Covid was that special time when journalism, sociology and poly-sci majors suddenly made themselves experts in immunology, epidemiology, biology and chemistry.
RATHER IT WAS THE TIME WHEN FAUCI AND OTHERS ORGANIZED A VAST EFFORT TO HIDE THE TRUTHS - The Wuhan Lab was doing bioweapon research, The lab was performing very dangerous experiments in labs that did not provide adequate bio security AND that Fauci had ordered his subordinates NOT to consider the possibility of a lab leak.
The vastly larger issue is that Fauci ordered his staff to lie to American citizen taxpayers who not only paid their lucrative salaries but allowed their side deals that generated so much revenue. The evidence is there in the form of emails detailing both the work in the Wuhan lab and the failure to maintain adequate safety measures
There's also the back channel discussions within CDC that the virus looks engineered for optimal human infectivity and that Fauci was laundering funds for the Wuhan lab through Eco Health Alliance .
There's backchannel email discussions among Fauci's own team that the virus appears to have been engineered for optimal infectivity in humans.
There is the spectacular deal offered Dr Charles Lieber of Harvard. The head of their Biology Department and DOD contractor was secretly enrolled in China's 1,000 Talents Program where outstanding scientists trade their loyalty to the USA for , in Lieber's case around $750,000 per year paid under the table . For that amount Lieber pledged his allegiance to China and agreed to work IN THE WUHAN LAB for a significant part of each year. In a Plea Deal Lieber who was charged with multiple felonies was quietly sentenced to a few months of home confinement. Why.... Because Lieber knew what was underway in the lab.
Records from other leading researchers show that they were specifically instructed to not consider the Wuhan Lab as a potential source of Covid despite the known problems in the lab.
The ultimate tragedy of this all is how effective the lies and propaganda were both at the time and still are today. So many of the sheeple not only obeyed every one of Lord Fauci's edicts, and did so enthusiasm, this still to this day wear cloth obedience masks in public and continue to poison their bodies with wholly ineffective and proven deadly "boosters".
The plandemic above all was a massive info-op to gauge the public's susceptibility and willingness to blindly comply with whatever obvious bullshit anyone shovels at them. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
They got away with it and they will do it again. And again.
Trump did fail to stop the Deep State operation, but at least Trump got Roe overturned. Sure we have more abortions now than before but I still think that alone makes his presidency a resounding success as that was the GOPe’s most important goal for 3 decades.
It opened up a hornets nest for sure. We've been fighting about it for, what, 50 years, give or take? Now, we'll be fighting about it in each State for the next 50. Well, I probably won't be, although medicine has come a long way 😉. Regardless, Roe was bad law whatever your position on abortion. Full disclosure, I see both sides of the argument, and would think we would come to some sort of compromise, maybe the first trimester or whatever the people decide. I don't think the extremists on either side are going to get what they want: no abortion anywhere ever, or abortions post-birth.
I agree. I am/was a self described center >slighty right. Then covid and all of the sudden my body my choice was not true. Then the cry went out that the left wanted abortion at any stage. I waited thinking surely someone on the left would say that is ridiculous...nope didn't . Guess what , I will never die on that hill. I think at least the morning after pill or whatever it is called should be availble-if not oh well. I was at one time areeable to abortion up to 16 wks>technology improved>12 wks>it is really ridiculous to think that an abortion would be obtained before 6 wks or before heartbeat as tech continues to improve 6 wks is really one missed period only a matter of time until it's earlier for the hearbeat.
Maybe the answer is more about-don't have unprotected sex, sex that you don't want to potentionally produce a child? I know scandalous thought.
Lastly I am an RN who worked in labor and delivery for a couple of decades. I have held stillborn babies from 16 wk and above-it is a baby-no matter what anyone may want to think. Not saying life begins at 16 wks-earlier they may have had a d&c or I just didn't happen to see any-again I am only talking about stillborn babies.
So now I am probably far right, or a far right extremist, chistian nationalist, white supremist etc etc etc. All bc one view changed.
McConnell’s priority was judicial appointments…nobody that voted for Trump in the early primary cares about judicial appointments. Trump’s original sin was relinquishing his leverage over McConnell by outsourcing judicial appointments to McGahn/McConnell/Leo.
thanks for compiling this. eye opening. makes you think about other "blanket coverage" of issues like Israel and other divisive issues like climate change, abortion etc.
Great article, but even worse than the failure of the press was the failure of the scientific community which gave cover for the rejection of the Lab Leak theory. The press clearly had an agenda to debunk everything that Trump said, but scientists are supposed to be guided by a search for the truth and they intentially buried their heads in the sand regarding the source of the Covid virus.
There's also the discussion among Fauci loyalists of how they suppressed the lab leak theory including the destruction of emails subject to FOIA disclosure by first searching for relevant documents , then destroying them and then rerunning the search to show they had no relevant documents.
