The COVID coverup begins to unravel
COVID likely started circulating in China is late 2019–now 3 years ago–and its effects have dominated our lives for 2 1/2 years.
Yet for much of that time the
Establishment™ has been gaslighting us about its likely origins. You know that.
The Establishment™ knows that you know. And now the Senate Republicans on the health
committee are laying the facts out on the table. COVID almost
certainly was released accidentally from a Chinese research lab.
It was remarkable how quickly the
Narrative™ settled on the zoonotic origin of the virus, since warning signs that the virus
didn’t originate naturally were everywhere. Even scientists who
confidently declared in private their belief that the virus was engineered
publicly stated the opposite–after having been directed to by
Anthony Fauci, the keeper of the keys to the kingdom’s treasury when it comes
to research dollars. Fauci in recent months has been backtracking on
whether or not the virus could have been engineered, but he sure expended
enormous effort maintaining the fiction that an animal origin was certain.
There is a simple reason for Fauci’s
reluctance to consider a lab leak hypothesis–if it came from the Wuhan
Institute for Virology, the US government likely funded the research. Obviously
nobody wants that on their record, and Fauci has quite the pension to protect,
as well as an unearned reputation as The Science™.
From the Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON—The Covid-19 pandemic that has
killed millions worldwide “was most likely the result of a research-related
incident” in China, and not natural transmission of a virus from animal to
human, a new report by Republicans on the Senate health committee concludes.
The study cites details about the early spread of the
SARS-COV-2 virus, which causes Covid; the fact that no animal host has been
identified nearly three years into the pandemic; and troubled biosafety procedures at
labs in the Chinese city of Wuhan to buttress its conclusion.
The 35-page report by Republican committee
staff acknowledges that definitive conclusions about the pandemic’s origins are
impossible without more evidence. But, it says: “The hypothesis of a natural
zoonotic origin no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt, or the presumption
of accuracy.”
The report is largely based on information
already publicly available but is likely to bolster calls in Washington for
further investigations into the origins of the virus. Republicans have vowed to launch more aggressive
Covid-19 probes if they regain control of one or both chambers
of Congress in the midterm elections.
Previous zoonotic disease outbreaks—in which a pathogen
jumps from animals to man—have occurred in multiple locations as a virus
circulates in animal populations, while the Covid virus is known to have
emerged only in Wuhan, home to laboratories conducting research on
coronaviruses, the report notes. In addition, it says, no animal has been
identified as infected with the virus before the December 2019 pandemic
outbreak.
I have always suspected, based upon the
balance of the evidence I have access to, that the virus was accidentally
leaked from a lab. But I freely admit that biological research is not in my
wheelhouse.
What is in my wheelhouse is the
manipulation of evidence, the shaping of the
Narrative™, the corruption at the core of our institutions where money and
power are accumulated while citizens and the economy are manipulated for the
benefit of the people at the top of the power pyramid. The Establishment™ is a
transnational club, and as with all such clubs if you are inside you are
covered, if you are outside you are scum.
The conspiracy to cover up the origins of
the virus isn’t based upon some deep dark desire to kill off millions of
people. Nor, I am certain, was the virus released intentionally to create the
conditions where the people at the top could seize emergency powers to take us
far down the path of tyranny–that was just a happy accident that the WEF crowd
took advantage of. If they wanted to do that, they would have chosen a time
when Trump wasn’t president.
No, this one is explained by something as
simple as bureaucrats covering their assess after having blundered so badly
that millions of people died. The emails that were FOIA’d from the
NIH make that clear:
In the earliest days of the pandemic,
Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins emailed about coronaviruses under study at
the Wuhan Institute of Virology and about whether they had steered money to the
lab, an email obtained by
U.S. Right to Know shows.
Collins, then leader of the National
Institutes of Health, and Fauci, leader of its infectious diseases institute,
exchanged emails on February 1, 2020, about a preprint authored
by Zhengli Shi, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Center for
Emerging Infectious Diseases. The preprint described bat coronaviruses under
study at the lab, including a coronavirus 96 percent genetically similar to the
coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The emails show that Collins and Fauci were
concerned about links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and NIH.
“In case you haven’t seen this preprint
from one week ago,” Collins said in a February 1, 2020, email to Fauci. “No
evidence this work was supported by NIH.”
“I did see it, but did not check the
similarities. Obviously we need more details,” Fauci replied, a little before
noon.
Some details of the short exchange are
redacted.
The email shows that these concerns were
top of mind at a critical time.
About two hours after the email exchange,
Collins and Fauci would join a secret teleconference with
a group of virologists who were closely examining the novel coronavirus.
The teleconference touched
off a high profile push to discredit the lab leak hypothesis.
The revelation that Collins and Fauci were
discussing whether NIH had funded work on coronaviruses similar to SARS-CoV-2
at the Wuhan lab in the hours before suggests that politics may have been at
play.
