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[LuFins Dad]

House Committee on COVID Origins had their first hearing today… Still live but I would go back to the beginning.

Link to video

So far we have had a Democrat Congressman call a NY Times Science Journalist a racist, Redfield (the head of the CDC at the time of the outbreak) claim that he was sidelined by Fauci for stating he believed lab leak to be a likely scenario, and MJT being MJT….

I don’t think there’s coming to be enough corn left to make ethanol…

[George K]

This doesn't sound too science-ey, does it?

Trump’s CDC director says Fauci shut down debate on Covid’s origin

Trump administration CDC Director Robert Redfield told a congressional committee Wednesday that his former colleague, Anthony Fauci, and former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins froze him out of discussions on Covid-19’s origins.

The accusation came during a politically charged hearing Wednesday of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and stoked Republican claims that Fauci in early 2020 promoted the view that an infected animal spread the virus to humans to divert attention from research the U.S. sponsored at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“It was told to me that they wanted a single narrative and then I obviously had a different point of view,” Redfield told representatives.

Redfield said Fauci, who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the time, and Collins left him out because Redfield suspected the coronavirus had leaked from the Chinese lab.

Fauci, who was not at the hearing, dismissed Redfield’s accusation as “completely untrue.”

“No one excluded anyone,” he told POLITICO after the hearing.

“And the idea of saying that he was not wanted there because he had a different opinion … there were several people on the call who had the opinion that it might have been an engineered virus,” said Fauci, who retired from his government post at the end of last year.

[jon-nyc]

It would be nice to have a serious public inquiry into the lab leak hypothesis but I have a feeling that will be something of a sideshow and will be pursued only instrumentally to make government agencies look bad.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Got your popcorn?:

to make government agencies look bad.

As if they need help achieving that goal, right?

[Rainman]

So, they finally get to the point where it looks like a lab leak.
Good job.
Then what?
Maybe, next time there will be policies in place based upon what they learn?
We will be so much better prepared.
Or not.

[89th]

@jon-nyc said in Got your popcorn?:

It would be nice to have a serious public inquiry into the lab leak hypothesis but I have a feeling that will be something of a sideshow and will be pursued only instrumentally to make government agencies look bad.

It's all good. I'm sure there will be a big hollywood movie that explains it all soon enough.

[Jolly]

@89th said in Got your popcorn?:

@jon-nyc said in Got your popcorn?:

It would be nice to have a serious public inquiry into the lab leak hypothesis but I have a feeling that will be something of a sideshow and will be pursued only instrumentally to make government agencies look bad.

It's all good. I'm sure there will be a big hollywood movie that explains it all soon enough.

Would be a helluva script...