It was a mini IQ test. If you actually believed a bat virus with obvious signs of human intervention occurred naturally right next door to a high security biolab that performs gain of function research on bat viruses you have a sub 100 IQ.
Samples of a version of this particular novel coronavirus was brought to that Wuhan Lab for study in December 2019. Whoever brought those samples to them from anywhere in China could and very likely would have been exposed within breathing distance to the virus and therefore became a carrier. This virus spread airborne very quickly and easily. It is not the least bit implausible that whoever delivered those samples was already a carrier and, while there, would have visited the Wuhan Seafood Market right down the street and exposed dozens if not hundreds of other people within an hour. There is nothing wildly or implausibly coincidental about the first notable spread of a particularly virulent airborne virus occurring in a crowded marketplace right down the street from where samples of virtually every novel coronavirus that originated by any means including bats is delivered for study.
A minor correction , the virus had apparently infected people at the mass transit stops closer to the Wuhan lab before any infections that might have been associated with the Wet Market. The recent release of email traffic and evidence of the measures put in place to prevent disclosure of emails further document the desperate attempts of the Obama gang to obscure the real source of COVID and the arrogant lies of Dr Fauci. >
The Obama gang? If the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams had not been defunded and removed from those Chinese labs in 2019 against expert warnings not to do something so dangerous and stupid there would have been responsible agents present to not only monitor and report the earliest case evidence and very likely isolate and quarantine in order to prevent a Pandemic from developing in the first place but to also provide information about the probable origin if the virus.
Since Obama had not been president for at least 2 years before the decision was made to defund and remove the most potentially critical element to prevent and provide that information, it had to have been the Trump gang. Probably Trump himself.
Trump, you don’t believe that what was going on was under the supervision of Fauci or Eco Health Alliance . There were the reports from the inspection teams that there were concerns but they went , as I recall to the State Department.
Eco Health was responsible for managing and auditing the work done under their funding. There was at least one report back to Fauci regarding the conditions in the lab. It was his responsibility to followup . We did have someone in the lab for much of each year leading up to the release of covid. That was Harvard Professor Charles Lieber, but he was taking $750K per year from the chicoms to work for their benefit. Despite failing to report his work as an agent of a foreign government or report millions of income from China Lieber was quietly sentenced to a few months of home confinement.
Trump admitted to Bob Woodward that if someone had alerted us "2 months earlier...the world wouldn't have a problem."
Do you honestly believe that if Trump had the slightest notion or a shred of evidence (not that he even needed it to make the claim) that Fauci was the one in his administration who made those decisions right under his nose and presumably with his blessing that he wouldn't have blamed him by name and date at every opportunity?
We have a bunch of problems with this gaggle of babble
A. Fauci’s own team thought the outbreak at Wuhan was very suspicious
B. Fauci ordered his people to obstruct any serious look at the lab origin hypothesis
C. Eco Health Alliance played an active role in the disinformation and also knew the Chinese were not following the protocols in their program.
D. You have a highly infectious release of a virus associated with bats. The virus is essentially one being studied in the Wuhan lab.
E. The community affected by the newly discovered infectious virus just happens to be close to a facility where such research was conducted. Several lab workers were infected.
F. Fauci’s own team believed the virus was engineered as indicated in their private emails
You have to understand that most of what was written a few years ago was written without the benefit of a lot of knowledge and the overwhelming evidence of corruption under Fauci.
The Chinese knew the BSL-4 lab was not working properly , we knew this and we knew they were doing work which belonged in a BSL 4 (or possibly BSL-3 lab) was being performed in the BSL-2 level lab (about the same as your dentist’s office) .
As the world now knows your pals were lying and they knew they were lying about the virus. Fauci’s own guys were sharing private emails noting the fact that it was optimally arranged to enhance human to human transmission. And further noting that they were not allowed to publicly disclose that.
The denials continued until the window opened to come clean before the next election. The government buried the case of Harvard’s Dr Charles Lieber insofar as his ties to the Wuhan Lab and his receipt of millions from the chicoms for his work at the Wuhan Lab under a secret contract that essentially pledged his loyalty to China under their Thousand Talents Program.
Your monitoring programs were useless because the Chicoms were covering up the facts with their The creative blaming of the Wet Market as the source and Eco Health swallowing the lie to protect their flow of funds the public was deceived. Eco Health was very aware of the serious problems in the lab.
We know that Fauci lied and induced others to lie about covid. Thanks to their dereliction of duty millions died and our nation’s economy suffered greatly , leaving a far greater level of debt for future generations.
