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Sacrificing children on the altar of science: How the COVID-19 response hurt our most vulnerable
COVID-19

Sacrificing children on the altar of science: How the COVID-19 response hurt our most vulnerable

When COVID-19 washed up on American shores, everyone, including children, were believed by the top scientists in the country to be at grave risk. However, once the threat to children was found to be minimal, children instead became suspected of being “super spreaders.”

“Empirical evidence was being ignored, and instead, the officials were following theory. They made up all sorts of contrived reasons,” David Zweig, investigative journalist and author of “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions,” tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”

Despite the fearmongering surrounding schools reopening and children’s status as “super spreaders,” the fact that cases went down in places like Europe after children went back to school didn’t phase the scientists.

“What that does suggest, of course, is that children were not super spreaders, schools were not driving the pandemic,” Zweig tells Stuckey. “The point is, the evidence was there that this wasn’t dangerous, this wasn’t increasing cases, and it was ignored, and it was dismissed with these contrived reasons.”

While the mainstream media and “the science” was focused on the potential harm faced by the immunocompromised, what they didn’t seem to care about was how social isolation, masks, and digital learning would affect children in the most formative years of their lives.

“There is something disordered in asking kids to sacrifice on behalf of adults,” Stuckey tells Zweig, adding, “There is something inherently unjust about that.”

“What they aren’t understanding, perhaps, is the incredible harm on so many children, millions of kids, and you have to think about what kind of society, as you said, what kind of society does this to children?” Zweig agrees.

“No one was saved by long-term school closures. No one was saved from masking 2-year-olds. No one was saved by barriers on desks and all this other nonsense. This was only harm. No trade-off. No benefit,” he continues.

“Even beyond the horrors of child abuse,” he says, which he notes became more prevalent during COVID, “there were plenty of kids who became anorexic and bulimic, screen time skyrocketed during the pandemic and never kind of went back down, anxiety, depression.”

“I talked with a lot of mental health professionals for children. Their practices were exploding during the pandemic, and it wasn’t because of people dying, let me be very clear about that. It was directly correlated with kids being kept out of school,” he explains.

Politicians like Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) claimed that their hard stance on COVID was only so strict because it was worth it to save even one life — but Zweig knows that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“You’re taking one or more lives to ostensibly try to save that one life. It was extraordinarily foolish,” Zweig says.

“Toxic empathy,” Stuckey chimes in. “It blinds you to reality and morality, and you ignore the victim on the other side of the moral equation.”

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Trump obliterates Biden’s COVID rules for good
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Trump obliterates Biden’s COVID rules for good

The Trump administration has wasted no time completely revamping the COVID-19 narrative — and has now made it official on the White House website.

The website now has a COVID-19 section, which goes into great detail explaining “misinformation” related to the virus.

“Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions,” the website reads.

“When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to ‘outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent,’” it continues.

The website also highlights that Anthony Fauci was given a full and unconditional pardon by former President Biden.

“It is so refreshing to see this White House,” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” comments.

“I’m glad we all trusted the plan,” BlazeTV contributor John Doyle chimes in. “We were so angry when everyone started to realize what a sham this was, we were angry with Trump for promoting it, but I will say, I think that we get a little hindsight bias and forget how freaked out even Republicans, like older Republicans, were about COVID.”

“I would just say, their entire argument was ‘trust the experts.’ So if that’s their argument, then again, it’s Anthony Fauci’s fault, because Donald Trump was trusting the expert that they placed in front of him and said, ‘This is the guy,’” Gonzales says.

“So Donald Trump wasn’t in there in a lab with little droppers trying to figure things out; he was trusting the people that he was supposed to be able to trust,” she adds.

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White House endorses COVID lab leak theory, but will anyone be held accountable?
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White House endorses COVID lab leak theory, but will anyone be held accountable?

On April 18, the White House publicly endorsed the COVID lab leak theory. The government’s official COVID website was also redirected to a new page titled “Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19,” which contends that the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and was leaked by accident.

The revamped site criticizes Anthony Fauci, David Morens, Andrew Cuomo, the WHO, EcoHealth Alliance, and the Biden administration, among others, for actively promoting false information and covering up the truth.

It cites five points to support the lab leak claim:

1. “The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.”

2. “Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.”

3. “Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research (gene altering and organism supercharging) at inadequate biosafety levels.”

4. “Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with COVID-like symptoms in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.”

5. “By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasn’t.”

After years of the Biden administration and his loyal media allies promoting a lie, it’s refreshing to see the government proclaim the truth.

But while Glenn Beck sees the website as “an amazing thing,” the information on it isn’t exactly news.

“Most of this stuff we had within six or eight months of the actual outbreak,” he says.

The real question is: “Who’s going to jail over this?”

The other question is: Why doesn’t the legacy media seem interested in correcting the narrative?

“Millions of people died here. You’d think that it would be something [the media] would focus on and draw a lot of attention to and continue to kind of beat the drum until someone was held responsible, and they don’t seem to have any interest in that,” says co-host Stu Burguiere, noting that most of these outlets “have run an op-ed” about the lab leak theory and called it good.

“If we make a mistake, we correct it because it drives us crazy that we made the mistake, and I don’t want anybody to believe that I’m standing behind something that is wrong and a lie,” says Glenn.

The legacy media clearly doesn’t have the same convictions.

“They knowingly lied” about COVID, Joe Biden’s cognitive state, and Russiagate, and yet, “There’s no consequence.”

“They’re not going to lose any advertisers. The New York Times hasn’t lost any real money because of this. Their people just continue to watch,” says Glenn.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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16 noncitizens apparently voted in Michigan in 2024 — and liberals are cheering about it
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16 noncitizens apparently voted in Michigan in 2024 — and liberals are cheering about it

Michigan Democrats and liberal media are celebrating a report that revealed more than a dozen noncitizens may have cast a ballot in the November election.

On Thursday, Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson — whose campaign for governor has already gotten off to a sloppy start — released a press release about the report entitled “Michigan Department of State review confirms instances of noncitizen voting are extremely rare.”

The report, which is based on an audit launched in December, actually begins with a misleading statement, claiming “15 credible cases” of noncitizens voting had been “identified.” However, the press release later admits that 16 cases had actually been identified, noting that “a Chinese national” also allegedly voted illegally, a case that made national headlines last fall.

Of these 16 cases, all but two have been referred for possible prosecution. One of the noncitizens who allegedly voted in November has since died, and another case remains under further investigation.

