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RFK jr: Fauci restarted dangerous bioweapons research in secret

The origins of covid

Published yesterday 17:08
– By Editorial Staff
The US health secretary believes that Anthony Fauci's shady activities may have led to the COVID-19 crisis.

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accuses Dr. Anthony Fauci of resuming biological weapons research under the guise of vaccine production an activity he believes most likely caused the COVID-19 outbreak in 2019.

Gain-of-function research aims to alter viruses to make them more contagious and deadly. Such research is used both in the development of biological weapons and in the development of vaccines and treatments.

Kennedy stated in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham that Dr. Fauci effectively restarted the US biological weapons program, despite President Richard Nixon’s attempts to shut down all such laboratories as early as 1969.

– Anthony Fauci began essentially restarting the arms race, and the bioweapons arms race, and did it under the pretension of developing vaccines, because of the same science that you develop bioweapons and vaccines, Kennedy said.

On the same day that the interview was broadcast, President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning gain-of-function research and all federal funding for such activities.

Experiments moved abroad

Kennedy further claimed that “three of his bugs escaped” from Fauci’s laboratories in the US in 2014, which, according to him, prompted 300 scientists to sign a letter urging then-President Barack Obama to stop the experiments.

– President Obama declared a moratorium, but instead of shutting down his experiments, he moved them offshore, mainly to the Wuhan lab, Kennedy said, referring to what he described as indirect federal funding from Fauci to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The Wuhan laboratory has been identified in several investigations as a possible source of the coronavirus pandemic.

– The CIA, the FBI, the State Department, the Department of Energy – all say that it is most likely that those experiments resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in 2019, the US health secretary continued.

“A kind of weapon that always has blowback”

During the signing of the executive order at the White House, Kennedy expressed his support for the decision and described gain-of-function research as a form of biological arms race that now involves countries such as Russia, China, and Iran.

– It’s a kind of weapon that always has blowback. There’s always bad news and the justification for this kind of weaponry and this kind of research was always that we have to do this to develop vaccines to counter a future pandemic, he said.

– In all of the history of gain-of-function research we cannot point to a single good thing that’s come from it, Kennedy added.

Believes Fauci appealed for pardon

President Trump emphasized at the signing that the measure could have made a difference if it had been implemented earlier.

– It’s a big deal, could have been that we wouldn’t have had the problem we had if we had this done earlier, he said.

Kennedy also commented on President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon Anthony Fauci just hours before leaving office:

– I don’t know what was going on in Joe Biden’s head, but I think that Anthony Fauci probably asked for that pardon, knowing that he had some liabilities here that were more than reputational, Kennedy said.

Gain-of-function research involves deliberately altering the properties of viruses or other microorganisms to make them more infectious, more virulent or better adapted to new hosts, such as humans.

The purpose of such research is often said to be twofold: to increase understanding of how dangerous pathogens evolve and spread, and to stay ahead of the curve in developing vaccines and treatments against future pandemics.

Critics, however, argue that the research is fraught with risk, especially if engineered viruses were to leak from laboratories. Proponents argue that it is crucial for preparedness and public health, while opponents warn that it could also be misused in the development of biological weapons.

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Scientists: Covid-19 probably came from a lab

The origins of covid

Published 23 March 2024
– By Editorial Staff
The Wuhan Institute of Virology was studying the coronavirus just before the Covid-19 outbreak.

Covid-19 most likely came from the Wuhan laboratory, according to researchers at the University of New South Wales. Their study shows that the virus is more likely to have an “unnatural” origin than a “natural” one.

The origin of the disease has not yet been determined and is currently being investigated by the World Health Organisation (WHO). At the beginning of the Corona crisis, the most likely theory was that bats infected people in the Wuhan market, but soon the so-called ‘lab theory’ emerged, meaning that the virus was created and then spread from a laboratory. The coronavirus is being studied in Wuhan, not far from the food market. Initially, the lab theory was dismissed as an unfounded conspiracy theory. Last year, however, the US Department of Energy announced that a lab leak was the most likely explanation for Covid-19, and was backed by several agencies.

Now, in an effort to find out where the virus came from, researchers have carried out analyses using an established risk analysis tool called the Grunow-Finke assessment. The study, published in the journal Risk Analysis, concludes that the virus is more likely to be of ‘unnatural’ rather than ‘natural’ origin, meaning that it most likely came from a laboratory rather than an animal. He points out that researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) have been experimenting with coronaviruses in bats since 2010.

– One of the bat viruses being studied at the WIV shares a 96.1% homology [match] with SARS-CoV-2, something which was only revealed after the pandemic began, said Dr Xin Chen, a researcher at the University of New South Wales, according to Metro UK.

No animal host found

They also point out that the laboratory was located near the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where some of the very first cases were linked. Just before the outbreak, the laboratory also moved – to a site just 280 metres from the market.

– A move may have increased the chance of a laboratory accident, says Chen.

In addition, they point out that many of the first infected people did not visit the market at all, suggesting that the market was a source of amplification of the outbreak rather than the actual origin of people contracting the virus.

– It is also worth noting that evidence of an intermediary animal host – necessary for this theory – is lacking, the researcher says.

Military control

In September, control of the laboratory was handed over to the military and a contractor was hired to renovate the ventilation system in the facility. At the same time, a large virus database of about 20,000 bat and mouse samples, which had previously been available to the public, was removed, says Dr Abrar Chughtai, an epidemiologist at the University of New South Wales. When the WHO began investigating the origin of the virus in 2021, it did not have access to all the information it wanted, such as laboratory records.

– It is unclear whether the database included sequences that could be relevant to the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and whether any attempt was made to cover it up, says Chughtai.

While the researchers admit that their risk analysis cannot fully prove that COVID-19 originated in the laboratory, they say that the risk factors addressed in the study cannot be dismissed either.

– The fact that the first cluster of cases were in the vicinity of a world leading coronavirus laboratory, known to be experimenting on SARS-like viruses, as well as a second lab which was also working on coronaviruses, points to an unnatural origin, says Chen.

CIA probes bribery claims in covid origin investigation

The origins of covid

Published 19 September 2023
– By Editorial Staff
CIA claims to take the allegations "extremely seriously".

The CIA announces that it is investigating allegations from a whistleblower that analysts evaluating the origins of covid-19 may have been bribed to change their assessment. According to the information, most in the analysis group originally believed that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan – but switched their official stance in exchange for money.

The allegations have been brought to the agency by a whistleblower and presented in a letter from Republican members Brad Wenstrup and Mike Turner in the US House of Representatives.

According to the whistleblower, who is said to be a CIA officer, seven “multidisciplinary and experienced officials with significant scientific expertise” were assigned to analyze the origins of covid-19. Originally, all but one of the members in the analysis group had leaned toward the virus leaking from a laboratory but changed their position after being offered money.

“Six of the seven members of the team believed the intelligence and science were sufficient to make a low confidence assessment that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China”, reads the letter.

The two members have requested several documents on how the analysis group was formed and their communication within and outside the group regarding the origins of covid-19, as well as records of payments or financial bonuses to members of the team. Wenstrup and Turner want these by September 26 at the latest.

We take these allegations extremely seriously and are looking into them. We will keep our Congressional oversight committees appropriately informed, says CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp in a statement to ABC News.

In June, however, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated among other things that the CIA is “unable” to decide where they believe the virus’s origin is, as “both hypotheses rely on significant assumptions or face challenges with conflicting reporting“.

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