LOS ANGELES.–Five years after the outbreak of the world’s deadliest virus outbreak, the CIA admits that the deadly novel coronavirus “most likely” leaked from a Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory. When President Donald Trump said it April 30, 2020, he was accused by Dr. Anthony Fauci and other in the fake news of spreading conspiracy theories, grounds for discrediting his 2020 presidential campaign. Fauci was the lead point person in the United States pushing the now debunked “natural occurrence” theory that the virus jumped from an animal to human host at a Wuhan wet market. Fauci and his friends in the scientific community did everything possible to promote the natural occurrence theory because he didn’t want anyone to know he funded the research at the National Institutes of Health to develop the deadly novel coronavirus in a Wuhan lab.
Fauci received as preemptive pardon from 82-year-old former President Joe Biden, designed to immunize him from any future prosecution. Fauci testified before Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) Oversight Committee getting into knock-down-drag out fights with Paul over his funding gain-of-function research that created the deadly novel coronaviurs. When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, he asked his Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to determine the origin of the virus. Haines reported back to Biden that the origin may never be known because Chine scrubbed the Wuhan lab of any traces of the virus. Reports from Wuhan in late 2019 indicated that several researchers fell ill and died working in the lab. Those reports were also suppressed by the Chinese government. Chinese President Xi Jimping ordered Feb. 14, 2020 his Minister of Science to tighten up security in microbiology labs.
Former CIA Director William Burns turns the task of determining the virus origin to CIA Director John Ratcliffe. “That’s a day-one thing for me,” Ratcliffe said. “I’ve been on record as you know in saying I think our intelligence, our science, and our common sense all really dictate that the origins of the COVID was a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Biden asked Vice President Kamala Harris to head a task force on pandemics to prevent another one in the future. But how can Kamala make any recommendation about managing global pandemics when she doesn’t know where it started? Once the World Health Organizaiton [WHO] declared a global pandemic March 11, 2020, Chinese Foreign Minister Spokesman Zhao Lijian said March 13, 2020 that the deadly novel coronavirus was made in a bioweapons lab in Fort Detrick, Md., and exported by the U.S. military to China.
Fauci, who headed Trump’s original Covid-19 task force, said nothing about Lijian’s statements but continued to insist on the natural occurrence theory. Paul called Fauci out in at least two Senate hearings, eliciting forceful denials from Fauci about funding gain-of-function research. Even when confronted with his $15 million in payments to Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, Fauci denied funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Daszak gave Shi Zhengli over $1 million for her bat coronavirus research. Zhengli invited Dr. Robert Baric from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to experiment in her lab injecting harmless bat coronaviruses with Angiotensin [ACE-2], changing the corona of the virus to make it infectious to humans. Yet the U.S. and Chinese governments blame each other for the origin of the deadly novel corona virus.
Even though the CIA says it has “low confidence” in its research into the origin of Covid-19, it looks far more likely that the virus was created in Zhengli’s bioweapons lab. Zengli lab was visited on several occasions by Peoples Liberation Army chief virologist in charge of biological warfare Chen Wei. When it comes to preventing pandemics in the future, it’s not a matter of encouraging surgical masks or hand-washing, it’s now a matter to stopping dangerous research into the infectious aspects of bat-originated coronaviruses. Pandemic protection in the future requires scientists in all countries to stop bioweapons research for the sake of humanity. When you consider that over 7 million deaths occurred worldwide, 1.2 million in the United States, you’d think the government would have a vested interest in stopping dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.
Trump was the first one to say April 30, 2020 that the deadly novel coronavirus was engineered in a Wuhan Institute of Virology bioweapons lab. Fauci and the entire Democrat and press establishment accused him of spreading conspiracy theories. Fauci worked hand-in-hand in 2020 with Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward lying to the public about Trump complacency for different reasons. Fauci did everything possible to deny his role in funding research that created the deadly novel coronavirus. Woodward spread his propaganda to help Biden beat Trump in 2020. Fauci to this day, preemptive pardon in hand, denies he had any role in funding dangerous gain-of-function research. Scientists like Dr. Ralph Baric know what he did in Zhengli’s lab. Time is long overdue for the government to admit its role in funding research that created the deadly novel coronavirus.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma
