destroyed by the mandatory so-called vaccine, in this interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine’s Alex Newman. The report she filed with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) disappeared, without explanation, she added. Baker, who suffered horrific neurological effects from the injection as confirmed by doctors, only took it because she was pressured and threatened by her employer due to government mandates. Breaking down in tears, she explained how she went from being a caregiver to having to be cared for constantly. There are many others suffering as well, she added.
https://thenewamerican.com/nurse-debilitated-by-covid-jab-demands-justice-as-vaers-reports-disappear/

3 March: UK SpikedOnline: The sinister cruelty of lockdown has been laid bare
We now know just how drunk on tyranny the political class was during the pandemic.
by Brendan O’Neill
It was Simon Case, the UK’s top mandarin. In February 2021 he had a breezy virtual chat with Matt Hancock, the then health secretary. A policy had just been introduced stipulating that any Briton returning from a ‘red list’ country – which eventually included 50 states around the world, including India and vast swathes of Africa – would have to quarantine in a hotel at a cost of £1,750 per person, later rising to £2,285. A total of 200,000 British citizens and residents endured this painful, expensive quarantine. To Hancock and his civil-service pals it was all a big laugh. ‘I just want to see some of the faces of people coming out of first class and into a premier inn shoe box’, chortled Mr Case. He later asked Hancock: ‘Any idea how many people we locked up in hotels yesterday?’ Locked up in hotels. Hancock replied that 149 people ‘are now in Quarantine Hotels due to their own free will!’. ‘Hilarious’, said Case...

We now know that sections of the political elite relished the power lockdown gave them. At points they seemed almost drunk on tyranny. So, alongside making fun of the sometimes life-ruining policy of forced quarantine, Hancock demanded that cops be more heavy-handed in enforcing the lockdown. ‘[We] are going to have to get heavy with the police’, he said to Simon Case in August 2020. A few months later, he was chuffed when then PM Boris Johnson did indeed put pressure on police to collar lockdown deviants – ‘the plod got their marching orders’, Hancock said. Boris seemed to get a kick from authoritarian enforcement, too. When Hancock WhatsApped him a news article about two people being fined £10,000 for failing to quarantine, Boris replied: ‘Superb.’...

At times, there was an expressly political bent to their lockdown illiberalism. One of Hancock’s advisers, Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, wondered what might be done about ‘pub hooligan’ Nigel Farage. Following a news report that implied Farage had flouted quarantine rules upon his return from the US, Njoku-Goodwin asked: ‘Can we lock him up?’ This may have been a joke (although given many of them really were messaging with glee about people being ‘locked up in hotels’, I’m not so sure). But the fact that officialdom had reached the low of talking about locking up their political critics demonstrates how far they had sailed from decency and democracy on that ship of lockdown...

Ms Oakeshott is a backstabber and a money-grubber for revealing these WhatsApp messages, some are saying. Oh stop it. Nothing could be more in the public interest than knowing the thinking behind an ideology and a policy that wrecked civil liberty, suspended democracy, sickened the elderly, hurt the working classes, quarantined the developing world, and led to a suspension of that most key of civilised endeavours: the education of children. A pandemic hit, and the political elite, and the media elite, opted for social tyranny, censorship, non-debate, classism and fearmongering over taking a more rational, liberal, focused approach to the risk of disease. We need to know all about this, so that we might guard against it in the future.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/03/the-sinister-cruelty-of-lockdown-has-been-laid-bare/

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