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Fauci made sure that none of those kids had guardians which is illegal and then he hid what he was doing to the board. Fauci was disposing of the corpses of these children who died in illegal experiments. These are children who had no parents, nobody was there to protect them.

It's clear that some or all omicron variants were synthesised in a laboratory from which they were somehow released, as part of a deliberate program. Coupled with the lack of synonymous mutations in other variants, this suggests that all variants described after the original Wuhan strain have artificial origins.

It's anyone's guess what the purpose of that experiment might be.

The authors suggest the variants they have found are indeed part of an experiment to characterize the spike protein and the effects of mutations on the virus' behaviour:

Indeed, the lack of findings to date that many of the various mutations seen, especially in the early variants, are indeed associated with increased viral infection (van Dorp et al, 2020) supports the hypothesis that each variant was artificially synthesized to identify the amino acids of the S protein responsible for infectivity and pathogenicity.

Conclusion: this changes everything
If the observations and inferences in this paper are correct - and barring a pure hoax, involving fraudulent depositions to sequence databases, they certainly seem to be - then they provide indisputable evidence that the entire history of SARS-CoV2, at least subsequent to the emergence of the original strain, is artificial.

Someone, somewhere, really is doing all this deliberately.

CIA Official Questioned Over Wuhan Cover-Up Took Job at U.S.-China Consulting Firm

The claim that the CIA used bribes to bury findings supporting a COVID lab leak brings scrutiny of an influential D.C. consulting firm filled with former intelligence officials.




Last week, lawmakers in Congress probing the origins of the coronavirus pandemic revealed that they had heard testimony from a new whistleblower, reportedly “presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer,” who claimed that CIA leadership had suppressed an assessment that COVID-19 came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

According to the whistleblower, six of seven CIA officers researching the outbreak of COVID-19 found evidence to make a "low confidence assessment" of origin from the Wuhan lab. But a senior official allegedly helped muddy the waters and used financial incentives to persuade the officers against the lab assessment, ensuring that the CIA did not blame China.

The lawmakers requested that CIA chief operating officer Andrew Makridis, who coordinated the agency’s response to the pandemic until retiring last year, participate in a voluntary interview with congressional investigators. Makridis, the whistleblower claimed, “played a central role in its formation and eventual conclusion that the CIA was unable to determine" the origins of COVID-19. The congressional letter makes clear that Makridis could soon face a subpoena.

While the source of the virus is still unclear, growing evidence suggests that COVID-19 first emerged at the Wuhan lab and escaped under subpar biosafety standards. Many fear that such a conclusion will further harm U.S. ties to China, and potentially disrupt the $800 billion in trade relations between the two countries.

Makridis, notably, left the CIA to pass through the revolving door into a Washington, D.C. business that monetizes the nexus of U.S.-China relations. He now serves as a senior advisor to Beacon Global Strategies, a firm that helps corporate clients navigate delicate national security concerns, particularly surrounding China.

Beacon Global Strategies, founded by a bipartisan group of officials from the CIA, Defense Department, and House Intelligence Committee, maintains high-level contacts throughout the U.S. government and regularly speaks with national security agencies, information that it uses to help clients understand the geopolitical and regulatory landscape.

The firm, now in its tenth year of operation, was founded with seed investment money from Claude Fontheim, a lobbyist who spent two decades representing the U.S.-China Exchange Foundation, a pro-China influence group. Beacon Global Strategies has grown rapidly by advertising its unique insight into U.S. and China policy.

Although the company is not registered as a lobbying firm, officials at Beacon Global Strategies have worked to influence China-related policy.

In 2019, Jeffrey Kupfer, while serving as an adviser to Beacon Global Strategies, directly pressed the Trump administration against a “proposed plan to once again increase tariffs up to 25 percent on Chinese products,” arguing that such tariffs would result in retaliatory trade penalties on American liquified natural gas exports.

That year, Beacon Global Strategies was also hired by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to push back against a Trump administration plan to unwind a partnership that AMD had forged with a Chinese firm to produce state-of-the-art computer chip technology. The administration raised national security concerns over the fact that AMD’s partner worked closely with the Chinese military. The efforts by Beacon Global Strategies to “make peace,” as the Wall Street Journal reported, between AMD and the Trump administration, failed. The U.S. Commerce Department eventually sanctioned AMD’s partner, effectively killing the deal, but not before vital technology had already been transferred to the Chinese.

