Thread by @ggreenwald

It amazes me how many people don't get this:

The most anti-Chinese (and bigoted) theory of COVID's origin was never the lab leak.

The most anti-Chinese and bigoted theory was that COVID started because China's dietary conditions are primitive and unsanitary (stop eating bats!).

https://twitter.com/JustinTLogan/status/1452244144542425092

The other reason it was so irrational to claim the lab leak theory was designed to fuel anti-China animus was because US INVOLVEMENT in that research was always central to that theory: the research came from Fauci's agencies through EcoHealth Alliance. It was US & China together.

In any event, there's no way for the corporate media to ignore this story now. The NIH letter *admitting* EcoHealth's research, funded by Fauci, made bat coronaviruses more contagious *proves* Fauci's statements to Congress were false. Only question is if Fauci knew it was false.

This @VanityFair article does a good job on the *highly incriminating* new evidence. Ironically, the FOIA requests of the @TheIntercept - intended to clear Fauci - provided the best proof until yesterday (and credit to them, I guess, for not hiding it).

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1452062773706432523

Here's another article that does a great job on this new evidence. There's no proof this research was what caused COVID-19. The key is Fauci's money went to research that made bat coronaviruses more contagious: what he's vehemently denied for 18 months:

plus.cq.com/shareExternal/…

And yes, @RandPaul is absolutely owed an apology he'll never get. Unlike the media which wanted to bury the story, and social media that *banned* discussion of it, Paul just wanted answers about the research EcoHealth was doing. We now have those answers:

https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1451918319347552258

But this whole debacle yet again proves how fundamentally broken the US media is. For a full year, they declared the lab leak theory so insane that social media companies censored it. The **NYT COVID Reporter** said it was "racist" to investigate it.

And now the truth emerges.

Here's the key unanswered question:

The NIH admits that the research it funded through EcoHealth under Fauci made bat coronaviruses more contagious, but Fauci didn't lie because he didn't know until now.

But EcoHealth insists Fauci knew all along because they told him & NIH:

And one last time:

Words cannot express the deep and multi-pronged stupidity needed to believe that this story is about anti-China animus or blaming China.

Aside from the fact that we should want to know these answers no matter what, the issue is how **US FUNDS** were used.

The COVID pandemic is one of the most consequential and life-altering events of the last several decades. Only the most anti-intellectual, stunted cretins would concoct reasons why it would be better not to learn everything we can about its origins and whether US officials lied.

Right. If, as NIH claims, Fauci didn't know EcoHealth was violating the limits of the grant by making bat coronaviruses more contagious, that's malfeasance.

But how credible is it that Fauci didn't find out given all the political pressure around this??

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1452275063999320085

By the way, if you were one of the people appalled by the conditions of Chinese wet markets and/or the horrific cruelty in general of how dog meat is still consumed in some parts of the world, check out what happens at western factory farms that feed you:

theguardian.com/environment/20…