Were you in favor of Paul’s committee hearing? The Matts are going to “interrogate” the evidence in the same manner Paul hoped to interrogate Fauci. When significant new evidence arises it’s good to do a comprehensive review rather than start from previous beliefs.
At what point do “previous beliefs” become axiomatic facts? The scientific evidence is so overwhelming, of Covid's origins, it's virtually irrefutable. To suggest otherwise, IMHO is just giving the deniers more room to evade the truth.
What do you mean by "Good grief." We still don't definitively know the origin of Covid, and if gain of function played any role. China sure hasn't helped much, and you can infer from that whatever you want. To me, it means China is hiding something.
Covid absolutely, positively, HAD to be a lab leak. There is no evidence for natural origin, which would have near zero likelihood. Why? The furin cleavage site. A standard gain of function process, specifically targeting humans, that is almost never found in nature. You think covid breaking out two miles from the Wuhan lab where precisely that work was being performed is just a coincidence? If so, I've got a bridge you might like to buy.
Does anyone else recall a mention early on of the US military in the Chinese province "war gaming" or some such & the speculation that it was a DARPA weapon dropped off to deter suspicion this was a US developed bioweapon. Apologies for the faulty memory of specifics but this was the general perspective. I am just curious if that was mere speculation or has some validity.
I don't recall that, but your post brings to mind the case of Charles Lieber, a Harvard chemistry professor who was arrested in January 2020 for lying about his links to another Chinese lab in Wuhan while accepting grant money from the Department of Defense. Naturally, before much was known, I suspected he (and the DoD) might be somehow connected with weaponizing the COVID virus, but his specialty was nanotechnology so I more or less forgot about it . . . until I read your post. Nanotechnology? Hmmm. I never thought the US had clean hands in any of this, but it's starting to look like too many Americans happily cooperated with our Chinese frenemies way more than anyone cares to admit.
The allegation at the time was it was some kind of US military sports team visit. The more tinfoil version was that this team seeded the virus either from the US to China or vice versa. I don’t think it’s significant.
Even though I personally agree it had to be a lab leak, just because something seems absolutely obvious doesn't always cut it either scientifically or legally.
I hope these investigations don’t stop at Fauci. Many other medical doctors and health professionals perpetuated or added to the bad information during the pandemic. They need to be held accountable as well, especially those in positions of public trust, like the CDC people.
Otherwise, agree. Fauci appears to be the ringleader with pressuring staff and scientists to follow his narrative and try concealing his screwups. Likely others who willingly followed him who looked to benefit from the gain of function research done in China that led to COVID.
I know someone who worked at the CDC when everything was blowing up. (She is a doctor, but was politically a flunky - they are in every organization!) There were a number of arguments going on at rhe staff level about origin, treatment, etc. She was promoting Vitamin D but got nowhere; 'Management' had a story and they were sticking with it. She saw the writing on the wall and decided it was a good time to retire from the agency.
“It's not just because Fauci was wrong—scientists are wrong all the time. It's not because public health coerced us into debatable actions—that happens often, from drunk-driving laws to helmet mandates, and people generally accept those because they emerge from decades of societal consensus.
Fauci is unique because he represents a rare convergence of factors:
· A. He alone, or with a very small group, made decisions.
· B. Those decisions coerced hundreds of millions of people.
· C. He was largely incorrect about those actions.
· D. He was unable to admit uncertainty or doubt.
· E. He failed to gather better evidence, even though as NIAID director he controlled a massive budget that could have funded randomized trials.
· F. He demonized scientists who disagreed.
· G. His own diary reveals he often believed the opposite of what he said publicly.
That constellation of factors makes people viscerally angry—and understandably so. Consider a woman who said she'll never forgive him because he forced her toddler to wear a "dirty, bacteria-riddled mask" for eight hours a day. The media might say, "He didn't have the power to do that." But his diary shows he was privately encouraging politicians to close schools and mandate masks for children as young as two—a policy the EU never adopted and that defies common sense. He used his political capital to push those policies and demonized anyone who disagreed, like Jay Bhattacharya, whom he called a "fringe epidemiologist."
He overstepped his role.”
Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Professor
Hematologist/ Oncologist
Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine
Why not get Birx to rat out Fauci for immunity? I don’t care if anyone goes to jail because I know it’ll never happen anyhow. I just want the TRUTH to be out so all these people who believe the media and still don’t get it to be slapped in the face with it.
Exactly! The truth is what we want. But I'm not sure the Media and the Left would ever accept the Truth. To admit their mistakes in accepting all of that poisonous and destructive information from Fauci &Co. would show the world that they are full of nothing but hot air. They physically can't do that.
Exposing Peter Hotez is one of my pet projects. He was lapping up the attention. Here's one of his "scientific" articles in a "scientific" publication. Take a look—it's short.
The mystery is whether or not Dr. Frankenstein, oops, I mean Fauci's pardon was signed by autopen or by an incompetent Boob, and is it valid? That's the mystery.
Remember the early 2020 video clips out of China of people there dropping dead in the streets from the virus? How come that didn’t replicate itself anywhere else in the world?
On post Elon Musk acquiring X I saw countless videos of people dying suddenly whether they were standing at a podium speaking to a group, or athletes in the prime of their life in excellent condition on sporting fields there were countless videos of this happening all over the United states.
I think it was pretty clearly demonstrated those videos were staged. I've seen several where between filming, corpses were chatting and smoking cigarettes.
Yet covid caused nothing like this anywhere in the world. The videos were completely fake, and a huge psyops campaign like that doesn’t happen on accident. The Chinese government faked the videos that kicked off the panic around the world. China falsely claimed that lockdowns stopped the virus cold, setting the way for bought governments around the world to mimic China’s response. China then rode the ensuing wave of chaos to the precipice of becoming the world’s largest superpower. And now they’re performing a follow-up act with lockdowns in Shanghai, no doubt hoping we will jump off that cliff again.
As far as I know, no government official has spoken about these faked videos and what they mean. Perhaps the Chinese have a incriminating paper trails leading to our ‘public servants’ like they do with Tony Fauci. I’m 100% positive the Chinese bribery trail runs in our government much, much further than the Biden family. It’s time that important people start asking important questions — is ANYBODY going to hold China accountable for their actions?
"I’m also going to do a livestream with Dr. Matt Bivens tomorrow summarizing the evidence for and against a lab leak, as the ongoing mystery as to Covid’s origins remains the most important story."
Surely there isn't a mystery to the origins at this point...
I’m not sure why there isn’t more curiosity about the events in 2014 when the Obama administration placed a moratorium on GOF research because of the extreme danger it posed. Fauci was involved in shipping GOF research to Wuhan, funding it and laundering this funding through sites hard to track, a subcontractor ECO Health Alliance headed by an equally duplicitous liar named Peter Daszak. If Fauci was a prime mover and funder of this research the public should clearly understand this.
Because of multiple “loopholes” in the moratorium, GOF research never stopped in the US; it went underground and overseas; IC, Obama, et al were aware of this. Fauci was the money-mover; Dazak was facilitator in moving money, and Ralph Baric UNC is at the top of the list of culprits who continued the work which led to SARS-COV2. Baric, world-renowned virologist, shared his discovery of how to manipulate(engineer) a virus without leaving the regular fingerprints of a CRISPR modification with Bat Woman Shi at the CCP-affiliated Wuhan Lab. Because, well, science…
The origin isn't a mystery. It was a science experiment that leaked into a public space. The mystery is why Dr. Fauci lied about his department's involvement with something President Obama stopped.
Precisely! Public doesn’t understand this. That’s why the auto pen pardon goes back to 2014. This little megalomaniac thought he knew better than US virologists (he’s not a virologist) that recommended stop GOF research too dangerous.
I don't think Obama stopped it. I think he made it *look* like he stopped it, so he got the benefit of both the PR and the continuation of bioweapons research.
A former Obama admirer, I've become pretty disillusioned.
Suppose Fauci directed funds to gain of function research and suppose he shaped the narrative that it was not a Wuhan Lab leak: What or who was behind all that? DARPA backed away from funding the research many suspect resulted in COVID. Somehow it still got funded via NIH/NIAID…and in China of all places.
