RFK Jr. just admitted he has no idea how to stop a future pandemic. He had one of the worst interviews I have ever seen. This is terrifying. Subscribe to support my work: aaronparnas.substack.com
Make no mistake about it... anyone that lived through the pandemic and is being honest in their recollections, will attest that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx - were doing their part, legally, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
As a matter of fact, back then - Trump took pride in "Operation Warp Speed", to bypass the typical 5-10-year long clinical trial requirements, and rush the COVID-19 vaccine to market and production.
While Trump originally denied COVID-19, and claimed that Kung-Flu (racist naming of the virus) was only yet another "Democrat hoax": by October of 2020 - even Trump…
Make no mistake about it... anyone that lived through the pandemic and is being honest in their recollections, will attest that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx - were doing their part, legally, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
As a matter of fact, back then - Trump took pride in "Operation Warp Speed", to bypass the typical 5-10-year long clinical trial requirements, and rush the COVID-19 vaccine to market and production.
While Trump originally denied COVID-19, and claimed that Kung-Flu (racist naming of the virus) was only yet another "Democrat hoax": by October of 2020 - even Trump too had contracted COVID and became very ill. In Trump's own further denialism, cameras were trained on him the night he returned to the White House, where he proceeded to look visibly winded and grimacing, as he ascended the steps; of which, he went onto potentially pass on his COVID infection to over 60 other WH staffers.
While I can agree to two critical elements, the rest are pure spectal, distraction, and histrionic and bad-faith, in nature.
- Did COVID-19, originate from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
Answer: while there is no direct evidence of that, some scientists notably found that:
(1) Furin Cleavage Site (FCS) - Wuhan Institute of Virology had submitted a research proposal (the DEFUSE project) that discussed intentionally inserting furin cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses to study their pandemic potential.
(2) Synonymous Codon Usage (CGG-CGG) - human coronaviruses rarely use CGG for arginine, but genetic engineers frequently use it in laboratory settings because it is highly efficient in human cells; which was another feature found within COVID-19 - out in the wild.
(3) Immediate and High Optimization for Humans - some scientists argued, for a virus to pass the zoological barriers between species, it often takes time for enough natural mutations to occur, before the virus is capable of passing across specifies/zoological barriers.
(4) COVID-19 Contained a Chimeric Structure - highly similar to a bat coronavirus (RaTG13). However, its Receptor Binding Domain (RBD) (the exact "key" it uses to unlock human cells), closely matched a coronavirus found in pangolins. - Scientific Evidence that Supports/Suggests COVID-19 Did Not Originate from Wuhan Institute of Virology:
(1) Flawed Engineering - a landmark paper in Nature Medicine pointed out that the virus's biological "lock and key" mechanism is highly effective, but it is structured in a suboptimal, messy way. A genetic engineer trying to design a weapon or tool would have used a known, mathematically perfect template rather than building a messy, unpredictable structure from scratch.
(2) Lacked Typical "Engineering Scars" that would suggest it was engineered, within a lab - standard gene-editing techniques used up until that era typically left behind detectable chemical "scars," restriction sites, or specific genetic backbone vectors. None of these synthetic footprints were found in the SARS-CoV-2 genome.
(3) Furin Cleavage Sites - while rare, do occur completely naturally and frequently in other lineages of coronaviruses.
The bottom-line is that we are already quite aware that RFK Jr. is both not a medically trained doctor, nor scientist, and that he has been continuing to run on the lie and unfounded basis that vaccines are linked to autism. That particular researcher, cherry-picked, manufactured, and spoofed his numbers in order to bias his results. Subsequently, when other peer-review scientists had asked for the original data and discovered this, his original works had been discredited with proving the basis of his theory.
Nevertheless, his confirmation bias, was picked up in the court of public opinion via means of popular talk shows. By then, this basis for mistrust by the public continued to be parroted by non-academics - and the public as a whole - and continues to spread misinformation to this very day.
I would like to conclude by adding my own personal thoughts on this. First, if you read this article carefully, you would discover that while no direct evidence seems to suggest (or point to the fact) that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, there's an additional connection between COVID-19 and Wuhan - beyond the "wet market" origins theory. And second: we recognized that by rushing a vaccine to market, that the vaccine would not be fully vetted for its safety profile. That said, however, it was a risk that the government needed to take, to protect the public. If it wasn't for the vaccine and for society to subsequently go on to develop heard immunity: we'd still be suffering from the pandemic, to this day. Conversely, I recognize that due to the way that COVID-19 exploits the ACE-2 receptor in mammals, that we later discovered ACE-2 (Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2) dysregulation plays a central role in driving severe hyperinflammation and cytokine storms, particularly during infections like SARS-CoV-2. While the virus itself was a deadly virus and many healthy individuals went on to die from contracting the virus naturally, without a doubt - in a subset of the population, that dysregulation of clotting factors went on to cause cardiovascular deaths in younger populations - exposed to the vaccine.
The rest of this, with RFK Jr. stating squarely that Anthony Fauci had "hid" something... then why did he journal about it? Nothing required for him to journal about it, via government email - but, nevertheless, he did. Comparatively, Trump originally denied COVID-19 and stated squarely "it's never coming here", while failing to make an effort to have people self-isolate, or protect one another from subsequent infections. He waited until the virus had gotten out of control before acting, subsequently reacting, and originally claiming the virus was wake (and made up by radical Left lunatics. While the pandemic was undoubtingly traumatic - and an issue we still experience to this day - claiming that officials and scientists lied to the public, so they could force people to socially distance - is inacurrate. Actually, on the contrary. As it turns out, in the early days of COVID-19: miasma theory (dirty lingering air, where the droplets remained aerosolized in the air) was originally denied. That became the basis of social-distancing because it was presumed from studies in the 1950s and 1960s and fluid dynamics and presumed size of infected droplets were large enough that they would drop to the ground within 6 feet radius. However, subsequently it was an independent journalist that had discovered that the original fluid dynamics research was off by a factor of 10. Meaning: that miasma therory of virus and aerosolization of virus spread through miasma (or lingering dirty air), actually turned out to a mode of transport. That contrasts the efforts in the 1990s, where doctors said "so long as you wash your hands, you severally cut down on communal transmission of viruses". While clean hands are another factor that helps to prevent the spread of viruses, as it turns out - masks and their wearage and usage became all the more critical/paramount, to prevent the spread of the virus.
This was never about depriving people of rights, it was all about keeping the public safe: amid a virus we knew little about and where original modes of treatment - ventilator driven support - was originally adopted and became the standard. However, subsequently, doctors with time determined that while steroid medications are typically contraindicated - as they suppress immune function: in the case of COVID-19, they were a necessary and indicated tool employed, and helped to stave off further unnecessary deaths that arose as the result of mechanical ventilation/intubation alone (without the use of a steroid, to tamp down the underlying cytokine storm; which was a later discovery that saved lives).