There’s a class of people who lack the intellect and integrity to honestly pursue knowledge if it might hurt their cause or bring embarrassment. There’s an even more despicable class who feel entitled to deceive others in matters of life and death. Looking at the email traffic and the actions of Fauci and others it is impossible to believe that they simply acted stupidly in the face of all the evidence.
There was no tie to the “Wet Market” but a strong tie to the Wuhan lab , beyond the knowledge of what was intended to happen there. The CIA and FBI were aware of the work being performed.
It wasn’t until the FBI realized the story of Dr Charles Lieber could not be contained that they took action. Lieber, head of Harvard’s Biology Department was secretly working in the Wuhan Lab as a member of China’s Thousand Talents Program, receiving millions from the chicoms.
It appears that the Biden Administration does not want to further inform Americans about the events as they really happened. Sadly Congressional democrats have done much to keep the truth in the freezer.
There’s a mixed pot of distortions and confusion….
What Fauci did not tell the American public
His people were spending more time beating down any rumors about bio-engineering and “dangerous misinformation” than searching for the truth.
In their private emails Fauci’s people talk about it looking engineered. In their back channel emails Fauci’s top team notes that it sure looks like it was modified for optimal transmission to humans.
Have you ever heard a liberal express the thought that we need to hear from Harvard’s Charles Lieber who was secretly working in the Wuhan Lab while also serving as the head of Harvard’s Biology Department.
His contract committed him to work for the best interests of China in the Wuhan Lab much of the year in exchange for $750,000 delivered in cash annually with no IRS reporting.
Having committed multiple serious felonies (failure to register as a foreign agent and tax fraud), he received only a pat on the wrist. Clearly the FBI did not want him to talk. There is no indication the Bidens even asked him to pay the back taxes.
Thanks for Fauci and others hiding the information and lying about other issues we might have acted earlier and saved many lives.
We, the US Taxpayers contributed to the creation of COVID. The record is clear that Fauci and others understood the Chinese Connection . It shows in the private emails of Fauci’s team. “The Virus Appears Engineered” .
The Democrats have minimized the significance of Harvard’s head of biology having worked at the Wuhan Lab trying to help them clean up their lab as a Thousand Talent researcher. Lieber was receiving about $750,000 per year from the Chicoms under a secret contract. Like so many others Lieber “neglected” to report the secret funds and the commitment to report his work on behalf of the Chinese. The standard terms of the Thousand Talents researcher include loyalty tothe Chicoms and not releasing the information that they are working for the Chinese. At the same time other scientists were observing that the virus looks engineered for maximum human infectivity.
Fauci used Eco Health Alliance as a cutout to deliver funds to the Wuhan Lab. There is a reason why the government made such a great deal with Harvard's Charles Lieber (Chm of the Bio Department) who was enrolled in China's Thousand Talents program , receiving around $750K per year from China. As part of that program his contract required him to pledge his "allegiance" to China. What was he doing ? He was spending months each year IN THE WUHAN LAB under a contract where he pledged to "work for the best interests of China."
It's no accident that his punishment for a guilty plea to the above plus failing to declare millions of income on his taxes, was a few months of home detention.
There's been no serious interest on the part of the press to look into this or the massive obstruction of the investigation including backchannel communications fo Fauci's team that the virus looked to be engineered for optimal human transmission. Other folks admitting , in sworn testimony" that when receiving a FOI request they searched for the relevant emails and then DESTROYED them and then searched and "found no relevant documents".
A few emails escaped the destruction program including those among Fauci's team designated to look into the matter. Their backchannel emails included the observation that " it certainly looks engineered for optimal human transmission.
Those proclaiming that there is no evidence would appear to be descendants of those who dismissed the heretics who proposed that the earth was not flat.
That which we know has been discovered despite the best efforts of Biden, Fauci , and the insiders who made billions from COVID.
Those interested in truth should also look into the history of the Lancet article ghost written by Eco Health Alliance and later withdrawn by Lancet with an apology.
Mike's comment is no different from the argument that pro lab leak pundits have seriously offered as proof it must have "originated" in a lab leak since the beginning. If it has ever been made in sarcasm I suspect that would come as news to them.
Patrick Berche has an excellent article: Gain of function and the origin of Covid 19. You decide. "Three years after the emergence of Covid-19, the origin of du SARS-CoV2 remains a mystery. Covid19 appeared in Wuhan, officially in December 2019, but probably during the autumn 2019. The virus was identified in January 2020. It belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus (subgenus Sarbecovirus). It was at once highly contagious. In addition, the primary isolates were genetically very homogeneous, differing only by two nucleotides without evidence for adaptive mutations. In addition, the Spike protein, a major virulence factor, has a furin site, not found in any other known sarbecovirus. Unlike the SARS and MERS epidemics, no intermediate host has been detected so far. Finally, no other outbreaks were reported at the beginning of the pandemic outside of Wuhan, contrary to what happened with the emergence of SARS (2002) and H7N9 avian influenza (2013). Today, there are two scenarios to explain the emergence of SARS-CoV2. Proponents of the natural origin argue that the bat virus might have directly infected humans, spreading silently at a low level in humans for years, without eliminating the existence of undetected intermediate hosts. This does not explain the origin in Wuhan, far away from the natural virus reservoirs. The furin site would have arisen spontaneously from other coronaviruses. The alternative scenario is that of a laboratory accident after gain-of-function manipulations from a SARS-like virus, or even the occurrence of a human contamination by a natural CoV virus grown on cells in Wuhan."
