During the height of COVID, corporate news couldn’t stop pumping out (often incorrect and misleading) articles about COVID (see bottom of this article). Now that new information is available, corporate media has gone radio silent. Nothing to see here, even though new information points to U.S. government responsibility for one of the greatest societal disruptions ever. In contract, Public, founded by Michael Shellenbeerger, continues to vigorously investigate the cause and responsibility for COVID. Consider this excerpt from Alex Gutentag’s recent article: “US And Chinese Scientists Made Plans To Engineer Coronaviruses Like SARS-CoV-2, New Documents Show: Was EcoHealth Alliance’s 2018 DEFUSE proposal a blueprint for bioweapons-related experiments that led to the Covid-19 lab leak?”
This historical evidence, as well as the scientific record, suggests that individuals involved in biodefense and pandemic preparedness may have been responsible for engineering the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The defense and preparedness push that gained funding and momentum after 9/11 appears to have become a self-fulfilling prophecy. In attempting to stop pathogens from transmitting to humans, scientists appear to have achieved the opposite.
The response to Covid-19 employed the same biodefense planning and structures. The National Security Council worked to craft Covid-19 policies, and Department of Defense officials were heavily involved in vaccine development and distribution. Out of 90 Operation Warp Speed leaders, 60 were military officials.
Despite the controversy surrounding Covid’s origin, the Department of Defense awarded a new $3 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance in December 2022. Gain-of-function research is largely continuing apace. Chinese scientists now claim to have created a mutated Covid-19 variant that killed humanized mice. The scientific value of this experiment is unclear.
Across the US, there are privately-operated “invisible” biolabs that slip through the cracks in federal regulation. Last year public health officials found that one of these secret privately-owned biolabs in California was mishandling 1,000 laboratory mice and samples of various infectious diseases.
What did Public Health get wrong about COVID? Consider this tweet thread by “Elizabeth Bennet,”a real-life pediatrician, commenting on Jay Bhattacharya’s tweet:
