Outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard: “It’s time you know the truth.”
Posted by Leslie Eastman
A little over a week ago, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new evidence of long-standing U.S. government funding of more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries (including Ukraine).
Gabbard’s release of information related to biological research funded by the U.S. government continued this Friday, after she declassified a cache of documents outlining Dr. Anthony Fauci’s involvement in the COVID-19 response, including records indicating that federal officials shielded him from a whistleblower complaint alleging he misled Congress about “gain-of-function” work after publicly advancing a natural-origin theory for a pandemic that ultimately claimed millions of lives.
The documents and whistleblower testimony appear to show that Fauci influenced intelligence assessments on COVID-19 origins, denied such involvement under oath in 2024, and benefited from close ties to the intelligence community that limited scrutiny. They further claim a pattern of retaliation against dissenting intelligence officials and suppression of alternative viewpoints regarding the virus’s origins.
Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements… pic.twitter.com/ZMdliW4zyS
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) June 19, 2026
In her announcement, Gabbard broke down Fauci’s actions related to COVID-19 into three main areas:
First, Dr. Fauci funded dangerous gain-of-function coronavirus research linked to Big Pharma and their pursuit of universal vaccines. Worth trillions of dollars.
Second, Dr. Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor who, alongside his handpicked so-called experts, pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain-of-function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars—all of this in a deliberate attempt to cover up the truth and shift the blame and attention away from Fauci’s own actions.
Third, Dr. Fauci became the nation’s pandemic pundit and he publicly pushed lies and disinformation and censorship using every platform available.
Legal Insurrection was at the forefront of coverage that the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratories were a very reasonable location for Ground Zero of the novel coronavirus epidemic.
Legal Insurrection readers will remember that I was persuaded early on in the pandemic (i.e., Feb. 16, 2020) that the coronavirus at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic likely came from the Chinese research laboratory in Wuhan. The main question I had was whether the virus was “natural” or the result of gene-modification technology that is the hot, new thing in biological research.
Now we have reports of a classified study of SARS-CoV-2’s origin. conducted a year ago by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy’s premier biodefense research institution. They determined the virus could have originated in a laboratory in China.
Our findings withstood enormous pressure from accusations of “disinformation,” based on the fraudulent paper whose publication Fauci helped prompt as legitimate information for intelligence community consideration.
Gabbard released the COVID-19 documentation related to her findings in 4 parts.
PART 1: The document is a compilation of emails, meeting notes, open‑source clippings, and excerpts from scientific literature, focusing on how U.S. intelligence agencies, outside scientists, and political actors addressed questions about the novel coronavirus’s origin and related gain‑of‑function research. The material includes email traffic about Fauci’s recommendations on which scientific experts the IC (Intelligence Community) should consult, as well as congressional pressure and media criticism over lab‑leak versus natural‑origin assessments. The file also captures intelligence community reactions to a 520‑page congressional report concluding a likely Wuhan lab leak (which we covered when it was published).
PART 2: This document chronicles how U.S. agencies debated COVID‑19 origins, gain‑of‑function research, and the roles of Fauci, National Institute of Health (NIH), EcoHealth Alliance, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology from early 2020 through late 2023 (Legal Insurrection noted the roles of these entities in our coverage). It shows analysts discussing possible outside reviewers, reacting to early claims that SARS‑CoV‑2 (i.e., the novel coronavirus) was engineered, and stressing high evidentiary thresholds while weighing natural‑origin versus lab‑associated scenarios. The file also documents internal handling of a whistleblower complaint alleging that Fauci misled Congress about NIH funding and gain‑of‑function, and coordination with HHS and DOE inspectors general regarding EcoHealth and WIV grants.
PART 3: This document focuses on information collected after Biden’s May 2021 directive for a 90‑day assessment of COVID‑19’s origins. Interestingly, the annexes contain translations of foreign analyses arguing for a high probability of a laboratory‑modified virus. (Legal Insurrection covered that administration’s flawed assessment).
