Taibbi on Fauci and co lab leak cover up; New York Times reports on Biden admin suspending funding to Wuhan for ten years
The plot thickens as new revelations steadily trickle out...
It’s looking increasingly like the coronavirus did indeed leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was funded in part by the US NIH to do “gain of function” research on bat coronaviruses — despite many previous denials of such research by people like Fauci and former NIH director Collins.
Given ongoing investigations we have just learned from the New York Times that the Biden admin is suspending any funding for WIV for ten years, due to ongoing risks at the labs there. That’s a very good start but it leaves countless questions unanswered.
We also have recent new leaks of Slack messages and emails from Fauci and numerous scientists and policymakers surrounding the highly important “proximal origins” of Covid paper published in early 2020 that became “the authority” in denying the possibility of a lab leak as the origin of Covid. We now know from these discussions that were just leaked that there was a whole lot of concern that indeed the virus may very well have leaked from the Wuhan lab — and yet the higher ups pushed for the paper to describe any such leak as “implausible.”
Kristian Andersen even told his colleagues in these private Slack discussions that a lab leak of the Covid virus was “so friggin likely” given in particular the furin cleavage site that is highly unikely to have evolved naturally. He said: “The lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely because they were already doing this work [at Wuhan]…”
We still don’t know why exactly this cover-up was done but it seems to me quite likely it was to preserve the funding relationship between the US and Wuhan and of course as standard CYA (cover your ass) behavior to avoid any culpability.
Here’s the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/us/politics/funding-ban-wuhan-institute-virology.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
And here’s Matt Taibbi’s great reporting on the new Slack discussion leaks: