Original theory about the source of COVID-19 was that it originated in a Chinese wet market. But experts now think that the theory is not true. The majority of evidence supports the idea of a leakage from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In fact, they were reversed at first. Many saw the lab leak theory as a conspiracy theory from conservatives while people who were actually following the evidence that was publicly available noted that it wasn’t so far-fetched. Multiple reports by various media outlets intending to cover this up by saying “We were just following the information we had at the time!” ignore the outright hostility they maintained toward anyone who suggested the lab leak theory was more plausible.
But one of the interesting (and horrifying) tidbits that came out about this particular lab is the involvement of the United States government — and, more directly, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement. RedState’s own Scott Hounsell has worked brilliantly on breaking a lot of this information down (you can find all of his reporting here). Fauci was caught lying to Rand Paul, the other country members about gain-of function research the U.S. paid for. Fauci seems to have been directly involved in this.
Let me clarify one thing before I proceed: Saying that the virus originated in Wuhan’s lab isn’t the same thing as saying it was developed by the Chinese government. There is a lot of evidence that suggests the virus existed naturally in bats. This facility at Wuhan may have been studying the matter. The introduction of gain-of-function research, however, suggests that some tampering was done to test the possibilities of the virus’ effect on humans, should it jump species in some way. Fauci’s claims were not true, and the National Institute of Health released a document confirming that the U.S. DidYou can help finance this research.
That makes this weekend’s appearance on Face the Nation by Fauci much more notable, because it’s very clear that he does not want Americans to find out the role that the NIH — and, by extension, he — played in the pandemic. After he spoke about the original wet market, he recorded an interview with Margaret Brennan.
Brennan told him that “Beijing acknowledges now that they don’t think it originated in that market,” but Fauci disagreed.
“It may not have originated in the market, but it certainly could have. I mean, I don’t think that they admitted that it didn’t originate in the market. I think they’re saying they don’t know how it originated.”
Gao Fu, director of China’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in May 2020 that he did not believe the Wuhan wet market is where COVID-19 began.
Brennan argued that “the place of origin was not within the market itself.”
Fauci disagreed: “I don’t think you can say that. I think you could say we don’t know how and where it originated. There are wet markets in Wuhan that are ample opportunity for a virus to jump from an animal that gets brought in from all parts of China that are very closely related physically to bat enclaves and caves and come to the market.”
Fauci at the moment is more political than a health specialist. Fauci’s use of phrases and words to avoid criticism is at worst highly suspicious. Here, he is trying to keep the interview’s focus on the wet market theory, trying to exhaust that conversation in order to avoid any tougher questions about the origins of the virus.
At this time, there are few people who can substantiate the idea that the wet markets is more likely to be the source of the virus. It is quite telling that Fauci supports this theory. Either he doesn’t believe in Fauci or tries to conceal his true identity. Or, as my former colleague Moe Lane might say, “Embrace the healing power of ‘and’.”
What’s really happening is this: Fauci has become rather addicted to the media spotlight in the last couple of years. Fauci has been treated like a king by the media, and has preferred to pontificate to actual science. But the problem is that his musings on what’s best for us are being taken as actual science by a media establishment that is so traumatized from a combination of Donald Trump and the pandemic that they can’t see the problems with the things Fauci has been saying.
You should be ready for another lockdown. That’s absolute insanity. It was the key contributor to this current crisis. The U.S. economy cannot handle such a situation, even though evidence from South Africa shows that these cases are mild.
Fauci should be fired. He is doing more to damage the public’s confidence in the fight against the virus and the strength of the vaccines than the virus itself. If you want America to truly return to a sense of normalcy, even as the virus transitions from “pandemic” to “endemic,” Fauci needs to be given a rather forceful suggestion to retire.
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