{"id":11398,"date":"2025-01-27T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2025-01-26T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T04:08:46","slug":"will-any-federal-officials-pay-for-what-they-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=11398","title":{"rendered":"Will Any Federal Officials Pay For What They Did?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Authored by James Bovard via The Brownstone Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest scientific con of the century is finally being exposed. But will any politicians or government officials ever be held responsible for the carnage they unleashed on Americans?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, when the Covid pandemic was starting to ravage America, federal bureaucrats and politicians rushed to suppress any suggestion that the pandemic originated from a Chinese government lab bankrolled by US government agencies<\/strong>. Key Biden administration officials effectively exonerated the Chinese government even though the Chinese completely stonewalled any outside investigation into the origin of the Covid virus, as the Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> recently revealed in a front-page scoop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI\u2019s top expert concluded that the virus leaked from the lab but he was derailed by the Biden administration, blocked from presenting his evidence at a key White House meeting in August 2021. Three scientists at the National Center for Medical Intelligence, part of the Pentagon\u2019s Defense Intelligence Agency, concluded that Covid leaked from a lab but they were muzzled. The Inspector General is conducting an investigation to determine why those experts were silenced. The Department of Energy also concluded that Covid originated in a lab. In September 2023, a senior CIA analyst told a Congressional committee that six key CIA analysts<\/a> had been bribed by the agency to abandon their conclusion that Covid originated in a lab leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese government first admitted that a pandemic had broken out in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. Though the Chinese military-affiliated Wuhan Institute of Virology had been experimenting with bats for years, the Chinese government insisted the new virus came from a nearby marketplace. But the lead scientists involved with bat research had all been struck down by Covid-19 symptoms shortly before the Chinese government denied any responsibility. There was a deluge of circumstantial evidence quickly linking the new virus to the lab. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outbreak of Covid-19 spurred one of the most brazen cover-ups in modern US history.<\/strong> The National Institute for Health had been financing gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That type of research seeks to genetically alter organisms to enable the spread of viruses into new species. Such research is extremely dangerous; as MIT professor Kevin Esvelt asked in 2021, \u201cWhy is anyone trying to teach the world how to make viruses that could kill millions of people?\u201d The risks were compounded because the Wuhan Institute had a very poor safety rating. Two years earlier, the State Department confidentially \u201cwarned other federal agencies about safety issues at Wuhan labs studying bat Covid,\u201d but the public disclosure of that alert was delayed until 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2020, top federal scientists recognized that the pandemic could obliterate their reputations. Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes for Health, wrote in an email that \u201ca swift convening of experts in a confidence-inspiring framework is needed or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.\u201d The \u201cconspiracy\u201d was the facts of the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Fauci, the chief of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speedily enlisted a handful of trusted scientists to gin up a paper supposedly \u201cproving\u201d that the virus could not have originated in the lab.<\/strong> A top NIAID scientist accepted the task of debunking the lab-leak story because, as he emailed a colleague, \u201cTony doesn\u2019t want his fingerprints on origin stories.\u201d The Lancet<\/em>, one of the most respected medical journals in the world, enlisted in the cover-up with an op-ed by 27 scientists who proclaimed: \u201cWe stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin.\u201d Maybe the same scientists also sent an addendum to NIH: Keep giving us grant money or your reputation will \u201cswim with the fishes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further \u201cproof\u201d was provided by a torrent of accusations of racism against anyone who publicly suggested that the virus originated in a Chinese lab. The State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center added a federal fist to the debate, pressuring Twitter to suppress hundreds of thousands of accounts (including thousands of average Americans) in early 2020 for the crime of suggesting that Covid originated in a lab.<\/strong> Bureaucrats secretly decided that wildly exaggerated forecasts of pandemic mortality made the First Amendment null and void. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Covid-19 had been initially recognized as the result of one of the biggest government boondoggles in history, it would have been far more difficult for American politicians and government scientists to pirouette as saviors as they seized sway over daily life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The virus that the NIH financed provided push-button dictatorial power to politicians at every level of government.<\/strong> In the name of saving lives, politicians entitled themselves to destroy an unlimited number of livelihoods. Most governors responded to Covid-19 by dropping the equivalent of a Reverse Neutron Bomb \u2014 something that destroys the economy while leaving human beings unharmed. But the only way to assume people were uninjured was to presume that their lives were totally detached from their jobs, bank accounts, mortgage and rent payments, and friends and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A virus with a 99+% survival rate spawned a 100% presumption in favor of despotism. From the start of the pandemic, many people who swore allegiance to \u201cscience and data\u201d also believed that absolute power would keep them safe. Doubters became dissidents who deserved to be covertly silenced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shutdown advocates appealed to science like righteous priests invoking God and the Bible to sanctify scourging enemies. <\/strong>But the \u201cscience\u201d was often farcically unreliable. Mandatory mask mandates became the new version of the Emancipation Proclamation. Fauci and other top officials deceived Americans into believing that cloth masks offered far more protection than they delivered. Do Americans finally recognize that the federal government was the biggest source of disinformation during the pandemic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A century ago, historian Henry Adams declared that politics has \u201calways been the systematic organization of hatreds.\u201d Covid-19 policies were so disruptive in part because politicians intentionally sought to maximize fear and rage against anyone who refused to submit to any dictate. After the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines collapsed, Biden responded by dictating that a hundred million American adults must get injected based on his personal decree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few weeks later at a CNN town hall, Biden derided vaccine skeptics as murderers who only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you\u201d with Covid. A few months later, a Rasmussen poll found that 59% of Democratic voters favored house arrest for the unvaccinated, and 45% favored locking the unvaxxed into government detention facilities. Almost half of Democrats favored empowering the government to \u201cfine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing Covid-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio, or in online or digital publications.\u201d But hatred proved to be as ineffective as the Pfizer vaccine when it came to fighting Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fauci, who was also Biden\u2019s chief medical advisor, justified Covid mandates because average citizens \u201cdon\u2019t have the ability\u201d to determine what is best for them. <\/strong>But Congressional investigations revealed that Fauci was at the center of string-pulling to shirk responsibility for the Wuhan debacle. <\/strong>After Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) suggested prosecuting Fauci for false testimony on bankrolling \u201cgain-of-function\u201d research, Fauci howled that his critics are \u201creally criticizing science because I represent science. That\u2019s dangerous<\/a>.\u201d But not nearly as dangerous as vesting vast power in secretive federal agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 20, 2023, the Biden administration belatedly banned the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving any US government research funding for 10 years as punishment for its unauthorized gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses. But why did the Biden administration omit the same condemnation and similar prohibitions from any American scientist, institute, or government officials that had any role in this debacle? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of Tony Fauci bobbleheads, the slogan \u201cYour Government at Work\u201d superimposed atop a million American caskets captured the reality of Covid-19. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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