Senator Rand Paul Has A Strong Message For Anthony Fauci Following Covid-19 ‘Cover-Up’

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) is no stranger to confronting Anthony Fauci, formerly the long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor, about the COVID-19 virus. The good senator from the Bluegrass State now says that Dr. Fauci engaged in an “elaborate cover-up” of the COVID-19 origins and mentioned areas where Dr. Fauci had personal culpability, according to Fox News.

Dr. Paul mused that “The reason Dr. Fauci didn’t want any attention drawn to this or to his funding of the lab is that ultimately he would have culpability. There’s a responsibility – because for years he had advocated for gain-of-function research. He’s even quoted as saying in 2012, if a pandemic should occur, if a scientist should be bitten by an animal and the virus gets out of the lab, it would be worth the knowledge.”

The Republican senator continued by explaining that, “Dr. Fauci and Dr. Collins and others orchestrated a cover-up. There are emails between [former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis] Collins and Dr. Fauci in which Dr. Collins says this wouldn’t be good for China, this wouldn’t be good for science – meaning that it wouldn’t be good for the business of science, for the money that changes hands. For example, we know that the NIH gave money to American universities who then gave it to military researchers … with the title of general and colonel in the [Chinese] People’s Liberation Army.”

Senator Paul was asked about the role that Dr. Peter Daszak played in this alleged gain-of-function research project. He responded “the money definitely went to gain-of-function research. They would take a known SARS virus – this is the backbone of the original SARS from 2003 and 2004 – they would go to bat caves eight or 10 hours away, find new viruses, take the S-protein off and merge them into brand-new viruses never before found in nature.” Dr. Paul emphasized that Dr. Daszak’s group could contribute in this fashion only with Fauci’s blessing.

Senator Paul also praised Representative Brad Westrup (R-OH)’s stewardship of the new Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. “I do agree with Dr. Wenstrup and others who are saying, ‘Let’s gather the information, and let’s set the foundation for where we are there.’ It is also true that Dr. Fauci can remember all the mandates. He wants to tell you how to wear four masks. He can remember everything, but he can’t recall anything he did with setting up that first journal article to justify the cover-up,” said Dr. Paul.

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Paul rounded off the interview by proclaiming that should Dr. Fauci testify before this House of Representatives that he would be treated as a hostile witness.

The good senator has been taking a victory lap of some sort recently given that his theory of a lab leak being the origin of COVID-19 has gained further currency in recent days. In response to an article professing that Rand Paul was vindicated, Dr. Paul tweeted, ‘Trust the science” evolved into “trust the tyrants,” and the Left sought total compliance to its authoritarianism during the pandemic.’”

"Trust the science" evolved into "trust the tyrants," and the Left sought total compliance to its authoritarianism during the pandemic.” https://t.co/SGRMgeEx3a

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) March 1, 2023

Therein lies the heart of the lesson from the COVID-19 experience- that agendas are often cloaked in the grab of an unquestionable force. In COVID’s case, the policy of masks, lockdowns, and the like was made by a vague appeal to science and the need to trust it. The scientific method is notable in that it does not rely on trust but on verification. Dr. Fauci himself gave away the game when he said back in June of 2021 that “attacks on me quite frankly are attacks on science”.