COVID Deception

Commentary

Remember when Dr. Anthony Fauci was accused by Sen. Rand Paul of funding China’s Wuhan virus lab?

“Sen. Paul, you have no idea what you’re talking about,” Mr. Fauci responded.

The press adored it. Vanity Fair smirked, “Fauci Once Again Forced to Basically Call Rand Paul a Sniveling Moron.”

But now, the magazine admits, “In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan… Paul might have been onto something.”

Then there’s question two: Did COVID-19 occur as a result of a leak from that lab?

When Sen. Paul confronted Mr. Fauci, he said, “The evidence is pointing that it came from the lab!” “I totally resent the lie that you are now propagating,” Mr. Fauci responded.

Was Senator Paul telling the truth? What exactly is the truth?

The media claimed that COVID was derived from an animal, possibly a bat.

However, in my new video, Sen. Paul mentions “reports of 80,000 animals being tested.” There are no animals with it.”

He has now published a book, “Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up,” in which he accuses Mr. Fauci and others of funding dangerous research and then covering it up.

“Three people in the Wuhan lab got sick with a virus of unknown origin in November of 2019,” according to Sen. Rand Paul. The Wuhan lab is 1,000 kilometers from the bats’ natural habitat.

Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Energy, and others support Senator Paul’s position. They believe COVID was created in a laboratory.

I would like to know if “COVID came from evil Chinese scientists, in a lab, funded by America?”

“America funded it,” he responds, “perhaps not with malicious intent.” It was done under the mistaken assumption that ‘gain-of-function’ research was risk-free.”

Making viruses stronger is one aspect of gain-of-function (GOF) research.

The goal is to anticipate what might happen in nature and develop vaccines ahead of time. So I argue with Senator Paul, “They’re trying to find ways to stop diseases!”

“Many scientists have now looked at this and said, ‘We’ve been doing this gain-of-function research for quite a while,'” he responds. The chances of developing something that will result in a vaccine that will benefit anyone are slim to none.”

Mr. Fauci, according to Sen. Paul, supported “gain-of-function” research.

“He said in 2012, even if a pandemic occurs … the knowledge is worth it.” Mr. Fauci did put it this way: “The benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”

“Well, that’s a judgment call,” Sen. Paul responds. There are probably 16 million families around the world who disagree.”

Mr. Fauci and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) did not directly fund the Chinese laboratory. They donated it to the EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organization. The organization works to keep people safe from infectious diseases.

“They were able to accumulate maybe over $100 million in U.S. taxpayer dollars, and a lot of it was funneled to Wuhan,” Paul said.

Peter Daszak, a zoologist, leads the EcoHealth Alliance. Mr. Daszak boasted about combining coronaviruses in Wuhan prior to the pandemic.

Mr. Daszak became less eager to discuss these experiments after COVID broke out. He refuses to speak to me.

“Peter Daszak has refused to reveal his communications with the Wuhan lab,” Senator Paul complains. “I do believe that, in the end, he bears a great deal of responsibility… “They squelched all dissent and said, ‘You’re a conspiracy theorist if you’re saying this (came from a lab),’ but they didn’t reveal that they had a financial incentive to cover this up,” Sen. Paul says.

“The media is strangely uninterested in this,” I tell Sen. Paul.

“We have a disease that has killed maybe 16 million people,” Sen. Paul says. “And they’re not curious as to how we got it?”

Furthermore, Sen. Paul claims that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to fund gain-of-function research.

“This poses a threat to civilization.” Sen. Paul warns that “we could end up with a virus… that leaks out of a lab and kills half of the world.”

Sen. Paul’s book contains a lot more information about Mr. Fauci and the EcoHealth Alliance. In a few weeks, I’ll write more about it in this column.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of The Epoch Times.