PART 4: This document is an NIH progress report from EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology describing U.S.-funded research on bat coronaviruses and spillover risk. It explains how the team surveyed rural Chinese communities for bat contact and coronavirus antibodies, mapped where and how different bat coronaviruses circulate and jump between bat species, and then used lab methods (including engineered/chimeric viruses and humanized mice) to test which bat viruses can infect human or human‑like cells. Legal Insurrection reviewed some of the EcoHealth laboratory work with bat coronaviruses in our past coverage.
Gabbard went on to explain the challenges faced within the IC as it related to identifying the truth about COVID-19.
We received statements from multiple whistleblowers revealing that the intelligence analysts who dared to challenge Dr. Fauci’s COVID origin conclusions faced threats of retaliation, marginalization, and many suffered career setbacks.
For example, a contractor was terminated just days after coming forward to ODNI as a whistleblower.
Another example: those who advocated for the lab leak hypothesis or expressed dissenting views were reminded by their managers that leadership would determine which analysts would be promoted and which would not. The message was clear: go along or be punished.
A senior leader also sought to undermine whistleblowers by removing anonymity, which is required in the whistleblower process, as they made their complaints and also insisting that their managers or attorneys be present during ODNI meetings where these whistleblowers were coming forward with their testimony.
After years of dismissal and institutional resistance, determined whistleblowers, independent researchers, and investigative outlets have finally forced critical information into the open, revealing credible evidence of suppressed dissent, questionable research practices, and serious concerns about the true origins of COVID-19.
Hopefully, critical lessons will be learned… especially about better biosafety practices, the dangers of gain-of-function research, and the level of trust to give “experts.”
I can’t say what I think of this guy on this site, I have too much respect for those who visit the site.
Perhaps some Apache and Comanche justice for Tony?
I wish the little elf would get the chair. Fauci is a terrible human.
He should be tied down in a box and have thousands of sand flies eat his face away. [His idea , not mine.]
Didn’t he do that to beagles for some perverted reason? Torturing one of the sweetest dogs in the world…yeah, sand flies. Good choice. Slow, ugly, painful…works.
Nah. Still too kind. Use the Chesapeake Potowatami broken clamshell flay alive.
He indirectly caused the death of millions, plus millions of other illnesses like ‘turbo cancers’ induced from his experimental mRNA ‘spike protein vaccines’ with it turns out horrific VAERS—on which redefined ‘vaccines’ he also made additional millions.
Neanderthal.
Do you have a problem with the practices of those who lived in harmony with nature?
They were kinda ugly though?
(Somewhere there’s a deep, undiscovered cave with a crude center-fold etching of Nancy Pelosi. They thought she was pretty hot.)
Oh…. I just puked all over my keyboard.
Anthony Fauci is a Nuremberg criminal; guilty of crimes against humanity. A mass murderer. A monster.
And let’s not forget that Francis Collins was right there in league with Fauci.
Pat Frank: Agreed, thx for the reminder. Two lying monsters who, somehow, rose to the top of our federal gov’t power structure.
No surprise there-Democrats and cheerful killers both…is there a difference?
Fauci is the poster boy for the Deep State. .
This is just Fauci exposed lying about COVID19. Rand Paul called him on it years ago.
Think about Al Gore and his ‘Inconvenient Truth’.
Think about Obama ‘you can keep your doctor’ Obamacare.
Think about ‘Biden competent’ 2024.
Think about Kamala just saying ‘Hope should be a verb’ when it already is.
Think about TDS vandal destruction of the just restored Reflecting Pool.
TDS is real. 47 has exposed them all for what they really always were. Sunlight is the best disinfectant for political rot. The Sun is now shining brightly.
Remind me who gave a presidential “magic pen” pardon to Faucci meaning that we cannot even hope that he will one day be held accountable for his crimes.
That pardon is likely unconstitutionally broad and invalid due to Biden having literally no idea about it when it was signed by whoever was operating his auto-pen.
Even if it wasn’t President Otto Penn, the big question for me is, “How can someone be pardoned for all crimes he/she was never even charged with … and going back 10 years?
By a stroke of the president’s pen.
There are no constitutional limits to a presidents pardon powers.