We’re making slow progress. The UK Telegraph ran a story yesterday headlined, “China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules.” The sub-headline explained, “Wuhan Institute of Virology broke rules with experiments that increased viral activity more than tenfold, says health department.”

Yes, they are talking about that infamous little (big) shop of horrors, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).



Finally! The Department of Health and Human Services announced last week it was ‘debarring’ the WIV, after evidence proved WIV scientists were engaging in gain of function research by inserting new spike proteins into four different bat coronaviruses. Gosh, all those technical words sound so familiar.

Sadly, ‘debarring’ does not mean “nuked from orbit” or even ” “burned to the ground and salted the earth,” it just means that WIV will be ineligible to receive any U.S. government grants, and it prohibits U.S. scientists from collaborating with WIV scientists.

According to an HHS memo, as late as 2019, the WIV’s problematic coronavirus experiments resulted in at least one chimeric virus that killed 75 percent of infected humanized mice within two weeks, and increased viral activity more than tenfold, in clear violation of government grant guidelines. In spite of that evidence, many grant-grabbing U.S. scientists continue insisting that covid coincidentally made its planetary debut five miles away at a super-low-tech farmer’s market.

But I digress.

Chinese authorities have forbidden any WIV investigation providing access to laboratories, research notebooks, or internal databases. Our mega-funded U.S. health agencies tried super hard to find out, too. The HHS’s memo even said the NIH tried to call the lab several times to ask questions but nobody called them back. Plus, HHS even “tried to contact WIV by fax and email.”

Tough customers, the Chinese, ignoring faxes like that.

Ominously, HHS’s memo also warned there’s no reason to think the WIV has stopped doing all that gain-of-function research, saying: “There is risk that WIV not only previously violated, but is currently violating, and will continue to violate, protocols of the National Institutes of Health on biosafety.”

There is risk? You don’t say. It only took three years for that risk to occur to the geniuses in the federal government.

Oh well. Debarment is a temporary measure and usually lasts three years, but we’ll see what happens this time. The fickle winds of politics never stop blowing, do they? It’s only the wind’s direction that changes.

Still, it’s progress and I will take it. We will keep the drums beating.

More allegations casting an even darker cloud of distrust over the efforts to uncover the origins of COVID-19. Brad Wenstrup, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, recently raised reports from whistleblowers that Dr. Anthony Fauci made unusual visits to the CIA Headquarters, and that he was there to "influence" their investigation into the genesis of the virus.

This ties in nicely with the accusations involving six CIA analysts who were allegedly offered significant remuneration to ensure an inconclusive result. The spotlight intensifies on Dr. Fauci with the surfacing of another intriguing aspect of the "Proximal Origin" paper's drafting process, which aimed to debunk the lab leak theory.

This string of unsettling revelations stoke fears of a false narrative being promoted by federal government agencies about the origin of COVID-19. Chairman Wenstrup is arduously seeking all related documents and communications concerning Dr. Fauci's access to CIA facilities and its personnel. The Select Subcommittee has also requested Brett Rowland, a Special Agent, to provide a more detailed account of Dr. Fauci's suspected activities in connection with the CIA.

teflon tony goes to langley?

just when you thought you'd seen the bottom of the rabbithole

i am old enough to remember when “covid-19 escaped from a lab” was a “conspiracy theory.” to my own embarrassment, i initially suspected this was correct because using coronaviruses as a base for a bioweapon seemed like a poor choice and it was my presumption that this was the claim.

then i came across the whole peter daszak story and the wild and reckless GoF projects to work on various forms of vaccines and some truly crazy ideas about spreading hotwired covid to wild bat colonies. and everyone from ecohealth to peter hotez has their snouts in the trough.

this changed my mind and made “lab leak” look to me like by far the odds on (and frankly, near certain) choice. it also made an awful lot of people look like overt and deliberate liars not least of which was teflon tony himself. last i checked, perjury to congress is still a crime but hell, who knows these days?

