Gordon @gojomo Mohr drew my attention to an important point. In addition to enjoying the political support of the Biden administration, Fauci also controls most of the health science funding in USA. Hard to get an independent investigation through that.
Here are some of the independent investigators who uncovered the scientific evidence that covid came from a lab, which they courageously did in the face of the shaming and cancellation that was later revealed to have been secretly coordinated by Daszak with Fauci’s consent:
Maybe follow them on Twitter! And be grateful that Twitter is no longer canceling such accounts, and thereby helping the cover-up by Daszak, Fauci, Collins, et al.
I don’t know much about USA national politics, but I’m *guessing* the only organization with the power to do an independent investigation of this is a Republican-controlled U.S. Congress? Apparently it is House Republicans who we have to thank for these smoking-gun Fauci emails.
Failing that, we’ll probably have to wait for historians to piece together the puzzle after Fauci is out of power.
(By the way, now that I’ve explicitly invoked USA party politics, I’m going to hide and block all the responses to this thread which are low-information party-affiliation signaling. You’re welcome, readers!)
Private conversation with a friend, stemming from this thread, showed me that I left out a key piece in what I wrote above…
So, there are these “smoking-gun” emails that the House Republicans have turned up, right? They show that Fauci and Collins were informed, very early in the pandemic, that scientists thought the furin cleavage site in covid-19 was unlikely to have evolved naturally. …
The emails also show that they immediately started talking about ways to head off public discussion of that possibility in order to, as they euphemistically put it “prevent harm to science”. …
(We’ll get back to what “preventing harm to science” means below.) …
This is important because only days later, some of those “scientists” who had privately concurred that a natural origin of covid-19 was unlikely, would begin a campaign to gaslight the scientific community and the public. …
They convinced everyone that talking about the possibility of covid-19 having a non-natural origin was unscientific, a conspiracy theory, and racist. The tech monopolies began de-platforming people who talked about the possibility. …
Their gaslighting campaign succeeded. For about a year. …
(By the way, if you’re currently supporting big platforms de-platforming people for so-called “misinformation” as defined by these very people and their affiliated power structures, *please* pay attention to this history.) …
Okay, so here’s the detail that I left out of the tweet thread above, because I thought everyone already knew it, and my private conversation with my friend drew my attention to the fact that people don’t know this part. …
Remember that part about where the conspirators agreed to lie to the public about the origin of covid-19 in order to “prevent harm to science”? Let’s look a little closer at what’s behind this “protecting science”. …
If covid-19 came from gain-of-function experiments, then the trail of culpability doesn’t stop with the Chinese researchers who did those experiments, but also extends to the American officials who funded them. …
These American officials sidestepped a moratorium that the Obama White House had imposed because such experiments might create a global pandemic. …
They side-stepped the moratorium by redefining terms and helping the experimenters avoid the oversight rules. …
And the names of the two American officials who did that were Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins. …
So there you have it. We know that they knew from the beginning that covid-19 was unlikely to be of natural origin. We know that they supported the campaign which gaslighted all of us about that, and we have a glaringly obvious hypothesis about why. …
Protecting against “harm to science” also meant hiding the personal culpability of those two men in evading White House policy, in order to funnel millions of U.S. dollars to Chinese labs to perform experiments that risked triggering a global pandemic. …
Again, if you’re currently embroiled in the controversy du jour and you’re wishing that society was better able to silence “misinformation”, please read this thread carefully. …
The power to define what counts as “misinformation” and to silence it will always be used more by bad people for their own gain than it will be used by good people for the good of society. …
A year ago, the hypothesis that covid-19 had a non-natural origin was defined as “misinformation” and people were de-platformed for suggesting it. …
We now know that the power players who defined it as such *knew* that it was probably false and were *covering their own tracks*. …
Today, the power to define what counts as “misinformation” continues to reside in that same power structure, including the Chief Medical Officer to the President of the United States, Anthony Fauci. ៚
P.S. Thank God that I don’t have to worry quite as much as I used to that I’m gonna lose my Twitter account for posting this.
This makes me so angry. The arrogance and mendacity of Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, thinking that they can lie to the public because they are the Great and the Good who know what's best for everyone else (and incidentally to protect their power).
I've got a tip for you. When something like this turns up, the question is: are there consequences? If not, that means their boss is complicit. As long as Fauci still has his job, you can safely attribute arrogance and mendacity to his boss.
I suppose there are some people out there who think this is justified, that these are well-intentioned, trustworthy people. That being ruled by power-mongers and liars is what we need because the world is so dangerous. I've got a word of advice for you: bad long-term strategy.
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I heard that Youtube (owned by Google/Alphabet) took down a video of Florida Gov DeSantis hosting a round-table retro on covid-19 with Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and others. That interested me.
As I've previously tweeted, I'm profoundly concerned about censorship and other forms of thought-control beginning to be exercised by the Tech Titans like Google, among others.
Of course, they say that they're doing it for our own good! For good reasons. And honestly, I believe that they believe that. But that doesn't assuage my fear about its potentially deadly effects on our society.
When trying to learn about the state of the pandemic, I try avoid paying attention to the kinds of facts and data which are vulnerable to being manipulated and misrepresented and look for "harder data":
I'm convinced that the most effective tools for propaganda, panic-mongering, and thought-control are data that are *true facts* and *true data*, selected and framed to support a false narrative. True facts are more powerful tools for deception than falsehoods are.
Misinfo and disinfo are rampant. Media corporations, Tech Titans, governments, and probably other actors are running successful disinfo ops. Additionally, fear and anger are "cognitive pandemics" sweeping through populations and making people deceive themselves and their friends.
Total deaths in USA per week from all causes (the orange line is basically "how many deaths we'd have in a particularly bad year") cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr…
Note that the most recent few weeks haven't yet had all of the deaths that week fully counted, so those bars will get revised up over the next few weeks, which is why I excluded the most recent two weeks from the highlighted image (left).
But even taking that into account, it seems like USA is currently experiencing fewer deaths per week than an average week in April.