This is a huge scandal. Paul has uncovered a Wuhan institute study that listed an NIH grant number. According to Paul, in the study, two bat coronavirus spike genes were combined w a SARS backbone, which were shown to be able to replicate in humans (cont)
The Hill's reporting claims Fauci lobbied for gain of function research to be permitted again in the US after Obama banned it. If this is true, Fauci was clearly a supporter of GOF research. Wuhan may have been funded due to the inability of such studies to happen in the US.
What is Fauci's defense (having previously told Congress unequivocally the NIH had never funded GOF research in Wuhan). He simply declared that the study Paul references is "not gain of function research", because "qualified virologists" from the NIH say so.
But he does not offer any arguments/explanations for why this study, which seems to epitomize gain of function research, is not in fact gain of function research. And the "qualified virologists" at the NIH are likely the exact people whose asses are on the line with this scandal.
Further, instead of providing an explanation for why it wasn't GOF, he simply resorted to claiming Paul was too stupid to understand it. That's not an argument. It's a rhetorical device that allows someone to hide behind their credentials. A frank explanation was called for.
I also tweeted this a few weeks back. There is ample evidence adduced here of a rushed, coordinated cover up early in the pandemic, orchestrated by Fauci. Let's just say that it appears that Fauci may have been "less than frank" with Congress/the public.
https://twitter.com/LT3000Lyall/status/1410857703409258500
It may well be that the source of all our misery is a manmade virus cooked up in a Wuhan lab as part of a study that was funded by the NIH with Fauci's oversight, to evade Obama's (very wise) ban on GOF research. Un-fucking-believable.
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