What does the “pardon” mean?
https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/pardon/
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/pardons.html
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/
All three of those are based on a charge of a crime having been committed. I don’t see any mention of “time warps” pardoning uncharged crimes.
To add, many of Otto Penn’s “pardons” were really immunity from prosecution for undiscovered/uncharged crimes going back 10 years.
Prior to Biden, the only blanket pardon issued was for Nixon. It was never tested. Since no crimes are named, it certainly seems questionable if one would stand if challenged.
BTW moderators & Anthony – can you PLEASE do something about these popup ads to subscribe that appear randomly and cover the entire screen? One just appears as I was typing this reply. I don’t need ads about subscribing – I’m already a paid subscriber!
Ah, but there are Constitutional limits.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013316/
Beyond textual limits, certain external constitutional and legal considerations may act as constraints on the power. For instance, the Court has indicated that the power may be exercised “at any time after [an offense’s] commission,” reflecting that the President may not preemptively immunize future criminal conduct.
That pardon is definitely unconstitutional.
The text of the Constitution allows pardons for those convicted.
The Supreme Court expanded the definition to include those accused.
Immunity is a Congressional act.
Preemptive pardons convey immunity, which is outside the President’s Constitutional authority.
Fauci was pardoned the morning Trump was sworn in. It was pretty much the last thing the auto-pen Presidency did, but it was actually signed with a real pen.
It needs a finding that Sleazy Joe was mentally incompetent in office to have any chance of getting that one over turned. 🙁
I would like to see the wording of Fauci’s “pardon,” but I can guarantee that slow-Joe did not write it, even if he did sign it with a real pen. It should be overturned as illegitimate, and members of Joe’s administration, as well as complicit members of the deep state should also be tried and convicted alongside Fauci.
Here it is.
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Not complicated, bring him before congress, put him under oath. He can’t take the 5th because he was pardoned. If he lies to congress again the pardon doesn’t cover that, if he tells the truth it’s exposed for the world to see, have another county prosecute him, no pardon there.
The pardon would not cover civil action. He could always be extradited to say, Singapore, for prosecution as well.
Think about fake claims that Venezuela is major drug hub(while his owner country actually is)
to justify the stealing of her oil.
Think about kidnapping a stateleader on phony drug charges while another one who smuggled half a million pounds got pardoned by him at the same time.
Think about ” We won the war”
Think about ” We crushed all their Air Defenses.”
” – and then suffering the biggest daily aircraft losses in decades.
Think about a phony rescue mission organized within hours with 157 air vehicles involved – a logistical impossibility, because it was organized way before for a different reason.
Think about telling unprotected vessels to traverse Hormuz while you keep your armored warships 500 miles away.
Think about lying about the number of casualties with an impossible 1 :50 death/wounded ratio that never happened in any war and especially can not happen in one where your army bases have 0 bunkers.
Think about campaigning to release the Epstein files and then he had to be forced by congress to do so – and even then only release the boring,harmless half.
Think about throwing all journalists under the bus who made him win his 1st election
and calling them losers for not working for the institutions he himself calls fake news,
while at the same time siding with never-Trumpers.
Think of trying to sell his own people for hundreds of billions of dollars a golden dome that doesn’t work. So dysfunctionial that satellite images had to be blurred to hide the real impacts.
Think of his role in Covid with Warp-Speed to unleash an experimental medicine 10 years before time on his own people.
And wasn’t there some retroactive law introduced in 2020 to further protect big pharma from vaccine lawsuits?
And think of NOT putting his hand on the bible during his 2nd Inauguration.
Well, you can’t do that if you run around with a red wristband, as you can only serve one master.
Anyway, you are 100% right.
Trump has exposed everyone, including himself, the MSM,the Epstein class
and his remaining voterbase, who also suffers from TDS – just the reverse version.
They’ll accept any lie, any war any doctrine, any crime – as long as it is presented by the right messenger = woke.
Or as Trump said:” Maga will feel the way I tell them to feel”
That’s why you have many old dudes who suddenly started to feel the pain
of 47 years – caused by Iran.
