The most disturbing aspect of the biggest domestic news stories this month is that they can be accurately summarized in four simple words: I told you so.
Much like Donald Trump’s prime time speech on July 16th on election integrity, Senator Rand Paul’s weekend data dump from Anthony “The Science™” Fauci’s personal diaries provides considerable detail about the corruption behind the COVID Pandemic Panic Narrative—but that tranche of detail serves once again mainly to confirm what we already knew.
Just as with Trump’s speech, this is not a criticism of Rand Paul’s disclosures. In the real world, confirmation is every bit as important as revelation, and what Trump and Paul both have provided—with ample receipts—is considerable confirmation.
What the corporate media dismissed and claimed had been “debunked” is once again proven to have been completely accurate. Far from being “conspiracy theory”, several hypotheses about the origins and epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been shown to be “conspiracy fact.”
This matters because the salient facts about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and COVID were covered. The important details were reported—by myself and by others. The crucial evidence was presented to a candid world.
The data was always there, and corporate media chose to ignore it all. The data was always there, and government chose to lie about its very existence. The data was always there, and some people chose to trust narrative over proven empirical facts.
Thanks to Fauci’s diaries, once again this is not speculation. This is confirmed fact. This is yet another proven empirical fact demolishing the narratives put forward by Fauci, and amplified by corporate media.
Lab-Made, Not Nature-Made
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus was found to be spreading around the globe, one narrative corporate media was quick to quash was the possibility the SARS-CoV-2 virus was a biological weapon, or at least was the product of biological weapons research.
Yet even in February of 2020, the evidence was clear that such possibilities, while not proven, were hardly disproven and could not be ruled out—even though corporate media tried to do exactly that.
Yet we cannot ignore such stories, because often the "conspiracy theory" narrative turns out to have more substance than the narratives of the legacy media. We must not forget that it was the "conspiracy theorists" at alternative media sites such as ZeroHedge that first drew the world's attention to the coronavirus, while the legacy media has been a primary purveyor of misinformation and pro-China propaganda.
What corporate media did its level best to obscure from the outset was the very real factual basis for contemplating the SARS-CoV-2 virus as a bioweapon. At the same time the virus was spreading around the globe, researchers were publishing data detailing the unusual furin-cleavage site within a particular spike protein, something not found in any similar coronaviruses1.
In 2019, a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infecting Humans has emerged in Wuhan, China. Its genome has been sequenced and the genomic information promptly released. Despite a high similarity with the genome sequence of SARS-CoV and SARS-like CoVs, we identified a peculiar furin-like cleavage site in the Spike protein of the 2019-nCoV, lacking in the other SARS-like CoVs. In this article, we discuss the possible functional consequences of this cleavage site in the viral cycle, pathogenicity and its potential implication in the development of antivirals.
This research was not the “smoking gun” evidence that the virus was engineered many alternative-media journalists claimed it to be, but it was a troubling finding that cut deeply against the narrative pushed by Fauci and others that the virus emerged naturally in the wild.
Even Fauci was at the very least suspicious (fearful?) that the virus was a manmade creation which escaped from a lab. We know this because he states this in his personal diary entries.
In his diary, Fauci mused, “There was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion” – speaking of the engineering of the virus in a lab. He then revealed that only two seemed to openly disagree with the possibility of the lab leak theory. All of the other scientists believed it was very possible.
It is important to note that January 2020 was before the lockdowns had started and was also before the World Health Organization had even declared it a pandemic.
Fauci continued:
Ron Fouchier said he was sure that this could occur naturally and we should not waste our time and divert effort to pursue this. This is expected of him since he was the original GOF person with Yoshi Kawaoka. Also, Christian Drosten was with Ron; the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible and given the fact that Dr. Zheng-Li Shi at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in GOF in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, we could not let this go. We decided to have Jeremy with Francis to contact Tedros with Stewart Simonson’s help (I arranged this) to see if Tedros would convene experts. [Emphasis added].
Despite that, Fauci spent years publicly dismissing the credible lab leak theory as a wild conspiracy. Yet, he often struck a softer tone in his diary, asserting that no one is “100% certain of the origin,” including himself.
Anthony Fauci did not consider a laboratory origin for the virus to be at all outside the realm of probability, and was even amenable to the notion the virus was specifically engineered as a bioweapon. That was what he confided in his private diary.
Publicly, he encouraged virologists to embrace a natural origin for the virus, which is how we got scientific media coverage such as this headline from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, under which leading “expert” virologists such as Kristian Andersen, PhD argued the evidence of a man-made origin for SARS-CoV-2 was in fact no evidence of a man-made origin for SARS-CoV-2.
