The National Institute of Health now admits that it funded gain of function research on Coronaviruses in Wuhan. Fox News. Dr. Anthony Fauci had previously denied that any funding of gain of function research had taken place. However, the NIH now admits that it funded some research involving using a spike protein to discover if was effective in allowing humanized mice to be infected with bat Coronaviruses. The research was effective as mice exposed to the spike protein modified virus got sicker than the ones exposed to the normal bat virus. Officials said that the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance lied about the work that was taking place. The nonprofit got funding from Dr. Fauci's NIAD and funneled it to the Chinese lab. The gain of function research is controversial due to the potential of a leak causing a pandemic and many now believe that a leak from one of the Wuhan viral labs was the source of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“I told you so” doesn’t even begin to cover it here: https://t.co/9JFn85I24i
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 21, 2021
My Comment:
Looks like a major vindication for Dr. Rand Paul. He confronted Dr. Fauci on this and he denied it and the media tried to crucify him for it. But it seems pretty clear that Fauci was laying his ass off and that he was indeed funding the kind of gain of function research that would explain the Coronavirus pandemic.
I do think that there should be consequences for Dr. Fauci. This was an end run around the US government who had banned this kind of research. The NIAD wanted this research to continue so they just decided to export the research to the Chinese instead. He should lose his job at the very least and the media needs to stop worshiping the ground he walks on. Will anything happen? Probably not.
And the Chinese? They screwed it up. The danger was very high at US labs but at the Chinese ones? The labs with a long history of making mistakes and releasing viruses into the public by mistake? Sure, let's use them instead of just not doing this kind of research.
I think the case for this being a lab leak is all but confirmed. The other options don't make sense as no nation would release this virus deliberately and it really does not seem like it was a natural virus. The fact that the Wuhan was doing gain of function on coronaviruses closely related to the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and the fact that the virus has the spike protein makes it seem very clear that the virus escaped from the lab. There isn't a smoking gun yet but the circumstantial case would probably hold up in court.
As I have said before we actually got lucky with this virus. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is not that deadly and the Chinese were working with much worse diseases, including the original SARS and MERS, a much more deadly disease that kills up to 1/3rd of the people it infects. And I don't know if this research is continuing in the Wuhan labs as we speak. Another accidental release can and probably will happen if something isn't done. And it could be a lot worse next time.
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