That short term pain for long term gain and that they suddenly need a golden dome and a especially a ballroom – a ballroom that for some reasons has the same symetrie as
the main part of the supreme court of Trumps owner country – with a pyramid in the middle of the upper part – the same one that marks the ownership on every dollar note.
So you don’t think Fauci paid the lab in Wuhan to experiment with SARS viruses and that they got released from the lab either on purpose or by accident? And did he lie about it.
You thinking that Trump is bad doesn’t make Fauci good.
Dear SxyxS
That is a lot of thinking, unfortunately not a lot of people like to do that anymore, and particularly when it involves something very distasteful.
Your points are very valid.
I like the part where he told us about all the illegals being sent home.
Great list of fake Democrat yapping points. You really have TDS bad !!!
Do you still believe in Russian Collusion, too ?
Ah, the TDS diversion from the topic at hand.
Sophistry.
Who knew that the new Dr Death would use your tax dollars to set up the network of possible leak sources and then deny involvement. Of course it was an NGO nonprofit that took up the funding banner when NIH stepped back. What next, a book deal promoting The Population Bomb 2?
Over 80% of Covid cases were among those under 65 years old,
75% of Covid deaths were among those over 65 years old at only 15% of the population.
CDC data.
Covid was just a seasonal variant culling the herd of the too old, too sick, too crowded together Medicaid cash cows in contagious, badly run (blue) elder care warehouses.
US led the world in cases & deaths.
WHO data
Posting this got me kicked off LinkedIn & YouTube.
The principle funder of the WHO is the USA’s own Mr Vaccine, Bill Gates.
The WHO does what its told, it is not autonomous, it is just another trough for narcissistic sycophants.
All of these are protected people.
You said nothing new in terms of the age distribution. “Just a seasonal variant?” And your point is? Is it that anyone over age 65 is a worthless leech on society? Tell that to your mama.
I highly doubt China’s numbers.
Obviously he and Ecohealth Alliance never thought it become a cascading disaster, like maybe limited to part of China or east Asia. It turned out to be a wildfire disaster instead. What is the liability for 18 million deaths anyway?
As they say–One gain of function derived death is a tragedy, 18 million deaths is a statistic.
They were not as stupid and oblivious as you suggest. They were epidemiologists and virologists who learned the risks in their undergraduate studies. They knew full well the potential consequences and chose to plunge ahead anyway. And why fund the Chinese, our geopolitical enemies? Plausible deniability?
I understand that Obumer told them to get it offshore.
There were many similar labs in the Ukraine. That was a primary consideration of Putin.
Bingo…Russia didn’t just ignore the bio labs in Ukraine
Correct. They “merely” lied about what was going on in those labs.
Yes there were/are bio labs in Ukraine.
None are “similar” to Wuhan.
None were doing gain of function research.
“Allegations by Vladimir Putin’s administration that the U.S. is funding secret biological weapons labs in Ukraine are widely dismissed by international bodies and independent experts as a debunked conspiracy theory. The facilities are legitimate public health and disease surveillance centers, with no evidence of bioweapons development.”
“The Facts vs. The Claims”
“International Consensus: Investigations by the United Nations and the World Health Organization have found zero evidence that Ukraine operates biological weapons programs.”
“Public Health Focus: The facilities are part of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program—a cooperative initiative started in 2005 to help former Soviet countries modernize public health laboratories, secure dangerous pathogens, and track infectious diseases.”
“Disinformation Context: Analysts and intelligence agencies view the accusations as part of a recurring Russian disinformation campaign designed to justify the invasion of Ukraine and divert attention from international violations.”
“The Core of the Misunderstanding”
“Like many effective conspiracy theories, the Russian narrative relies on a sliver of truth: Ukraine does indeed maintain a network of biological research laboratories that have received funding and technical support from the U.S. However, these upgrades are aimed at disease prevention and biosafety—not weaponization.”
See, also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_bioweapons_conspiracy_theory
Why fund the Chinese?
Because Obama banned gain of function research in all US labs.
IMO, the jury is still out with respect to the origins of Covid-19, but the evidence for a lab leak is much stronger than for a purely natural origin. The push from Fauci, et al. for the natural origins narrative was done in a way that makes me less likely to accept that hypothesis.
