Thread by @RandPaul

HHS Deputy admits Fauci’s NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan but says it was “an unexpected result.” If the experiment combines unknown viruses and tests their ability to infect and damage humanized cells, of course the result is ‘unknown' before the experiment.

But it is not “unexpected” that the virus gains in function it is simply ‘unknown'.

So, if this type of experiment created a virus that had 50% mortality (like MERS which they have experimented with in Wuhan), that result would be “unknown" before the experiment but not “unexpected.”

As Dr. Esvelt of MIT has written, “such research looks like a gamble that civilization can’t afford to risk.”
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