Opinion
We do not live in a just world. In a just world, Josef Mengele wouldn’t have died of old age in Brazil. In a just world, Mao wouldn’t have lived to a ripe and comfortable old age, either.
And in a just world, Anthony Fauci would be in jail, not swanning off to a comfortable, taxpayer-funded retirement.
Not, of course, that I’m comparing Fauci to mass-murderers and sadistic torturers (although some beagle puppies may dispute that last point), But, in his own, small, mean way, Fauci is in the Himmler stamp: the career bureaucrat who enabled enormities and covered up crimes in order to further his career.
It’s astonishing to consider that Anthony Fauci stood on the White House podium in early 2020, beside the president of the United States, and resolutely told the world that Covid-19 was a natural virus.
Curiously, he failed to mention that his agency had funded coronavirus experiments in Wuhan so dangerous that they had been banned in the US by the Obama administration. Fauci knew, too, that eminent scientists privately harboured concerns Covid-19’s genetic sequence had unusual features inconsistent with evolutionary theory.
Yet he reassured the public that there was no reason to suspect a laboratory incident in Wuhan and, as he did so, Fauci cited as evidence a new scientific paper.
Far from being a conclusive, rigorous scientific study, it was, in fact, a piece of commentary that had been rejected from a prestigious medical journal.
It was all a farrago of lies, and Fauci knew it. While his personal role in creating a virus that killed millions and crushed the freedoms of tens of millions more is disputed, it is known for a fact that his agencies funded and abetted the dangerous research that did.
What’s beyond dispute, though, is that Fauci lied about it all.
He was deliberately covering it up and, in doing so, creating confusion that crippled the world for years.
He also led desperate and diabolic anti-scientific efforts to shut down investigation into the origins of Covid-19; so anxious was he to divert attention from a lab leak and what would surely follow – accountability of him and his agency.
This isn’t a “conspiracy theory”. It’s not rumour, conjecture, or hearsay.
It’s the open testimony of people who were right there.
For the first time, Fauci’s boss, the former assistant secretary for preparedness and response, Dr Robert Kadlec, fronts the cameras to divulge their confidential conversations where they decided it would be best if they downplayed the possibility of a lab leak.
Ostensibly, this was to encourage co-operation from China, but Kadlec believes Fauci had reason to protect his own reputation and that of his institute which had funded research in Wuhan.
The point of all this is not just to hold the guilty to account for their past wrongs.
It’s to correct a distorted and deliberately misdirected scientific enterprise that is headed inexorably to another disaster.
Kadlec says he still lies awake at night, reflecting on what they did.
So eager were scientists to shield China from any suggestion its scientific research had started the pandemic, and to protect their own research from being subject to new regulations, there was complicity among international scientists in downplaying or rejecting the lab leak theory.
As a result, there have been no moves to regulate or ban gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses or other pathogens with pandemic potential globally […]
In our new documentary, Kadlec warns that another pandemic could easily eventuate because the lessons haven’t been learned from Covid-19.
The Australian
Those who cover up the crimes of the past are condemned to repeat them.