What is more certain is that China’s actions in the early days of Covid-19 and the WHO following along with China’s lies about what was going made things much worse.
A friend is an expert in bioinformatics. She took one look at the SARS-Cov-2 genome and immediately said it’s engineered.
I’ve seen similar comments dating back to the first half of 2020, but don’t have the expertise in the field to say whether it’s legit or bogus. I wouldn’t rule it out.
I’ve got friends who work in the field and have done so for over 40 years, going back to Interferon research in the early ’80s as they were frantically searching for a treatment for HIV-AIDS. They had exactly the same reaction.
And just for fun, the treatment Fauci pushed for HIV positive people led to horrendous deaths for a lot of people, whereas others, who didn’t get it, often survived long enough for the treatments to prevent HIV becoming AIDS came along.
Pat:
Yes. A lab-leak is far more likely than a spill-over from nature.
Also, it is telling that China’s actions at the onset of covid and ever since were [and are] exactly what one would expect of a cover-up. Silencing scientists, deleting databases, refusing to cooperate in investigations, and actively embargoing nations who promoted an investigation [Example: Australia].
[ Inside joke: “They finally found the host for a natural spill-over of Covid-19. It was in humanized mice at the Wuhan Lab.” ]
The CCP and Fauci et al would not need to block all investigation into the lab leak theory if they had proof otherwise. Just as Mann et al’s lies are the primary reason I believe the climate catastrophe is a fake, so too does all the CCP, Fauci, etc obfuscation convince me it was a lab leak.
There is NO evidence for a natural origin.
Any reasonable person with even a basic knowledge of math and of the world, even without smoking gun evidence, would conclude that this was a release from a laboratory of an engineered virus.
Yes. All of the “don’t believe your lying eyes” statements from the government and their minions were really hard to take. How could ANYBODY have believed them?
Allegiance to your team?
The addition of the Furin cleavage site in the specific location which would allow SARS-COV-2 to attack human ACE-2 receptors is highly unlikely to have been caused by natural selection. This is the issue which destroys the Zoonotic explanation for SARS-COV-2.
hehe he said cleavage.
It appears that some are well ahead on understanding what really happened.
However in the USA is one of the most informed on this subject, Dr David Martin.
He has been tuned into it from the get go.
Covid as we know it, was first patented in 1964.
Prior to the outbreak the final ownership of the patents was finalized.
Dr Martin correctly called it bio-weapon, and he is certified to pass that description.
The last vaccine I let enter my body was in 1960, polio, when I was 7.
I will post a number of links, some of them will have repeated information.
https://youtu.be/2f_60GKYczU?si=NsNq7EoqJ1ryUgHE
https://youtu.be/zNaW9pYAb4c?si=M4aFaFDgXb3Gxxe4
https://youtu.be/thnSbA3sAsg?si=VYVw6zqK9ynFMZgz
https://youtu.be/rT2kCJGbYVE?si=z1tD2m6AU_l6gaoX
Note
Don’t bark at me if you do not like what he says or you disagree with him.
You know, we knew all of this. We were conned, scammed, cheated, while a few made billions.
The real tragedy behind all of this is that nobody is ever held to account and most ordinary people release their frustrations on forums like this, but never actually do anything to stop these bastards, me included.
If you try to do anythinh, you will suffer.
Exactly, so we just moan, and they continue.
What comeback do whistlrblowers who were treated so appallingly have?
Another lesson to be learned is not to be a whistleblower…
It would be most enlightening to uncover the chain of command behind the destruction of the whistleblowers.
So in slightly related news: I heard florida wants to end all vaccine mandates? Are they really trying to get back into the 50s of like the 1250?
Now the new crusades make sense…
Florida may be taking an overzealous approach, but at least they’re asking some long overdue questions in light of the public distrust of the health professions and governmental bureaucracy. The topic makes for good click bait headlines, but I suspect that the process in Florida, given time and proper attention, will likely reach well reasoned conclusions without returning to the Stone Age.
