That’s just wild. The one silver lining to T2 is that I’m not shocked by anything anymore. It’s still outrageous, but the surprise is gone.
That’s just wild. The one silver lining to T2 is that I’m not shocked by anything anymore. It’s still outrageous, but the surprise is gone.
Look, I can’t stand Trump, but he’s at least partially right on this one. It’s fucking obvious to anyone who has done even minimal research on it. Gain of function research for coronaviruses was being done at UNC Chapel Hill until it was shut down in 2014 and moved offshore: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/07/361219361/how-a-tilt-toward-safety-stopped-a-scientists-virus-research
NIH and USAID then began funding the same research through the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance since they had to move the research offshore: https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-risky-virus-research-in-wuhan
Fauci was the head of NIH and authorized the research originally. Both the US and China have invested interest in making the allegations of a lab leak go away due to liability. It becomes obvious why Fauci wanted to squash any rumors of a lab leak since he was indirectly partially responsible for the research. It’s not a coincidence that Biden backpardoned Fauci specifically to 2014, when the gain of function research was moved overseas: https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1385746/dl?inline
That said, Event 201 really is where shit gets really uncomfortable: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9-oVXQX88esnrdhaiuRdXGG7XOVYB9Xm
Look at the timestamp of when that video was posted, who it was posted by and who all were involved. For bonus points, watch the entire thing and not just the highlights. The social media censorship aspects are a bigger part of the discussion than the highlights would suggest.
Whether or not I think Fauci deserves to be held criminally liable for helping fund the research that likely led to the outbreak, I definitely think he should have been found liable (if not for pardons) for his attempts to bury any attempts to look into a lab leak rather than natural origin, and ostracize and ridicule people who tried to look into the possibility of a lab leak. For those who forgot, fucking Jon Stewart was one of them: https://www.yahoo.com/news/dare-jon-stewart-reflects-lab-202138738.html
Literally you
Federal government reported the possibility without Trump in office:
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It’s not a wild conspiracy theory. Virological gain of function research & lax safety protocols could lead to unsurprising results that aren’t necessarily malicious.
OMG, tinfoil hat too tight??
First of all, “gain of function” viral and bacterial research has been a critical part of research for DECADES. There is absolutely no connection nor sequence relationship between ANY of gain of function research done in Wuhan and COVID-19. ALL the fears are hypothetical. Meanwhile, this type of research is the basis for all kinds of medical and research advances for the last 30 years (gene replacement, stem cells, siRNA, on and on).
Second, you don’t have a clue how NIH funding works. Grants are submitted to COMMITTEES at the NIH. Fauci was NEVER head of NIH, but even if he was he would have no awareness of nor control over these grants and funding. It’s not a dictatorship and one person absolutely cannot determine if a grant gets funded. It’s an incredibly arduous process that takes years and many many scientists reviewing and debating the facts and merits of the proposal, including safety protocols. Think peer review times 100. So to claim that Fauci should be held “criminally liable” is laughably ignorant.
NONE of the sequence altering research in the Wuhan lab had any relationship from a sequence perspective to COVID19. Every credible scientist acknowledges that. Is it possible that the wild type virus was being studied in the lab and somehow got out of the lab vs in the wild? Yes, it’s possible. Does it matter? No, it does not. It was going to happen and IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. Meanwhile, people like you make ignorant fear claims that are getting research labs shut down. The same labs, like Jason McClellan’s lab at Dartmouth that did 10 years of research altering the mRNA sequence of the spike protein so that it would be accurately presented as an antigen that gave us the vaccine in 11 months. Without this “gene altering” research that could be interpreted as “scary”, we probably still wouldn’t have a vaccine.