The press release suggests that 16 alleged instances of noncitizens voting proves the system works as they “represent 0.00028% of the more than 5.7 million votes cast by Michiganders in the presidential election.”

The Chinese national who allegedly admitted to voting in November … did so by allegedly offering his University of Michigan student ID card.

Benson — who just last September testified before Congress that “there is no evidence that noncitizens are voting” — seemed pleased about the report. She claimed that these cases represent a “tiny fraction” of voters and hinted that further efforts to secure our elections are unnecessary and would only disenfranchise legitimate voters.

“This is a serious issue, one we must address with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer,” Benson said in a statement.

Her fellow Democrats similarly hailed the news. The Michigan Democratic Party claimed the audit “confirm[s] the security of the 2024 election.”

“Democrats are proud to be the only party of election integrity and of defending our democracy. This months-long review is telling us what we already know: Michigan’s elections can be safe and secure without sacrificing access to the ballot box,” said a statement from group chair Curtis Hertel.

Even media outlets like Mid-Michigan Now dutifully parroted the idea that “cases of noncitizens casting a ballot are extremely rare.”

By contrast, Republican state Rep. Bryan Posthumus of Rockford is appalled that Democrats are so cavalier about noncitizens voting in Michigan elections.

“First it was 1, now it’s 15. The truth is, we have no idea how many,” he posted to social media.

What’s more, while Benson’s press release and the media have focused mainly on the 2024 presidential election in Michigan — which President Donald Trump won by a margin of about 80,000 — they have basically ignored the more competitive races down ballot where noncitizen votes could have greater impact.

For instance, the U.S. Senate race in Michigan was razor thin. Democratic candidate Elissa Slotkin prevailed over Republican Mike Rogers by just .3% of the vote, or fewer than 20,000 votes.

Posthumus told Blaze News that in 2022, a state House race was decided by just 12 votes. “This would have swung that election,” he said, referring to the 16 alleged noncitizen voters.

According to Ballotpedia, such tight races are not that uncommon. In 2024 alone, more than 60 state-level races across the country were decided by 100 votes or fewer, including a Maine race in which a Republican state representative prevailed by just a single vote.

Posthumus also pointed to the hotly contested 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and then-Vice President Al Gore. After weeks of recounts and legal wrangling, Bush carried the state of Florida — and therefore the election — by under 550 votes.

“Democrats are trying to just make this as a one-off situation that doesn’t have any real implications,” Posthumus explained to Blaze News. “It really does.”

Posthumus is currently crafting a state constitutional amendment proposal that would require prospective voters to provide proof of citizenship when they register as well as when they vote, and he hopes that Democrats will join him in this endeavor. Polling indicates that voters on both sides of the aisle support securing our elections.

“Nearly 85% of the population agrees,” Posthumus said, “only U.S. citizens should vote in our elections, and photo ID should be required when you cast your ballot.”

Michigan law restricts voting to U.S. citizens only, but as Posthumus noted on social media, the system is vulnerable to exploitation. For instance, the Chinese national who allegedly admitted to voting in November, Haoxiang Gao, did so by allegedly offering his University of Michigan student ID card as proof of local residency.

The application for a Michigan driver’s license also indicates that applicants will be automatically registered to vote. To forestall this automatic registration, applicants must deliberately check a box asking officials not to use their “information for voter registration,” a 2019 application version showed.

Michigan Democrats have recently lobbied hard to permit illegal aliens living in the state to be given driver’s licenses.

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Jab first, ask questions never: Vaccine truths your doctor won’t tell you
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Jab first, ask questions never: Vaccine truths your doctor won’t tell you

Disclaimer: With apologies to the few and far-between pediatricians who don’t fit this mold.

Your friendly pediatrician may not think he is lying. But neither is he asking the right questions on behalf of young, vulnerable patients: your children. And that’s outrageously unacceptable amid a growing mountain of evidence suggesting that, indeed, virtually everything we’ve been told about vaccines is untrue and worthy of scrutiny.

I’m going to say a lot of things in this article that may sound shocking. See the resource list at the end for the arguments. But there are many good reasons why HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy
has announced that a panel will examine the childhood vaccine schedule.

‘You’ll be sorry when your baby dies’

I first explored this topic 30 years ago
after reading a history of polio that shook my worldview. For all my life, the polio vaccine had been used as exhibit A in the case for vaccines: If it weren’t for its discovery and widespread administration in the 1950s and 1960s, thousands more would have suffered from this terrible disease.

And yet in my reading, I found that the polio virus
was sharply declining at the time of Jonas Salk’s discovery. Like many diseases, polio cases went through periods of growth and decline independent of human intervention. In other words, “proof” of the vaccine’s effectiveness was hardly decisive.

If this is true with the polio vaccine, what does it suggest about other, riskier vaccines that we’re told are “lifesaving”?

When I brought this information and a few other vaccine questions to our pediatrician, he had no intelligent response. In fact, he simply stated that if we didn’t vaccinate, we’d be sorry when our child died.

That condescending, unhelpful response infuriated me then just as much as it does now. A lot has changed in 30 years, but unfortunately, doctors are still likely to dismiss vaccine concerns with arrogance, disinterest, or downright hostility.

Actually, that’s the standard response when you question anything they learned in their
Pharma-sponsored medical school education. And it applies in spades where the highly profitable vaccines are concerned. (Another area where doctors seem to be deliberately uninformed is cancer treatment, including lucrative-to-them chemotherapy, but that’s a subject for another day.)

You also cannot trust media reporting on this issue, because a significant amount of media income flows from those incredibly annoying Pharma ads. Actual journalism is an endangered species these days, unless you frequent Substack or other alternative platforms like Blaze Media or the Daily Wire or listen to Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, and others like them
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Doctors’ attitudes have not changed, but a few other things have

First, the recommended
childhood vaccine schedule has exploded. Today, children receive dozens more vaccine doses than children 30 years ago, including the injection of multiple substances at a time during “well child” visits (and I put scare quotes there for a reason).

Second, we now have several decades of evidence of harm by childhood vaccines. Reports in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System number in the thousands. But that number is almost irrelevant because it is estimated that for a variety of reasons, VAERS only catches about 1% of adverse reactions.

There is no lack of anecdotal evidence either — including personal,
heartbreaking reports of vaccine injuries to previously healthy, vibrant children.

