Saturday, June 05, 2021

You mean the nutcase conspiracy types were right about covid?

 

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from PJMedia:

One person who feels vindicated by the content of the emails is President Trump. “After seeing the emails, our Country is fortunate I didn’t do what Dr. Fauci wanted me to do,” Trump said in a statement. Trump went on to explain various actions he took in spite of Fauci.

the article goes on to list when Trumpieboy ignored Fauci: He closed the flights from China and then Europe. He started "Operation Warp Speed" and funded it by guaranteeing he would buy the vaccine from them. 

He supported masks when Fauci flip flopped on them. He then points out:

Finally, Trump addressed the NIH funding of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was conducting gain-of-function research. “The funding of Wuhan by the U.S. was foolishly started by the Obama Administration in 2014 but ended under the Trump Administration. When I heard about it, I said ‘no way.'” “What did Dr. Fauci know … and when did he know it?” Trump asked.

actually, if I remember correctly, it was Obama who stopped it. However, the order had a small loop hole in it that let the NIH bypass the ruling so Fauci sent them money to continue the research. Then he officially restarted the funding when Trump got in then see correction below: it was restarted in 2017 in January, by Obama, a week before Trump took over.

 Trump stopped it when he figured out what was being done. 

more on Fauci emails here.

then there is this PJMedia story about the Defector who was spilling the beans on the Chinese bioweapon program.

and the article questions of how and why the various US government security agencies stonewalled the release of this information; and what was more curious was that MSM stonewalled the story and the social media actively censored it.

Remember the Sherlock Holmes story about the dog who barked in the night?



the Wuhan lab leak story has been perculating on conspiracy sites for at least a year, but mentioning this would get you canceled. 

so was this story stopped because it might help Trumpieboy get elected ? Instead, all of Trump's anti China policy was attributed to "racism".

 Yes, it was political by the US MSM, but what is disturbing is how major scientific journals essentially censored the story even after later scientific articles questioned this.

 (fromOneIndia):

The first, dated February 19, 2020, was published in the medical science journal The Lancet. This article, signed by 27 scientists, highlighted the efforts of Chinese experts to identify the source of the pandemic and share the results. The authors deplored "rumours and misinformation" about the origins of the virus, and stated that they "strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin"...
In March 2020, another article published in Nature Medicine provided a series of scientific arguments in favour of a natural origin.

To me as a physician, this is disturbing: 

You can publish your opinion, but to call those who oppose that opinion a conspiracy theory goes against the ethics of science.

True, this is not the first time major medical stories have lied to push a political agenda:(The NEJM lies about euthanasia in numerous articles the early 1990s come to mind, as does the death count in Iraq published in a British journal that happened to be published right before an election, even though a survey by one of Saddam's experts). 

The politicization/corruption of medical journals will now get worse, since a major editor of JAMA has been canceled by BLM activists, something I wrote about awhile back.

So what major news media broke the story? What major medical journal pointed out that the Emperor Winnie the Pooh had no clothes?

Vanity Fair? Yes. THAT Vanity Fair.

Sigh.

The US had a bioweapons program (made illegal in the past, but who knows what is hidden) and it is suspected that when left wing activists tried to stop this type of research in the USA, that Fauci outsourced it, using the excuse that they needed to figure out how to prevent epidemics: maybe at the instigation of the deep state types. 

the fact that such research was made illegal by President Obama was beside the point: (covered up by the loophole in Obama's executive order, and then covered by claiming the money was sent to Wuhan to do other things, ignoring that it meant Wuhan could cook the books and use it for the program).

A lot of this makes one wonder why the truth is now being exposed now? Was it all part of a manipulation to make Trumpieboy look bad? Was China paying off folks? 

China plans to take over the world: and even if the release of the virus was an accident (or even "natural" release) the real story is that they covered it up, lied until late January 2020 that it could be spread person to person, and of course, blocked all non biased outside investigations of the source of the virus.

everyone in the Philippines knows that China lies.

