Lessons From the Great Covid Cover-Up By Brian Simpson
With the new compelling evidence of the Covid-19 virus as a lab creation involving the joint activities of the US Deep State and the CCP, through the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the question of guilt naturally arises. It is to be expected that a totalitarian communist regime will have no accountability, and China did not act in the early stages of the pandemic to prevent the spread to the West, and seemed to encourage it, but there is still the issue of US accountability.
US Senator Rand Paul, author of Deception: the Great COVID Cover-Up, has argued for some time, that while many are involved, there is a clear guilt trail with Dr. Anthony Fauci and his fellow public health bureaucrats. It was only through the grand luck of a federal judge ordering the release of Fauci's emails dating back to the Covid plandemic early period, that the truth did out.
As noted by Senator Rand in his book, while Fauci was publicly championing the natural origin of Covid, he was also funding gain-of-function research at the substandard safety lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and Wuhan was admitted by all to be ground zero of the outbreak of Covid. According to Senator Paul:
"Jeremy Farrar, the Anthony Fauci of the UK, told his brother that in the early stages of the pandemic, 'a few scientists, including me, were beginning to suspect this might be a lab accident.'
Farrar writes in his book Spike: 'During that period, I would do things I had never done before: acquire a burner phone, hold clandestine meetings, keep difficult secrets.'
Indeed, many Western bureaucrats, especially in the U.S., began using various forms of communication to shield their messages from future records requests. We have an email from one of Fauci's assistants instructing other government employees to avoid using government email addresses. Which, by the way, is a crime."
From a detailed analysis of Fauci's emails, Senator Rand concludes that Fauci was up to his neck in the Covid conspiracy. The question is, if Trump gets elected will he do anything about this, since he went along with the ride, and was proud of his role as father of Operation Warp Speed, which led to the untold deaths and misery of the Covid plandemic? Personally, I think Trump should be tried on this ground rather than the bogus lawfare grounds he presently faces.
"In a November 1, 2023, article, Sen. Paul reviewed what we have learned from "the great COVID cover-up":15
"The COVID cover-up began in China. But in a way we make too big a deal of that. No one should be surprised that a totalitarian government run by the Chinese Communist Party would seek to cover up its responsibility for a worldwide pandemic. What was mind-jarring — and what we should focus our attention on — is the cover-up in our own country spearheaded by Dr. Anthony Fauci and his fellow public health bureaucrats.
And they might have gotten away with their deception if a federal judge hadn't ordered their emails released. In brief, these emails reveal that at the same time Dr. Fauci and other public health 'experts' were publicly disavowing the idea that the COVID virus originated with a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, they were in general agreement among themselves that that was likely what had happened. So why hide the fact?"
According to Paul, Fauci and his collaborators chose to hide the truth because the truth would reveal their potentially criminal actions. As director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Fauci had been funding risky gain-of-function research at the WIV — a substandard lab in terms of safety.
Moreover, he allowed this research to move forward even though there was a moratorium on gain-of-function research in the U.S. The moratorium was put in place for the very reason that experts feared the risk of creating a human pandemic was too high.
Is Fauci Hiding a Guilty Conscience?In hindsight, they were correct, and if SARS-CoV-2 was admitted to be a manmade virus leaked from a lab, the only rational response would be to hold the responsible parties accountable and shut this kind of research down for good. No doubt, this prospect would have terrified Fauci and everyone else involved.
According to Paul, that Fauci's conscience was keeping him awake can be seen in the fact that he was sending emails in the middle of the night in the early days of the pandemic instead of being snugly tucked in his bed. One 3 a.m. email was sent to Robert Kadlec, then-Secretary for Preparedness and Response at Health and Human Services.
"This just came out today. Gives a balanced view," Fauci wrote. Attached was a Science article arguing for a zoonotic origin of the virus and discrediting the lab leak theory.
"When this email came to light, I was initially puzzled about its timing and urgency," Paul writes. "But then I learned that one of Kadlec's duties was to chair the committee responsible for screening gain-of-function proposals for safety purposes — and that the Wuhan coronavirus research proposal never came before his committee!"
In other words, Paul believes Fauci sent this email to Kadlec to hide the fact that he'd OK'd gain-of-function research that should have ended up on Kadlec's desk for a safety review, but didn't.
