The Problem With COVID Now Is The Lies

Does Dr Fauci seem a little tired, even distracted, in the photo above? I'm beginning to think so. He's now been fighting the public gain-of-function question for six months, when he'd spent almost all of 2020 trying to keep it from coming out at all. And notwithstanding his efforts, the word is out that

An increasing number of senior administration officials engaged in a probe of the virus are now backing the theory that the virus could have emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to a CNN report.

However, Dr Fauci is still on the side of the natural origin theory. No wonder, the obvious question, which nobody is quite putting in the terms it ought to be asked, is that a so-far unknown amount of money, almost certainly in the hundreds of millions, from the US government, incuding Defense, State, and the NIH, went to the Wuhan lab to fund gain-of-function research.

The claim was that this was to prevent future epidemics. Instead, a lab leak from this research seems to have caused the kind of worldwide epidemic it was supposed to prevent. So what if the Chinese are stonewalling? We have almost all the answers we need from Drs Fauci, Collins, Daszak, Baric, and I'm sure many more right here in the US. It's looking more and more as if the US public health establishment was complicit via its "experts" in causing the epidemic. Isn't this the sort of thing that would normally call for a national commission, like the Kennedy, Watergate, Church, and 9/11 investigations? So far, not a peep.

Meanwhike, the same public health establishment can't understand why not everyone wants to take the vaccine. They blame anti-vaxxers, but people are smarter than that. In this case, they maybe aren't geniuses, but they're still smart enough to grasp that there's just something hinky about the whole received COVID narrative, and whether they're right to refuse the vaccine, they're certainly right to question what figures like Fauci are telling them, because Fauci is clearly telling lies. This isn't helping the country, and if the public health establishment wants credibility for more vaccinations, it's time to drop Fauci.

(At this point, they'd answer that if they drop Fauci, then everyone will know they were lying, and even fewer will take the jab. But that's just another problem they've created. Crisis management consultants are long overdue.) A good sign of how the problem has aged is that Fauci, tired and on the defensive, is definitely losing his cool. Rand Paul confronted him again yesterday:

Paul detailed the evidence that he claims proves that experimentation on gain of function research was happening at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and quotes the doctor who did this work on both her work and on the amount of funding she received from the NIH.

"Knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11 where you claim that the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan." Paul asked Fauci.

"Senator Paul," Fauci began, "I have never lied before the Congress and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you are referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function."

Paul interrupted, "You take an animal virus, and you increase its transmissibility to humans, you're saying that's not gain of function?" He asked incredulously.

"That is correct," Fauci defended, "and Senator Paul you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially: You do not know what you are talking about."

P:aul told Sean Hannity last night,

I will be sending a letter to the DOJ asking for a criminal referral because he has lied to Congress. We have scientists that will line up by the dozens to say that the research he was funding was gain-of-function.

This is nothing but an empty gesture, of course, since a request for a referral will get nowhere in the Biden Justice Department. But it's worth asking this kind of question about the public narrative, because there's a fairy-tale quality to the whole thing. Now LA County is responding to the rise in cases among the unvaccinated by requiring everyone to mask up again -- when a year of evidence based on hundreds of millions of subjects shows that masks have no effect.

To what extent is the general atmosphere of lies intended to obscure a big truth? As Rand Paul told Hannity,

Once everybody puts this together, he realizes where the blame is going to attach. He has at least tangential responsibility. If this came from the lab that he was funding, my goodness, can you imagine the moral culpability the man has?

Not just Fauci, of course. There's an institutional rot that needs to be addressed much more widely than just in the NIH.