Third — and this is good — we now have the internet. We can research alternative thought on almost anything, provided that the powers that be do not censor it. And if something is censored, we must ask ourselves why? Who stands to benefit from that censoring?

We clearly saw this with nearly every topic related to COVID-19, and the evidence is now clear that the
COVID vaccine was an unmitigated health disaster — neither safe nor effective, despite being forced on billions of people around the world. And yes, it is still currently part of your child’s recommended vaccine schedule, despite even the mainstream media now reporting many of the vaccine’s known problems, including the development of myocarditis, turbo cancers, and even sudden death in young people.

How many of us know of someone in one of those categories?

It’s instructive to consider also how the anti-vax movement has grown, even before COVID caused millions to question the medical and media establishments. Countless people who said they were “pro-” have become “anti-” over the years, almost always because they or someone they love experienced a tragedy due to the shots — including life-altering harm to a child.

Then, over the past several years, we’ve won many more to our “side” as evidence mounts in our favor, not only that specific shots are bad, but that:

  1. They’ve failed to be properly vetted (i.e., faulty or corrupted research).
  2. Their ingredient list is a nightmare of toxins (simply read the inserts to see for yourself, or see “One of 174 Reasons to Question Vaccines,” linked below).
  3. The Pharma companies that produce them are unredeemably corrupt, having been protected from legal consequences after lobbying for that protection from lawmakers they financially supported.
  4. And perhaps most worldview-shaking — that they were NEVER really the medical wonder they were made out to be.

I challenge you, if you consider yourself pro-vax (and haven’t already thrown your computer across the room while reading this), to consider the information below.

Books

Fortunately, at this time, Amazon is not censoring any of these books:

Many more books on the topic can be found
at the Children’s Health Defense website.

And if you need help reorienting your attitude about the medical establishment in general, check out “Lies My Doctor Told Me” by Ken Berry, M.D.

Articles and papers

Due to its lack of censorship, Substack is where you’ll find much of the current information about vaccines (and any other controversial topic that threatens the status quo).

Videos

”
24 Censored Documentaries Exposing the Medical Fraud of Vaccines” (see on Amandha Dawn Vollmer’s Substack: A Healthy Dose of Truth).

What do you want first: the good news or the bad news?

The good news is: We did not vaccinate our daughter, and she did not die.

The bad news is: As a young adult living overseas, she was forced to get the COVID shot and has since battled health problems, having been formally diagnosed as COVID-vaccine-injured.

How about you and your family? Share your story in the comments. After all, we should encourage each other as we seek to care for these precious bodies God has given us — the temples of His Spirit, in fact (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). If our bodies aren’t healthy, it limits our usefulness for Him, as well.

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Chinese scientist with reported ties to USAID finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans like COVID
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Chinese scientist with reported ties to USAID finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans like COVID

Chinese scientists have said that they discovered a new bat coronavirus that could infect humans in the same manner as the virus that causes COVID-19. The lead scientist in the new study has reported links to USAID.

According to a report from the South China Morning Post, the researchers are from the Guangzhou Laboratory, the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University, and the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The lead scientist in the new bat coronavirus study reportedly had prior financial ties to the embattled United States Agency for International Development.

The new infectious disease is called HKU5-CoV-2. The new coronavirus was first identified in the Japanese pipistrelle bat in Hong Kong.

HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus that is part of the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome.

Researchers claim that HKU5-CoV-2 uses the ACE2 receptor to infect organisms. The ACE2 receptor is the same receptor used by SARS-CoV-2 to infect human cells.

“We report the discovery and isolation of a distinct lineage (lineage 2) of HKU5-CoV, which can utilize not only bat ACE2 but also human ACE2 and various mammalian ACE2 orthologs,” the study said.

The researchers wrote, “Authentic HKU5-CoV-2 infected human ACE2-expressing cell lines and human respiratory and enteric organoids. This study reveals a distinct lineage of HKU5-CoVs in bats that efficiently use human ACE2 and underscores their potential zoonotic risk.”

“Bat merbecoviruses, which are phylogenetically related to MERS-CoV, pose a high risk of spillover to humans, either through direct transmission or facilitated by intermediate hosts,” the scientists stated.

The researchers from China added, “The potential human spillover risk of animal merbecoviruses remains to be investigated.”

The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell on Tuesday.

The study was led by Shi Zhengli — a leading virologist who had been the director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Zhengli is often dubbed the “bat woman” by her colleagues because of her extensive research on bat coronaviruses since 2004, including virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves.

The World Society for Virology said of Zhengli, “Her group has discovered diverse novel viruses/virus antibodies in bats, including SARS-like coronaviruses, adenoviruses, adeno-associated viruses, circoviruses, paramyxoviruses and filoviruses in China.”

The lead scientist in the new bat coronavirus study reportedly had prior financial ties to the embattled United States Agency for International Development.

A 2021 article in Vanity Fair noted: “Shi Zhengli herself listed U.S. government grant support of more than $1.2 million on her curriculum vitae: $665,000 from the NIH between 2014 and 2019; and $559,500 over the same period from USAID. At least some of those funds were routed through EcoHealth Alliance.”

According to 990 tax exemption forms it filed in 2018 with the New York state attorney general’s Charities Bureau, EcoHealth Alliance received as much as $15 million a year in grant money from federal agencies, including the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and USAID.

The article spotlighted emails obtained by a Freedom of Information request, including one sent by Peter Daszak, a zoologist and former president of EcoHealth Alliance. The email showed that Zhengli allegedly carried out potentially dangerous gain-of-function experiments.

Under the subject line, “No need for you to sign the ‘Statement’ Ralph!!,” he wrote to two scientists, including UNC’s Dr. Ralph Baric, who had collaborated with Shi Zhengli on the gain-of-function study that created a coronavirus capable of infecting human cells: “you, me and him should not sign this statement, so it has some distance from us and therefore doesn’t work in a counterproductive way.” Daszak added, “We’ll then put it out in a way that doesn’t link it back to our collaboration so we maximize an independent voice.”

During a House Oversight Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing in March 2023, former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield said he believes American tax dollars funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.) asked Redfield, “Is it likely that American tax dollars funded the gain-of-function research that created this virus?”

Redfield replied, “I think it did, not only from NIH, but from the State Department, USAID, and DOD.”