We are in a crisis of accountability. We no longer have an independent justice system or free press. The squelching of free speech has had no repercussions. The gratuitous lockdowns, the forced vaccinations of those not at risk. Nothing to see here. Will Merchan or Bragg be disbarred or disgraced for what they have done? Much less important than who is our next President is a different question-how can we ever reclaim consequences?
Look up what Rand Paul has to say on this subject. And I recognize this sounds tinfoil, but the explanation that best fits is that the US govt was funding research at WIV in order to keep an eye on Chinese bio capabilities. And then the project accidentally unleashed a pandemic, and then they tried to cover it up. The outlets weren’t just anti-trump, they were serving as CIA mouthpieces. China was right, the US did play a role - it all fits.
Covid was weaponized against Trump. That, along with the Floyd case, were the weapons used to bring down the Trump administration and install Biden and his Biden comics, I mean, Bidenomics.
We would have had immeasurably more Intel on whether or not it further spread from a lab leak after those first cases emerged at the Wuhan Seafood Market if only Donald Trump had not defunded and removed the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams from those labs by September 2019, contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid. Only Xi's people were on hand who, as expected and the whole reason those Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams were stationed there in the first place, allowed it to spread for weeks or months and develope into a Pandemic in relative secrecy.
By March 2020 Trump was admitting to Bob Woodward in a recorded interview that somebody should have told us what was happening before it became too obvious to deny (January 2020) and that just a "2 month" earlier heads up would have been plenty of time to avoid "all the problems", gee why weren't there any responsible monitors there to tell us earlier. lol.
We knew what was happening in the Wuhan Lab . There was a reason that Eco Health Alliance ghost wrote the Lancet Article to cover their and Fauci's tracks.
Later the FBI and others had the opportunity to fully debrief Harvard's Dr Charles Lieber who was enrolled in China's 1,000 Talents program and working IN THE WUHAN LAB
Where's the part where Marjorie Taylor Greene presents evidence that it was Fauci and not Trump who defunded and removed the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams from those labs in 2018 and 2019 contrary to all expert warnings not to do something so dangerous and stupid, admitted in a March 2020 recorded interview that if only they had still been in place to monitor and report the earliest cases "2 months sooner" we would have averted the Pandemic entirely "easily" and then spent the following critical year trying to deflect from his worst economic and national security decisions in history by lying about the risks of the virus, mocking the mitigation efforts and insisting nobody needs to invent a vaccine much less take one?
Or was it Matt Goerz and Louie Gohmert who presented that evidence?
Because if nobody on that investigative committee presents conclusive evidence that Fauci did all those things instead of Trump then it will for all time and in the future be rightfully known as Trump's Pandemic and not Fauci's Pandemic.
Louie Gohmert relinquished a safe House seat in order to…wait for it…help the Bush family. Gohmert is a Deep State mole…and I guarantee you he isn’t the only one.
What is being written now by the Pink Tinkle GOP House Manure-ity is not even concluded. Only questions. No conclusions.
Meanwhile, none of it has refuted the fact that Trump's 2018 and 2019 decisions to defund and remove the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams ftom those Chinese labs left the world bare ass naked against Preventing a Pandemic of any kind or originating in any way and then lying about the risks and whether "We've got this under control, it's disappearing already, it will go away without a vaccine!" for the following critical year.
And if only that Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention team was still fully in place to report the earliest cases "2 months sooner", Trump's Pandemic would have been prevented "easily", as Donald Trump himself admitted in a recorded interview.
Neither Hillary, nor Barack, nor Joe, nor any other Dem would have defunded and removed those teams in 2018 and 2019 against all expert warnings not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
You are providing a real service by screenshotting so much of this before it succumbs to stealth revisions and/or link rot. Never forget.
Covid was that special time when journalism, sociology and poly-sci majors suddenly made themselves experts in immunology, epidemiology, biology and chemistry.
RATHER IT WAS THE TIME WHEN FAUCI AND OTHERS ORGANIZED A VAST EFFORT TO HIDE THE TRUTHS - The Wuhan Lab was doing bioweapon research, The lab was performing very dangerous experiments in labs that did not provide adequate bio security AND that Fauci had ordered his subordinates NOT to consider the possibility of a lab leak.
