The chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup, has been immersed in the investigation to discover the origins of SARS-CoV-2 since the pandemic first hit the United States in early 2020. Wenstrup is a physician and a member of the House Intelligence Committee. giving him a unique insight into the possible origins of COVID as well as knowledge of the Americans involved in a massive CYA operation on gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There is still no concrete evidence tying the origins of COVID to the Wuhan lab. There's no documentary proof. That was probably destroyed by the Chinese Communists. Nor is there any physical proof such as charts and samples from the earliest patients with COVID. That, too, was probably destroyed.
But we've got great, big, flashing neon lights with arrows pointing to Wuhan, to gain-of-function research, and to the involvement of St. Antony Fauci and several other Americans who have -- so far -- managed to successfully cover up their responsibility for creating a virus that accidentally leaked beyond the lab due to the incompetence of the Chinese Communists.
Fauci continues to deny that "gain-of-function" research, partially funded by the U.S. government, was taking place at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He's said this under oath several times. Fauci can get away with this because, technically, the research was called something else besides "gain of function." The research has many of the earmarks of gain of function inquiries but with subtle differences, allowing Fauci to call it something else.
It would be too easy to make Fauci the primary villain in this story. But, as Rep. Wenstrup points out, there's plenty of blame to go around.
Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins knew they were doing gain of function research there before February of 2020. Why didn't they tell the American people? Why did they keep it to their own conference call?
And then, why did the same doctors that are sitting there saying, “Well, this thing sure looks engineered” then go out and publish a paper that said, “Oh, it came from nature.”
I’ve wanted more open discussion about whether the virus leaked from a lab or came naturally. Why can we not have an open debate about this? Why are we trying to put down one theory over the other — that's not science.
No, congressman, it's not science. It's politics. And the fact is, there are many leading researchers and bureaucrats in the public health field whose reputations are on the line and whose careers would be over if their role in this cover-up was ever revealed.
It should be said that there are important uses for gain-of-function research in science. When done with the proper safeguards, it can be a valuable adjunct to the exploration of diseases and possible treatments and cures.
But the Wuhan lab was a third-world facility with incredibly lax safety protocols. It was irresponsible to carry out gain-of-function research at the facility.
But the lack of hard evidence for a lab leak has led many researchers to the conclusion that there's a zoonotic origin for COVID -- namely, that COVID originated in the wild as almost every other coronavirus has originated.
Some say there's not a lot of evidence for the lab leak, but I guess that's in the eye of the beholder, and that's fair enough. But I will tell you what we haven't found and that's any animal in nature carrying this virus. Not only that, we haven't even found any animal in nature that is capable of carrying this virus.
There were some things, for example, that Dr. Robert Garry [a virologist at Tulane University, and prominent acquaintance of Dr. Anthony Fauci] brought to the table saying that some sequences found were consistent with coronaviruses found in pangolins. Okay, fair enough. Then where are the pangolins that carried COVID? Pangolins in the wild are 603 miles away from Wuhan, and they were studying pangolin viruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. How can that not look curious to someone?
So the debate will continue. And finding a crack in the wall protecting Fauci and the host of researchers and scientists who covered up evidence to protect their own careers is proving to be more elusive than ever.