Kennedy has been an advocate for randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of new drugs, calling such testing the “gold standard”. Recently US has removed five vaccines from the list of common childhood vaccines, bringing the total to 11. Dropped were rotovirus, hepatitis A, meningococcal disease, influenza, Covid 19 and hepatitis B. Perhaps the main controversy about Kennedy’s advocacy is that he wants the control group to get saline placebos – which may subject participants to less than the “best existing standard of care”.
Leftist rule is doing more to bring about the conditions that allowed bubonic plague to run wild than anything health-conscious skeptics could do.
Thus your proposal would be that anything labeled a “vaccine” should be given to everyone with virtually no testing for safety and efficacy?
My proposal is that you re-read my comment, think about it and then try again
Ending vaccine mandates does not eliminate the vaccines.
It passes the decision back to the parents, where it belongs.
Bingo
The Guardian. Now that is such /s a reliable source. /s
Such obvious criminality protected by the criminal Biden Administration which gave Fauci a broad immunity against prosecution. Lives lost, careers ruined and money thrown around with abandon.
What’s to be done?
It makes the Weaponization Fund much more legitimate especially for all the whistleblowers and others receiving abuse for trying to air the truth.
Dear Editor
As I understand it, it was the other actor, in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan who gave the pharmaceutical companies complete immunity from liability. ALL of the mandated vaccines that they give newborn babies through to teenage years have NEVER been tested for efficacy or harm in any meaningful way. Robt Kennedy Jnr asked Fauci for the test and harm documents, Fauci could not provide them. Despite the drug makers internal communications identifying Autism etc.
They remain one of the primary reasons that Americans are one of the sickest nations in the world.
As a result countries like New Zealand and Australia etc mandate the same vaccines for the children.
This article is interesting but (1) no surprise and (2) too measured in its conclusions.
While Fauci did not act alone, he appears to have been an instrumental part in the lies, coverup, and, most importantly, the premature deaths of millions. While some may argue, in the US alone, death tolls rivaled the number of American deaths in all wars since the revolution of 1776. All of us still carry the economic and psychological scars of the lockdowns and the grief of losing friends and loved ones.
These are war crimes, and I have long called for Nuremberg-style trials for Fauci and his co-conspirators. If convicted, they should be executed by firing squad.
As for the natural versus lab leak debate, it has long been obvious that this was an engineered virus. Instead, my only question is whether this was a lab leak or an intentional act of bio warfare unleashed by the Chinese in a US election year.
Given the desire that the Deep State and the One World schemers have for power, China was helpful because it has its own plans and useful idiots are always welcome. I’d go with intentional bio-war. What scares the hell out of me is what’s coming-and something will-next.
Austraiia came upon and publish a PRC Military report that clearly identified the next world war would be biological. Chills the blood.
I heard about that sometime back. Chilling indeed. Mankind has been burdened with diseases since only God knows when, and man has beaten alot of them. Then to invent new ones? Madness…absolute insanity. The people who do this shit should be hunted down like rabid animals; there’s no justification for inventing new horrors.
Probably the ascension of socialism pursuant to a deep worldwide recession falsely attributed to the failure of ‘capitalism’.
Many states violated their own election laws using the “Covid emergency” as an excuse.
Who won that year in those states?
Biden got the most votes evah…he got more votes than Obama 😉
Bill Microsoft Gates, and his cohorts had a planning meeting in late 2019 to prepare for the release of the vaccines, and detail the hospital responses of no initial care.
What does this have to do with Climate related issues?
The forces that have been pushing the climate emergency hoax for 40 years are the same forces or are aligned with those persons and entities have used the pandemic as a means of centralized totalitarian power. They are not independent. The issue of climate does not stand alone in a vacuum, but it is intricately entwined in the greater political and societal issues.
Thanks for pfleshing this out. I agree these issues have become “intricately (and inexplicably) intertwined”. How is it that lefties could become so exercised over global warming and yet turn the other way for Fauci’s gain of function research … so enamored of “freedom of speech, openness and transparency” and so blind to a government coverup of colossal proportions?
Where do you get the idea that this site only posts about climate related issues?
Where did I get the idea?
Oh – I dunno – maybe the headline on the home-page…?
Watts Up With That?
