Posted on 01/17/2024 9:29:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The virus junta’s backtracking continues apace. And, in all likelihood, the hits will keep on coming.
Not that anybody will do anything about it. The bureaucrats who brought you “safe and effective,” masking, school closures, shutdowns, and zoonotic emergence will keep collecting prizes, keep getting pushed as “experts” in the media, and will be treated as the heroes of the pandemic.
The Establishment went all-in on using the pandemic to push its agenda of censorship, economic takeover, and retaking the government from MAGA, and they succeeded in all three.
So their pandemic response was a success. Little things like the deaths of millions, the burning down of our economy, the massive learning loss, and all the collateral damage caused by their management of our country are small prices to pay for their successful power grab.
It should go without saying, but not only is a lab origin not a "conspiracy theory", but (@ScienceMagazine I'm looking directly at you) it's also not a "controversial view"
It is a theory. In fact, it is the most likely theory and it was suppressed for 4 years.
https://t.co/jd2WWlGfJJ— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) January 16, 2024
One of the most controversial issues from the start of the pandemic was the origins of the virus. It was pretty obvious that a lab leak was at least likely, given the where, the how, and the Chinese crackdown (and potential murder of a researcher) on information.
But the Western scientific establishment went to great lengths to label any speculation to that effect a “conspiracy theory,” Fauci went so far as to commission a paper and bribe scientists to dismiss the possibility. Private messages between the scientists who wrote the paper made it clear they didn’t believe what they published.
Whether through legal action or changes in the law, we need to establish a clear precedent that it's not okay for science funders to use the power of funding + promotion available to them to pick and choose which theories get to go forward.
Science must never have a Pope again https://t.co/r9zvRqDlnE
— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) January 16, 2024
One of the scientists who spent a lot of time spreading lies was Francis Collins, who led the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic. He was among those who commissioned a “takedown” of the Great Barrington Declaration, and he expended great effort in downplaying the lab leak theory, calling it a “very destructive conspiracy” theory.
Yeah, well, not so much anymore.
Dr Francis Collins, former head of the National Institutes of Health, testified in a closed-door session with the House coronavirus subcommittee on Friday about his role during America’s pandemic response.
Dr Collins was involved in suppressing the theory that Covid likely escaped from a Chinese biolab, a theory which implicated the sprawling agency he headed up. It was previously revealed that the NIH oversaw grants funding risky ‘gain of function’ research to make viruses more transmissible and/or deadly.
In a significant U-turn, House Republicans who led the hearing revealed that Dr Collins, 73, told them that the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory.
None of this should surprise anybody who figured out that the government and the MSM has been lying from the beginning, but a huge percentage of Americans still want to and mostly do trust the people who control the Narrative.
Dr Collins served as Fauci’s boss during his tenure as head of NIH from 2009 to 2021.
The sainted doctors are said to have pushed for the publication of an influential scientific paper that shaped the narrative that Covid originated in nature while discrediting the theory that gain of function was the cause.
The centerpiece of questioning pertained to the March 2020 ‘Proximal Origins’ paper, in which scientists said the theory that gain of function research triggered the release of a genetically modified coronavirus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology was ‘improbable.’
Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, who heads the Covid subcommittee in the House, said: ‘Dr. Collins acknowledged that Dr Fauci invited him to attend the infamous February 1, 2020 conference call that prompted the “Proximal Origin” publication.
‘This testimony directly contradicts Dr. Fauci’s previous statements and raises further concerns about the U.S. government’s role in suppressing and vilifying the lab-leak hypothesis.’
He added that Dr Collins said the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy.
Dr Collins, along with Dr Fauci, sat in on a confidential conference call four years ago, ahead of the 2020 paper’s publication, which would set the tone for the public’s perception of the pandemic’s origins for years to come.
Before you express contempt for those people, realize that the consequences of not being able to trust any of the information fed to you is not just dispiriting but incredibly burdensome and destructive to a society that depends on social trust. We all depend on trust to a great extent, especially in complicated societies like our own. Capitalism and our Republic depend on reasonable levels of integrity; corrupt societies like Russia stumble along and are always on the brink of failure.
We shouldn’t have to research everything. We have lives to live and families to enjoy.
Which makes the betrayal of our elites a calamity. We can’t trust anybody anymore. Our government is corrupt. Our medical institutions are corrupt. Our bureaucracies are corrupt. And, worst of all, the media is corrupt–because we need the media to hold everybody else in check.
The likeliest explanation for why the NIH and Fauci hid the origins of the virus is that they paid to develop it through grants to the EcoHealth Alliance. It’s no shock they would move heaven and earth to cover that up–most people would cover it up. Who wants to be held responsible for mass murder, even if it was an accident?
If we had real media they could help us discover the truth and hold people responsible. But we don’t.
