by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

Well now we have it...

The influenza virus research community is to be commended for implementing a voluntary moratorium on “gain-of-function” experiments related to the transmissibility of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus (1). As a key funder of influenza virus research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, strongly supports the continuation of this moratorium pending the resolution of critical policy issues related to the rationale for performing and reporting such experiments.

Is that so?

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We need to be certain that the fundamental purposes of this work, together with its risks and benefits, are understood by multiple stakeholders, including the general public, and that decisions are made in a transparent manner.

So did the general public get input on this matter?  Was it ever brought before the public?

No.

Putting aside the specter of bioterrorism for the moment, consider this hypothetical scenario: an important gain-of-function experiment involving a virus with serious pandemic potential is performed in a well-regulated, world-class laboratory by experienced investigators, but the information from the experiment is then used by another scientist who does not have the same training and facilities and is not subject to the same regulations.

You mean like giving grants to Ecohealth Alliance which then contracted with the Wuhan Institute of Virology?

 In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?

There wasn’t a pandemic, was there?

Scientists working in this field might say—as indeed I have said—that the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.

Oh really?

So when did the NIH know there were people in China getting sick?  Rumor has it that there were memos flying around from Taiwan and elsewhere about problems back in October and November of 2019, including to and through that organization and the CDC.  Is that true?

However, we must respect that there are genuine and legitimate concerns about this type of research, both domestically and globally.

Concerns that were not only legitimate but turned out to be well-founded eh?

If we want to continue this important work, we collectively need to do a better job of articulating the scientific rationale for such experiments well before they are performed and provide discussion about the potential risk to public health, however remote.

Who wrote this?

Anthony Fauci.

THE Anthony Fauci.

The same Anthony Fauci that has BS’d the entire planet for more than a year, clucking at us over this and that.

In fact we know he didn’t do any of the things that paper talks about, including honoring the moratorium.  He instead found a loophole and used it to grant those funds to Ecohealth, knowing full well what Peter was intending to do, and was doing.  You see, Peter had been all over the media for years stating exactly what he was doing.  Fauci did so and funded him, with our taxpayer money.  Whether that was the key element that set off the pandemic or whether it would have happened anyway at the Wuhan lab we do not know for certain.

Yet.

But what we do know is that Fauci lied.

He lied in this paper; Fauci never consulted with the public and entertained any such debate.  Indeed, had he done so people like me likely would have asked him if he was willing to post himself, his wife and any children they may have as bond should these experiments go wrong, to be publicly executed if is protests that this could be done “safely” turned out to be bull****.  After all if you’re willing to risk everyone else’s life and claim it’s safe then you ought to post yours along with your entire family’s as surety that you’re not full of crap.

He then lied again before The Senate and said no such research took place and that he believed the Chinese had “integrity” — even today.  The very same “integrity” that, Fauci now knows factually, led them to lie too yet not one word came out of his mouth about the fact that a whole bunch of people got sick over there in late 2019 and they covered it up.

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