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Explosive new revelations from Anthony Fauci’s former boss have lent fresh credence to the lab-leak theory of Covid’s origins — and the cover-up that followed.
In a recent, multi-post analysis, I detailed how the trail of the origins of Covid, while almost hopelessly obscured by the Chinese government, most likely lead back to the laboratory in Wuhan. In particular, the lab-leak theory, long derided by the mainstream media as a “conspiracy theory”, has now emerged as the most likely origin of the virus.
In particular, it seems likely that US money surreptitiously funnelled by Fauci’s National Institutes of Health to the lab at Wuhan was used to fund dangerous gain-of-function research to make wild bat viruses more infectious and deadly to humans. This research was also secretly conducted at the behest of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army in a quest to find a bioweapon.
Quite likely, Fauci knew nothing of the PLA research — but when Covid emerged, it wouldn’t have taken much for someone in his position to connect the dots. And so the arse-covering began, according to former assistant secretary for preparedness and response at the US Department of Health, Robert Kadlec: Fauci’s boss.
America’s top infectious diseases adviser, Anthony Fauci, deliberately decided to downplay suspicions from scientists that Covid-19 came from a laboratory to protect his reputation and deflect from the risky coronavirus research his agency had funded, according to his boss, one of the most senior US health officials during the pandemic […]
“I think Tony Fauci was trying to protect his institution and his own reputation from the possibility that his agency was funding the Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers who, beyond the scope of the grants received from the National Institutes of Health, may have been working with People’s Liberation Army researchers on defensive coronavirus vaccines,” Dr Kadlec said […]
Dr Kadlec, in his first ever media interview, added: “We think vaccine research resulted in the pandemic – that vaccine research was the proximate cause.”
The Australian
While it may be natural to try and cover your arse when it’s on fire, the big issue is that Fauci’s alleged secrecy and misdirection delayed and crippled global efforts to combat the virus.
But Fauci may not have been the only person covering his arse. The cover-up reaches around the globe — and right here, to Australia.
A leading Australian virologist privately discussed signs Covid-19 may have been genetically engineered, writing “the furin cleavage site is an issue” and “it’s the epidemiology that I find most worrying” before publicly insisting a laboratory leak was a conspiracy theory.
As I previously explained, inserting a furin cleavage site into the wild viruses was part of what one virologist has dubbed the “most dangerous coronavirus experiment ever undertaken”, at Wuhan. The furin cleavage site, a tiny section of the virus’ genome, not only made it vastly more infectious but was a genetic smoking gun.
Yet Australian evolutionary biologist Eddie Holmes, while privately acknowledging the unusual nature of the virus and the plausibility of it being engineered, publicly denied it all in a co-authored journal paper. The paper, Proximal Origins of SARS-CoV-2, which was frequently seized on by the mainstream to damn lab-leak as a “conspiracy theory” claimed that the virus was entirely natural.
British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar, who was in regular contact with America’s top medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, and head of the US National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, pushed them to speed up its release.
The Australian
Holmes, who was awarded a quarter-million-dollar prize by the Australian government for his work on the Covid genome, tellingly failed to disclose his own connections to the Wuhan lab.
Leading Australian virologist Edward Holmes said a “bad memory” was behind the reason he didn’t disclose he was listed on a paper submitted to medical journals alongside a Wuhan Institute of Virology scientist […] He said he forgot his name was listed on a January 2018 paper about bat coronaviruses with a Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher, Jie Cui, a former postdoctoral student of his. The paper was rejected by multiple medical journals and never published.
How could Holmes have forgotten working on such a paper? Especially when it was tied directly to the origins of the Covid virus?
The unpublished paper included the partial sequence of RaTG13, one of the closest known genetic relatives to SARS-CoV-2 […]
A key basis for Professor Holmes’s position that Covid-19 was not lab-engineered is a claim the Wuhan Institute has no progenitor virus to SARS-CoV-2.
The email trail contains other, damning stuff.
One of his co-authors of the Proximal Origins paper, in an email, disputed that there would be a “signature” of laboratory manipulation, making the point that he conducts genetic engineering and doesn’t leave a trace.
During the email discussion between the scientists, Ron Fouchier, from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam […] stated: “Molecular biologists like myself can generate perfect copies of viruses without leaving a trace.”
Well, that’s comforting to know.
In response to questions from The Australian, Professor Holmes said accusations of a cover-up by the scientific community are “wrong, misleading and suggest a lack of understanding of scientific concepts, process and rigour”.
The Australian
On the contrary, Covid has taught us to understand “the scientific community” only too well.
