On January 26, 2020, one week after the first COVID patient was hospitalized in the US, Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote “It now appears using epi(demiologic) data and genomic data that the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market… Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.” While reading that over, he may have experienced a sinking feeling in his heart – and perhaps a frisson of fear. Only he knows.
Because he realized the virus must have come from somewhere. And he also realized that somewhere just might be the Wuhan lab, where dangerous viral manipulation experiments, which he championed and funded indirectly, were being performed on coronaviruses. The experiments might have been “gain of function,” a technique designed to make a virus more contagious to humans, although there is a hyper-technical dispute over that. No matter.
The next sentence he wrote that day was, “Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.” This was an assertion that may or may not be true – most, but not all, human respiratory viruses do jump from animals. Except another possible source is the occasional lab leak.
Was Fauci’s remark an observation of the source likelihood or was it an early denial of a lab leak of a virus he may have had a hand in, thereby setting the stage for establishing his plausible deniability, a deflection of that devastating possibility? Only he knows.
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