The coronavirus outbreak brought the world’s attention to the dangers of gain-of-function research. This kind of research occurs when a virus is manipulated to increase its strength or contagiousness—literally, causing it to gain a function.
Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to repeat the talking points of the Chinese Communist Party and insists that SARS-CoV-2 spread from bats to an intermediate host animal, then to humans. A wet market in Wuhan, China, is allegedly where this “spillover” occurred.
Yet according to Chinese officials—who have a big incentive to disprove a laboratory accident—none of the animals at that market when it closed, and none of the animals in its supply chain were infected with SARS-CoV-2. In fact, in roughly three years since the pandemic began, not one animal has been identified that was infected with the virus before it infected humans.
In 2018, EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit organization, applied for funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In its grant application, EcoHealth proposed inserting a “proteolytic cleavage site” into bat coronaviruses that interact with furin, an enzyme in human cells. However, DARPA rejected that proposal because adding a furin cleavage site would make the coronavirus more lethal in humans.
Only 18 months later, COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan—but nowhere else. Unlike the original SARS virus and the 2013 avian flu, SARS-CoV-2 didn’t spring up in separate geographic regions (as you would expect of a virus circulating in another species). Instead, it spread from a single location and seemed well-adapted from the beginning to spark a once-in-a-century pandemic.
Genetically, the feature that equips the virus to replicate so quickly is a furin cleavage site in its spike protein. Yet no other SARS-related coronavirus has ever been found in nature exhibiting this feature.
As we later learned, the Wuhan Institute of Virology partnered with EcoHealth on another project involving gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses. However, unlike the project DARPA had rejected, this one found a U.S. government agency willing to fund it: Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
James O’Keefe Didn’t Kill Himself
James O'Keefe Meeting With Senators About Fauci & Defense Dept Documents, Says He's Not Suicidal
Why would he say that? How damaging are these documents?@JamesOKeefeIII pic.twitter.com/VO3YvkFcBf
— Red Voice Media (@redvoicenews) February 10, 2023
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A million dead Americans, and she don’t care.
WATCH: Dr. Paul exposes State Department lies about funding gain-of-function research in China. pic.twitter.com/XpSt38lBDc
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) February 9, 2023
Don’t Believe Me, I Work For Pfizer
BREAKING: @Pfizer Director Concerned Over Women's Reproductive Heath After COVID-19 Vaccinations
"There is something irregular about their menstrual cycles…concerning…The vaccine shouldn't be interfering with that…It has to be affecting something hormonal…"#Pfertility pic.twitter.com/XAuMPJNShD
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) February 2, 2023
Surely Pfizer didn’t think there was only one? Jordon Walker would have known there was more to come.
Incentive to embellish
What’s not to like about providing financial incentives to arrive at a particular conclusion? What could possibly go wrong? I have to disagree with the authors on one point: there’s nothing “well-intended” about any of this.
This well-intended gesture has created a strong incentive to conflate dying from COVID-19 with passing incidentally while infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
One reason is the added incentive for hospitals to screen nearly every hospitalized patient for COVID, no matter what the underlying diagnosis, whether it is a broken tibia or a gallstone, even for patients with no COVID-like symptoms. Sec. 3710 of the CARES Act stipulates when a Medicare patient tests positive for COVID-19, the facility receives a 20 percent add-on reimbursement as long as there is a National Emergency.
Pfizer Executive Says Company to ‘Mutate’ COVID via ‘Directed Evolution’ to Continue Profiting Off of Vaccines
So, I guess he’s fired.
Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA Scientific Planner: “One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses.”
Update via Twitter Spaces: Another Pfizer employee leaks…
We’ve obtained internal Pfizer docs verifying Jordan Walker as Pfizer Director, Research & Development Strategic Operations
Graduated Yale 2013
Doctor Med at U of Texas Southwestern medical school.
His supervisor reports to Mikael Dolsten who reports to Albert Bourla, CEO pic.twitter.com/7t0tAzHUo6
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 26, 2023
Breaking via O’Keefe: Pfizer is disabling comments on TikTok, Twitter. Some of their auxiliary accounts are still live.
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Most conspiracies arise from dishonest people collaborating to cover their asses.
The Intercept recently published newly unredacted emails showing that those same “experts” seriously believed COVID could have come out of the lab.
Scientists like Dr. Fauci and other subject matter experts repeatedly sent messages to each other during the early days of the pandemic. Those messages showed that many of them harbored doubts about the possibilities of a natural origin.