the whole affair became one vast fox commission investigating the henhouse murders as the very people who funded and made this mess were empaneled to investigate it. it’s been a truly top to bottom whitewash from start to what seemed like the finish. ...

as many of you likely saw, a whistleblower came forward to discuss the fact that a number of CIA analysts appear to have been paid to change their takes on covid origins.



and now guess who looks to have been right in the middle of this imbroglio? oh yeah, the fauch-meister, faucharama, the fauch a ding ding: talking-point tony himself.

because this is totally normal, right? (bold mine)

According to information gathered by the Select Subcommittee, Dr. Anthony Fauci, then-director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, played a role in the Central Intelligence Agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19. The information provided suggests that Dr. Fauci was escorted into Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters—without a record of entry—and participated in the analysis to “influence” the Agency’s review.

... this certainly has some interesting dovetails into “the great pivot” where fauci and numerous others all suddenly went from “it’s fine, go on a cruise, masks are silly, go live your life” to the crazed and evidence free covidian stances of lock down, mask up, and jab, jab, jab that they instantly adopted upon the arrival of debbie birx to the white house (after being sent not by health agencies, but by the national security advisor.)

and there certainly was an awful lot of poorly explained and deeply unusual military involvement in and around covid.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic just tweeted that it has obtained evidence that Dr. Fauci made an unregistered visit to the CIA’s headquarters to “influence” the intelligence agency’s investigation on the origin of SARS-CoV-2. If this allegation proves to be true, it will add to the mounting evidence that Fauci and his virology cronies performed the greatest act of fraudulent concealment in human history.

Dr. Anthony Fauci made at least one secret visit to the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia to “influence” the agency as it tried to figure out if Sars-Cov-2 had leaked from a Chinese lab.

That bombshell allegation came yesterday from the Congressional subcommittee examining the origins of and response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Fauci’s hidden efforts in 2020 to discourage scientists from examining if the risky Chinese “gain-of-function” research he supported led to the pandemic have been extensively documented. Now the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic claims it has evidence he tried to steer the investigations inside the intelligence community too. ...

The whistleblower reported the CIA had set up a seven-person team to examine the origins of Sars-Cov-2. Six analysts concluded, albeit with low confidence, that the virus had “originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.” But the team’s senior officer disagreed, according to Wenstrup’s earlier letter.

The senior officer then paid the junior team members to “change their position,” the whistleblower claimed. Ultimately, the CIA said it could not “determine the precise origin of the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to a government report released in June.

"Dr. Fauci was escorted into CIA headquarters... without a record to entry to participate in the analysis to "influence" the (CIA) Agency's review..."

- House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Wow! So, basically Fauci impeded a CIA investigation or helped in a CIA cover-up because of the crimes he committed. That is clear because the CIA reported early on that the virus was not man-made and a DNI report generated about the origins of the virus also claimed it was most likely not man-made - that the virus jumped from animals to humans naturally in the wild. This is false. Most likely, Fauci knew and lied to the CIA. Either that, or the CIA lied and Fauci assisting the CIA in generating that lie.

Either way, Fauci must be prosecuted. There must by an independent inquiry with a special prosecutor - separate from the DOJ. Congress must authorize a special prosecutor now and continue on with their own investigations. It is time for a prosecutor to step in, so charges can be filed.

The Big Story
A CIA whistleblower told a House subcommittee investigating the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases who led the government response to the pandemic, had been “escorted” into CIA headquarters without making a record of his entry before he attempted to “influence” the agency’s conclusion about the origin of the virus. The date of his visit is not yet known. The head of the House committee, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services that the whistleblower’s testimony “lends credence to heightened concerns about the promotion of a false COVID-19 origins narrative by multiple federal government agencies.”

According to a new report on Thursday from Substack newsletter “Public,” the whistleblower, who was a former senior-level officer in the CIA, said that Fauci had come to “promote the natural origin of the virus.” Subsequent government documents obtained in public record requests show that Fauci was at that time aware that funding he’d approved for viral research studies at the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have contributed to the gain-of-function research responsible for the lab leak of the virus.

