We must demand answers about COVID. Courtesy | Detroit Free Press
After three years of various theories dominating the nation, the Department of Energy, which oversees all national labs in the U.S., released on Feb. 26 its conclusion that the COVID-19 pandemic leaked from a Chinese lab in Wuhan.
Not only this, but evidence suggests that many leaders in government and health industries knew these origins and hid them from the nation.
We cannot excuse our own government’s deceit, lest it becomes habitual in lying to its people. We must hold those responsible accountable–specifically immunologist Anthony Fauci–- by removing them from their position of influence.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology was studying the virus for gain of function research—research that tests theories and treatments of diseases. The US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, directed by Anthony Fauci, helped fund this research. Samples of the genetically altered virus leaked from the lab in the fall of 2019, with the world’s first COVID-19 case appearing in December.
The Chinese Communist Party denied a lab leak, saying the virus emerged from a particular species of bat in a Chinese wet market.
“No way this virus came from us” top researcher at Wuhan Institute of Virology Yuan Zhiming said in April of 2020 when under investigation.
In April 2020, Cotton published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.. He was mocked and labeled as a conspiracy theorist.
Cotton said the bat species that China blamed for the origin could not be found within 100 miles of the market. In February of 2020, the Chinese government ordered the destruction of all samples of the genetic code sequences, according to Cotton. It also shut down the laboratory which first published the virus’s original genome.
After the Department of Energy announced its findings, the FBI reported it concluded the same theory in 2021.
“The Chinese government, it seems to me, has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here—the work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told Fox News in an interview on Feb. 28.
While China’s lies and cover up are wrong, it is not unexpected.
“This is a country that has no problem coming out and lying to the world,” Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska said in an interview with NBC. “We just saw that with this Chinese spy balloon. It’s the nature of a communist dictatorship to lie to their own people, to lie to the world. But I think that we need to make sure every country knows that and then look at what the consequences could be.”
What is more unnerving is our government acted in the same way.
Fauci was funding the gain-of-function research. How could he not know about the cover up?
Sen. Josh Hawley demanded the White House provide more information about what the intelligence community knows regarding the pandemic origins.
“The American people deserve the full truth about COVID-19 origins. No more whitewash,” Hawley said on Twitter Feb. 26. “I will again introduce legislation to make the U.S. government’s intelligence reports on COVID-19 open to the people.”
Currently, we are unsure how many knew the truth and why it was hidden—perhaps there is a greater scandal still unknown.
“I’ve said for months that Tony Fauci should be fired, now it’s clear he lied to Congress,” Cotton said. “He should be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He’s been lying not just to Congress but to the American people about his role in funding very reckless research at a Chinese Communist lab that unleashed this pandemic on the world. It is a disgrace and it’s time for Tony Fauci to be held accountable.”
The Senate unanimously passed a bill March 1, proposed by Hawley and Sen Mike Braun, which would require the Biden administration to declassify all information relating to COVID-19 and The Wuhan Institute of Virology. Clearly, representatives of the people are demanding answers as well.
If we ignore these suspicious actions and do not hold our leadership and government accountable, they will escape with this cover up. Power and control will increase little by little, until, one day–in fulfillment of George Orwell’s “1984,” we hear the clocks striking 13.