Those virologists’ claims that the virus could not have
been engineered may have been influenced by Collins and Fauci. The NIH leaders
may have sought to obscure links between federal funding and coronavirus
research at the advancing pandemic’s epicenter. The emails raise questions
about these virologists’ assurances that
their deliberations were apolitical.
The word went out very quickly that the lab
leak hypothesis was off the table. It simply had to be, because there indeed
was funding flowing from the NIH to Wuhan through the EcoHealthAlliance, and
gain of function research was being done there. As everybody now knows, it even
goes on here in the US, where BU and Cleveland Clinic researchers just engineered a COVID
variant that has an 80% mortality rate in mice from a COVID
virus that was as dangerous as a mild cold.
These people play God every day, and when
they release the Hounds of Hell on the rest of us they just go “oops” and cover
it up.
UNHERD has an article by Matt Ridley who
wrote a book with Alina Chan about the origins of the COVID virus. Alina Chan
is a Scientific Advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Ridley
is an author. Their book was widely praised everywhere–except
in America, because the word had gotten out to treat them as pariahs because it
raised uncomfortable questions about The Narrative™.
Imagine if the accidental launch of a
nuclear missile had killed 21 million people.
It’s hard to believe the world would shrug and say: let’s not bother finding
out how it happened. The Covid pandemic has killed around that number and
disrupted the lives of billions. Nothing like it has happened in more than a
century; it is the greatest cause of global suffering since the Forties. Yet we
still do not know how it started, and much of the world seems to be
increasingly incurious to find out.
We co-authored a book, Viral: The Search for the
Origin of Covid-19, on this topic in 2021 and it proved to be an odd
experience. Eschewing speculation and sticking to what we could prove, we
delved deep into the evidence and wove together the threads that linked bat
viruses from southern China or Southeast Asia with an outbreak in Wuhan in late
2019. We concluded that it was impossible to be sure yet, but two theories were
plausible: spillover from an animal to a person at a market, or an accident in
a laboratory or during a research field trip.
Hardly a shocking conspiracy theory, right? A
straightforward attempt to answer a compelling question, weighing the evidence
and suggesting possible solutions. This was not an Alex Jones conspiracy theory
book, but scientific journalism of the highest order with an author backed by
MIT and Harvard. A scientist, in other words.
Our book received praise from readers: we
received letters and emails from senior scientists, politicians, businessmen,
journalists, and others commending it as a non-fiction whodunnit.
All that was gratifying. But it stood in
marked contrast to the reaction in much of the media. CNN invited us on to
discuss the book then cancelled at the last minute — at the behest of their
health editor. The BBC simply ignored the book altogether, as did the other
mainstream US and UK networks. The topic remains taboo in much of the
mainstream media. Reviews were mostly bad — in both senses of the word. That is
to say, they were highly critical and inaccurate. In some cases, the authors
said things that made clear they had not read the book but had made up their
minds to dislike it. Not one but two virologists told us on Twitter that the
book was full of lies — and that they had not read it. An odd thing for anybody
to admit to, especially a scientist.
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington invited us to
give a presentation on the book, then cancelled the invitation. We asked the
Royal Society if they had considered a debate on the topic of the origin of the
Covid pandemic: no, they said, it’s not a proper topic for scientific discussion.
What? We tried a couple of other learned societies: no, sorry, too
controversial. Seriously.
I highly recommend reading the whole piece because it
is thoughtful, informative, and distressing if you still have a
modicum of faith in our institutions.
As the entire Establishment freaks out
about the possibility that Republicans are likely to take over Congress it is
worth thinking about why that would be. Obviously it is better to control all
the levers of power, but with a Biden White House it’s hardly the case that
radical Republicans will be passing laws that will radically change anything in
the country.
Presidents rarely get much done
domestically in the second half of their first term because they expended most
of their political capital early, so why the obvious panic?
It is this: when Republicans get control
they also gain enormous investigatory power. And as the Establishment™
Republicans have been flushed out of the Party the new breed are much less
inclined to cover up the dirty laundry than those they are replacing.
This Senate report doesn’t in itself cover
any new ground, but what it does do is signal that the new Republicans are not
going to play ball with the politicians and bureaucrats who are desperate to
cover their own asses. If so, very good indeed.
COVID has been the tool that the Elites™
have used to bully Americans into complying with the most absurd rules, beating
us into submission. It would be ironic indeed if we could turn the tables and
use the likelihood that the United States helped fund the development of the
virus that has literally plagued us as a tool to dismantle the bipartisan
transnational clique who have been driving the West into the ground.
UPDATE: Vanity Fair has a detailed story on the investigation into the COVID virus’ origin: https://t.co/xZUnzDxptc
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2022/10/28/the-covid-coverup-begins-to-unravel-n506352
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