Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt.
In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”
Is the possibility that Covid-19 leaked from a lab a conspiracy theory?
Was there a DARPA research group planning to insert a "proteolytic cleavage site” into bat coronaviruses?
Did Niaid award a research grant to a company, who then issued a sub-award to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (and intentionally hide communications from public view)?
Not questioning government sources is the stupid part (particularly with this administration, but also with others).
Yes Fauci was pardoned, but we can’t assume him to be innocent.
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The only speculation here is that these three bullet points are related.
How the problem originated isn’t relevant to the people whose job is to deal with the problem.
I think you may have gone too deep into covid conspiracies. No idea what you’re even talking about here.
Yes, there were grants to a research lab. Not sure what that indicates other than they wanted access to the results of the research. It’s not at all disputed that there are research grants and the research lab in Wuhan received a research grant.
The problem with conspiracy theories is the generally fall apart when as soon as you ask “why would they want to do this?” So why would China want to intentionally release a virus on it’s own people in the hopes that it would spread to the rest of the world? How would that benefit them in any way?
Yes, it’s possible that the virus accidentally came from the lab in Wuhan. But how does having testimony from a guy that’s retired help determine that? What does it even accomplish even if you did determine that a virus came from a lab in Wuhan?
Sounds to me like you just want someone to say “you were right, the virus came from a lab.” So ok…
You were right, the virus came from a lab.
Are you happy now? Has your life suddenly gotten better? Will you stop pretending that fascists cracking down on individual scientists is a good thing to do because you now feel emotionally vindicated about some internet arguments you had around five years ago?
If they caused the problem it is relevant.
Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research This research plan was rejected inside the US, so abroad is the likely place where this could be done.
The point is that fauci’s associates were deliberately keeping communications a secret. Literally a conspiracy.
Maybe they want to hide that they funded the gain of function research that lead to millions of deaths.
To find out exactly what research Wuhan was doing for Niaid, and who authorised it. This would lead to even stricter controls on gain of function research worldwide.
I doubt they would. Most likely the virus was accidentally “walked out of the lab”.
I don’t care who cracks down. I don’t want dangerous viruses to be artificially mutated to make them even more dangerous for humans.
Are you under the impression that Dr. Anthony Fauci worked at the research lab in Wuhan?
This is like wanting to arrest a fire fighter because you suspect someone else burned down your house. You went in too deep on the anti-vax conspiracy theories, bud.
No. Are you? However, he may have been (ultimately) responsible for authorising funding for the research in Wuhan that created Covid.
Do you think Fauci intended for the Wuhan lab to release a virus?
Not at all. I think it’s highly likely everyone involved was working for the betterment of mankind.
However, no person, group, institution or country wants to be shown to be responsible for Covid so it’s in the interests of the Chinese to destroy all physical evidence and for the Americans to destroy all financial records.
The American financial records were not destroyed… how else do you think it’s known that the Wuhan lab got US grant money.
And sure the Chinese probably would destroy records. What do you think Fauci could do about that? Do you think he would know about activities China? He didn’t work for the CIA.
So what is the point of getting testimony from a retired doctor about records being potentially destroyed records in China? What’s the point of putting him in jail for something that happened in China?
This isn’t about holding the government to account. It’s about getting revenge on Fauci because people foolishly blame him for the pandemic. Arresting the fireman because you suspect arson in another country.
The Gmail conversations used to avoid FOIA disclosure point to a conspiracy.
Yes, because he (probably) approved funding for the gain of function research that lead to Covid.
Agreed. And his pardon should protect him.
But we still can’t claim that he has not done anything incriminating.