Rand Paul wrote the issue of Imprimis disseminated this month. Here are a few interesting excerpts (HT: Fred):
Even if the goal is preventing future pandemics, the risk-benefit ratio (associated with virus identification efforts and conducting gain-of-function research) doesn’t add up. While advocates for identifying the world’s viruses argue that the knowledge gained will aid in developing vaccines, decades of virus identification have been fruitless, as no human vaccine has been developed in advance of a human epidemic. If we continue down this path, Esvelt believes that “deliberate pandemics” will kill “many more people than identification could save.”
To think that we can prevent future pandemics, even as we continue to seek, catalog, and manipulate dangerous viruses, is the height of hubris. Over the last few years, public health “experts” were wrong about almost everything. If we are to avoid these kinds of catastrophes in the future, we must reform government and rein in out-of-control scientists and their enablers...
Current regulations allow gain-of-function research to occur if the research is said to be concerned with “developing and producing” vaccines. However, dangerous research should not be permitted or funded on the basis of a potential product. Rather, we should ban clearly dangerous research and highly scrutinize anything else that “could enhance the virulence or transmissibility of any pathogen,” as the GoF Group recommends.
We should treat this research as we do nuclear weapons—as the potential threat to human life is even greater…
To prevent what happened during the Covid pandemic from happening again, Congress must address the concentration of power over long periods of time in the hands of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats. In particular, it should divide the power of the NIAID into three separate institutes overseeing allergic diseases, infectious diseases, and immunologic diseases. Each institute should be led by a director who is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate for a limited term of five years.
Anthony Fauci—who wielded tremendous power over many decades—funded dangerous research, lied to Congress and the American people, flip-flopped on many of his prognostications, issued edicts that defied science, and attacked and smeared his scientific critics.
Rand presents us with an indictment of Fauci and that we shouldn’t play with fire.
No, we shouldn’t, Fred. Thanks for alerting me to this article.
Is Ralph Baric the man who engineered the COVID-19 virus SARS-CoV-2 in his lab at the University of North Carolina?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/30/is-this-the-man-who-created-covid-19-in-faucis-u-s-lab/
It appears that he was deeply entangled in this entire mess, JayCee. This has been reported now for at least a couple of years. I suspect that, if it were not true, he would be suing a bunch of people for libel. (Same with Fauci, by the way.)
“Anthony Fauci—who wielded tremendous power over many decades—funded dangerous research, lied to Congress and the American people, flip-flopped on many of his prognostications, issued edicts that defied science, and attacked and smeared his scientific critics.”
Many, many people are dead because of Fauci’s power. As far back as a perfectly well Arthur Ashe until he was put on AZT. It is hard to relate to someone as psychopathically evil as Fauci.
Healey– I wonder, in fact, how intelligent he might be, or how well he was trained. There was definitely an aspect of self-interest and political maneuvering that motivated him, but I don’t think he knows as much as he should.
It is important to point out that, during early 2020, he initially had no real power with regard to Covid. The power was given to him.
I highly recommend RFK’s book on Fauci. He had control over billions of dollars of taxpayer money, in addition to his relations with BigPharma. He destroyed the careers of good scientists and spent untold billions on an AIDs vaccine over decades that never materialized.
Yeah, Trump is really remiss in not seeing through the DeepState people who had already lied to him for 3 and a half years. Fauci got connected to the CIA in the aftermath of 9/11 and the anthrax (probable red flag) thing. He was going to end up on top. We cannot imagine what power he has wielded, over a time period when all the health measures he oversaw have vastly worsened–allergies, autism, autoimmune disease, vaccine injuries…
Yes, Healey, he definitely had some level of influence through his own position and his relationships with other agencies. I had read Fauci’s book, and I certainly agree with you that many people died because of his influence and because of the power he was given during the early stages of Covid.
Who gave him this power? Certain Senate Republicans and Trump. They each had perhaps their own justifications for giving him this power.