But that was before he learned more about COVID-19 and related coronaviruses, which have features already seen in nature. "There are lots of data and lots of evidence, as well as previous examples of this coming from nature," he said. "We have exactly zero evidence or data of this having any connection to a lab."
In fact the evidence connecting SARS-CoV-2 to not one but multiple labs was already circulating in the research media, and among alternative media outlets. The evidence was not merely knowable, it was known.
Fauci intentionally sought to discredit that evidence, and persuade people not to look closely at it. There can be no denying that is true, because Fauci’s own diary entries prove that it is true—and corporate media aided and abetted him at every turn.
Ask yourself why that is.
Fellating Fauci
We must understand that Anthony Fauci did not work alone. He had help. He not only had allies within the first Trump Administration but he had presumed friends within corporate media. High up on the “friends” list, we learn from Fauci’s diary entries, was CNN anchor Jake Tapper.
It was apparent from the earliest days of the Pandemic Panic that corporate media’s coverage of the emerging coronavirus disease now known as COVID was a hot mess: what wasn’t simply incompetent journalism was corrupt propaganda pushing a false narrative about the disease.
Despite the obvious parallels to the 2003 virus scare of SARS, corporate media simply ignored health reports coming out of China for over a week at the start of 2020.
Only after the second SCMP story did the Associated Press pick up the story. Even then, it was not the legacy media but alternative media news aggregator ZeroHedge that gave the story wider distribution, pulling together the narrative threads from the SCMP and AP articles, and highlighting the health risks posed by coronavirus infections.
On January 6, Newsweek (a legacy media ghost at this point in its history), ran a story ruling out the SARS virus as the pathogen behind the disease. Also on that date, Time Magazine ran a story on the two cases of the disease identified in the United States and Bloomberg offered up a “quick take” segment.
Was corporate media attempting to downplay a story it simply did not want people to know was unfolding? Reaching that conclusion might be an evidentiary stretch, but it is hardly outside the realm of possibility.
Why would corporate media want to suppress the story? Because Anthony Fauci wanted to suppress the story, or at least control its narrative arc—and because sycophantic schlubs like Jake Tapper were only too eager to cultivate close relationships with the likes of Anthony Fauci.
We knew then that corporate media was dropping the ball on covering the emerging disease. We now know from Fauci’s diary entries that corporate media had clear conflicts of interest which compromised their coverage from the outset. That much is clear from Fauci’s commentary about Jake Tapper being a frequent dinner guest at Fauci’s home—dinners Fauci viewed as about cultivating “friendship”.
“Had dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper,” Fauci jotted down. “Relaxed, good time.”
Fauci added, “Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.”
The diary entry came nine days after Fauci said Americans would be better off ditching their Thanksgiving plans.
“You may have to bite the bullet and sacrifice that social gathering, unless you’re pretty certain that the people that you’re dealing with are not infected,” Fauci told CBS News at the time.
Fauci previously wrote on July 1, 2020 he “had dinner over at Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper’s home in DC.” He said they were a “terrific couple” and the meal was “friendship building.”
One does not need a degree in journalism to see the conflict of interest inherent in Tapper basking in the attentions of a major government figure such as Anthony Fauci. Such relationships invariably make the journalist part of the story, and that has always been a cardinal sin in professional journalism.
There was a time when such ethical considerations mattered. Abe Rosenthal, the legendary editor of the New York Times in the 1970s and 1980s, made the ethics of professional distance in journalism plain, apocryphally quoted as telling one New York Times staffer “I don’t care if you f*** an elephant, just so long as you don’t cover the circus.”
Perhaps Jake Tapper never heard of Abe Rosenthal. Perhaps he just never paid attention to what the giants of journalism had to say about the profession of journalism. Perhaps he felt that, if he just fellated Fauci rather than f*** Fauci, he could still cover the circus side show of COVID Pandemic Panic Propaganda that Fauci orchestrated.
Even if Jake Tapper never entertained such thoughts, it is quite clear that other corporate media faux “journalists” did.
We know that because corporate media failed to accurately report on the growing disparities between COVID pandemic predictions and the documented pandemic fatalities.
We know that because corporate media grotesquely overstated hospitalizations from COVID and the strain put on hospital resources at the height of the COVID Pandemic Panic.
The data was always available. The facts were always right at corporate media’s fingertips.
Corporate media chose not to look at the data.
Corporate media chose not to study the facts.