Zhengli has gone on record to say that she does not believe in the lab-leak theory that COVID-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology — a biosafety level-4 lab, which requires the highest level of safety protocols and equipment because of the study of high-consequence biological agents.

Blaze News reported in July 2021 that Zhengli purportedly had “collaborated with two military scientists on coronavirus work, one of whom is now deceased under unknown circumstances.”

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Missouri AG tells Glenn Beck the plan for how to hold China accountable for COVID-19
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Missouri AG tells Glenn Beck the plan for how to hold China accountable for COVID-19

The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled earlier this month that the State of Missouri’s lawsuit originally filed in 2020 against China seeking damages for the communist regime’s culpability over the COVID-19 pandemic could move forward. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey explained to Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck Monday precisely how the Show-Me State intends to exact its retribution and made clear that retaking American farmland is part of the equation.

“We’re going to win,” said Bailey.

Court documents
indicated that the state’s position in Missouri v. China is that the communist nation “is to blame for COVID-19. In its view, negligence led to the virus’s escape from the laboratories at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. From there, the Chinese government allowed the virus to spread all over the world and engaged in a campaign to keep other countries from learning about it.”

Blaze News
previously noted that besides likely manufacturing the deadly virus and failing to contain it in a lab with a history of hygiene problems, Chinese authorities delayed warning the world about the emergence of the deadly disease, going to great lengths to silence whistleblowers like the late Li Wenliang, who tried to raise the alarm. When the regime finally got around to alerting the World Health Organization on Dec. 31, 2019, China claimed, “The disease is preventable and controllable.”

While burying evidence of the virus and its origins, destroying lab samples, and denying sample requests from other countries, China also
apparently began stockpiling personal protective equipment, such that when the world discovered what was really unfolding, there was a scarcity of medical equipment and masks.

Missouri hammered China with a number of claims in its initial complaints, but the Eighth Circuit appeals panel decided only one claim — which fell under the “commercial activity” exception of the
Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act — could proceed: namely that China hoarded PPE.

“Missouri’s overarching theory is that China leveraged the world’s ignorance about COVID-19,”
wrote Judge David Stras in the ruling. “One way it did so was by manipulating the worldwide personal-protective market. Missouri must still prove it, but it has alleged enough to allow the claim to proceed beyond a jurisdictional dismissal on the pleadings.”

‘That’s how little the Chinese communist government thinks about these United States of America.’

“We filed a lawsuit against China and the Chinese communist government asking for $25 billion — with a B — dollars in restitution and remediation for the damage they caused the Missourians by unleashing the COVID pandemic on the United States of America and then hoarding and withholding the PPE needed for the state to respond to the crisis,” Bailey told Beck.

A previous effort to hold China accountable, Republican Texas Rep. Troy Nehls’ 2023 “China Lied, People Died” Act (
H.R.566), estimated that “the cover-up of COVID-19 by the … Chinese Communist Party has caused significant economic harm around the world and has cost the United States economy $16,000,000,000,000.”

Bailey noted that the trial for
Missouri v. China kicks off in earnest today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, adding, “We are going to win.”

When pressed by Beck on the basis for his optimism, Bailey said, “It helps when the other side doesn’t show up.”

Politico
previously noted that neither the Chinese regime nor any other defendant, such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has responded to the case in court.

“That’s how little the Chinese communist government thinks about these United States of America,” continued the state attorney general. “They won’t even participate in a judicial process.”

While China may have no intention to pay up, Bailey indicated that if afforded a valid judgment by a federal court, Missouri can begin “seizing assets that the Chinese government owns, not only in the state of Missouri but using any willing partner in any state in the United States of America.”

Although Bailey suggested that the state is still in the process of identifying potential Chinese assets to seize, farmland might be the way to begin working up to the $25 billion figure. A
2021 report from the Department of Agriculture indicated that China had by that time acquired roughly 384,000 acres of American agricultural land. It will take a lot more, however, to make Missourians whole for the fallout caused by the pandemic.

Bailey noted further that regarding the case, Missouri is in “constant contact with the Trump administration.”

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Blaze News original: Let us never forget the left’s reprehensible behavior toward fellow Americans who refused COVID jabs
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Blaze News original: Let us never forget the left’s reprehensible behavior toward fellow Americans who refused COVID jabs

After COVID-19 vaccines became available in early 2021, not everybody in America was down with the getting the jabs. Typical vaccines take years of testing prior to approval, but since the COVID vaccines were produced with lightning speed, lots of folks were concerned and resisted getting the shots.

Readers of Blaze News won’t soon forget what happened next. Vaccine mandates and steadily growing pressure to get the jab turned into an all-out assault on “anti-vaxxers” by the government, businesses, the mainstream media, celebrities, politicians, and the medical community.

‘If you ask me what’s my first reaction to you if you’re not vaccinated, and you don’t have any medical reason not to be, you’re a piece of s**t, OK? I just want to punch you in the goddamned face.’

In September 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring federal workers to be vaccinated; that same month, he announced a sweeping vaccination mandate for businesses with more than 100 employees, which the Supreme Court later blocked.

In October 2021, Biden said he believed police officers and first responders who refused the jab should be fired.

Widespread firings indeed happened. Teachers were terminated for not getting vaccinated. Businesses and hospitals fired employees who refused the jab. A viral video showed a nurse being escorted out of a hospital after her religious exemption was denied, and a UCLA doctor suffered a similar fate.

An October 2021 New York City vaccine mandate required all city employees — including police and firefighters — to get the jab or lose their jobs. Indeed, 1,400 city workers were canned for refusing vaccinations, but incredibly Mayor Eric Adams (D) in March 2022 exempted city-based athletes and performers from the mandate. That came after the awful optics of then-Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving, who was unvaccinated, being barred from playing in Brooklyn’s home games — but somehow being allowed to watch those games from the seats in the Nets’ arena.

Want more bad looks? How about an unvaccinated Coast Guard member who, after rescuing Hurricane Ian victims, faced termination for not getting the jab? Biden managed to personally thank the hero days before his scheduled dismissal. Or Washington, D.C., Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser announcing no virtual instruction options for unvaccinated students? Turns out 40% of black students were in that mix. Or a trio of unvaccinated Air Force Academy cadets who were denied their commissions? Or the Navy barring a destroyer from setting sail because its commander wouldn’t get the jab?

How about a hospital pulling the plug on a lifesaving kidney transplant because the donor wasn’t vaccinated? Or a health care system denying an organ transplant to a dying unvaccinated woman? Or another hospital removing a dying man from its heart transplant list because he was unvaccinated?

