The ‘Fauci Fib, Concrete Cowboy, and Baldwin Tragedy’ Edition – Opinion

I don’t know how everyone else is handling the news that the NIH is basically coming clean and, as a result, throwing Dr. Anthony Fauci under the bus (where, I’m sorry to say, he belongs), but I’m personally more ticked off daily about everything that’s happened over the last two years. If you’ve not been paying attention (and I know readers of this site generally do), here’s a recap:

Start at The Washington ExaminerThis is:

The National Institutes of Health admitted Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance broke its reporting rules when conducting bat coronavirus research, with critics immediately contending this means the Wuhan lab collaborator had indeed been conducting gain-of-function research and NIH lied about it.

NIH principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak said in a Wednesday letter that EcoHealth provided a five-year progress report on bat coronavirus research conducted under an NIH grant, and “the limited experiment described in thhttps://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1451215624127004674e final progress report” was “testing if spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model.”

Rand Paul of Kentucky was condescendingly lying to Fauci and intimating that he wasn’t an expert on gain-of-function research. This will continue as part the story. They’re going to be misdirecting and redefining to explain what has essentially been a cover-up), had his say immediately following the letter’s release.

“‘I told you so’ doesn’t even begin to cover it here,” Paul tweeted Wednesday.

Do not say @RandPaulYou didn’t have a chance for you to be honest, Dr. Fauci. https://t.co/M0AILCj2Uq

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) October 21, 2021

This morning, it dropped. Are we all finally seeing through the thin veneer of the “for the greater good” rhetoric of (as a friend and colleague calls him) Dr. St. Anthony Fauci?

Fauci is not allowed to live in prison

“Our investigators show that Fauci’s NIH division shipped part of a $375k grant to drug beagles & lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive”https://t.co/sdxWSmbhiP pic.twitter.com/5b3tnaeI7P

— Merissa Hamilton (@merissahamilton) October 23, 2021

Prepare yourselves to hear that the research was necessary to find a vaccination for a super flu; and for parsed language that their work wasn’t technically gain of function; and that going through the EcoHealth Alliance was just how things are done and wasn’t an attempt to subvert transparency. Because that’s all coming.

But it’s coming in a new way, one that has Fauci and the NIH on defense. And that’s a very good and important narrative shift.

I discuss all that on the show today, as well as talk about the absolutely beautiful film, “Concrete Cowboy” (trailer below; seriously, see it). Here are some thoughts that may help you to think about Alec Baldwin’s tragic death. You should give it a chance.

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