COVID Week 77: More on gain of function and Fire Fauci!

As the Atlantic reports, a set of leaked PDFs adds fuel to the fire that what WIV was doing was gain of function research. The unholy trinity of names — Peter Daszak, Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli — are front and center on them. Flip side is that the work described by the leaked documents, if it happened (DARPA rejected a grant request) would have been done in the US. As for the claim that it would have been unethical to "steal" such research, ask the French who helped build the WIV site about ethics and related issues. They warned the US.

The other big issue is that these leaked papers have further undermined the credibility of Daszak in general.

This is all on top of a piece by the Intercept early this month with more on gain of function research. 

In turn, that further undermines the credibility of St. Anthony of Fauci and Francis Collins.

I have tackled this more than once before, myself, specifically about St. Anthony. Collins of course gets to stay in the background, but it's like St. Anthony knows he's got the #BlueAnon cult on his side, and that people who actually say not only "science," but also "political science," etc., who know that what the NIH et al funded WAS gain of function research, or who know that WIV showed it couldn't be trusted from the time the lab opened, as the French told us? I guess he figures this is tribalism / twosiderism. And, we haven't even touched the lab's lies about keeping live bats — bats that may well have been kept there as part of ... wait for it, wait for it ... gain of function research. And, the deletion of COVID DNA sequences from the web doesn't help your cause, either, WIV.

Were I president, even though he has civil service protections, I'd fire Fauci anyway if he kept making this claims, and challenge him to fight me in court.