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The Covid Cover-Up

by Richard Eldred
2 August 2023 5:00 PM

The National Review has weighed in with a leading article on the leaked messages revealing a stunning conspiracy behind the Proximal Origin paper on COVID-19.  The messages implicate top scientists and authorities in a potential cover-up that misled the world. Here’s an excerpt:

On March 17th, 2020, a group of several eminent virologists published a paper on the “proximal origin” of COVID-19. “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus,” it trumpeted. The Editor in Chief of Nature Medicine proudly retweeted it: “Let’s put conspiracy theories about the origin of #SARSCoV2 to rest and help to stop spread of misinformation.” The paper went on to say, “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

One of the scientists, Kristian Andersen, sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci that morning, alerting him to the paper’s publication. Fauci replied to Andersen that very day, “Thanks for your note. Nice job on the paper.” He had praised an early draft of it as “very thoughtful summary and analysis”.

Almost simultaneously, Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, which was the cutout through which the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded research on coronaviruses in Wuhan, sent an email to University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill virologist Ralph Baric informing him that an investigative committee would not be looking into a lab-origins theory.

Now Fauci tells the New York Times that he’s not sure he ever read the paper.

Immediately, the Proximal Origin paper was put to use to shut down debate. ABC: “Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 is not a laboratory construct.” Vice News: “Once and for all, the new coronavirus was not made in a lab.”

Leaked messages now show that the Proximal Origin paper itself was the product of something like a conspiracy and was intended to mislead the public about the origins of Covid. FOIA requests of their emails and chat messages show that all of the authors of the paper expressed the exact opposite views of the conclusions in the paper. “60-40 lab,” Dr. Edward Holmes said. “I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario,” wrote Robert Garry.

“In the lab it would be easy,” Garry also surmised in February. “It’s not crackpot to suggest this could have happened given the gain of function research we know is happening.” Andersen: “The lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely because they were already doing this work.”

After Fauci was informed that his agency had funded coronavirus research, he got word from other scientists that the research was done according to low safety standards – a “Wild West,” according to one scientist. Andersen shared the same assessment of the Wuhan lab in another email: “I’m all for gain of function research, but to do it at BSL [biosafety level] three is nuts.”

One conference-call participant outlined the motive for a cover-up. More talk of the lab-leak theory would “do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular.” This reflected concerns voiced by the head of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, as early as February. He wanted to convene experts on the question of lab origins, “or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.” …

It’s difficult to overstate the gravity of the fraud at work. The Proximal Origin paper was cited thousands of times and shaped coverage of the pandemic for years. To get just a flavour of it, Andersen brags about manipulating the New York Times coverage by science reporter Donald McNeil Jr., who was open to a lab-leak hypothesis. The Times eventually fired McNeil for unrelated reasons, and the Covid beat passed to a reporter who dismissed the lab leak as nothing more than a racist theory.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Cover-upCovid originsCOVID-19Dr. Anthony FauciLab Leak TheoryProximal Origin

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago

And Wikipedia still regards it as a conspiracy theory, as was pointed out by founder Larry Sanger to Glenn Greenwald recently.The belief is entirely political for them.

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john1T
john1T
1 year ago

Welcome Trust boss Jeremy Farrar was included in most of these proximal theory conspiracy emails. In one it was suggested “A swift convening of experts in a confidence-inspiring framework – the WHO seams the only option- or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony.” Now Farrar is the new Chief Scientist at the WHO with the responsibility for deciding what is and is not misinformation with a view to censoring internet content. You could not make it up.

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Chris P
Chris P
1 year ago
Reply to  john1T

He was also a member of SAGE.

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john1T
john1T
1 year ago
Reply to  Chris P

And quite possibly funded Project DEFUSE after DARPA turned it down. His Welcome Trust was heavily involved with EcoHealth Alliance.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
1 year ago

Limited hangout; and used to bamboozle public whilst propping up the idea that it was something that presented an existential threat. Also, it’s called the lab leak hypothesis, which shuts off any notions about a deliberate attack, which in totality it was, whether there was a novel pathogen or not.

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Prophet Orwell
Prophet Orwell
1 year ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

An interesting hypothesis: US and China collaborate to paint a picture of an accidental leak from a Chinese lab. China play their part in stoking the initial fear and panic, and play the reluctant fall guy. The US persuade other global elites to grasp the opportunity to initiate a ‘great reset’. The goal is to install a Chinese style digital identification and social credit system, which will further enhance China’s role on the world stage. A kind of you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours, but while f*cking over 99% of the world’s population.

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George L
George L
1 year ago
Reply to  Prophet Orwell

Exactly as planned.. and described as such in the 2010 Rockefeller Operation Lockstep document that’s now hard to find online when it had been freely available up until the covid scam..

Below is some info on the document.. well worth a read.. ALL PLANNED..

https://principia-scientific.com/2010-rockefellers-operation-lockstep-predicted-2020-lockdown/

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Prophet Orwell
Prophet Orwell
1 year ago
Reply to  George L

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of this document. Wow, this and Event 201 together surely make a huge smoking gun, complementing each other perfectly. Why doesn’t the DS put together an article investigating/analysing this? Ahhh, I forgot, because it’s all a coincidence/cockup isn’t it Toby?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

I’m not sure why I thought Norway was any less Orwellian than anywhere else, probably because we rarely hear much about the country so I thought they were a more sensible lot. Turns out this sounds more like China then my impression of the Norwegians;

”Norwegian man Trond Harald Haaland was forcibly admitted to a state-run psychiatric unit in Stavanger for nine days to undergo re-education after he posted Covid-19 “conspiracy theories” on Facebook, according to local reports. The socialist Scandinavian nation has been completely infiltrated by the World Economic Forum in recent years, and current Labour Party prime minister is an Agenda Contributor at the WEF. As a consequence, far-left practices, including informing on neighbors, is returning to Norwegian daily life.

After Haaland was reported to the authorities by anonymous Facebook “acquaintances”, he was forcibly removed from his house by a doctor accompanied by two police officers, and forcibly confined in a psychiatric institution for nine days. According to Haaland, the so-called “conspiracy theories” posted on Facebook were simply questions about the Norwegian government’s hard-line Covid response during the pandemic.”

https://www.planet-today.com/2023/07/norwegian-man-forcibly-confined-in.html

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
1 year ago

I’m choosing my words carefully, but as President Trump said, several times, “Chy-na”

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
1 year ago
Reply to  Boomer Bloke

What does Biden say? Oh he can’t understand the queastion. Hi to those who hate Trump with downticks, at least he doesn’t suffer from dimentia. Almost everything he ever said has turned out correct. Strange that, don’t you think? How many South American immigrants are there now in the USA? How many are legal. Just as Trump said!

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