Behavior Befitting a ConspiracyOther behaviors also suggest Fauci and collaborators were panicking over the possibility that COVID might be traced back to their own activities. Paul writes:
"Jeremy Farrar, the Anthony Fauci of the UK, told his brother that in the early stages of the pandemic, 'a few scientists, including me, were beginning to suspect this might be a lab accident.'
Farrar writes in his book Spike: 'During that period, I would do things I had never done before: acquire a burner phone, hold clandestine meetings, keep difficult secrets.'
Indeed, many Western bureaucrats, especially in the U.S., began using various forms of communication to shield their messages from future records requests. We have an email from one of Fauci's assistants instructing other government employees to avoid using government email addresses. Which, by the way, is a crime."
And then there are the papers published in scientific journals "debunking" — without presenting a shred of evidence — the idea that SARS-CoV-2 might be manmade, and condemning "conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin." Upon deeper investigation, they too have been linked to key culprits who have a strong incentive to hide the truth, including Fauci.
We Must Put an End to Gain-of-Function ResearchAs noted by Paul, the number of scientists worrying about another lab leak with far more dire consequences is growing:16
"With COVID, the mortality rate was far less than one percent. Experiments are now being carried out with viruses that have the potential for mortality rates between 15 and 50 percent. In 2021, MIT biochemist Kevin Esvelt wrote:
'Once we consider the possibility of misuse [of gain-of-function research], let alone creative misuse, such research looks like a gamble that civilization can't afford to risk ... I implore every scientist, funder, and nation working in this field: Please stop.
No more trying to discover or make pandemic-capable viruses, enhance their virulence, or assemble them more easily. No more attempting to learn which components allow viruses to efficiently infect or replicate within human cells, or to devise inheritable ways to evade immunity. No more experiments likely to disseminate blueprints for plagues.'
The potential for disaster cannot be overstated. Right now, people can order synthetic DNA on the internet, and if they know what they're doing, they can make the polio virus, among many others ...
The required information is publicly available due to taxpayer-funded initiatives to identify all the viruses in the world. With the support of people like Peter Daszak and Bill Gates, the U.S. has been the top international funder of pandemic virus identification for decades.
This should give us pause: these programs involve digging rare viruses out of caves where humans might never encounter them and transporting them to major metropolitan areas, manipulating viruses to make them more dangerous and transmissible, and publishing the resulting knowledge to the world.
Even if the goal is preventing future pandemics, the risk-benefit ratio doesn't add up. While advocates for identifying the world's viruses argue that the knowledge gained will aid in developing vaccines, decades of virus identification have been fruitless, as no human vaccine has been developed in advance of a human epidemic.
If we continue down this path, Esvelt believes that 'deliberate pandemics' will kill 'many more people than identification could save.' To think that we can prevent future pandemics, even as we continue to seek, catalog, and manipulate dangerous viruses, is the height of hubris.
Over the last few years, public health 'experts' were wrong about almost everything. If we are to avoid these kinds of catastrophes in the future, we must reform government and rein in out-of-control scientists and their enablers."
I couldn't agree more. We need to put an end to gain-of-function research for the safety of humanity, and not allow greed or sheer scientific curiosity lead to the creation of a pathogen that might wipe out humanity.
The 2022 spending bill contains a directive to the secretary of Health and Human Services on page 3,354 to "not fund research conducted by a foreign entity at a facility located in a country of concern ... involving pathogens of pandemic potential or biological agents or toxins."17
This is a step in the right direction, but as noted by Paul, "Americans and their representatives must watch carefully to see whether our public health agencies attempt to sidestep it."
To that end, a Gain-of-Function Reform Group is now recommending that gain-of-function experiments that confer "efficient human transmissibility" on a pathogen ought to be regulated. Doing so would "explicitly stop bureaucrats like Fauci from dancing around the gain-of-function definition and looking the other way as researchers create viruses that spread more easily in humans," Paul writes.
We're creating bioweapons and antidotes to those bioweapons, and this needs to stop.
At present, gain-of-function research is allowed provided it's done with the intention of creating a vaccine, which is a logical fallacy. We've never been able to preemptively construct a pathogen that later shows up through natural evolution.
No, we're creating novel pathogens that don't exist in nature and then develop vaccines against those. In other words, we're creating bioweapons and antidotes to those bioweapons, and it needs to stop. For that to happen, the public needs to start "making noise" so that our elected representatives begin to realize that we will not allow this issue to be ignored."
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