The vastly larger issue is that Fauci ordered his staff to lie to American citizen taxpayers who not only paid their lucrative salaries but allowed their side deals that generated so much revenue. The evidence is there in the form of emails detailing both the work in the Wuhan lab and the failure to maintain adequate safety measures
There's also the back channel discussions within CDC that the virus looks engineered for optimal human infectivity and that Fauci was laundering funds for the Wuhan lab through Eco Health Alliance .
There's backchannel email discussions among Fauci's own team that the virus appears to have been engineered for optimal infectivity in humans.
There is the spectacular deal offered Dr Charles Lieber of Harvard. The head of their Biology Department and DOD contractor was secretly enrolled in China's 1,000 Talents Program where outstanding scientists trade their loyalty to the USA for , in Lieber's case around $750,000 per year paid under the table . For that amount Lieber pledged his allegiance to China and agreed to work IN THE WUHAN LAB for a significant part of each year. In a Plea Deal Lieber who was charged with multiple felonies was quietly sentenced to a few months of home confinement. Why.... Because Lieber knew what was underway in the lab.
Records from other leading researchers show that they were specifically instructed to not consider the Wuhan Lab as a potential source of Covid despite the known problems in the lab.
Good work! Keep the receipts.
The ultimate tragedy of this all is how effective the lies and propaganda were both at the time and still are today. So many of the sheeple not only obeyed every one of Lord Fauci's edicts, and did so enthusiasm, this still to this day wear cloth obedience masks in public and continue to poison their bodies with wholly ineffective and proven deadly "boosters".
The plandemic above all was a massive info-op to gauge the public's susceptibility and willingness to blindly comply with whatever obvious bullshit anyone shovels at them. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.
They got away with it and they will do it again. And again.
Trump did fail to stop the Deep State operation, but at least Trump got Roe overturned. Sure we have more abortions now than before but I still think that alone makes his presidency a resounding success as that was the GOPe’s most important goal for 3 decades.
It opened up a hornets nest for sure. We've been fighting about it for, what, 50 years, give or take? Now, we'll be fighting about it in each State for the next 50. Well, I probably won't be, although medicine has come a long way 😉. Regardless, Roe was bad law whatever your position on abortion. Full disclosure, I see both sides of the argument, and would think we would come to some sort of compromise, maybe the first trimester or whatever the people decide. I don't think the extremists on either side are going to get what they want: no abortion anywhere ever, or abortions post-birth.
I agree. I am/was a self described center >slighty right. Then covid and all of the sudden my body my choice was not true. Then the cry went out that the left wanted abortion at any stage. I waited thinking surely someone on the left would say that is ridiculous...nope didn't . Guess what , I will never die on that hill. I think at least the morning after pill or whatever it is called should be availble-if not oh well. I was at one time areeable to abortion up to 16 wks>technology improved>12 wks>it is really ridiculous to think that an abortion would be obtained before 6 wks or before heartbeat as tech continues to improve 6 wks is really one missed period only a matter of time until it's earlier for the hearbeat.
Maybe the answer is more about-don't have unprotected sex, sex that you don't want to potentionally produce a child? I know scandalous thought.
Lastly I am an RN who worked in labor and delivery for a couple of decades. I have held stillborn babies from 16 wk and above-it is a baby-no matter what anyone may want to think. Not saying life begins at 16 wks-earlier they may have had a d&c or I just didn't happen to see any-again I am only talking about stillborn babies.
So now I am probably far right, or a far right extremist, chistian nationalist, white supremist etc etc etc. All bc one view changed.
McConnell’s priority was judicial appointments…nobody that voted for Trump in the early primary cares about judicial appointments. Trump’s original sin was relinquishing his leverage over McConnell by outsourcing judicial appointments to McGahn/McConnell/Leo.
thanks for compiling this. eye opening. makes you think about other "blanket coverage" of issues like Israel and other divisive issues like climate change, abortion etc.
Great article, but even worse than the failure of the press was the failure of the scientific community which gave cover for the rejection of the Lab Leak theory. The press clearly had an agenda to debunk everything that Trump said, but scientists are supposed to be guided by a search for the truth and they intentially buried their heads in the sand regarding the source of the Covid virus.
There's also the discussion among Fauci loyalists of how they suppressed the lab leak theory including the destruction of emails subject to FOIA disclosure by first searching for relevant documents , then destroying them and then rerunning the search to show they had no relevant documents.
It was a mini IQ test. If you actually believed a bat virus with obvious signs of human intervention occurred naturally right next door to a high security biolab that performs gain of function research on bat viruses you have a sub 100 IQ.