“He knew what was going on. I mean, you see all the redacted documents that are coming out. He was covering his ass and he was trying to do it with the Intel community,” the whistleblower told “Public.” “He came multiple times and he was treated like a rock star by the Weapons and Counter Proliferation Mission Center.”

The whistleblower said that following Fauci’s visit, the agency’s assessment that the virus originated in a lab leak was changed to “unknown origin.” Analysts who altered their assessment received cash bonuses and Exceptional Performance awards.

https://public.substack.com/p/fauci-diverted-us-government-away

Previous reporting already showed that Fauci “prompted” the “Proximal Origin” paper, according to its authors. Lead author Kristian Andersen expressed grave doubts about the natural origin theory even months after Nature Medicine published the paper. And they described themselves as pressured by “higher ups,” referring to individuals in the White House and other government agencies.

Now, the new information from multiple sources, including a CIA whistleblower, a senior government investigator, and a senior official, suggests a broad effort by Fauci to go agency by agency, from the White House to the State Department to the CIA, in an effort to steer government officials away from looking into the possibility that COVID-19 escaped from a lab. ...

Fauci had reasons to push scientists and intelligence analysts to believe the virus had a zoonotic origin since his agency had issued a grant to fund research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China.

The Wenstrup press release noted that the whistleblower’s information suggested Fauci was escorted in “without record of entry.” According to the CIA whistleblower, the CIA purposely did not “badge” Fauci in and out of the building so as to hide any record that he had been there.

“Fauci came to our building, to promote the natural origin of the virus,” the CIA whistleblower said. “He knew what was going on. I mean, you see all the redacted documents that are coming out. He was covering his ass and he was trying to do it with the Intel community… I know he came multiple times and he was treated like a rockstar by the Weapons and Counter Proliferation Mission Center. And, he pushed the Kristian Anderson paper.”

Weapons and Counter Proliferation Mission Center

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Takayuki Miyazawa is a professor and virologist at Kyoto University.

He is a pro-vaccine advocate, and has been pushing operations to reduce the transmission of coronavirus.

But he finally realized that the coronavirus was artificially created and that the governments had been taken over by evil people.

Why has Pfauci not yet been prosecuted for openly lying to Congress about his gain of function research in Wuhan?

Why has Pfauci not yet been prosecuted for openly lying to Congress about his gain of function research in Wuhan?

Nobody has the guts to criminally charge him.

...Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) first said that newly-obtained emails show Fauci immediately knew covid came from the Wuhan lab and then covered it up. "We now have emails that show saying that he knows it was gain-of-function, that the virus looked manipulated, and that he was worried that this came from the Wuhan lab," Paul explained.

Senator Paul also said new, difficult-to-get evidence proves Anthony Fauci personally shepherded the Wuhan gain-of-function research around a safety committee set up to prevent high-risk research. Paul said, “We also know that there was a safety committee that should have reviewed this and we know that Anthony Fauci went around the safety committee."

Rand Paul said he thinks this evidence “will bring down Anthony Fauci.”

We can hope! Like cockroaches, which can survive a nuclear attack, Fauci — a human cockroach who would even terrify Franz Kafka— has proven hard to squash, as he scurries between various bureaucratic assignments and speaking engagements. I pray I live long enough to see Fauci in an orange jumpsuit.

Patrick says

Why has Pfauci not yet been prosecuted for openly lying to Congress about his gain of function research in Wuhan?

Nobody has the guts to criminally charge him.

Patrick: "Why has Pfauci not yet been prosecuted for openly lying to Congress about his gain of function research in Wuhan?"

Misc: "Nobody has the guts to criminally charge him. "

GNK: "Why would it take guts? "

Edward Snowden: "When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals."

💉 Oh man, this is rich. Public Health could not possibly get more tone-deaf. On Friday, the Infection Disease Society of America awarded bowtied-wonder Peter Hotez its Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership award.



Nobody deserves the Antony Fauci Award more than Peter Hotez does, thanks to his tireless work selling defective pharmaceutical products. It’s even better than the Darwin Award.

This is like giving Harvey Weinstein the Bill Cosby Award.

Creating an "Anthony Fauci Courage in Leadership Award" might not be the most Orwellian idea proposed by our corrupt public health establishment, but it's certainly right up there.