But one does expect truth and openness from the west, especially in the MSM and in the scientific journals.

Right now, I am watching Vincenzo (you can see it on Netflix) and a lot is about corruption in corporations, in government and in the press, and how Vincenzo is using mafia like tactics to bring them down because the honest folk trying to fight them are either killed or subverted by threats or money.

And at the same time I am reading the old novel "Captain and Kings" by Taylor Caldwell, which also has a subplot of such shenanigans by European bankers, set in the 1880s. 

It makes one wonder when similar things that are being done in the USA and Europe, and are now being exposed. Why are they being exposed now? 

is there an honest man out there who are releasing the story? or a crook who wants to take down another crook and is letting the stories out now?

Or is it to distract the public from the riots, crime, inflation, and marxist indoctrination in public institutions like schools and the military?

Or is the public being manipulated to want a war with China? Of course, given Chinas aggression against the Philippines etc. One could say the manipulation is by China with its ties to the media etc. And someone just noticed.


who knows. 

In the meanwhile: From Instapundit:


LOL.

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update: From Instapundit:

THIS JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE: 

The Pentagon gave $39 MILLION to Dr. Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance – the charity that funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab accused of being the source of the outbreak, federal data reveals. “The charity, EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), has come under intense scrutiny after it emerged that it had been using federal grants to fund research into coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The U.S. nonprofit, set up to research new diseases, has also partly funded deeply controversial ‘gain of function’ experiments, where dangerous viruses are made more infectious to study their effect on human cells. A political storm broke when former president Donald Trump canceled a $3.7 million grant to the charity last year amid claims that Covid-19 was created in, or leaked from, the Wuhan lab funded by EHA. But federal grant data assembled by independent researchers shows that the charity has received more than $123 million from the government – from 2017 to 2020 – and that one of its biggest funders is the Department of Defense, funneling almost $39 million to the organization since 2013. Exactly how much of that money went toward research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology is unknown.”

 

hmm... Peterdaszak. that name sounds familiar:
from the UKMail (June 5 2021):

How Facebook's 'independent fact checkers' cited letter secretly organized by Wuhan lab funder Peter Daszak to 'debunk' leak theory and punish news outlets that explored it
Article used by Facebook to 'debunk' lab leak theory cited Daszak's Lancet letter His non-profit, EcoHealth Alliance, funneled U.S. grants to Wuhan virology lab
Facebook cracked down on 'debunked' lab leak theory for nearly a year
Punished news publishers by limiting the reach and spread of their articles
Late last month, the social media giant reversed its stance as evidence mounted

 the UKMail also has this to explain what is being discussed:

Controversial gain-of-function research boosts the infectivity of pathogens and makes them more LETHAL 
Gain of function is controversial research that involves boosting the infectivity and lethality of a pathogen. PROPONENTS SAY: It helps researchers spot potential threats to human health and allows them to figure out ways to tackle a new virus. Dr. Fauci has advocated for gain-of-function research in the past, including a 2011 op-ed he co-wrote that promoted it as a means to study influenza viruses. CRITICS SAY: It's a risky endeavor that puts human lives at stake. In 2014, the US government paused new funding of gain-of-function research on influenza, MERS and SARS to address concerns about risks and benefits. The pause was backed by over 300 scientists called the Cambridge Working Group. In December 2017, the US government lifted the pause and announced a new framework called 'Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight' for evaluating whether funding should be granted. Research for 'enhanced potential pandemic pathogens' would be allowed if it was 'essential to protecting global health and security.' The review process is highly classified, and names of reviewers or details of the experiments are not released.

 


I should add a contrary opinion: Scott Adams (Dilbert) notes that the research is a good thing, and outsourcing it so that a release wouldn't kill Americans might be the lesser of two evils. But listen to the whole thing because it's a bit nuanced..........
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Correction. I assumed the articles saying the gain of function rules were changed in 2017, that it was Trump who changed te rules.

Actually it was President Obama who changed the rules in early Jan 2017, before Trump became president.

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