Not to put too fine a point but this but the intelligence community knows this pattern: nations performdual use science somewhat in the open, get pushback, shift it to some darker source of funding, offshore it. Ken Alibek defected from the former Soviet Union and wrote about similar moves in Biohazard (and a lab leak of something like Ebola). Fauci may be the fall guy for some deeper strategy that blew up big time.
There are significant discrepancies between Fauci’s diary entries and his public pronouncements regarding Covid-19. And, regarding our public health bureaucracy, supposedly they know best how to manage a so-called pandemic (where the survival was >99%). So, we should refuse to discuss any of this? Decline to investigate any of this?! Where are critical thinking skills?
Although copies of his phone during the COVID-19 era are going to yield some more evidence and insight, the real data to search for IMHO should be in the 2008 to 2019 timeframe. That's when the US Army at Fort Detrick had their funding cutoff thanks to efforts by Rand Paul's father, Ron Paul. This cutoff of DNA work and GOF came to light and began at around the same time a cloned sheep born in the UK called "Dolly" made the news around 2003.
If the DOJ pursues this an there is real prosecution and investigation of Fauci during COVID and before, IMHO there could be some serious collateral damage associated to a number of other scientists, universities (UNC, NC State, John Hopkins) and may even affect at least one Senatorial race (Cooper was governor and controlled UNC at that time) and one governorship (NC) due to the alleged deep involvement of politicians in this matter.
I remember going to a secluded upscale bar at a UNC leased building off West Barbee Chapel Road around late 2014 with another retired CIA Station Chief for a drink and surprised to see a number of Chinese PLA officers in uniform drinking at the bar with some senior university officials and some state officials.
The COVID story started way before the Wuhan mess. I'll surmise it started the day the funding for DNA virus modification, weaponization, Gain-of-Function was cut off from Fort Detrick for ethics and danger reasons and a go around the Congressional bans was hatched. There were many rumors (quickly put down by the press) of mysterious outbreaks around the UNC epidemiology labs on the Chapel Hill campus. Then somehow, the research was moved via contractors to mini bio-labs overseas. How we got to choose a CCP PLA controlled lab to perform our bio-weapons research as a sub-contractor is another story which may possibly be about the Central Bankster Cabal and treason by national and NC state officials.
Studying the AIDS epidemic and Fauci's role in the could also yield some more pre-2014 evidence. IMHO Nancy Pelosi was a player in that situation.
Disclosure: I was a neighbor of one of the key players in the UNC Epidemiology Department so even I personally saw many Chinese around the neighborhood.
Matt - someone needs to look into this Situational Awareness debacle. Why is government backed Goldman Sachs loaning billions to a 24 year old to leverage up 4x on a highly correlated portfolio of tech stocks? Luckily it blew up safely, but what if it didn’t? Did Goldman have short trades before it turned off the loan spigot? I saw a Sopranos pump and dump boiler episode like this once. Seems like same concept on a huge scale.
YES! More journalism please, Matt. And please keep your laser focus on the systemic problem of MSM’s big fail in applying Jim Rutenberg’s post-Trump standards to a genuine public health emergency. Getting Fauci is not as important as exposing the science “reporting” at NYT, WaPo, CNN, Atlantic, etc.
Mystery of its origin? Good grief.
Gain of Function Wuhan Flu.
Were you in favor of Paul’s committee hearing? The Matts are going to “interrogate” the evidence in the same manner Paul hoped to interrogate Fauci. When significant new evidence arises it’s good to do a comprehensive review rather than start from previous beliefs.
At what point do “previous beliefs” become axiomatic facts? The scientific evidence is so overwhelming, of Covid's origins, it's virtually irrefutable. To suggest otherwise, IMHO is just giving the deniers more room to evade the truth.
What do you mean by "Good grief." We still don't definitively know the origin of Covid, and if gain of function played any role. China sure hasn't helped much, and you can infer from that whatever you want. To me, it means China is hiding something.
No, dude. It means that little rat fuck Fauci is hiding something. That's the whole point.
To me, I fear, we were involved on our own shores.
Covid absolutely, positively, HAD to be a lab leak. There is no evidence for natural origin, which would have near zero likelihood. Why? The furin cleavage site. A standard gain of function process, specifically targeting humans, that is almost never found in nature. You think covid breaking out two miles from the Wuhan lab where precisely that work was being performed is just a coincidence? If so, I've got a bridge you might like to buy.