The bad guys love celebrating themselves.
Good men are humble. Bad men must be validated, constantly.
Strong men are self-assured and quiet. Weak men need constant validation and shout their own praises.

You're all going to jail.

Congratulations to @PeterHotez, MD, PhD, the recipient of IDSA’s 2023 Anthony Fauci Liars and Grifters in Covid Misinformation for Profit Award.

Who's coming up with this script? It's like a goosebumps episode. Only kids would believe it. The writers are still on strike?

Absolute criminal and an embarrassment to actual science.

Hahah so he got an award for doing exactly as the pharmaceutical companies said. Absolutely hilarious.

So basically a bunch of grifters fellating each other.

Congratulations to @ISDA for outing itself as a corrupt and vile organization deserving of a thorough investigation by proper criminal authorities.

An award for "Courage in Leadership" named after an unindicted felon and awarded to a buffoon?

You must be related to the Nobel Prize people.

Fauci adviser who allegedly ‘deleted federal records’ subpoenaed in House COVID-19 origins probe

A longtime top adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been accused of deleting federal records by Republican lawmakers, has been subpoenaed by the House panel investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. David Morens, the recipient of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s Friday subpoena, served as Fauci’s senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1998 until former NIAID chief’s retirement at the end of last year.

The GOP-led panel alleges that Morens “likely used his personal email to delete COVID origins documents and evade [Freedom of Information Act] laws.” ...

“This obstruction will not be tolerated,” Wenstrup warned in a letter informing NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak about the subpoena issued to Morens, which called the allegations against the NIAID employee “highly concerning.”

“The documents of Dr. Morens are potentially necessary to inform this investigation, including but not limited to his knowledge of information regarding the origins of COVID-19,” the letter continues.

Wenstrup argues that the documents potentially deleted from on Morens personal email account may point to an effort by government officials to cover up evidence that the virus which led to the coronavirus pandemic came from a Chinese lab. ...

“Tony doesn’t want his fingerprints on origin stories,” Morens said in the July 29, 2021, email.

In another email, Morens told colleagues he would “always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly” and that he would “delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”

Morens told colleagues he would “always communicate on gmail because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly

In fact a weird event happened around the same time whereby the select subcommittee released a pdf document containing damning email releases from the likes of Eddie Holmes, but many of the emails were embedded secretly in hidden pictures within the document1. They showed that there was intent to hide the man-made origins of the “virus”.

Worse than that, once they realised the hidden emails were in there the document was quickly sanitised and reuploaded. Thanks to one of our intrepid mice we were able to get the pre-sanitised copy. Despite the scandals involved the select committee will probably go through the motions, no doubt finding nobody guilty of anything (whilst millions of people died from being denied antibiotics for their post-viral pneumonia).

Why did Tony Fauci risk everything to call for a coverup of COVID's lab origin? There was a lot more to it than protecting himself and NIAID for sponsoring Wuhan research

After years of pondering, this is what I think. Natural origin was CRITICAL to the entire global takeover

I will show you some old slides and some I just made. If there are missing pieces or you don’t follow my reasoning, I am happy to build out the story. Let’s start today with how pandemics due to spillover from animals were to be blamed on climate change, and we had to gain control of climate change in order to prevent more devastating pandemics.

If they come from labs, this carefully constructed narrative falls apart and climate change is not so dangerous after all.




Do you see how this dovetails into 15 minute cities, and other controls on what humans are allowed to do and where they are allowed to go? If you read the Lancet COVID Commission reports from 2021 you will get the same flavor of how increased control over agriculture, mining, etc. is to be justified. Enough for tonight.

The Daily Mail UK ran a timely bat-themed story yesterday headlined “REVEALED: Anthony Fauci-run lab in MONTANA experimented with coronavirus strain shipped in from Wuhan a year BEFORE Covid pandemic began.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12693441/fauci-nih-infected-bats-camp-david-coronavirus.html




Newly-discovered documents are shedding light on covid’s early journeys around the world, and have opened up new lines of investigation. The new disclosures are thanks to diligent work by DRASTIC, the loose team of heroic independent researchers who banded together during the pandemic after it became clear that the government was intent on obscuring covid’s real source, and by the White Coat Waste Project, a group dedicated to halting dangerous viral research.

