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Newsweek a year ago: Fauci funded "Gain of Function" research in Wuhan


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2021 May 14, 10:18am   698 views  48 comments

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https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741

Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research
BY FRED GUTERL ON 4/28/20 AT 2:57 PM EDT

National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses. ...

A decade ago, during a controversy over gain-of-function research on bird-flu viruses, Dr. Fauci played an important role in promoting the work. He argued that the research was worth the risk it entailed because it enables scientists to make preparations, such as investigating possible anti-viral medications, that could be useful if and when a pandemic occurred.



It would also enable profiteers to create a virus and a vaccine for it at the same time.

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1   Patrick   2021 May 14, 10:21am  

One such paper funded by NIH, which even says so:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7097006/

Rand Paul says that another paper on Gain of Function research specifically thanks Fauci by name, but I haven't found it yet.

“There’s a famous scientist in the Wuhan lab, her name is Dr. Shi [Zhengli], and she published a paper a couple years ago which has been reviewed by MIT, and says that it’s a gain-of-function research,” Paul said. “But in the byline, she has to list the sponsors. She lists Dr. Fauci and the NIAID as a sponsor of her research, which everybody acknowledges [is] gain-of-function research, juicing up these superviruses. So, I don’t know how you get around this.”


https://nypost.com/2021/05/11/sen-rand-paul-wants-fauci-to-come-clean-about-us-ties-to-wuhan-lab/
2   AmericanKulak   2021 May 14, 10:28am  

Archived in case of Leftist History Eraser Buttons.

https://archive.fo/T6oIf
3   Patrick   2021 May 14, 10:32am  

Thanks!

You know, every year they find that some forest fire was actually started by the same person that first reported it. The person wants to be a hero, and this is a convenient way. Maybe Fauci is motivated like that as well as by the vast wealth from vaccines, and the political power to destroy the US economy in an attempt to undo Trump's success.

My first thought when I heard about the virus in 2020 was "Well, the impeachment failed, so now they are desperate enough to release their secret weapon against Trump no matter what the cost to ordinary people."

And now I believe even more that that's exactly what happened.
4   ChauvinsKnee   2021 May 14, 10:36am  

Patrick says
My first thought when I heard about the virus in 2020 was "Well, the impeachment failed, so now they are desperate enough to release their secret weapon against Trump no matter what the cost to ordinary people."

And now I believe even more that that's exactly what happened.


Remember how at first they were all trying to do everything to make the shit spread? "Go to the Chinatown" they said. "Go join a protest against Trump banning flights from China, gather in big group and scream your heads off" they said. "Don't you dare telling us to close NY subway" they said.
5   Patrick   2021 May 14, 10:59am  

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2021/05/13/dr-anthony-fauci-may-be-more-conniving-than-we-thought-n2589400

Dr. Anthony Fauci May Be More Conniving Than We Thought
Rebecca Downs|Posted: May 13, 2021 3:45 PM

... When asked why more people aren't speaking up about this, Rep. Gallagher brought up the moniker Dr. Fauci has as the "godfather" of gain-of-function research. He also pointed to a 2011 op-ed co-authored by Dr. Fauci, which was published in the Washington Post, "A flu virus risk worth taking." The piece shows a favorable view toward gain-of-function.

The congressman suggested that people in the scientific community are hesitant to speak up because Fauci and the NIH controls the money and the grants, and that this could "have a chilling effect and torch your career."
6   AmericanKulak   2021 May 14, 11:02am  

ChauvinsKnee says
Remember how at first they were all trying to do everything to make the shit spread? "Go to the Chinatown" they said. "Go join a protest against Trump banning flights from China, gather in big group and scream your heads off" they said. "Don't you dare telling us to close NY subway" they said.


7   Patrick   2021 May 14, 11:03am  

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/05/13/1024866/investigation-covid-origin-wuhan-china-lab-biologists-letter/

Top researchers are calling for a real investigation into the origin of covid-19
A group of prominent biologists say there needs to be a “safe space” for asking whether the coronavirus came out of a lab.

by Rowan Jacobsenarchive page
May 13, 2021

A year ago, the idea that the covid-19 pandemic could have been caused by a laboratory accident was denounced as a conspiracy theory by the world’s leading journals, scientists, and news organizations.