Ask yourself why that is.
One Lie After Another
The one thing that Fauci’s friends in corporate media could not do, however, is conceal Fauci’s lies forever. The more Fauci basked in a media spotlight, the more it became clear just how corrupt, how political, how malicious he truly was (and still is).
After his lies about face masks were revealed in the fall of 2021, fresh attention was directed at his many scientific and ethical lapses over the years.
Far from being the paragon of scientific virtue he made himself out to be, Anthony Fauci was quickly revealed to be the most political of scientists—and thus the worst of scientists—since Troyfim Lysenko, Stalin’s chief agricultural scientist and principal architect of the Ukrainian famine known today as the Holodomor.
Just as did Lysenko under Stalin, Fauci readily proposed public health policies and pontificated about Big Pharma’s mRNA innoculations in ways that were flatly at odds with the empirical data, and which indisputably contributed to untold numbers of inoculation-related injuries and deaths.
Perversely, Fauci did this even as he himself experienced a potentially life-threatening adverse reaction to the mRNA inoculations, in the form of a pulmonary infarct (the result of a pulmonary embolism). The infarct and the embolisms are known potential side effects of the mRNA inoculations, yet Fauci not only kept mum about his own brush with mortality, but kept pushing the inoculations in spite of their obvious lethality as a side effect.
While Fauci continued to push the inoculations, however, spinning up one lie after another, the data continued to accumulate both that the inoculations were ultimately completely ineffective as well as toxic and downright deadly.
The Data Has Always Been Available
Reading through Fauci’s diary entries, we are reminded again how utterly depraved both political and media figures were regarding the COVID Pandemic Panic. We are reminded again that they lied deliberately and repeatedly, with both malice and forethought.
Yet we must also remember that it was obvious even at the time that Fauci and others were lying. We must remember that the empirical and epidemiological data never supported any part of corporate media’s COVID Pandemic Panic narrative. What was demonstrably proven and known about the virus contradicted everything Fauci and his ilk were telling people.
We must remember that the COVID Pandemic Panic was in many regards the ultimate victory for the “conspiracy theorists” within independent and alternative media. As Senator John Kennedy quipped during Kash Patel’s FBI confirmation hearing, “we need to get some new conspiracy theories because all the old ones turned out to be true.”
SARS-CoV-2 is a lab creation and not a natural virus.
The lockdowns were always a failure.
The PCR tests were grossly inflated and completely misleading.
COVID was never an actual pandemic.
All the data needed to establish the truth of each of these propositions was readily available and accessible in 2020. None of it was concealed. All of it was ignored or misrepresented by corporate media. All of it was denied by governments everywhere.
All of the data needed to understand that Anthony Fauci was and is a malignant and sociopathic liar was out there for people to study even then.
Most importantly, all of this data was reported on by more than one alternative or independent media outlet. There were—and are—reliable sources of information out there. Corporate media does not have half the control over news and information they want you to believe they do.
Perversely, the data even proves that. One just has to look at alternative media coverage of the COVID Pandemic Panic.
I say “I told you so” because much of my work in 2020 and 2021 centered on the COVID Pandemic Panic and the disconnects between the narratives and the data. Yet much more was also covered by the likes of Alex Berenson, and in alternative media outlets such as ZeroHedge and The Aeon Chronicle.
Nearly every major aspect of Fauci’s diary entries is something which was researched and reported by alternative and independent media outlets at the time.
Just as was the case with Donald Trump’s prime-time address, Fauci’s diary entries serve not as revelation but as confirmation. The “conspiracy theorists” were right all along.
If there were any lingering doubts about that before now, Fauci’s diary entries puts them all to rest permanently.
Coutard, B et al. “The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade.” Antiviral research vol. 176 (2020): 104742. doi:10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104742
We may have to wait for a Supreme Court ruling on presidential pardons vs pleading the Fifth, but we MUST get justice on this! We can’t tolerate any excuses, such as, “Fauci’s an old man; let him be”. Young people need to understand that justice under the law is absolutely crucial in order to have civilization!
We are all indebted to you, Peter, for being one of the courageous souls who spoke the truth, at great cost to yourself. Thank you, thank you!
One positive result of today’s hearing is that millions of ordinary people, the compliant ones who don’t pay much attention and just follow government orders, will suddenly think, “Fauci got pardoned? Why did he need a presidential pardon? And why is he pleading the Fifth? Doesn’t that mean he’s got something to hide? Is he guilty of something?What’s going on?”
And another big crack splits open in the dam holding back the deluge of Truth!