Does anyone else recall a mention early on of the US military in the Chinese province "war gaming" or some such & the speculation that it was a DARPA weapon dropped off to deter suspicion this was a US developed bioweapon. Apologies for the faulty memory of specifics but this was the general perspective. I am just curious if that was mere speculation or has some validity.
I don't recall that, but your post brings to mind the case of Charles Lieber, a Harvard chemistry professor who was arrested in January 2020 for lying about his links to another Chinese lab in Wuhan while accepting grant money from the Department of Defense. Naturally, before much was known, I suspected he (and the DoD) might be somehow connected with weaponizing the COVID virus, but his specialty was nanotechnology so I more or less forgot about it . . . until I read your post. Nanotechnology? Hmmm. I never thought the US had clean hands in any of this, but it's starting to look like too many Americans happily cooperated with our Chinese frenemies way more than anyone cares to admit.
The allegation at the time was it was some kind of US military sports team visit. The more tinfoil version was that this team seeded the virus either from the US to China or vice versa. I don’t think it’s significant.
Even though I personally agree it had to be a lab leak, just because something seems absolutely obvious doesn't always cut it either scientifically or legally.
I hope these investigations don’t stop at Fauci. Many other medical doctors and health professionals perpetuated or added to the bad information during the pandemic. They need to be held accountable as well, especially those in positions of public trust, like the CDC people.
I'm aware of at least one case where one of Fauci's aides was arrested earlier this year for attempting to conceal communications and evidence related to COVID's origins in response to FIOA requests. Via Politico: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/fauci-aide-covid-research-indictment-00895447.
Otherwise, agree. Fauci appears to be the ringleader with pressuring staff and scientists to follow his narrative and try concealing his screwups. Likely others who willingly followed him who looked to benefit from the gain of function research done in China that led to COVID.
I'd like to know why Deborah Birx is sliding under the radar.
I know someone who worked at the CDC when everything was blowing up. (She is a doctor, but was politically a flunky - they are in every organization!) There were a number of arguments going on at rhe staff level about origin, treatment, etc. She was promoting Vitamin D but got nowhere; 'Management' had a story and they were sticking with it. She saw the writing on the wall and decided it was a good time to retire from the agency.
“It's not just because Fauci was wrong—scientists are wrong all the time. It's not because public health coerced us into debatable actions—that happens often, from drunk-driving laws to helmet mandates, and people generally accept those because they emerge from decades of societal consensus.
Fauci is unique because he represents a rare convergence of factors:
· A. He alone, or with a very small group, made decisions.
· B. Those decisions coerced hundreds of millions of people.
· C. He was largely incorrect about those actions.
· D. He was unable to admit uncertainty or doubt.
· E. He failed to gather better evidence, even though as NIAID director he controlled a massive budget that could have funded randomized trials.
· F. He demonized scientists who disagreed.
· G. His own diary reveals he often believed the opposite of what he said publicly.
That constellation of factors makes people viscerally angry—and understandably so. Consider a woman who said she'll never forgive him because he forced her toddler to wear a "dirty, bacteria-riddled mask" for eight hours a day. The media might say, "He didn't have the power to do that." But his diary shows he was privately encouraging politicians to close schools and mandate masks for children as young as two—a policy the EU never adopted and that defies common sense. He used his political capital to push those policies and demonized anyone who disagreed, like Jay Bhattacharya, whom he called a "fringe epidemiologist."
He overstepped his role.”
Vinay Prasad, MD MPH; Physician & Professor
Hematologist/ Oncologist
Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Medicine
All of the above plus Fauci is a CIA-adjacent head of US bioweapons. At minimum that’s a huge conflict of interest and a giant red flag.
-H. He's a lying little rat fuck.
Plus, how the EFF does Bill Gates manage to sit in on the highest levels of Pandemic meetings??
He expands on those points. https://www.drvinayprasad.com/p/why-fauci-struck-a-nerve-and-5-more
They need to get birx.
Why not get Birx to rat out Fauci for immunity? I don’t care if anyone goes to jail because I know it’ll never happen anyhow. I just want the TRUTH to be out so all these people who believe the media and still don’t get it to be slapped in the face with it.