Along with the aforementioned gut-punches from those in power against the unvaccinated, further bolstering the cause were the seemingly daily insults — which arguably were dangerous in some cases — from the left against those who refused the jab.

A number of your favorite usual suspects show up below, and you may even remember some of their astonishing declarations. A number of them called for shaming and shunning the unvaccinated. Others wanted to make life a “living hell” for them. One even wanted to punch them in the “goddamned face.” You get the idea.

Let’s not ever forget.

Sunny Hostin declares ‘we need to shun those that refuse to get vaccinated’ — specifically ‘white evangelicals’ and ‘Republicans’

Sunny Hostin of “The View” tore into Americans who indicated they wouldn’t get the COVID-19 vaccine by saying we should “shun” them — and the co-host specifically called out “white evangelicals” and “Republicans.”

Hostin said during the show’s May 3, 2021, episode that “when you look at the folks that are not getting vaccinated — because it’s a quarter of Americans that aren’t getting vaccinated — white evangelicals: 45% say they won’t get vaccinated according to … Pew Research … almost 50% of Republicans are refusing to get the vaccine. So we won’t reach herd immunity because of those particular groups.”

Then the co-host lowered the boom: “So I say we need to shun those that refuse to get vaccinated.”

She added that unvaccinated Americans should be refused entry into certain places: “I think if you have not been vaccinated, no entry. You want to get on a plane? You gotta be vaccinated, show proof of vaccination. And those people who don’t want to get vaccinated … that’s fine for you, but you can’t spread it to other people. … You don’t get those other liberties that come with immunity. Something has to break. If that’s your personal choice not to get vaccinated, you don’t then get to infringe on the rights of those who have chosen to protect their fellow citizens.”

You can view Hostin’s comments here just after the 3:30 mark.

James Carville wants law passed that allows him, others to punch ‘piece of s**t’ unvaccinated Americans in the ‘godd**ned face’

“I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability if you punch some unvaccinated person right in the face, which I’d really like to do,” Carville — a famous Democratic operative — said during a February 2022 episode of the “Politics War Room” podcast.

He also said, “If you ask me what’s my first reaction to you if you’re not vaccinated, and you don’t have any medical reason not to be, you’re a piece of s**t, OK? I just want to punch you in the goddamned face.”

Carville added, “That’s the way I look at these people.”

Jimmy Kimmel says unvaccinated Americans who have taken ivermectin should be denied ICU beds and left to die: ‘Rest in peace, wheezy’

Kimmel in a September 2021 monologue took potshots at Americans who have refused the COVID jab — particularly those who have taken the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

“I leave you people alone for two months, and you start taking horse worm medicine?” he asked the crowd in reference to ivermectin.

“Dr. [Anthony] Fauci said that if hospitals get any more overcrowded, they’re gonna have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed,” Kimmel also said, before adding a witty gut-buster.

“That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me,” he continued. “Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in, we’ll take care of ya. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.” You can watch the segment here.

Far-left NY Gov. Kathy Hochul actually preaches COVID jab gospel from church pulpit: ‘Smart’ vaccinated people must ‘be my apostles’ and evangelize unvaccinated who ‘aren’t listening to God’

Far-left New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) gave a sermon of sorts to a Brooklyn megachurch on the last Sunday of September 2021 — and the Democrat preached the gospel of getting COVID-19 vaccines. You can view Hochel’s homily here.

Speaking about the trials of the pandemic to the Christian Cultural Center, Hochul told listeners that she “prayed a lot to God during this time, and you know what? God did answer our prayers. He made the smartest men and women — the scientists, the doctors, the researchers — he made them come up with a vaccine!”

Hochul added that the COVID-19 vaccines are “from God to us, and we must say, ‘Thank you, God! Thank you!'” She then held aloft not a cross but her “vaccinated” necklace, telling congregants that she wears it “all the time” to announce to the world that “I’m vaccinated!”

Hochul also gave a sacred mission to the “smart ones” who’ve been vaccinated: to be her “apostles” and spread the Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J gospel to the unvaccinated heathen who “aren’t listening to God.”

Tucker Carlson was taken aback by “high priestess” Hochul and discussed during his Fox News show the following night the growing “cult of coronavirus” that possesses “its own sacraments” and “its own sacred texts” — just like other religions.

MSNBC’s Joy Reid says conservatives who defy COVID jab are ‘angels of death’ — and asks, ‘How many more people have to die before these ghouls are satisfied?’

In late November 2021, Reid ripped into conservatives who refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine: “It’s about power and spreading lies and fake outrage so the MAGA squad wins elections. They are today’s angels of death. Refusing to get vaccinated and urging fellow Americans to remain exposed even as their own parents, grandparents, and children die of COVID. The numbers prove it. Red America has the highest rates of COVID death, but the lowest rates of vaccinations. They are literally killing people.”

She also asked, “How many more people have to die before we say what we have all known for quite some time? This faction of the right is a death cult. Six unvaccinated members of a Florida family dead after contracting COVID, mothers dying shortly after giving birth, parents of young children wiped out. And then the harrowing news that more than 140,000 U.S. children have lost a caregiver due to the pandemic. Almost two years in, the trauma is irreversible. It’s a trauma that has crossed generations. It is permanent and unforgiving. And so we ask again, how many more people have to die before these ghouls are satisfied?”

Keith Olbermann calls unvaccinated people ‘snowflakes,’ ‘morons,’ ‘losers,’ ‘cowards’ in video rant

Leftist Keith Olbermann called unvaccinated people “snowflakes,” “morons,” “losers,” “cowards” — among other descriptors — in a Twitter video rant posted on Oct. 1, 2021. He added that that they’re “afraid” of getting the shot and that vaccinated people should stop “coddling” them.

