BY BILL JUNEAU
Along with the on-and-off mandates about wearing one or two masks or none at all, there is some fiery rhetoric being exchanged between U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and the veteran government immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci, adviser to President Biden.
Sen. Paul says that Fauci lied in testimony before Congress and should be fired and prosecuted. The 80-year-old Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who is regarded by the left wing as a candidate for sainthood, says Paul's charges are absurd and that Paul has no idea of what he is talking about, and that if anyone has told lies, it is Sen. Paul.
The Paul-Fauci clash is all about Chinese bats and research in the mysterious Wuhan Laboratory in Red China where Americans are regarded as inferior to Chinese super thinkers. Apparently Fauci is in awe of the Chinese and he authorized a contribution of some $600,000 to the lab, and its scientists managed, accidentally or intentionally, to unleash the deadly virus known as Covid-19 on the planet.
There are real questions surrounding the investigation into the deadly Covid-19 virus and its origin which points squarely to the Wuhan laboratories and its controversial research involving a species of Asian bats, the only mammals known to man that can fly on its own, and which possesses similarities to humans in internal functions.
Supposedly, the bat was a Chinese instrument used to test the transmissibility of the virus to humans and somehow the invisible killer escaped into the atmosphere and made its way around the world, killing more than 4 million persons, including 700,000 in the United States. And that is what happened, said Paul, a medical doctor who was a practicing ophthalmologist prior to election 10 years ago to the Senate.
So what is going on now, and what has gone on in the Wuhan laboratory where "brilliant" chemists were testing and weighing and analyzing substances in a maze of glass cylinders with tables containing test tubes and petri dishes and vials with colorful liquids being heated by Bunsen burners. The alleged Wuhan activities bring to mind visions of the incredible Frankenstein laboratory where a demented scientist in a white lab coat bustled about as thick white smoke emerged from boiling liquids and black bats hung from the ceilings watching and waiting.
Sen. Paul is charging that Dr. Fauci was a tool of the Chinese and directed some $600,000 to their lab and with his knowledge permitted research with bats known as "gain of function." America under President Obama put a stop to such "gain of function" research in 2014 because of controversies surrounding the danger of its use.
Recently, the Senate Health Commission held a hearing as a means of updating the senators on the pandemic and progress combating it and the viability of the new vaccines. Dr. Fauci, who has been around for nearly a half century as a government immunologist and is presently the personal adviser to President Biden, was the key witness and Sen. Paul, like Fauci, a medical doctor, tore into the veteran disease control physician, whose allegiance to the Democratic party is worn on his sleeve.
"Are you aware that it is a serious crime to lie to Congress?" Paul demanded of Fauci. "Are you willing to retract what you have said?"
Paul was referring to Fauci's May 11 testimony before Congress in which he denied that Wuhan scientists had used "gain of function" research with dollars provided by American taxpayers, and which has lead to a planet full of deaths and destruction.
"Gain-of- Function" was never used, asserted Fauci and he said that he would not retract any previous statements which he has made. I want to say officially, that "you do not know what you are talking about.
Shortly thereafter, Sen. Paul appeared on the Hannity TV show and said that he was sending a letter to the DOJ (Department of Justice) with his referral that there be a prosecution of Dr. Fauci for his criminal conduct in allowing "gain-of-function" research and for his lying to congress about it. Such prevarication, said Sen. Paul, is a felony punishable by incarceration in prison.
Supposedly, pursuant to an order from President Biden, investigation is currently underway to determine the origins of the virus and the role of the Wuhan laboratory. The upshot of the investigation is anyone's guess since truthful testimony and cooperation from Communist China is unlikely.
With Fauci sitting as the lead American immunologist, and adviser to the President, any investigation by the DOJ under Atty. Gen. Garland into the conduct of Dr. Fauci, is very doubtful. In the end, all there will be is the strong belief that Wuhan messed up and and that their massive faux pas sent disaster onto the planet.
For certain, one question will always be around. Why did America send taxpayer money to scientists at Wuhan to aid in Chinese research projects?
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