Excellent synopsis of the origin of covid being removed on Reddit... Sad that so many Redditors are living in a fool's paradise where hating Trump is all that matters, and everything this horrible govt did to the world in 2020 was ok.

Trump is a cunt. But his rise to power is an indictment of the corrupt US elections, where raising obscene amounts of money is all it takes to run for office.

I remember the disgusting media reports in 2024 referring to Kamala Harris campaign breaking all fundraising records as a "haul" which is what criminals call their ill-gotten gains. Harris outspent Trump 4 to 1 and still lost in another electoral delegate landslide.

If Democrats would worry less about the accumulation of money and focus on competitive primaries and debates to find the most electable candidates, like the GOP did, we'd all be better off.

"The National Institutes of Health (NIH), under Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), awarded grants to the non-profit EcoHealth Alliance. Part of this funding was sub-awarded to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses.

Dr. Fauci testified under oath to Congress in 2021 that the "NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research" at the Wuhan lab. However, in a subsequent letter to Congress and testimony, NIH leadership acknowledged that a sub-grant did fund an experiment that made a bat virus more transmissible in mice, fitting a specific definition of the research.

So Basically:  Obama put a moratorium on funding Gain of Function research.  At minimum it is a very dangerous area of research.  At it’s worst it is a pretty name for producing biological weapons.

Fauci’s NIH evaded that ban by funding the research in other countries.  Including the Wuhan lab that the novel coronavirus almost certainly escaped from.  He aided in covering it up, steering people away from reporting that it bore markers of being engineered, etc.  He was deceptive in testimony about this, etc.

So the real question is why does the left like him so much?  In 1990 you all were hanging effigies of him and calling him a mass murderer for slow rolling out AIDS treatments.  Why is he suddenly a leftist hero other than Trump didn’t like him?"