Samples of a version of this particular novel coronavirus was brought to that Wuhan Lab for study in December 2019. Whoever brought those samples to them from anywhere in China could and very likely would have been exposed within breathing distance to the virus and therefore became a carrier. This virus spread airborne very quickly and easily. It is not the least bit implausible that whoever delivered those samples was already a carrier and, while there, would have visited the Wuhan Seafood Market right down the street and exposed dozens if not hundreds of other people within an hour. There is nothing wildly or implausibly coincidental about the first notable spread of a particularly virulent airborne virus occurring in a crowded marketplace right down the street from where samples of virtually every novel coronavirus that originated by any means including bats is delivered for study.
A minor correction , the virus had apparently infected people at the mass transit stops closer to the Wuhan lab before any infections that might have been associated with the Wet Market. The recent release of email traffic and evidence of the measures put in place to prevent disclosure of emails further document the desperate attempts of the Obama gang to obscure the real source of COVID and the arrogant lies of Dr Fauci. >
The Obama gang? If the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams had not been defunded and removed from those Chinese labs in 2019 against expert warnings not to do something so dangerous and stupid there would have been responsible agents present to not only monitor and report the earliest case evidence and very likely isolate and quarantine in order to prevent a Pandemic from developing in the first place but to also provide information about the probable origin if the virus.
Since Obama had not been president for at least 2 years before the decision was made to defund and remove the most potentially critical element to prevent and provide that information, it had to have been the Trump gang. Probably Trump himself.
Trump, you don’t believe that what was going on was under the supervision of Fauci or Eco Health Alliance . There were the reports from the inspection teams that there were concerns but they went , as I recall to the State Department.
Eco Health was responsible for managing and auditing the work done under their funding. There was at least one report back to Fauci regarding the conditions in the lab. It was his responsibility to followup . We did have someone in the lab for much of each year leading up to the release of covid. That was Harvard Professor Charles Lieber, but he was taking $750K per year from the chicoms to work for their benefit. Despite failing to report his work as an agent of a foreign government or report millions of income from China Lieber was quietly sentenced to a few months of home confinement.
Trump administration cut pandemic early warning program in September.
Predict project wound down three months before outbreak.
Project had identified 160 potentially dangerous coronaviruses.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/trump-scrapped-pandemic-early-warning-program-system-before-coronavirus
Trump admitted to Bob Woodward that if someone had alerted us "2 months earlier...the world wouldn't have a problem."
Do you honestly believe that if Trump had the slightest notion or a shred of evidence (not that he even needed it to make the claim) that Fauci was the one in his administration who made those decisions right under his nose and presumably with his blessing that he wouldn't have blamed him by name and date at every opportunity?
Yet he hasn't.
We have a bunch of problems with this gaggle of babble
A. Fauci’s own team thought the outbreak at Wuhan was very suspicious
B. Fauci ordered his people to obstruct any serious look at the lab origin hypothesis
C. Eco Health Alliance played an active role in the disinformation and also knew the Chinese were not following the protocols in their program.
D. You have a highly infectious release of a virus associated with bats. The virus is essentially one being studied in the Wuhan lab.
E. The community affected by the newly discovered infectious virus just happens to be close to a facility where such research was conducted. Several lab workers were infected.
F. Fauci’s own team believed the virus was engineered as indicated in their private emails
You have to understand that most of what was written a few years ago was written without the benefit of a lot of knowledge and the overwhelming evidence of corruption under Fauci.
The Chinese knew the BSL-4 lab was not working properly , we knew this and we knew they were doing work which belonged in a BSL 4 (or possibly BSL-3 lab) was being performed in the BSL-2 level lab (about the same as your dentist’s office) .
As the world now knows your pals were lying and they knew they were lying about the virus. Fauci’s own guys were sharing private emails noting the fact that it was optimally arranged to enhance human to human transmission. And further noting that they were not allowed to publicly disclose that.
The denials continued until the window opened to come clean before the next election. The government buried the case of Harvard’s Dr Charles Lieber insofar as his ties to the Wuhan Lab and his receipt of millions from the chicoms for his work at the Wuhan Lab under a secret contract that essentially pledged his loyalty to China under their Thousand Talents Program.
Your monitoring programs were useless because the Chicoms were covering up the facts with their The creative blaming of the Wet Market as the source and Eco Health swallowing the lie to protect their flow of funds the public was deceived. Eco Health was very aware of the serious problems in the lab.
We know that Fauci lied and induced others to lie about covid. Thanks to their dereliction of duty millions died and our nation’s economy suffered greatly , leaving a far greater level of debt for future generations.
There’s a class of people who lack the intellect and integrity to honestly pursue knowledge if it might hurt their cause or bring embarrassment. There’s an even more despicable class who feel entitled to deceive others in matters of life and death. Looking at the email traffic and the actions of Fauci and others it is impossible to believe that they simply acted stupidly in the face of all the evidence.