But the origin of the virus that has killed millions remains a mystery, and the chance that it came from a lab has become the theory that cannot be put to rest.

Now, in a letter in the journal Science, 18 prominent biologists—including the world’s foremost coronavirus researcher—are lending their weight to calls for a new investigation of all possible origins of the virus, and calling on China’s laboratories and agencies to “open their records” to independent analysis. ...

The new letter also gains extra gravitas from its publication in Science, one of the world’s most prestigious journals. That choice of venue, says Relman, was important. “Some of our coauthors said to us, ‘I’ll participate, but I don’t want to be a part of an open letter to the world, or an op-ed in the New York Times. That’s not how I see my role in this. I’m a scientist. I would much rather be addressing fellow scientists in a scientific journal.’”
8   AmericanKulak   2021 May 14, 11:04am  

Their big mistake was not insisting that COVID came from a virology facility ---- in RUSSIA! RUSSIA! RUSSIA!
9   Patrick   2021 May 14, 11:05am  

Paywall, but this article may show Fauci explicitly promoting Gain of Function research in viruses:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-flu-virus-risk-worth-taking/2011/12/30/gIQAM9sNRP_story.html
10   MMR   2021 May 14, 3:26pm  

It wasn’t illegal in 2011; Obama made it illegal in 2015 and he (Fauci ) got it overturned early in Trump
Presidency.

Whether this gain of function is to prepare for epidemics
Or biological warfare, that isn’t certain.

He funded Peter daszak with eco health alliance to study gain of function on a sub grant from NIAID.

They have a PSL4(highest level of security) lab but chose to do most of the work in a PSL2 setting(less secure)

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/

Daszak is now using this opportunity to step in as the head investigator for WHO handling the investigation.

Dr. Shi (bat woman) and daszak appear in this paper

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698

The WHO director for his part isn’t satisfied with their original explanations

This guy (an expert) has been saying all along that the virus had to have escaped from the lab. Wouldn’t say he has been silenced but rather drown out by misdirection

https://jamiemetzl.com/origins-of-sars-cov-2/

——————

For his part outwardly speaking The WHO director who allowed daszak to be on the joint WHO-China investigative panel is not fully satisfied with the evidence that presumably rules out the possibility of the virus being leaked from a lab

There is far less evidence to suggest that it (COVID) has a zoonotic origin.

https://jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Open-Letter-to-the-World-Health-Organization-and-the-Members-of-its-Executive-Board-1.pdf

It is a super long read and I haven’t got through all of it, but I would like to see them refute all these theories sprinkled with substantial facts.
11   ChauvinsKnee   2021 May 14, 10:25pm  

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
ChauvinsKnee says
Remember how at first they were all trying to do everything to make the shit spread? "Go to the Chinatown" they said. "Go join a protest against Trump banning flights from China, gather in big group and scream your heads off" they said. "Don't you dare telling us to close NY subway" they said.




Didn't expect any less from "fucked-by-CCP-spy" Eric.
13   Patrick   2021 May 15, 10:41am  

https://republicandaily.net/2021/05/tucker-carlson-calls-for-criminal-investigation-of-dr-fauci/

The walls may be starting to close in on Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who is now facing questions over his role in approving funding of research at the Chinese lab that the coronavirus may have escaped from.

Despite the narrative that COVID was the product of a bat in a “wet market”, the theory that the virus actually originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has gained increasing support including a bombshell article by a renowned former New York Times science reporter.


Good thing he was already a former NY Slimes reporter, because they certainly would have fired him for the sold objective journalism he did.
14   Patrick   2021 May 15, 10:46am  

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-walmart-and-publix-join-trader-joes-costco-in-dropping-mask-requirement-plus-no-vax-check/

Seriously, I think the dropping of mask requirements is exactly to try to deflect attention from FAUCI'S GENOCIDE FOR PROFIT.