Exactly! The truth is what we want. But I'm not sure the Media and the Left would ever accept the Truth. To admit their mistakes in accepting all of that poisonous and destructive information from Fauci &Co. would show the world that they are full of nothing but hot air. They physically can't do that.
And Baric and Daszak and Hotez. The whole NIIAD chain of command. And get everyone who signed the Lancet letter to roll.
Exposing Peter Hotez is one of my pet projects. He was lapping up the attention. Here's one of his "scientific" articles in a "scientific" publication. Take a look—it's short.
"Crafting Your Scientist Brand" https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000024 (2018)
The mystery is whether or not Dr. Frankenstein, oops, I mean Fauci's pardon was signed by autopen or by an incompetent Boob, and is it valid? That's the mystery.
His full legal name is Dr. Little Rat Fuck.
My hunch is that covid was manufactured in multiple Labs all over the world, and released intentionally on the public.
Remember the early 2020 video clips out of China of people there dropping dead in the streets from the virus? How come that didn’t replicate itself anywhere else in the world?
On post Elon Musk acquiring X I saw countless videos of people dying suddenly whether they were standing at a podium speaking to a group, or athletes in the prime of their life in excellent condition on sporting fields there were countless videos of this happening all over the United states.
Were the videos of sudden deaths in USA, before or after the vaccine was released? The videos from China of this were before any vaccine.
True.
I suspect it was something put out to cause hysteria -- which worked.
This was caused by the vaccines however. The people who who died and had Covid, the cause of death was the treatment they received.
I think it was pretty clearly demonstrated those videos were staged. I've seen several where between filming, corpses were chatting and smoking cigarettes.
I figured it was a psyop.
DING DING DING
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-covid-years-werent-terrible-for
Yet covid caused nothing like this anywhere in the world. The videos were completely fake, and a huge psyops campaign like that doesn’t happen on accident. The Chinese government faked the videos that kicked off the panic around the world. China falsely claimed that lockdowns stopped the virus cold, setting the way for bought governments around the world to mimic China’s response. China then rode the ensuing wave of chaos to the precipice of becoming the world’s largest superpower. And now they’re performing a follow-up act with lockdowns in Shanghai, no doubt hoping we will jump off that cliff again.
As far as I know, no government official has spoken about these faked videos and what they mean. Perhaps the Chinese have a incriminating paper trails leading to our ‘public servants’ like they do with Tony Fauci. I’m 100% positive the Chinese bribery trail runs in our government much, much further than the Biden family. It’s time that important people start asking important questions — is ANYBODY going to hold China accountable for their actions?
Your hunch is correct. It’s the product of multiple US labs but primarily RMNL and UNC Chapel. Wuhan was merely the final assembly area.
"I’m also going to do a livestream with Dr. Matt Bivens tomorrow summarizing the evidence for and against a lab leak, as the ongoing mystery as to Covid’s origins remains the most important story."
Surely there isn't a mystery to the origins at this point...
There never was
I’m not sure why there isn’t more curiosity about the events in 2014 when the Obama administration placed a moratorium on GOF research because of the extreme danger it posed. Fauci was involved in shipping GOF research to Wuhan, funding it and laundering this funding through sites hard to track, a subcontractor ECO Health Alliance headed by an equally duplicitous liar named Peter Daszak. If Fauci was a prime mover and funder of this research the public should clearly understand this.
Because of multiple “loopholes” in the moratorium, GOF research never stopped in the US; it went underground and overseas; IC, Obama, et al were aware of this. Fauci was the money-mover; Dazak was facilitator in moving money, and Ralph Baric UNC is at the top of the list of culprits who continued the work which led to SARS-COV2. Baric, world-renowned virologist, shared his discovery of how to manipulate(engineer) a virus without leaving the regular fingerprints of a CRISPR modification with Bat Woman Shi at the CCP-affiliated Wuhan Lab. Because, well, science…
Disclaimer: I voted for Obama twice.
I may be just a micro-animal, but now I'm fully convinced that Obama was totally aware of what he was doing. The moratorium was great PR.
The origin isn't a mystery. It was a science experiment that leaked into a public space. The mystery is why Dr. Fauci lied about his department's involvement with something President Obama stopped.