There was no tie to the “Wet Market” but a strong tie to the Wuhan lab , beyond the knowledge of what was intended to happen there. The CIA and FBI were aware of the work being performed.
It wasn’t until the FBI realized the story of Dr Charles Lieber could not be contained that they took action. Lieber, head of Harvard’s Biology Department was secretly working in the Wuhan Lab as a member of China’s Thousand Talents Program, receiving millions from the chicoms.
It appears that the Biden Administration does not want to further inform Americans about the events as they really happened. Sadly Congressional democrats have done much to keep the truth in the freezer.
There’s a mixed pot of distortions and confusion….
What Fauci did not tell the American public
His people were spending more time beating down any rumors about bio-engineering and “dangerous misinformation” than searching for the truth.
In their private emails Fauci’s people talk about it looking engineered. In their back channel emails Fauci’s top team notes that it sure looks like it was modified for optimal transmission to humans.
Have you ever heard a liberal express the thought that we need to hear from Harvard’s Charles Lieber who was secretly working in the Wuhan Lab while also serving as the head of Harvard’s Biology Department.
His contract committed him to work for the best interests of China in the Wuhan Lab much of the year in exchange for $750,000 delivered in cash annually with no IRS reporting.
Having committed multiple serious felonies (failure to register as a foreign agent and tax fraud), he received only a pat on the wrist. Clearly the FBI did not want him to talk. There is no indication the Bidens even asked him to pay the back taxes.
Thanks for Fauci and others hiding the information and lying about other issues we might have acted earlier and saved many lives.
We, the US Taxpayers contributed to the creation of COVID. The record is clear that Fauci and others understood the Chinese Connection . It shows in the private emails of Fauci’s team. “The Virus Appears Engineered” .
The Democrats have minimized the significance of Harvard’s head of biology having worked at the Wuhan Lab trying to help them clean up their lab as a Thousand Talent researcher. Lieber was receiving about $750,000 per year from the Chicoms under a secret contract. Like so many others Lieber “neglected” to report the secret funds and the commitment to report his work on behalf of the Chinese. The standard terms of the Thousand Talents researcher include loyalty tothe Chicoms and not releasing the information that they are working for the Chinese. At the same time other scientists were observing that the virus looks engineered for maximum human infectivity.
Fauci used Eco Health Alliance as a cutout to deliver funds to the Wuhan Lab. There is a reason why the government made such a great deal with Harvard's Charles Lieber (Chm of the Bio Department) who was enrolled in China's Thousand Talents program , receiving around $750K per year from China. As part of that program his contract required him to pledge his "allegiance" to China. What was he doing ? He was spending months each year IN THE WUHAN LAB under a contract where he pledged to "work for the best interests of China."
It's no accident that his punishment for a guilty plea to the above plus failing to declare millions of income on his taxes, was a few months of home detention.
There's been no serious interest on the part of the press to look into this or the massive obstruction of the investigation including backchannel communications fo Fauci's team that the virus looked to be engineered for optimal human transmission. Other folks admitting , in sworn testimony" that when receiving a FOI request they searched for the relevant emails and then DESTROYED them and then searched and "found no relevant documents".
A few emails escaped the destruction program including those among Fauci's team designated to look into the matter. Their backchannel emails included the observation that " it certainly looks engineered for optimal human transmission.
Those proclaiming that there is no evidence would appear to be descendants of those who dismissed the heretics who proposed that the earth was not flat.
That which we know has been discovered despite the best efforts of Biden, Fauci , and the insiders who made billions from COVID.
Those interested in truth should also look into the history of the Lancet article ghost written by Eco Health Alliance and later withdrawn by Lancet with an apology.
You missed the obvious sarcasm of his comment.
Mike's comment is no different from the argument that pro lab leak pundits have seriously offered as proof it must have "originated" in a lab leak since the beginning. If it has ever been made in sarcasm I suspect that would come as news to them.
So you must have been triple masking and cutting in line for the vaccine knowing that it was a Chinese bioweapon! Good for you!
Recalibrate your sarcasm detector 🙃
So Chinese bioweapons aren’t dangerous??
I just found out about your Substack. This is a great compilation. I’m looking forward to your work going forward.