But of course, it seems that as soon as they realized the implications, they switched positions dramatically. […]
Multiple “experts” on that conference call repeated, in writing, that they believed the lab leak required strong consideration.
One was described as being “70:30” or “60:40” in favor of an “accidental-release.” Another said he essentially couldn’t imagine the virus occurring naturally.
“I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. … it’s stunning.”
Of course, they then wrote in a journal article just over a month later that they didn’t believe “any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
That article came about quickly, despite the concerns, thanks in large part to Fauci.
Over the coming months and years, the narrative will shift to “we always said this could be a lab-leaked virus, because the science was essential to protect public health”, then stare at you like guppies when you protest otherwise.
Old news
For anyone who has followed Geert Vanden Bossche since the pandemic started, this is not even news. The good doctor predicted exactly this outcome from day one, but as is par for the course these days, the article manages to completely avoid any mention of him.
The reason for the continuing decline in bivalent boosters limiting infection is likely due to “immune imprinting,” the idea that the immune response to either previous infection or to receiving a vaccine limits an individual’s future response to new variants. The immune system thus prefers to recall existing memory cells rather than produce new responses when the old and new variants are closely related. We produce antibodies that fight the older strains more effectively than the evolving ones that now dominate.
Thus, new strains that develop will continue to rapidly evade the antibodies produced by repeated vaccinations and we will continue to get diminishing returns. The more we try and prevent new infections with more and more booster shots, the less effective they will likely become in preventing infections themselves.
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They oppose to conceal their own guilt.
“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
“We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”
These were highly amplified statements made by influential scientists in early 2020, which set the tone for scientific and public discourse on the origin of the pandemic. […]
The effect of this manufactured certainty on the pandemic’s origin is that the stakes have now become extraordinarily high for a subset of the scientific research and science journalism community. Instead of grappling only with the fact that scientific research might have caused this pandemic, we now also have to contend with whether and how members of the scientific community have suppressed inquiry into a laboratory origin of Covid-19.
If direct evidence of a natural origin of the virus via the wildlife trade emerges one day, those who have aggressively dismissed the lab leak theory can heave a huge sigh of relief.
However, if direct evidence of a research-related origin of the virus is revealed, these scientists and reporters will have a lot to answer for, and to a large segment of the public that has grown skeptical of repeatedly being told to follow the science before sufficient data has been obtained.
Decades down the road, we do not want to have to tell our grandchildren about the time some scientific leaders almost got away with casting a laboratory origin of the pandemic as a conspiracy theory.
What Would We Do Without Media Darlings?
CityNews, Jan 7, 2021: As online learning is extended for elementary school students, Cynthia Mulligan speaks to COVID-19 biostatistician Ryan Imgrund about how schools contribute to the spread of the virus.
CTV News, Jan 6, 2023: Ryan Imgrund, a former teacher in Ontario who gained a significant social media following for his COVID-19 commentary over the course of the pandemic, is facing a second set of professional misconduct allegations
Imgrund’s “social media following” that included CBC, CTV, Toronto Star, Bradford Today, The Walrus…
More — But Ryan @imgrund’s sick behaviour is not new. In May 2021, I wrote a thread about not only how he was lying about being a biostatistician, but also that there already were women coming out & publicly sharing how he treated them when they were his students
Any Comment, Dr. Tam?
Senator Rand Paul states that the investigation into the China virus is just beginning.
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“Unfortunately, the Biden administration is determined not to let us know” what exactly Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institutes of Health was funding in China, Chang told [Sen. Marsha Blackburn]. “I think it’s because Dr. Anthony Fauci purposefully evaded the 2014 ban on federal funding of gain of function research,” a scientific process in which a virus is made even more deadly so researchers can study it. This practice is banned in the United States for being too dangerous. “So, what [Fauci] did is he funded it in China, specifically at Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
“Eventually the American people will get the truth, but it could take years,” Chang said, pointing to efforts by the Biden administration to downplay American funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Chinese lab at the center of the COVID leak. The exact nature of America’s role in supporting this research still remains unclear, and Chang believes this is due to the Biden administration’s efforts to shield Fauci from criticism.
Fauci, Chang added, likely perjured himself before Congress when he claimed that his agency was not funding so-called gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“So, either [Fauci] didn’t know what his institute was doing, or he committed perjury twice last year,” Chang said, referring to Fauci’s denial before the Senate that the NIH was engaged in funding gain of function research in China. “I’m of the view that he had to know what was going on for various reasons, and therefore, he did commit perjury. And the Department of Justice doesn’t seem to care.”