It sure looks like Fauci funded the research that created the virus in Wuhan.

How many are claimed to have died worldwide from Fauci's conspiracy to create a virus for profit and as a political weapon? Millions, right?

This was a crime against humanity, and we need a Nuremberg-type trial.
15   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 12:39pm  

Patrick says
Seriously, I think the dropping of mask requirements is exactly to try to deflect attention from FAUCI'S GENOCIDE FOR PROFIT.


Sure looks that way.

It seems they were about to pivot to "Vax Passport or Die" and then Fauci's relationship to Wuhan and Gain-of-Function NIH funding to that lab came up.

Poof! All of a sudden the CDC gets a whole lot more reasonable.

Patrick says
This was a crime against humanity, and we need a Nuremberg-type trial.


Absolutely.
16   BoomAndBustCycle   2021 May 15, 4:14pm  

Patrick says
This was a crime against humanity, and we need a Nuremberg-type trial.


But wait I thought the numbers were all inflated and no one was actually dying of covid... just old age and other ailments? Why would Fauci fund a “gain of function” virus that’s no worse than the common cold?

You guys like to change your thesis like the wind... it’s comical.
17   porkchopXpress   2021 May 15, 4:19pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says
Why would Fauci fund a “gain of function” virus that’s no worse than the common cold?
Ask Fauci. My theory is that this whole pandemic was a trial run to see how the world responded, test out mRNA vaccine technology on the masses, and kick Trump out of office. Remember, these vaccines have been likened unto software updates they can perform on you via booster shots. Bill Gates has even said that more pandemics are coming; how does he know that? Pure evil.
18   Onvacation   2021 May 15, 4:34pm  

porkchopexpress says
Bill Gates has even said that more pandemics are coming

You don't have to be prescient to know that. We lost a lot of capital by overreacting to this cold.

Next time when the WHO or the CDC call "wolf" their credibility will be questioned from the beginning instead of after "two weeks to flatten the curve ".
19   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 4:48pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says

But wait I thought the numbers were all inflated and no one was actually dying of covid... just old age and other ailments? Why would Fauci fund a “gain of function” virus that’s no worse than the common cold?

You guys like to change your thesis like the wind... it’s comical.


Wait, I thought nothing to go back to normal until 90% of the population was double vaccinated, and that herd immunity magically didn't function for COVID like it does for every other virus. Only a vaccination of the entire populace would work.

You guys sure change your minds... it's comical.
20   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 4:52pm  

Also, it was no worse. Now the CDC added "Influenza" as a Comorbidity for half of all COVID deaths, which now average over 3 co-mordibities in fatal cases. In the final analysis, COVID was indeed a bad flu season.

Not to worry, in 20 years it will be a DEBOONKED! Conspiracy Theory that the Media, CDC, and Democratc Party amplified the risk of COVID and ruined the economy. Snopes and Polifact will give that assertion a big "Pants on Fire" rating.
21   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 4:56pm  

A few days ago:

"That Fauci funded the Wuhan Lab with NIH exception money is a CONSPIRACY THEORY! Debonked, Damnit, Deboonked I say!"
https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories-make-fauci-the-villain-because-someone-has-to-be-140013416.html

Today:
22   BoomAndBustCycle   2021 May 15, 5:16pm  

porkchopexpress says
. Bill Gates has even said that more pandemics are coming; how does he know that? Pure evil.


And seismologists are evil to say more quakes are coming in the future?
23   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 5:20pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says
And seismologists are evil to say more quakes are coming in the future?


Seismologists don't advertise that we need limits on personal freedoms or advocate a year long lockdown over the economy in order to deal with the next earthquake, either.

One great thing coming out of COVID is that State and eventually Fed legislature can constrain the powers of Executives and set mandatory minimums that have to be exceeded before mask rules can be put in place, as well as strict limits on length of Gubernatorial powers.

