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Is the U.S. Government preventing an investigation on how they handled the pandemic?
BY SIMONE J. SMITH
“I chaired the commission for the Lancet for two years on COVID. I’m pretty convinced it came out of U.S. lab biotechnology, not out of nature. There is enough evidence that it should be looked into, and it’s not being investigated, not in the United States, not anywhere.” Professor Jeffrey Sachs
Readers, what if I told you that there was clear proof that the National Institutes of Health and many members of the scientific community have been impeding a serious investigation of the origins of COVID-19 and deflecting attention away from the hypothesis that risky U.S. supported research may have led to millions of deaths? If this hypothesis, or to some conspiracy theory is true, the implications would be earth-shaking, because it would mean that esteemed members of the scientific community bore responsibility for our recent global calamity.
The implications are huge. Imagine if this disease that has held the world captive for the last two and a half years came out of a lab. Think about the: ethical, moral, and geopolitical implications of that; it is enormous.
There are a couple schools of thought as to how this perilous pandemic began. One school of thought is that the coronavirus jumped from bats to humans, which has happened often in the past. Another is that research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including dangerous “gain of function” experiments, resulted in a laboratory accident or inadvertent leak. Perhaps there was a combination of both, such as a researcher handling bats that became infected and then spread the virus.
Research done by University of California San Diego’s Jonathan E. Pekar and colleagues conclude that there were two jumps of the virus to humans in late 2019.
On February 2nd, 2022 Professor Francis Boyle claimed that the virus had been held at the WIV as a bioweapon and leaked from its lab.
On February 17th, 2020, Senator Tom Cotton amplified the lab virus theory when he said the virus might have leaked from the WIV. Concrete evidence beyond the circumstantial was not offered, which discredited the theory.
The origin and source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are still a puzzle, and they need to be explained.
In early August 2022 Nathan Robinson – a writer for Current Affairs – interviewed Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as the chair of the Covid-19 commission for leading medical journal the Lancet. Professor Sachs has come to the conclusion that there is extremely dangerous biotechnology research being kept from public view, that the United States was supporting much of this research, and that it is very possible that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, originated through dangerous virus research gone awry.
The question is, how do we distinguish between what we know for certain and what is speculative?
Professor Sachs shared with Nathan that there is reason to believe that that research was underway, because there are published papers on this. There are interviews on this. There are research proposals, but of course NIH isn’t talking. From the very first day, they have kept hidden from view the alternative, and when they discuss the alternative, they don’t discuss the research program.
Professor Sachs states clearly that at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the scientists there were trained by American scientists to use advanced bioengineering methodologies. American scientists were in close contact with Wuhan Institute of Virology, and they were part of a joint research group that was stitched together by something called EcoHealth Alliance.
EcoHealth Alliance was the marriage maker between the American scientists and the Chinese scientists. That was the vehicle for funding from the U.S. government, specifically the National Institutes of Health, and especially from Tony Fauci’s unit, the NIAID. He claims that there were years of grants, there were grant proposals. “We don’t know exactly what was done, but we have enough reason to know that we should be asking exactly what was done,” Professor Sachs stated.
What was made clear in the interview was that there is dangerous research underway right now under the umbrella of biodefense or other things that the public does not know about, science that is not being properly controlled, and this research is happening around the world. Governments say, “Don’t poke your nose into that. That’s our business, not your business.”
Community, it’s actually our business. It’s our business to understand what is going on, and why many of our lives have been altered forever.