Here’s his word-for-word diatribe:

It is time to stop coddling them — the ones who won’t get the damn shot already. And our first step, you and I, is symbols. The language we use. We call these people “vaccine-hesitant.” “Vaccine skeptics.” “Anti-vax.” We say they’re “protesting mandates and passports.” They’re “making a personal choice.” They’re “waiting for more information.” They’re “making a medical decision.” Bulls**t! They’re afraid! They’re afraid to get vaccinated. Stop feeding their egos about what they’re doing. Stop legitimizing it. “Vaccine-hesitant”? They’re afraid! “Vaccine skeptics”? They’re afraid! “Anti-vax”? They’re afraid! They’re “protesting mandates and passports”? They’re afraid! They’re “making a personal choice”? They’re afraid! They’re “waiting for more information”? Afraid! They’re “making a medical decision” — to be afraid! The snowflakes are afraid! Afraid of the vaccine. Afraid of being proved wrong. Afraid of doing what anybody else in the world tells them to do. Afraid of needles! So no more pleasant euphemisms about what’s going on here — apart from the people who have legitimate medical complications about vaccines — we have to stop coddling the morons who will not get the shot. We start by calling them what they are. They are all snowflakes. And cowards. And idiots. And losers. And most importantly, they are afraid!

Don Lemon on unvaccinated Americans: They’re ‘stupid’ and ‘harmful to the greater good,’ and we should ‘start shaming them or leave them behind’

In September 2021, the now-former CNN host ripped into “stupid” unvaccinated people and demanded that Americans stop “coddling them.”

“The people who are not getting vaccines, who are believing the lies on the internet instead of science, it’s time to start shaming them,” Lemon declared. “Or leave them behind, because they’re keeping the majority of Americans behind.”

He then screamed at the unvaccinated for not trusting the COVID vaccine while having no problems with other vaccines — which he failed to point out have been around for decades and have been proven safe for generations of Americans: “You didn’t feel that way for the polio vaccine, you don’t feel that way about measles, mumps, rubella when it comes to your children. And all of a sudden this vaccine is different? What’s different about it?” He added, “The only different thing about it is because of your politics today.”

Lemon last year doubled down on his views, calling those who didn’t get the COVID jab “selfish.”

Ana Navarro says she does not want to know any unvaccinated people: ‘Your “personal freedom” is holding the rest of us hostage’

Ana Navarro on Dec. 21, 2021, posted on Twitter that she doesn’t want to be around or even know anyone who remains unvaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a medical reason.

“Unless you have a LEGITIMATE medical reason, if you’re not vaccinated, I don’t want to see you, talk to you, work w/you, socialize w/you or know you. It’s enough. Your ‘personal freedom’ is holding the rest of us hostage. It’s selfish and stupid,” she wrote.

CNN medical analyst Leana Wen likens unvaccinated people in public to drunk drivers

In September 2021, CNN medical analyst Leana Wen — the former head of Planned Parenthood — likened unvaccinated people in public to drunk drivers.

“You have the option to not get vaccinated if you want, but then you can’t go out in public,” she noted to then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo. Wen added: “Just like you can choose to drink in private if you want, but if you get behind the wheel of a car and can endanger other people, there is an obligation by society to prevent you from doing that.”

Wen also insisted around that time that life “needs to be hard” for unvaccinated Americans.

But would you believe she was singing different tunes later on?

In December 2022, Wen admitted that natural immunity from COVID-19 is optimal — and a month later she warned that officials have been overcounting COVID-19 deaths.

Joy Behar implies unvaccinated COVID patients don’t deserve medical help since they’ve ‘chosen to listen to the lies’ on Fox News

Leftist Joy Behar implied during a September 2021 episode of “The View” that unvaccinated COVID-19 patients don’t deserve medical help because they’ve “chosen to defy the science” and have “chosen to listen to the lies on Fox [News]” — all while patients with other needs can’t get hospital beds.

Former Utah Rep. Mia Love — a Republican — sat at the table as a guest and argued that it’s a “slippery slope” for doctors to say they won’t treat unvaccinated patients since that declaration could lead to them saying they won’t treat people for other illnesses.

Behar at first agreed with Love that doctors denying health care to smokers and the morbidly obese could be problematic — but Behar then declared that such patients have developed “long-term” habits compared to the one-time decision by unvaccinated people to reject thea COVID-19 shot “based on false information.”

She added — as if she were speaking to unvaccinated COVID-19 patients — they should “go to [Fox News host] Tucker Carlson and make your case. Because he’s telling you lies. He and other people on Fox and on some parts of Facebook are telling you lies about the vaccine.”

Baltimore’s Democrat mayor tells unvaccinated citizens to ‘shut up’: ‘It’s your fault that we’re going back to having an indoor mask mandate’

Democrat Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott in August 2021 left no doubt about whom he blamed for the spike in COVID-19 cases in his city and the subsequent resumption of mask mandates.

“For anyone that’s frustrated about wearing a mask — and you’re not vaccinated — then look in the mirror. It’s your fault that we’re going back to having an indoor mask mandate,” Scott said. “Make sure that folks get vaccinated. If you’re not vaccinated, shut up. Don’t complain.”

You can view a video report here that includes Scott’s remarks.

5-year-old boy reduced to tears as NYPD officers tell his mother they have to leave restaurant because they don’t have their COVID vaccination papers

An Instagram video posted on Christmas Eve 2021 shows a 5-year-old boy reduced to tears at a New York City restaurant as police officers tell his mother they have to leave because they don’t have their vaccination papers.

Police told the boy’s mother that anyone without proof of vaccination could be charged with trespassing: “If you leave voluntarily, there will not be charges pressed against you; otherwise you will be arrested for trespass. This is your only warning.”

Several angry bystanders could be seen recording the incident and yelling at cops about their rights being infringed. “Scaring a child, traumatizing a child. I hope you feel good about yourself, NYPD,” a woman says. “This is disgusting. This is gross.”

The video went viral as New York City began enforcing the strictest private-sector vaccine mandate in the nation at the time. The mandate, enacted by far-left Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio, required everyone age 12 and up to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to patronize businesses with indoor spaces — including restaurants, gyms, music venues, movie theaters, and other indoor public spaces.

‘It’s time to make life a living hell for anti-vaxxers,’ Washington Post columnist writes

A Washington Post columnist lambasted the vaccine-hesitant and praised French President Emmanuel Macron in a January 2022 piece titled, “Macron is right: It’s time to make life a living hell for anti-vaxxers.”

James McAuley, global opinions contributing columnist for the Post, recounted Macron’s headline-grabbing statements from the prior week saying he wanted to push the unvaccinated out of public life in France until they get the jabs.

“The unvaccinated, I really want to piss them off. And so we’re going to continue doing so, until the end. That’s the strategy,” Macron told newspaper Le Parisien in an interview, Reuters reported.

McAuley noted that “the English translation hardly does the comment justice. In French, the verb he used is ’emmerder,’ which means, quite literally, to cover in excrement.”

