Coronavirus
Questions Over Social Media Censorship of Wuhan Lab Leak After Fauci Admits Possibility
New WSJ report prompts criticism of decision to blacklist issue as a “conspiracy theory.”

Published
2 years agoon

Questions over the ethics of social media censorship policies that previously characterized the Wuhan lab leak theory as “misinformation” are being asked following a new report bolstering the explanation and Dr. Fauci admitting it’s a possibility.
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, a US intelligence report reveals that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology became so sick in November 2019 that they required hospital treatment.
Two months later and China was still telling the WHO that there was zero human to human transmission of the virus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was also asked by Katie Sanders of Politifact if he thought COVID-19 had developed naturally. Fauci responded by suggesting other causes are a possibility.
“I am not convinced about that, I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China until we continue to find out to the best of our ability what happened,” said Fauci.
“Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else, and we need to find that out. So, you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favor of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus,” he added.
As we highlighted last week, both current and former CDC Directors also remain open to the possibility that the virus was leaked from the Wuhan lab and scientific groups have also asserted that the lab leak is the most likely source.
Last week, Politifact was also forced to pull a ‘fact check’ that claimed it had “debunked” the lab leak origin theory of COVID-19.
At this point it has become untenable for anyone to keep claiming that the lab leak theory is a wild conspiracy theory given the plethora of valid evidence suggesting it could indeed be true.
Numerous commentators are now making the point that for months after the pandemic outbreak, information pertaining to the lab leak origin theory was ruthlessly censored by the major social media networks.
President Donald Trump was repeatedly accused of spreading fake news by highlighting the lab leak theory.
Here is President Trump in April 2020 telling the world the virus likely came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology pic.twitter.com/p7q0kQQdrv
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) May 23, 2021
“Perhaps it’s a bad idea to appoint tech officials the arbiters of what constitutes a “conspiracy theory” or “disinformation,” and demand that they execute social media purges on that basis,” remarked Michael Tracey.
Perhaps it’s a bad idea to appoint tech officials the arbiters of what constitutes a “conspiracy theory” or “disinformation,” and demand that they execute social media purges on that basis https://t.co/2SFPtx5K59
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 24, 2021
“A year ago, lab leak theory was dismissed as “misinformation” by Facebook’s ‘independent’ fact-checkers and posts mentioning it were removed. Now, even Dr Fauci is saying it should be investigated. Good example of why Big Tech companies should not try to censor “misinformation,” said Toby Young.
A year ago, lab leak theory was dismissed as “misinformation” by Facebook’s ‘independent’ fact-checkers and posts mentioning it were removed. Now, even Dr Fauci is saying it should be investigated. Good example of why Big Tech companies should not try to censor “misinformation”.
— Toby Young (@toadmeister) May 23, 2021
“So now that MAINSTREAM outlets are admitting the likelihood of CoVid originating in a lab (after mocking Trump mercilessly over his claims for a year) let me ask you…If this info were available oh, say, last year… think it may have had an impact on the election?” asked Steven Crowder.
So now that MAINSTREAM outlets are admitting the likelihood of CoVid originating in a lab (after mocking Trump mercilessly over his claims for a year) let me ask you…
If this info were available oh, say, last year… think it may have had an impact on the election?— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) May 24, 2021
Don’t expect any apologies from social media networks. For them to admit they got it wrong would bolster assertions that they shouldn’t be the final arbiters of truth, a premise they will never accept.
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Coronavirus
Massive Peer-Reviewed Mask Study Shows ‘Little To No Difference’ In Preventing COVID, Flu Infection
Published
5 days agoon
2 February, 2023Zero Hedge

A massive international research collaboration that analyzed several dozen rigorous studies focusing on “physical interventions” against COVID-19 and influenza found that they provide little to no protection against infection or illness rates.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, is the strongest science to date refuting the basis for mask mandates worldwide.
Nearly 60% of South Korea's population has now tested positive for COVID despite nearly three years of consistent universal masking with overwhelming compliance
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) January 25, 2023
When will it be enough for "experts" to admit masks don't work? pic.twitter.com/LS0JF9niog
And of course, the CDC still recommends masking in areas with “high” rates of transmission (fewer than 4% of US counties, as Just the News notes), along with indoor masking in areas with “medium” rates of transmission (27%).
Masks are still required in educational institutions in Democratic strongholds such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington and California, according to the Daily Mail. Boston Public Schools denied its “temporary masking protocol” in early January was a “mandate,” following a public letter against the policy by student Enrique Abud Evereteze.
South Korea is still requiring masks on public transport and in medical facilities after dropping COVID mandates in most indoor settings, including gyms, Monday, Reuters reported. -Just the News
According to the Cochrane study, which included the work of researchers at institutions in the U.K., Canada, Australia, Italy and Saudi Arabia, a total of 78 studies were analyzed. Most recent additions to the meta-analysis were 11 new randomized controlled trials.
As unlisted study author Carl Heneghan – who directs the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford noted on Twitter: “Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks.”
Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants
— Carl Heneghan (@carlheneghan) January 30, 2023
Harms were rarely measured and poorly reported (very low‐certainty evidence).
— Carl Heneghan (@carlheneghan) January 30, 2023
The Danish study had trouble finding a major journal willing to publish its controversial findings that wearing surgical masks had no statistically significant effect on infection rates, even among those who claimed to wear them “exactly as instructed.”
Mainstream media overlooked red flags in the Bangladeshi mask study, which found no effect for surgical masks under age 50 and a difference of only 20 infections between control and treatment groups among 342,000 adults. -JTN
Bottom line, mask wearing “probably makes little to no difference,” when it comes to influenza-like or COVID-like illnesses, regardless of type of mask used.
2/ LARGE Cochrane Rev (just published 1/30/23) of RCT data ALSO CONFIRMS NO BENEFIT of N95 masks vs. med/surg masks, in either community (n~8K) or HCW (n~8K) settings for prevention of flu-like illness or lab confirmed flu https://t.co/N4TkgI4uUR pic.twitter.com/0DCdYAPo7x
— Andrew Bostom, MD, MS (@andrewbostom) January 31, 2023
We’re sure the cult of Fauci will now start insisting peer-reviewed meta-analyses aren’t ‘the science.’
This post was originally published at Zero HedgeCoronavirus
Australian Health Authorities Call For More COVID Boosters… But The Public Says No
Published
7 days agoon
31 January, 2023Zero Hedge