Patrick Berche has an excellent article: Gain of function and the origin of Covid 19. You decide. "Three years after the emergence of Covid-19, the origin of du SARS-CoV2 remains a mystery. Covid19 appeared in Wuhan, officially in December 2019, but probably during the autumn 2019. The virus was identified in January 2020. It belongs to the genus Betacoronavirus (subgenus Sarbecovirus). It was at once highly contagious. In addition, the primary isolates were genetically very homogeneous, differing only by two nucleotides without evidence for adaptive mutations. In addition, the Spike protein, a major virulence factor, has a furin site, not found in any other known sarbecovirus. Unlike the SARS and MERS epidemics, no intermediate host has been detected so far. Finally, no other outbreaks were reported at the beginning of the pandemic outside of Wuhan, contrary to what happened with the emergence of SARS (2002) and H7N9 avian influenza (2013). Today, there are two scenarios to explain the emergence of SARS-CoV2. Proponents of the natural origin argue that the bat virus might have directly infected humans, spreading silently at a low level in humans for years, without eliminating the existence of undetected intermediate hosts. This does not explain the origin in Wuhan, far away from the natural virus reservoirs. The furin site would have arisen spontaneously from other coronaviruses. The alternative scenario is that of a laboratory accident after gain-of-function manipulations from a SARS-like virus, or even the occurrence of a human contamination by a natural CoV virus grown on cells in Wuhan."
We are in a crisis of accountability. We no longer have an independent justice system or free press. The squelching of free speech has had no repercussions. The gratuitous lockdowns, the forced vaccinations of those not at risk. Nothing to see here. Will Merchan or Bragg be disbarred or disgraced for what they have done? Much less important than who is our next President is a different question-how can we ever reclaim consequences?
Look up what Rand Paul has to say on this subject. And I recognize this sounds tinfoil, but the explanation that best fits is that the US govt was funding research at WIV in order to keep an eye on Chinese bio capabilities. And then the project accidentally unleashed a pandemic, and then they tried to cover it up. The outlets weren’t just anti-trump, they were serving as CIA mouthpieces. China was right, the US did play a role - it all fits.
Covid was weaponized against Trump. That, along with the Floyd case, were the weapons used to bring down the Trump administration and install Biden and his Biden comics, I mean, Bidenomics.
Excellent article! THANK you for not letting this die. I will never ever forget but many...seem to want to forget.
We would have had immeasurably more Intel on whether or not it further spread from a lab leak after those first cases emerged at the Wuhan Seafood Market if only Donald Trump had not defunded and removed the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams from those labs by September 2019, contrary to all expert warnings for him not to do something so dangerous and stupid. Only Xi's people were on hand who, as expected and the whole reason those Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams were stationed there in the first place, allowed it to spread for weeks or months and develope into a Pandemic in relative secrecy.
By March 2020 Trump was admitting to Bob Woodward in a recorded interview that somebody should have told us what was happening before it became too obvious to deny (January 2020) and that just a "2 month" earlier heads up would have been plenty of time to avoid "all the problems", gee why weren't there any responsible monitors there to tell us earlier. lol.
We knew what was happening in the Wuhan Lab . There was a reason that Eco Health Alliance ghost wrote the Lancet Article to cover their and Fauci's tracks.
Later the FBI and others had the opportunity to fully debrief Harvard's Dr Charles Lieber who was enrolled in China's 1,000 Talents program and working IN THE WUHAN LAB
Where's the part where Marjorie Taylor Greene presents evidence that it was Fauci and not Trump who defunded and removed the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams from those labs in 2018 and 2019 contrary to all expert warnings not to do something so dangerous and stupid, admitted in a March 2020 recorded interview that if only they had still been in place to monitor and report the earliest cases "2 months sooner" we would have averted the Pandemic entirely "easily" and then spent the following critical year trying to deflect from his worst economic and national security decisions in history by lying about the risks of the virus, mocking the mitigation efforts and insisting nobody needs to invent a vaccine much less take one?
Or was it Matt Goerz and Louie Gohmert who presented that evidence?
Because if nobody on that investigative committee presents conclusive evidence that Fauci did all those things instead of Trump then it will for all time and in the future be rightfully known as Trump's Pandemic and not Fauci's Pandemic.
Louie Gohmert relinquished a safe House seat in order to…wait for it…help the Bush family. Gohmert is a Deep State mole…and I guarantee you he isn’t the only one.
What is being written now by the Pink Tinkle GOP House Manure-ity is not even concluded. Only questions. No conclusions.
Meanwhile, none of it has refuted the fact that Trump's 2018 and 2019 decisions to defund and remove the Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention teams ftom those Chinese labs left the world bare ass naked against Preventing a Pandemic of any kind or originating in any way and then lying about the risks and whether "We've got this under control, it's disappearing already, it will go away without a vaccine!" for the following critical year.
Fauci did not do that.
Trump did.
That is why it was Trump's Pandemic.
And if only that Early Warning/Pandemic Prevention team was still fully in place to report the earliest cases "2 months sooner", Trump's Pandemic would have been prevented "easily", as Donald Trump himself admitted in a recorded interview.
Neither Hillary, nor Barack, nor Joe, nor any other Dem would have defunded and removed those teams in 2018 and 2019 against all expert warnings not to do something so dangerous and stupid.
But Donald Trump did.
Lessen learned.