He added that Macron “happens to be totally right. There is no justifiable excuse for refusing vaccination, which is the only way the pandemic will ever come close to ending. Macron has set a fine example for other world leaders to follow in refusing to kowtow before ignorance or honor selfishness.”

CNN medical guest and ethics ‘expert’ declares America must increase punishments for the unvaccinated: ‘Condemn them,’ ‘shame them,’ ‘blame them,’ ‘penalize them more’

In January 2022, Arthur Caplan — then head of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine — said during a CNN segment that America must increase punishments for the unvaccinated.

Caplan said that though he wants Americans to “act as a team” and doesn’t want to “reject those who still haven’t done the right thing” by getting the jabs, he will gladly “condemn them” and “shame them” and then “blame them.”

“We can penalize them more,” he added. “We can say, ‘You’ve got to pay more on your hospital bill if you weren’t vaccinated. You can’t get life insurance or disability insurance at affordable rates if you aren’t vaccinated.’ Those companies should not treat us as equals in terms of what the financial burdens are that that disease imposes.”

“I can think of a number of ways in which we should say, ‘Here’s the stick. Get on board,'” he concluded.

‘Let hospitals quietly triage emergency care to serve the unvaccinated last,’ writer from the Atlantic declares

David Frum, a staff writer at the Atlantic, in December 2021 wrote on Twitter that hospitals should be permitted to place those who haven’t taken the COVID jab at the bottom of emergency care priority.

In the face of negative reaction to his post, Frum doubled down: “Reading the reactions to this tweet, I am impressed by the immense self-pity of the anti-vaxxers — who see themselves as bottomless victims, even as their own bad choices deny hospital care to so many others in desperate need.”

He added: “If, at this point, you are still unvaccinated, you are not a victim. You are a cause of the victimization of vulnerable others.”

Obama’s education secretary compares ‘anti-mask,’ ‘anti-vax’ Americans to suicide bombers

Arne Duncan, secretary of education for most of Barack Obama’s presidency, in late August 2021 compared terrorist suicide bombers to “anti-mask and anti-vax” Americans.

Duncan in a now-deleted social media post said Americans opposed to face masks and vaccines are “strikingly similar” to terrorists who carried out an attack outside a Kabul airport the previous week: “Have you noticed how strikingly similar both the mindsets and actions are between the suicide bombers at Kabul’s airport, and the anti-mask and anti-vax people here? They both blow themselves up, inflict harm on those around them, and are convinced they are fighting for freedom.”

Middle school teacher says we’d be ‘lucky’ if the unvaccinated die — and adds that could ‘cut out 30% of the population that votes the wrong way’

A middle school teacher in Washington state reportedly said on social media that America would be “lucky” if unvaccinated people are denied health care and die from COVID-19.

The teacher, who reportedly works at Wy’East Middle School in Vancouver, boasted on Facebook that she’s “ready to say let them die,” referring to unvaccinated people, KTTH-AM reported in August 2021.

“You made a choice to not get your shot for any reason other than a doctor’s note, you should not be allowed health care. You are like the brats in class that ruin it for everyone,” the post read.

The teacher even suggested that allowing the unvaccinated to die also solves another issue for her: “If we’re lucky we can cut out 30% of the population that votes the wrong way.” The teacher added, “Plus less people using up all the resources. Let the hunger games begin.”

According to KTTH, the teacher deleted her Facebook account after her post began circulating among local parents. KTTH, however, preserved a screenshot of the shocking comments.

Obama-era official says the unvaccinated should be placed on a no-fly list

Juliette Kayyem — a former assistant secretary for Homeland Security who served under Barack Obama — argued in an August 2021 piece published in the Atlantic that “a no-fly list for unvaccinated adults is an obvious step that the federal government should take.”

“The public debate about making vaccination a precondition for travel, employment, and other activities has described this approach as vaccine mandates, a term that, to conservative critics, suggests that unvaccinated people are being ordered around arbitrarily. What is actually going on, mostly, is that institutions are shifting burdens to unvaccinated people — denying them access to certain spaces, requiring them to take regular COVID-19 tests, charging them for the cost of that testing — rather than imposing greater burdens on everyone. Americans still have a choice to go unvaccinated, but that means giving up on certain societal benefits,” Kayyem wrote. “Amid a global health crisis, people who defy public-health guidance are not, and do not deserve to be, a protected class.”

New York Times gets torched after singling out ‘white evangelical resistance’ as ‘obstacle’ in COVID-19 vaccination effort

The New York Times’ headline in an April 2021 story spelled it out plainly: “White Evangelical Resistance Is Obstacle in Vaccination Effort.” The Times’ piece indeed singled a giant swath of humanity as an enemy of COVID-19 vaccines — using race and faith as its sole parameters.

The story also claimed that white evangelical “opposition is rooted in a mix of religious faith and a long-standing wariness of mainstream science, and it is fueled by broader cultural distrust of institutions and gravitation to online conspiracy theories.”

After the Times posted a link to its story on Twitter, a number of commenters backed the paper’s premise. In fact, one person said white evangelicals should be placed in “one big arena. Let them pray or sing or whatever they do. Let the virus run rampant throughout the venue. Let science decide their fate.”

But others took issue with the Times’ report. One commenter shot back, “Bravo @nytimes, I think you have really outdone yourself with this one. You have found another way to be decisive and to further divide the country. Take the vaccine or else it’s your fault and be seen as an outsider who does not belong in our society.”

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‘So egregious’: Wisconsin officials launch investigation into nearly 200 uncounted ballots
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‘So egregious’: Wisconsin officials launch investigation into nearly 200 uncounted ballots

The Wisconsin Elections Commission held a special meeting on Thursday after learning that 193 absentee ballots from the city of Madison were never counted in November’s election.

Of the uncounted absentee ballots, 125 were from Ward 56, 67 from Ward 65, and one from Ward 68.

‘That’s very, very disturbing.’

Elections Commission Chair Ann Jacobs (D) called the error “so egregious.” She questioned why it took more than six weeks to report the issue to commissioners.

“We are the final canvassers,” Jacobs said. “We are the final arbiters of votes in the state of Wisconsin, and we need to know why those ballots weren’t included anywhere.”

Personnel with the Madison Clerk’s Office reportedly first discovered some of the unprocessed ballots on November 12.