Australia and New Zealand suffered some of the worst pandemic mandate conditions of any country in the western world, crossing the line into totalitarianism on a number of occasions.
Australian authorities restricted residents of larger cities to near house arrest, with people not being allowed to go more than 3 miles from their homes. Citizens were given curfew hours between 9pm and 5am. They were banned from public parks and beaches without a mask, even though it is nearly impossible to transmit a virus outdoors and UV light from the sun acts as a natural disinfectant.
In the worst examples, Australian citizens received visits from police and government officials for posting critical opinions about the mandates on social media. Some were even arrested for calling for protests against the lockdowns. In Australia and New Zealand, covid camps were built to detain people infected with covid. Some facilities were meant for those who had recently traveled, others were meant for anyone who stepped out of line.
As the fears over covid wane and the populace realizes that the true Infection Fatality Rate of the virus is incredibly small, restrictions are being abandoned and things seems to be going back to normal. It’s important, however, to never forget what happened and how many countries faced potentially permanent authoritarianism under the shadow of vaccine passports. If the passports rules had been successfully enforced, we would be living in a very different world today in the west.
Luckily, the passports were never implemented widely. Australian health authorities are once again calling for the public to take a fourth covid booster shot, but with very little response. Only 40% of citizens took the third booster, and new polling data shows that 30% are taking the fourth booster.
A large amount of Australians are still not getting their COVID-19 booster shot, despite calls from health authorities to roll up our sleeves for a fifth dose.@eddy_meyer explains. #9News pic.twitter.com/rsjfi4xrFA
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) January 30, 2023
With an astonishing rise in excess deaths by heart failure in Australia coinciding exactly with the introduction of the covid mRNA vaccines, perhaps people are deciding to finally er on the side of caution. Why take the risk of an experimental vaccine over a virus that 99.8% of the population will easily survive?
This post was originally published at Zero HedgeCoronavirus
NIH Failed To Monitor EcoHealth Alliance: Federal Watchdog
Published
1 week agoon
29 January, 2023Zero Hedge

After an 18-month audit, a federal watchdog says that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) failed to adequately monitor and address problems involving EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City-based nonprofit that was used to offshore risky gain-of-function research to Wuhan, China after the Obama administration banned the practice in 2014.
According to the report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the “NIH did not effectively monitor or take timely action to address” compliance issues with EcoHealth.
In April 2020, after then-President Donald Trump claimed the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have come from the WIV lab, NIH terminated the EcoHealth grant with little explanation. That step was widely condemned by scientists, and OIG’s report now says NIH improperly executed the termination because it did not provide a valid reason or provide EcoHealth with required information for appealing the decision.
A few months later, NIH reinstated the award but immediately suspended it, setting conditions for resumption that EcoHealth said it could not meet. NIH permanently terminated the WIV subaward as of August 2022 for compliance issues, including WIV’s failure to provide NIH with laboratory notebooks related to the funded experiments. –Science
The audit examined the above grant, as well as two others from 2014 to 2021 which totaled $8 million, but largely focused on $600,000 of it which went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The NIH faulted EcoHealth for failing to promptly report gain-of-function results in some experiments, however the company has blamed a computer glitch at NIH for the 2-year delay.
Digging into the report is US Right to Know’s Emily Kopp, who has broken down various aspects of the OIG report.
EcoHealth would like you to believe it had technical issues for four years straight
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) January 26, 2023
HHS OIG: 🙄 pic.twitter.com/H0gZjzCWh7
The 2018 report lists scientific publications including 2019 and 2020 papers
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) January 26, 2023
The 2019 report lists zero papers pic.twitter.com/CzwHlbqAVu
How does EcoHealth get away with this?
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) January 26, 2023
Oversight from Fauci’s NIAID was non-existent.
NIAID awarded new funds to EcoHealth in 2020 before they received either of these overdue progress reports.
The only reason EcoHealth filed the 1st report was because @fastlerner FOIA’d it. pic.twitter.com/Er2fQTLkCV
The line we often hear from NIH is that EcoHealth’s reported gain-of-function research could not have sparked the pandemic.
— Emily Kopp (@emilyakopp) January 26, 2023
But given (1) the sloppiness of the reports (2) the lateness of their submission to NIH, I do not believe we have a complete picture of EcoHealth’s work.
Meanwhile, the audit also found that the nonprofit billed NIH for $89,171 in disallowed costs, including expenses such as alcohol, and a staffer’s $3,285 trip to a conference that was miscoded, and should have instead been billed to a non-NIH grant.
The OIG recommends that the WIV (but not EcoHealth) be banned from receiving future NIH funds.
Meanwhile, EcoHealth just scored a fresh $3 million grant from the Department of Defense.
EcoHealth Alliance currently has federal contracts and grants from USAID, DoD-DTRA, DoD-USU, DHS, NIAID, and NSF.
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) January 21, 2023
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