It begins with a 2018 study published in the journal Virology, which described an experiment of injecting Egyptian fruit bats with a coronavirus to see what would happen. The experiments occurred at the NIH's Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Montana, which was overseen by one Anthony Fauci.

I’ll give you one guess where the injectable coronavirus samples came from. You got it! The Wuhan Institute of Virology.

It gets better. Guess which U.S. researcher was leading the study? Ralph Baric, the revolting human maggot who was also up to his fat, sweaty neck in all the PLA bioweapons research at the Wuhan lab.

It’s bad enough they were shipping dangerous pathogens from an unmonitored lab in communist China back to the States for “experiments.” But — infecting bats? Here? Nothing could possibly go wrong with a plan to infect flying mammals with a Chinese lab-provided virus inside the United States.

These morons think they deserve their morbidly-obese federal salaries and guaranteed benefit packages. What they actually deserve is quite a bit different.

The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) released a statement that neatly summarized the facts, and didn’t mince words:

"Our investigation has uncovered the real-life horror story of how a shady roadside zoo whose curator was an NIH animal experimenter shipped off bats to a deadly government virus lab overseen by Dr. Fauci to be infected with a coronavirus obtained directly from the Wuhan lab that experts believe caused COVID."

According to the article, the WCW remains hot on the story’s trail with a blizzard of new public records requests. We will get to the bottom of this story someday, perhaps sooner rather than later.

At that point in the trajectory of events, intelligence services on both sides of the Atlantic had been put on notice. Anthony Fauci also received confirmation that money from the National Institutes of Health had been channeled to the offending lab in Wuhan, which meant that his career was on the line. Working at a furious pace, the famed “Proximal Origin” paper was produced in record time. It concluded that there was no lab leak.

In a remarkable series of revelations this week, we’ve learned that the CIA was involved in trying to make payments to those authors (thank you whistleblower), plus it appears that Fauci made visits to the CIA’s headquarters, most likely around the same time.

Suddenly we get some possible clarity in what has otherwise been a very blurry picture. The anomaly that has heretofore cried out for explanation is how it is that Fauci changed his mind so dramatically and precisely on the merit of lockdowns for the virus. One day he was counseling calm because this was flu-like, and the next day he was drumming up awareness of the coming lockdown. ...

What stands out here is the possibility of a quid pro quo. The CIA pays scientists to say there was no lab leak and otherwise instructs its kept media sources (New York Times) to call the lab leak a conspiracy theory of the far right. Every measure would be deployed to keep Fauci off the hot seat for his funding of the Wuhan lab. But this cooperation would need to come at a price. Fauci would need to participate in a real-life version of the germ games (Event 201 and Crimson Contagion). ...

Above all else, he would need to convince President Trump to go along. That was the hardest part. They considered Mr. Trump’s weaknesses. He was a germaphobe so that’s good. He hated Chinese imports so it was merely a matter of describing the virus this way. But he also has a well-known weakness for deferring to highly competent and articulate professional women. That’s where the highly reliable Deborah Birx comes in: Fauci would be her wingman to convince Mr. Trump to green-light the lockdowns.

What does the CIA get out of this? The vast intelligence community would have to be put in charge of the pandemic response as the rule maker, the lead agency. Its outposts such as CISA would handle labor-related issues and use its contacts in social media to curate the public mind. This would allow the intelligence community finally to crack down on information flows that had begun 20 years earlier that they had heretofore failed to manage.
The CIA would hobble and hamstring the U.S. president, whom they hated. And importantly, there was his China problem. He had wrecked relations through his tariff wars. So far as they were concerned, this was treason because he did it all on his own. This man was completely out of control. He needed to be put in his place. To convince the president to destroy the U.S. economy with his own hand would be the ultimate coup de grace for the CIA.

A lockdown would restart trade with China. It did in fact achieve that.



... In addition, such a lockdown would greatly please the digital tech industry, which would experience a huge boost in demand, plus large corporations like Amazon and WalMart, which would stay open as their competitors were closed. Finally, it would be a massive subsidy to pharma and especially the mRNA platform technology itself, which would enjoy the credit for ending the pandemic.