While city officials learned of the oversight a week after the November election, the news did not become public until mid-December.

The clerk’s office released a statement announcing it would contact the affected voters and issue an apology.

“Moving forward, every polling location will receive a list of absentee envelope seal numbers that will be verified as counted on Election Day. The goal of the Clerk’s Office is that each eligible voter will be able to cast a ballot and have that ballot counted. Falling short of this goal for the November 2024 Election, we sincerely apologize to our voters and will strive to make sure this never happens again,” the statement read.

The clerk’s office noted that the uncounted ballots would not have impacted the outcome of any of the races.

Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway (D) addressed the error in a separate statement, calling it “a significant departure from the high standard our residents expect.”

“Unfortunately, Clerk’s Office staff were apparently aware of the oversight for some time, and the Mayor’s Office was not notified of the unprocessed ballots until December 20,” she said.

Rhodes-Conway stated that the city would “conduct a thorough review.”

The commission typically opens investigations in response to complaints, and one has not yet been filed for the uncounted ballots. However, the commissioners voted unanimously this week to open an inquiry into the issue.

During Thursday’s commission meeting, Jacobs said, “Given the seriousness of what happened here, our lack of knowledge (and) information that was not given to us in a timely fashion, I think we need to do something more formal.”

Commissioner Don Millis (R) remarked, “My biggest concern is why it took a month and a half for this to come out.”

“That’s very, very disturbing,” he added.

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Biden spy chiefs sidelined FBI, researchers who suspected COVID-19 lab leak: Report
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Biden spy chiefs sidelined FBI, researchers who suspected COVID-19 lab leak: Report

According to a new report in the Wall Street Journal, spy chiefs prevented the FBI and Pentagon scientists from providing a counterpoint to their preferred COVID-19 origin theory at an important intelligence briefing in 2021.

There was a concerted effort by elements of the Biden administration and the scientific establishment during the pandemic to downplay the possibility that the COVID-19 virus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where dangerous gain-of-function experiments were conducted on coronaviruses, sometimes with American funding.

While characterizing what was all along the most likely explanation as a conspiracy theory and in some cases censoring discussion of it online, the powers that be also did their best to suggest that a cross-species leap to humans was ultimately to blame. Official acceptance of this narrative would help shift blame for millions of deaths away from the communist Chinese regime, Peter Daszak’s debarred EcoHealth Alliance, and the numerous American federal agencies that were involved with radical experimentation at the epicenter of the pandemic.

According to the Journal, when it came time for the intelligence community to present its findings to President Joe Biden, spy chiefs excluded the FBI — which had concluded with “moderate confidence” that a lab leak was the likely cause — from its Aug. 24, 2021, briefing along with damning genomic analysis from Pentagon scientists, which again pointed to human error.

Jason Bannan, a microbiologist who worked as a scientist at the FBI for nearly 20 years, told the Journal that his superiors primed him for the August intelligence community briefing with Biden but that he was never given the opportunity to offer what would have apparently been a contrasting view to the zoonotic origins narrative ultimately pushed by the director of national intelligence, former CIA Deputy Director Avril Haines.

A report earlier this year from Michael Shellenberger’s investigative outfit, Public, indicated that the bureau possibly knew about a lab leak at the WIV as early as March 2020.

“The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a February 2023 interview. “I will just make the observation that the Chinese government … has been doing its best to try to thwart and obfuscate the work here, the work that we’re doing, the work that our U.S. government and close foreign partners are doing. And that’s unfortunate for everybody.”

“Being the only agency that assessed that a laboratory origin was more likely, and the agency that expressed the highest level of confidence in its analysis of the source of the pandemic, we anticipated the FBI would be asked to attend the briefing,” said Bannan. “I find it surprising that the White House didn’t ask.”

The champions of the zoonotic origin theory may have wanted to limit the bureau’s presence at the briefing in order to maintain the credibility of their preferred narrative. After all, experts at the FBI apparently weren’t playing ball.

‘The scientists who had the subject matter expertise were silenced.’

The Journal indicated, for instance, that the National Intelligence Council prepared a chart for inclusion in its report to Biden that insinuated commonalities between the COVID-19 pandemic and past zoonotic outbreaks. However, FBI experts allegedly suggested that the chart betrayed a proper understanding of striking and critical differences between the new virus and past viruses, especially regarding their contagiousness.

Experts at the FBI also apparently ruffled feathers — particularly those of Adrienne Keen, a State Department official who served as a consultant to WHO but now works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — by highlighting the thesis of a WIV scientist, Yu Ping, which indicated that the virus responsible for the pandemic was indigenous to the mountainous Yunnan province in the west of China. The trouble for proponents of the zoonotic origins theory was that the initial spread was not in Yunnan but nearly 1,000 miles away, in the neighborhood of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Hubei province.

The insights of scientists at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency were similarly poorly received and ultimately glossed over.

The Journal noted that John Hardham, Robert Cutlip, and Jean-Paul Chretien, whose 2020 paper challenging the zoonotic origin claim was quarantined, conduced a genomic analysis that showed that the virus had undergone meddling in a lab.

The trio, working at the DIA’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, determined that the virus’ spike protein was not a product of evolution but of human engineering, made using techniques developed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and described in a 2008 paper — a telltale sign of gain-of-function experimentation.

Although the trio reportedly briefed their counterparts, including one of Bannan’s partners at the FBI, Hardham, Cutlip and Chretien were ordered by a superior at the Center for Medical Intelligence Center in July 2021 to cut the FBI off from further disclosures about their work.

In addition to having their work siloed, the National Intelligence Council’s briefing to the president reportedly excluded a number of the Pentagon scientists’ proposed edits.

While it appears there was a desire for narrative conformity, a spokeswoman for the director of national intelligence’s office suggested to the Journal that divergent viewpoints were fairly represented.

A source familiar with the investigation told the New York Post, “The scientists who had the subject matter expertise were silenced.”

The NIC report that Haines and two of her senior analysts presented to Biden in August ultimately concluded with “low confidence” that the virus was the result of a cross-species leap and “was probably not genetically engineered.”

“What ended up on the intelligence community’s cutting-room floor needs to be re-examined,” said Bannan.

The Journal suggested that politics was a factor in the approach taken to the competing theories both in Washingon, D.C., and in the scientific community. Then-President Donald Trump suggested in May 2020 that he had seen evidence that gave him a “high degree of confidence” that the virus originated in a Chinese lab.

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