"No masks if fatality rate below 1%"
"In person education may only be halted one month unless the spread rate exceeds X%/day or week"
"Existing and Generic Medicines must be tried first"
"All Public Employee Departments not directly Medical or First Responders must layoff personnel relative to match private employment losses in a lockdown. This supercedes all union contracts as an Emergency Power of Government. Public workers should show solidarity with Priivate workers"
"Property taxes must be suspended if schools are not in-person"

Good stuff like that.
24   Ceffer   2021 May 15, 5:54pm  

Have the Globalist whales figured they have surfaced too much already and need to go deep again? Is the Covid tyranny farce falling apart? Is Fauci the useful idiot they are going to sacrifice to take the blame?

Stay tuned to Channel One World Order.
25   porkchopXpress   2021 May 15, 6:12pm  

BoomAndBustCycle says
porkchopexpress says
. Bill Gates has even said that more pandemics are coming; how does he know that? Pure evil.


And seismologists are evil to say more quakes are coming in the future?
Is Bill Gates a virologist?
26   FarmersWon   2021 May 15, 6:18pm  

porkchopexpress says
BoomAndBustCycle says
porkchopexpress says
. Bill Gates has even said that more pandemics are coming; how does he know that? Pure evil.


And seismologists are evil to say more quakes are coming in the future?
Is Bill Gates a virologist?


No just a carpenter to build "windows" for right virus to escape.
27   Ceffer   2021 May 15, 7:13pm  

Viruses are alway coming as they have in the past and will in the future. We live in a blizzard of viruses at all times. Gates just thinks that they can be continually exploited for fear and political removal of human rights, forcing everybody to submit to endless eugenic jabs and more Gatesian profits.

How many times can they cry wolf to pull the same stunt over and over? That's the question.
30   Patrick   2021 May 15, 8:33pm  

https://www.ntd.com/leading-scientists-call-for-proper-investigation-of-ccp-virus-lab-origin-theory_613632.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

A group of international researchers are pushing for a “proper investigation” into the origins of COVID-19, including examining the lab accident theory that a World Health Organization (WHO) probe previously dismissed.

The WHO-led mission in Wuhan, which released its findings in late March, did not give “balanced consideration” to the theory that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus came from a laboratory accident, rather giving more weight to the natural spillover hypothesis—the event that the virus spread to humans through an animal host, the scientists argued in a letter published May 14 in Science, a peer-reviewed academic journal.

The letter was signed by 18 medical experts who specialize in virology, biology, immunology, and epidemiology.

The WHO team assessed the animal origin theory as “likely to very likely” and the other as “extremely unlikely,” despite having “no findings in clear support of either,” they wrote, noting that of 313 pages total, the report only dedicated four pages to addressing a possible lab accident.

“We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data,” the authors said. “A proper investigation should be transparent, objective, data-driven … and responsibly managed to minimize the impact of conflicts of interest.”
31   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 8:43pm  

In just one or two news cycles, we went from "MAYBE July 4th the vaccinated can be maskless outdoors with lots of social distancing with your family for a BBQ."

to

"COVID's Over. Vaccinated don't need to wear masks"
32   Patrick   2021 May 15, 11:04pm  

"Everyone STOP LOOKING AT FAUCI."
33   AmericanKulak   2021 May 15, 11:16pm  

Won't be surprised if Fauci suddenly takes a big break from news shows.
35   Patrick   2021 May 16, 2:23pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/cdc-director-says-change-on-mask-guidelines-not-due-to-political-pressure_3817404.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

CDC Director Says Change on Mask Guidelines Not Due to Political Pressure
BY GQ PAN May 16, 2021

Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Sunday morning that the latest update to the agency’s mask guidelines has nothing to do with political pressure.
40   Patrick   2021 May 17, 6:35pm  

zzyzzx says


Looks like this may be true:

https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcsbi/christine-grady.html

Christine Grady is the Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She also serves as Head of the Department’s Section on Human Subjects Research. Her research focuses on research subject recruitment, incentives, vulnerability, and international research ethics.

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