The world’s most viewed site on global warming and climate change
I guess I owe you an apology, but would also like to direct you to the About page, which (way down) says “News and commentary on puzzling things in life, nature, science, weather, climate change, technology, and recent news by Anthony Watts”
That used to be much more prominent. It appears it has been de-emphasized and I missed the change.
Hysteria: : “What does this have to do with Climate related issues?”
At all levels of society, climate hysteria and pandemic hysteria are promoted by the same people for the same reasons — greater access to money, power, and the ability to exert complete control over other people’s lives.
Where did you get the idea that WUWT is only about Climate related issues?
It has become mainly about that but never only.
(A few days ago, for example, there was a post about black holes.)
PS If you don’t like post about non-climate related issues, just don’t read them.
Covid is the most recent of the phenomenon of human plagues. It has closely followed the previous epidemic, HIV/AIDS, which has become a silent pandemic. It is living memory that Influenza became pandemic in humans in our grandparents generation with a huge mortality rate including the fit, young and healthy.
Human encroachment of green monkey habitat led to the zoonosis HIV.
We tropical disease specialists are well aware of the population density, habitat encroachment and zoonosis complex behind almost all previous plagues in recorded history. Local climate issues are central to their understanding and management.
This pandemic may well be the first human engineered one and for future generations it must be exhaustively studied with prevention uppermost in our minds.
This is all very interesting, but I doubt anything will come of it.
At this point, the quickest remedy may to encourage another country to indict, extradite and try Fauci. I would prefer a country with a highly respected legal system as well as a functioning death penalty. I would vote for Japan.
This would save the US from the process of invalidating the auto-pen pardon, since the pardon is only effective inside US borders.
Fauci’s COVID shenanigans in teaming up with “vaccine” developers were based on his ‘successful’ methodology for personal benefits gains with HIV / AIDS rollout arrangements.
Detailed references are listed in Robert Kennedy’s book – “The Real Doctor Fauci”.
(the film “Dallas Buyers Club” is also about the ‘manipulation’ of treatment medicines for AIDS victims)
I can’t understand why the gay fraternity has any truck with Fauci after how he betrayed them back in the ’80s.
But I suppose as always, ideology dictates over rationality, especially with people afflicted with leftism.
FYI, re “gain of function” research, to help understand this controversial topic:
“Gain-of-function (GOF) research is a scientific methodology that genetically alters an organism to give it new or enhanced abilities. In virology, it involves modifying pathogens—often through genetic engineering or serial passaging—to increase their transmissibility, virulence, or host range to better understand disease mechanisms and preemptively develop vaccines.
The Core Debate
The field is highly polarizing, dividing the scientific community over its risk-to-reward ratio.
“Advocates argue that understanding how viruses might mutate in the wild allows scientists to “war game” potential outbreaks. This proactive approach aims to identify therapeutic targets and create vaccines before a dangerous pathogen naturally emerges in the wild.”
The problem is, no one has any idea how anything might mutate. Period.
Don’t forget that GOF Research pays more than NO research.
Well summarised, saved me the bother.
Let us think back to the development of nuclear physics research which gave us both the atomic and hydrogen bombs and nuclear power generation.
Seems to me, if this kind of research can be justified, it should take place on an island somewhere in the tropics. All workers, when done, have to spend something like 2 weeks on an island at least a couple miles away across the ocean. Get some sun, aerate and sun dry your clothes & toys, wait to see if you’re infected. Problem solved.
Why did this take so long? Sharri
Markson’s ‘What Really Happened in Wuhan’ blew the covers off from 2020. Her tale of the disgusting, cruel and purposeful cover-ups is a shame on China which should not be forgotten. What happened to the young girlie scientist who vanished and was resurrected on line having ‘moved’ to another part of China? She had died of COVID by then. And her papers disappeared! And so on.
I know he was pardoned so probably he cannot be convicted of anything but is there any possibility that people damaged by Fauci’s actions can sue him personally to remove his ill gotten gains and reduce him to poverty for his final years? At the very least he certainly appears to be losing his reputation which will hurt as he has managed to control his image very effectively. No one should even be allowed to hold a senior government position as long as he was!