Is it warm in here? An origins update
While many things in this hearing stand out, the issue with Mr. Wade’s book raised by ranking member Ruiz, brought everything to a halt, and I suspect that was his intention.
An update to my last stack.
Biden signed the bill into law.
Requiring the Secretary of Intelligence to hand over all information relating to covid origins.
On March 8th the subcommittee held its first hearing,
find the full video Here.
While many things in this hearing stand out, the issue with Mr. Wade’s book raised by ranking member Ruiz, brought everything to a halt, and I suspect that was his intention. From hands in the cookie jar to a Jurassic Park quote there were plenty of political flies being cast into the turbulent course of this hearing. Luckily, no matter what our election representatives do we still have the dedicated work of witnesses like Jamie Metzl, and Dr. Redfield who put forth a compelling case.
I learned of this hearing from Dr. John Campbell’s video titled Gain of function research.
Perhaps no one is in a better position to speak to the disservices in the early days of the pandemic than Dr. Robert Redfield, who at the time, was Director of the CDC. At 2:02:28 in the full hearing video, Dr. Redfield testifies that in his opinion three particular events in September 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lead him to believe an escape had occurred.
1. A database of genetic sequences was deleted.
2. Control of the lab switched from civilian to military.
3. New ventilation was installed at the lab.
Now my jaw dropped when I heard number 3. Really? THE VENTILATION! What could be more obvious? besides a pandemic of course. Like everybody else, I can’t know for sure how this all started, but if I were to guess, somebody had a pretty good reason to redo the ventilation at that lab at that time, when it was still unknown to the world and wouldn’t be seen as wiping the gun. Problems with the air conditioning are discussed on pg. 58 in the addendum report.
The insidious speed with which our government whipped up the Jan. 6th hearings, only to be pushed back for a summer holiday, then postponed a week when an apartment building in Florida collapsed, deciding it best not to battle for a news cycle. Here we are 3 years in and the first hearing just happened. I get it, democracy came this close to being toppled by Trump’s minions, though we’ll never know how bad it could’ve been because they were not successful, control was restored by sundown. Had things gone differently would we be able to recognize the world as anything we knew before? I would say covid was just that, is wasn’t almost a pandemic, it was a pandemic, not to say I agree with our response to it, but it’s scope and severity was on a much larger scale than what took place on Jan. 6th, so why did it take 3 years to get this hearing?
How you answer that question, might say a whole lot about your world view. If it's irrelevant that says even more and you’re most likely not reading this.
Though we may not live with covid in our day to day lives, there lies in most of us some drastic readily recalled change that resulted from it. We experienced many things in 2020, one being an honest fear that nobody knew where this could go. Doctors ruled our lives, the death tracker never rests.
Outside, beside the toilet paper, the essential world rolled along.
And then George Floyd died, and a world in the middle of a pandemic, became overwhelmed by the video and began to scream injustice. The death of one in the midst of a pandemic, can burn a summer into memory.
My point withstanding, protests are not a viable option during a pandemic. Not that people shouldn’t protest, do what you want, but if people sensed their lives were in danger from the virus, would things have played out the way they did? But they had masks on. If this virus can escape a fucking lab I don’t think a mask poses much of a problem for it. If the point of protest is to gather and shout, draw attention, masks become futile. With the world advised to social distance millions gathered in solidarity for justice. Discrepancies, grave and ironic.
Duped, or in Dr. Redfield’s words, “misguided,” not only about the origin of covid, but nearly everything about it. At 2:21:54 Dr. Redfield testifies that he believes the answer to the origins of covid won’t come from the scientific community, but will come from the intelligence community. A heavy assertion for a former Director of the CDC to make, an eerie look behind the curtain of what we’re up against.
With Biden passing this bill, we may soon have the opportunity to draw the curtain back further.
Yesterday the subcommittee held it’s second hearing on the subject of the effects of lockdowns on children and schools. There is still more work to be done.
Family Ties: A Sepulchral Postscript
I credit Biden for doing the right thing, despite an investigation closing in on him. Many of us got a whiff of this before the 2020 election or during the first Trump impeachment, but lost the scent in the interim. Though some have not, a memorandum detailing how the Bidens’ were a busy bunch over the course of Joe’s Vice Presidency.
Everywhere you look people will tell you Trump is corrupt, hell Trump will probably tell you, but it bothers me that Biden had all of media cover his ass to pass him off as some honest stuttering shmuck, and we want to believe. Sadly, he’s a politician, he blows in the wind and he'd crawl up an elephant's ass if it’d donate to his campaign.