Guest Post by Alex Berenson
Virologists like Kristian Andersen are justifiably under scrutiny for misleading the public in February 2020; but it was Tony Fauci who really had reason to panic over the lab leak theory.
“Wuhan University.”
That’s how Dr. Anthony Fauci referred to the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, a day after the virologist Kristian Andersen warned Fauci he suspected Sars-Cov-2 might not be entirely natural. (Just spitballing here, Tony!)
Fauci made the error in an email to other federal officials he had no reason to expect anyone would ever see. In fact, the National Institutes of Health later hid it from a public records request.
Which implies Fauci’s mistake was honest. Which, in turn, implies that as of Feb. 1, 2020, he knew so little about the gain-of-function research happening in Wuhan, he couldn’t even get the location of the lab doing it right.
By the end of January 2020, Sars-Cov-2 had been the world’s focus for two weeks. The NIH was interested even earlier. On Mon., Jan. 13, after a frantic weekend of work, its vaccinologists and Moderna finalized the amino acid sequence for Moderna’s future Covid vaccine.
Yet Fauci apparently had no concerns about the origins of the virus until Andersen called him on Jan. 31. Then, suddenly, he seems to have woken up to the possibility that Sars-Cov-2 might have come out of a Chinese lab – and that his research dollars might have helped fund it.
Early Saturday morning, hours before the “Wuhan University” note, Fauci emailed his deputy, Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, about a 2015 paper on gain-of-function research jointly conducted by researchers at the Wuhan Institute and the University of North Carolina.
“Read this paper as well as the e-mail that I will forward to you now,” Fauci told Auchincloss. “You will have tasks today that must be done.”
That email has received a lot of attention. But Auchincloss’s reply a few hours later has received much less, even though it is arguably the most revealing document of all.
In it, Auchincloss tells Fauci that the paper claims its experiments were “reviewed and approved by NIH,” that he is “not sure what that means,” and that Dr. Emily Erbelding, a senior NIH scientist, will find out if “we have any distant ties to this work abroad.”
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(It’s not China, it’s you.)
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Though he did not say so in his reply to Auchincloss, Fauci had already been told of another potential connection between NIH and the Wuhan lab. Four days before, his chief of staff had emailed him that his institute “funded Peter’s group for coronavirus work in China for the past five years.”
Peter was Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance. Daszak was forever trying to drum up funding from government agencies, including the Pentagon, for EcoHealth’s research into potential future epidemics. EcoHealth used NIH grants to help pay for coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab – including research eerily similar to the work that could have produced Sars-Cov-2.
Fauci said under oath in a deposition last year that he had met Daszak only “once or twice” and wouldn’t even call him an acquaintance. He added that he didn’t know about the EcoHealth grant until after the Covid epidemic began.
“I became aware of this after all of the attention was put on it, following the early part of January, February, mid-March of 2020,” he said.
This denial is believable. The EcoHealth grants were only a few hundred thousand dollars a year, simply too small for Fauci – who had a $6 billion annual research budget – to notice or care.
Until, suddenly, they weren’t.
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(You sure did…)
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By the end of that early February weekend, Fauci must have understood his position was uniquely difficult.
Andersen and his fellow virologists were working to figure out if the virus was natural or had come out of a lab. They openly discussed their fears of problems for Chinese-Western relations if they acknowledged the latter possibility.
But Fauci had a second worry – one that does not seem to have occurred to Andersen and the other virologists in February 2020, at least in the documents revealed so far. He knew that NIH generally and his division specifically faced the potential for blowback if a lab leak investigation gained traction.
Fortunately, Fauci had some hole cards.
That $6 billion research budget, for one, making his hugely important to any virologist who wanted a successful career.
His four decades of experience in Washington, which made him almost uniquely trusted by both parties, for another.
And his long association with intelligence agencies, dating to the 2001 anthrax attacks, giving him access to classified information – and potentially helping him shape their thinking (and, in turn, the thinking of the academic scientists they brought in to learn about the details of the coronavirus).
So it was that within a few weeks, Andersen and his co-authors had written exactly the paper that Tony Fauci needed them to write, a paper that, without quite saying so, consigned the lab leak theory to the fringes of conspiracy.
If only the world’s largest social media site could push it even further down the rathole!
Fortunately, Fauci had a friend there too.
Fauci may not have known what he’d funded in Wuhan.
But once he found out he knew better than anyone how to make sure he wouldn’t get blamed for it.
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Everything and from the beginning.
He’s the most protected man on the entire planet right now.
What does THAT tell you about the world you live in?
Took the words right off my screen.
That shit weasel is patient-felon zero and orchestrated this entire thing just like he had his fucken weasel claws in AZT during the HIV meltdown and liquidation of the gay community.
He is every villainous trope rolled into one when it comes to medical experiments.
ZFG, out.
P.S. someone needs to give him the beagle treatment, AZT and all his clotshots and see how that works out i the name of science.
He didn’t orchestrate anything. He’s just a puppet.
He probably organized some trips to bathhouses and gay bars.
glowbot.
He ORGANIZED EVERYTHING.
Yup, Fauci’s known everything, for over half of his 8+ decades of life:
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I’m sorry, but we need to get to the bottom of this. We’ll need hearings, many many hearings, with a final report on what the hearings were about. When we discover what happened then we can have hearings on whether there are any persons who could possibly be held on criminal charges, like the janitor for not burning the waste basket contents and that material getting ‘out there’.
In the mean time we’ll need lots of great pundits to explain in ponderous musings the mysteries of covid and the shadowy figures behind it all. Those will be great for years to come, write books on it too and squeak some coin out of the dumb asswipes still glued to this culling.
Me, I’ll remember the names and when opportunity arises, I’ll wag my finger in their faces. scowl some too. learn’m a lesson.
There are no mysteries in Covid. It doesn’t exist. It was all a scamdemic to get you to take the jab.
And, most importantly, implement technotronic totalitarianism.
I think all we need is a tree and some rope.
I’m convinced these monsters are like the Evil Nazi Doctors , but with CRISPER Technology; that they added AIDS, Cancer, Mad Cow, Snake Venom, etc, to enhance the virus, and to poison the real Shots (2/3 were for Red States and 1/3 were placebos). Millions of people have been killed by the virus and many times more by the Shot. Those responsible are Genocide Hate Criminals who need to be charged, arrested, tried and executed. This is a zillion times worse than Trump leaving classified in his basement or entering the US House on 6Jan.
There is no virus.
But yes, they’re criminals.
I caught it about Mar2020 and I’m a Long COVID victim. You can claim it doesn’t exist but that’s like telling me there are no UFOs (which I’ve seen) or no God (which I’ve experienced); and like the Southern Baptist Convention saying there is no Evolution, and Genesis and the Bible are Infallible (not).
Fauci is an Italian surname. It is derived from the Sicilian word for “sickle”, and originated as an occupational surname referring metonymically to sickle makers or people who used sickles.
“Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.”
It also means “jaws” in Italian.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/italian-english/fauci
Looks like that newer definition of Fauci appeared in 2018.
The cambridge dictionary is sourced from K Dictionaries LTD
https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.k_dictionaries_ltd.65bd4e1908136f08377bc18f22a4804e.html
An Israeli corporation.
Now what motive could they have for concealing the original definition of the name Fauci?
And what business does a foreign owned Corp have defining words at an American university?
Yes, and why are Israelis the gatekeeper of Italian word definitions?
Golly gee, no way! Fauci and co didn’t tell the truth?? This is an extraordinary revelation. I guess that means they’re all going to jail, right?
After the Reset.