On Friday last the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic of the United States Congress released a cache of documents from its examination of Dr. Anthony Fauci in January this year. He is to appear again before the House Select subcommittee today.
Fauci is the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) which agency is regarded as having set the parameters not only for the manner in which Covid 19 was dealt with in the United States, but arguably created the template for many other western states including Ireland.
A staff memorandum released last Friday to Republican members of the Sub-Committee details what it claims are the main “takeaways” from the Fauci transcripts from January 8 and 9 which can be read here and here. Perhaps the key finding was in relation to the theory that the spread of the virus was the result of a lab leak most likely from Wuhan.
Gript, almost uniquely among Irish news outlets, covered this controversial topic as it became clear that there was an extremely high likelihood that an accidental lab leak had occurred. Despite that view being increasingly favoured by both scientists and western intelligence agencies, the western and Irish media either ignored this or continued to dismiss it as “misinformation” and part of a “conspiracy theory.”
Fauci himself has often been cited as an authoritative source for this total rejection, but the subcommittee staff memo is quite explicit in stating that Fauci in January of this year cleaved to no such view:
Dr. Fauci’s transcribed interview corroborated other testimony by U.S. public health officials, including the former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Francis Collins, that the lab leak theory is not a conspiracy theory and that he continues to maintain an open mind about the origins of SARS-CoV-2, despite public and private statements which appear to indicate otherwise.
Fauci told the subcommittee that while he still inclined to the natural origin theory that he has an “open mind” on the question of a lab leak. He stated that this “isn’t inherently a conspiracy theory” but that given the lack of co-operation from the Chinese authorities that he did not believe that there would be a scientific conclusion, and that “the answer’s going to come from the intelligence community.”
The subcommittee memo also concluded on the basis of the examination of Fauci that “The ‘6 feet apart’ social distancing program that federal public health officials endorsed was likely not based on any science or data.” That program was important, of course, in setting the rules for “social distancing” which in many countries including Ireland resulted in the shutting down of vast sectors of the educational, economic, cultural and social lives of those on whom it was imposed.
Fauci stated that he had no idea as to where the rule had emerged from, and that it “sort of just appeared.” He was not aware of any studies that had been conducted regarding its likely efficacy and that in any event such a study would have been “very difficult” to do.
He stated that “it would fall under the category of empiric. Just an empiric decision that wasn’t based on data or even data that could be accomplished.” And yet, such rules were enforced upon hundreds of millions of people by states with all of their power at their disposal to penalise offenders against such an arbitrary makey up rule and related regulations.
What is more, all of this nonsense was backed and propagandised by state and mainstream media and the political establishment. Unlike some other western countries including the United States itself Ireland was notable for the almost singular lack of opposition or even reasoned critique of any of this. Other than from a small number of elected representatives from outside of any of the main Leinster House parties and Gript.
Who indeed could ever forget the dystopian world of isolation bubbles as promoted by the Irish “elite” which was otherwise engaged in full heretic sniffing mode as it engaged Kinzen and others to hunt down heretics and ensure that their voices were stilled. There were also those who believed that those with such “dissident” voices of “disinformation” were sacked and shut up.
All the while, and mostly still, ignoring the evidence that far from being protected that large numbers of our elderly citizens were being quarantined into nursing homes of which it would be only a small exaggeration to describe as Petri dishes for the virus. Meanwhile using the national broadcaster to blame lads celebrating winning a county final for endangering the entire population through their Bacchanalian excess.
It is timely perhaps that we remind people of all of this, and that new evidence has emerged that even one of the totems of Covid lockdown hysteria never actually had a basis for regulations that were elevated to the status of the Ten Commandments.
Timely too because this week, the same team that pumped all of this hysteria into the national consciousness is largely engaged in another urgent task: this one related to Friday’s local and European elections.
Their mission: To undermine the growing anti-establishment sentiment that they fear will send shock waves when the votes tumble out of the boxes on Saturday morning at count centres across the state,
The mission of media platforms in response should be – as it should have been over the years of the Covid Panic – to “call out” the hysterics and aspirant censors and restrictors of public opinion and the free expression thereof.