Foregone Conclusions
By now many of us have heard about a recent study which claimed that mass vaccination for Covid saved 3 million lives in the U.S. and prevented over 18 million hospitalizations. What we don’t hear is that this “study” was actually a blog post which expounded on a computer model designed to generate a pre-ordained conclusion. The latest Dark Horse Podcast digs into the background of the study at the 36 minute mark.
In what has to be the quote of the day, Bret calls the creation of the virus, the lab leak and the subsequent pandemic policy response “…the greatest blunder in human history.”
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All their failures go in one direction.
Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee are alleging in a newly released report that there are “indications” that COVID-19 could be tied to China’s biological weapons research program and “spilled over” to the general human population during an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The information was released in a minority staff report by members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Wednesday night.
“Contrary to the implication of the [Intelligence Community’s] declassified report, based on our investigation involving a variety of public and non-public information, we conclude that there are indications that SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program and spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” a summary of the report states. “The IC failed to adequately address this information in its classified Updated Assessment. When we attempted to raise the issues with the IC, it failed to respond.” […]
“The Committee believes the IC downplayed important information relating to the possible links between COVID-19 and China’s bioweapons research based in part on input from outside experts,” the report states, adding that the intelligence community “refuses to be transparent with the Committee regarding which experts it relied on.”
Related: The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is poised to launch investigations into the Biden administration’s use of intelligence agencies to target Americans and to cloud the assessment of COVID-19’s origins, The Washington Times has learned.
Missed Information
Even since the pandemic began, I’ve been looking for the perfect retort to the “misinformation” smear. At long last, I may have found it.
In 2020-2022, if you tweeted the following flavors of #wrongthink, you may have been shadowbanned by Roth’s team:
—the costs vs. efficacy of lockdowns
—the safety & efficacy of off-label drugs for COVID
—the safety & efficacy of COVID “vaccines” or new Crony Pharma antivirals
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Wuhan lab leak whistleblower trailed by the FBI;
A SCIENTIST who claims Covid was engineered in a US-funded Wuhan lab has accused the FBI of trailing him with drones and breaking into his house to silence him.
Dr Andrew Huff, former vice president at EcoHealth Alliance, said he was followed for more than a year as he began to unravel an alleged extensive “cover-up” by the US government.
Legal documents provided to The Sun Online show whistleblower Dr Huff is preparing to file a legal injunction and temporary restraining order against the FBI and other US government agencies.
In his new book – The Truth About Wuhan – the epidemiologist claims the pandemic was the result of the US government’s funding of dangerous genetic engineering of coronaviruses in China.
He branded the origins of the Covid pandemic as one of the greatest cover-ups in history – and claims the “US government is to blame for the transfer of dangerous biotechnology to the Chinese”.
Dr. Huff dumped Ecohealth files into the public domain an hour ago.
Michael Shellenberger has a summary.
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Let That Sink In
Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy.
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Early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci and his Democrat constitutes attempted damage control when news started to break that the virus originated from a Wuhan lab leak.
Guardian reporter Jimmy Tobias obtained unredacted emails through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that details a teleconference between Fauci and several virologists discussing the coronavirus and its possible origins on February 1, 2020.
Although Fauci and health officials downplayed the fact that the virus came from a lab leak, the emails indicate that at the time they were very concerned that that possibility was true.
In one thread of emails, scientist Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust, warned Fauci of the “wild west,” referring to either the landscape of infectious disease research in China or the WIV specifically.
Infectious disease researcher Kristian Andersen put the idea of alerting the FBI and MI5 regarding the furin cleavage site on the spike protein of COVID-19, however, Fauci ignored her concern and decided not to take her advice.
Related: The Chinese have finally had enough. It’s about damned time.
Daily Mail: …largest anti-government protests since Tiananmen Square
There have been developments (go to the original for the links);
On Instagram follow China Uncensored, Northern Square or Shanghai Observed. On Twitter, follow the Wall Street Journal’s chief China correspondent Lingling Wei or the WSJ’s Stella Yifan Xie, Fan Wenxin and Cao Li, and Deutsche Welle’s East Asia correspondent William Yang has been doing amazing work. Also Songpinganq, who monitors Chinese TikTok posts that the censors can’t keep up with and transmits them via a VPN that burrows under Xi Jinping’s Great Firewall, formally known as the Golden Shield Project.