The MSM sees itself as allied with the elite against the people, so they go along with the coverups. It’s dystopic.
But it is the reality today. No wonder so many people want revenge against the Establishment.
It isn’t a healthy thing to want, of course, but it is very human. After all, Americans deserve so much better.
Ping for your interest
We’ve agree with this theory since the February or March
2020 time frame, if not sooner.
It was not a “lab leak”.
The “lab leak” being pushed by Fauci and all his cronies is not a sudden fit of honesty. It is a FALLBACK POSITION. They pushed the bat soup wet market thing hard. That story fell apart under scrutiny. They couldn’t tell the truth that it was developed in coordination with US researchers, moved to Wuhan and released deliberately by China.
That leaves you one and only one cover story...a leak.
China was facing giant protests in Wuhan and Hong Kong in the fall of 2019. The Tiananmen Square solution was no longer viable in today’s trade intensive world. They couldn’t get away with it like they did back in 88 or 89. So they released a garden-variety version of SARS deliberately. Combined with a lot of fear porn hype, such as videos of people collapsing dead in the street, men in white hazmat suits spraying disinfectant, etc. they created a panic. That justified their draconian lockdowns which also ended the protests. The second and equally important goal was to prevent Trump’s reelection, so DC was thrilled to go along.
It was not a leak. It was an attack on the Chinese people who wanted freedom, and on the American people who wanted their good economy and President Trump. It was NOT leak.
Does anyone believe they have suddenly decided to be honest?
Bullcrap.
Beginning in 2014, the NIH, under the author of this article, provided multi-year grants to EcoHealth Alliance, which studied bat coronaviruses, including genetically engineering bat coronaviruses called WIV1, in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
This liar knew from DAY 1 what it was and how it was created. Yet he pushed the bat soup wet market hoax hard. When that fell apart, the fallback was the “leak” cover story.
He was lying then, and he is lying now.
It was built by his people, and released on purpose. But he cannot exactly say that, can he?
Bioweapon that utilized people as the deployment mechanism.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/woman-filmed-spitting-door-handles-coronavirus-outbreak-031143136.html
https://nypost.com/2020/02/12/coronavirus-sickos-spit-on-elevator-buttons-amid-outbreak-in-china/
Most of the field of virology has been shown to be smoke and mirrors. It’s the scientific field equivalent of Theranos, and very similar to climate science; reliant on statistical models, compartmentalism, gibberish, politics, and money.
This guitar playing putz is just trying to change his spots now that the vaccine is being shown to be for what it is, origin or not. He was right there supporting Fauci lock, stock and barrel all the way as his boss and he deserves all of the fallout that could come from it if we get any justice at all.
Both the Influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are contagious respiratory illnesses...only differing by virus-trigger.
I wouldn’t use the word ‘ruse’...but obviously you had a older generation who didn’t have the stamina for either (in severe cases), and they make up the primary death count. If you go back to high-flu years (1960s, 1970s, 1980s)...you’d probably find various seasons where a high number of people died, and it compares to the rates of 2020/2021/2022.
I don’t believe it was a bioweapon of any kind. It was a psychological weapon, and the most successful psychological weapon of all time in its ability to destroy freedom and the basic tenets of civilization.
Just watching society break down and lose its mind over COVID is something I won’t ever really get over. I never fell for any of the fear mongering from day one; never felt it was a threat, never wore a mask unless compelled, and didn’t in any way change my life except for where I was forced to. I felt like everyone around me was suffering from some kind of schizophrenic psychosis, and it made me question whether “modern civilization” is even possible for any extended period of time.
If mankind is stupid enough to fall for this type of clearly fraudulent psyop, then I think we’re doomed.
I don’t think we’re a species that is created to last. We’re like a herd of buffalo careening over a cliff, and “COVID” proved it.
Exactly.
He SHOULD be in PRISON!!
Yes. No one is paying Collins to lie now. He should go to the next step and admit that Covid was a premeditated attack on Trump with a bio weapon he funded and created. We need a Covid war crimes tribunal. Collins should swing for his perfidious acts.
I believe you are on to something. I’ve always believed Covid was a Bioweapon and the release was an accident, but the SPREAD WAS INTENTIONAL. Covid was a Two-Part Bioweapon which required the Vax to enhance the effect. However, the part I missed was that the “enhancement,” I now believe, was the psychological component.
You said, “It was a psychological weapon, and the most successful psychological weapon of all time in its ability to destroy freedom and the basic tenets of civilization.”
If Covid did intentionally have a massive psychological component a conspiracy on this scale is doomed to fall apart under it’s own weight of so many members involved. We are seeing cracks now. Stories are falling apart.
In the end, ALL those involved should be sent directly to hell with extreme prejudice.
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