Precisely! Public doesn’t understand this. That’s why the auto pen pardon goes back to 2014. This little megalomaniac thought he knew better than US virologists (he’s not a virologist) that recommended stop GOF research too dangerous.
It’s all about $$$ and power.
I don't think Obama stopped it. I think he made it *look* like he stopped it, so he got the benefit of both the PR and the continuation of bioweapons research.
A former Obama admirer, I've become pretty disillusioned.
The mystery is why we’ve allowed this to happen!
No mystery at all!!
Suppose Fauci directed funds to gain of function research and suppose he shaped the narrative that it was not a Wuhan Lab leak: What or who was behind all that? DARPA backed away from funding the research many suspect resulted in COVID. Somehow it still got funded via NIH/NIAID…and in China of all places.
Not to put too fine a point but this but the intelligence community knows this pattern: nations performdual use science somewhat in the open, get pushback, shift it to some darker source of funding, offshore it. Ken Alibek defected from the former Soviet Union and wrote about similar moves in Biohazard (and a lab leak of something like Ebola). Fauci may be the fall guy for some deeper strategy that blew up big time.
There are significant discrepancies between Fauci’s diary entries and his public pronouncements regarding Covid-19. And, regarding our public health bureaucracy, supposedly they know best how to manage a so-called pandemic (where the survival was >99%). So, we should refuse to discuss any of this? Decline to investigate any of this?! Where are critical thinking skills?
Not to mention that there was already a pandemic plan that had been worked on for years, that went completely out the window once Covid showed up.
Although copies of his phone during the COVID-19 era are going to yield some more evidence and insight, the real data to search for IMHO should be in the 2008 to 2019 timeframe. That's when the US Army at Fort Detrick had their funding cutoff thanks to efforts by Rand Paul's father, Ron Paul. This cutoff of DNA work and GOF came to light and began at around the same time a cloned sheep born in the UK called "Dolly" made the news around 2003.
If the DOJ pursues this an there is real prosecution and investigation of Fauci during COVID and before, IMHO there could be some serious collateral damage associated to a number of other scientists, universities (UNC, NC State, John Hopkins) and may even affect at least one Senatorial race (Cooper was governor and controlled UNC at that time) and one governorship (NC) due to the alleged deep involvement of politicians in this matter.
I remember going to a secluded upscale bar at a UNC leased building off West Barbee Chapel Road around late 2014 with another retired CIA Station Chief for a drink and surprised to see a number of Chinese PLA officers in uniform drinking at the bar with some senior university officials and some state officials.
The COVID story started way before the Wuhan mess. I'll surmise it started the day the funding for DNA virus modification, weaponization, Gain-of-Function was cut off from Fort Detrick for ethics and danger reasons and a go around the Congressional bans was hatched. There were many rumors (quickly put down by the press) of mysterious outbreaks around the UNC epidemiology labs on the Chapel Hill campus. Then somehow, the research was moved via contractors to mini bio-labs overseas. How we got to choose a CCP PLA controlled lab to perform our bio-weapons research as a sub-contractor is another story which may possibly be about the Central Bankster Cabal and treason by national and NC state officials.
Studying the AIDS epidemic and Fauci's role in the could also yield some more pre-2014 evidence. IMHO Nancy Pelosi was a player in that situation.
Disclosure: I was a neighbor of one of the key players in the UNC Epidemiology Department so even I personally saw many Chinese around the neighborhood.
Matt - someone needs to look into this Situational Awareness debacle. Why is government backed Goldman Sachs loaning billions to a 24 year old to leverage up 4x on a highly correlated portfolio of tech stocks? Luckily it blew up safely, but what if it didn’t? Did Goldman have short trades before it turned off the loan spigot? I saw a Sopranos pump and dump boiler episode like this once. Seems like same concept on a huge scale.
Journalism like this is why I subscribe to Racket News. Keep up the good work, Matr!
YES! More journalism please, Matt. And please keep your laser focus on the systemic problem of MSM’s big fail in applying Jim Rutenberg’s post-Trump standards to a genuine public health emergency. Getting Fauci is not as important as exposing the science “reporting” at NYT, WaPo, CNN, Atlantic, etc.
“Getting” Fauci is an impossibility and most likely a total distraction.
Agreed.