Mike Shellenberger has a very interesting article up over at substack that you need to read today.
Pay particular attention to this passage:
It is unclear who in the U.S. government had access to the intelligence about the sick WIV workers, how long they had it, and why it was not shared with the public. “You would expect the country of origin to be defensive,” said Chan, “but you wouldn’t expect a country receiving the virus to be withholding key evidence.” On January 15, 2021, five days before President Joe Biden took office, the U.S. State Department published a fact sheet that pointed to the likelihood of a lab leak as the cause of a pandemic.
Already, the State Department in 2021 suspected that the WIV had lied to the public. “The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. That raises questions about the credibility of WIV senior researcher Shi Zhengli’s public claim that there was ‘zero infection’ among the WIV’s staff and students by SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-related viruses.”
Which translates to… “We knew we were being lied to.” And yet, our own government passed on that lie to the American people. Question is, why? As the article itself says:
Said Metzl, “Had US government officials including Dr. Fauci stated from day one that a COVID-19 research-related origin was a very real possibility, and made clear that we had little idea what viruses were being held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, what work was being done there, and who was doing that work, our national and global conversations would have been dramatically different. The time has come for a full accounting.”
Indeed so. But you see, honesty at that point would have been counterproductive to those doing the lying.
Indeed, I think it’s worse than simple backside covering. I’m not at all sure I like the idea of calling this a lab leak. “Leak” assumes that the release of this virus was an accident. There are far too many people who would see this release into the wild as an advantage. The Chinese government, the incoming Biden administration (and those backing it…)… and frankly Anthony Fauci himself, and that’s just for openers.
The sheer, cold logic of the thing…
There’s nothing like a pandemic to bring the worldwide economy to its knees which in turn can be blamed on your political opponents.
Those millions of deaths?
Tragic, perhaps, but handy. Those can be blamed on your political opponents too, simply make the suggestion that he was responsible for mishandling things.
You can even reduce the number of votes your political opponents will get by handling things properly. Stuffing people who are suffering with the virus created by your team into nursing homes with vulnerable older Americans, for example. Don’t worry about the old people, after all they’ll only vote Republican. (Andrew Cuomo… call your office please.)
Okay, some of this is speculation but it’s the shortest path between the two points.
However that may be, it is very clear indeed that at the very least, laws were broken as regards gain of function research, which Anthony Fauci repeatedly denied was happening despite knowledge that it was in fact happening… (by virtue of Fauci himself being responsible for the funding of the research he denied was occurring.)
One more thing that this shows is that Senator Rand Paul had it precisely correct
Will those responsible ever be held accountable?
I would certainly like to think so, but I doubt it. The corruption runs far too deep for that. There are far too many people involved with this thing with far too much to lose.
