edit Jesus, is reading comprehension this bad on Lemmy, or is this post just full of people who love Trump and his bullshit? I'm not saying Fauci is bad. I'm not saying Obama is bad. I will add an ELI5 bullet point tldr for yall.
tl;dr:
- Trump&co worried bout midterms in case they can't cancel or rig them enough.
- NIH funding for corona virus studies in Wuhan started when Obama happened to be President.
- Dumb Trumpians starting to stop believing all his shit.
- Trump hate Obama. Trump think if he can get Fauci slip up and say something he can twist into "OBAMA MADE COVID" his dumdums will believes it and votes for him again.
- The US Govt is not super trustworthy. Sometimes they do or pay for bad things. Sometimes they lies.
Well, of course Fauci took the Fifth. The NIH, headed by Fauci, had authorized and directly funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study Gain of Function research to increase the transmissibility of bat corona viruses in humans. Research into making viruses just like the Corona virus more transmissible in humans, at that lab right near where Corona first appeared. I posses enough suspension of disbelief to think elves and magic are real, but not enough to believe that's a coincidence.
The US has done it's damndest to act like it had no involvement in Corona. To either pin it on China since that's where it appeared or insist it's origins can't be known. I'm sure 40 years from now there will be a batch of documents declassified that admit the US was directly responsible for the fuck up that led to the deaths of a shitload of people... because that's what pretty much every batch of files the US declassifies after virtually everyone involved has shuffled off this mortal coil always shows.
That's not saying Fauci should be in jail. That's not saying I'm a fan of the idiot Republican response and witch hunt. It's stupid and likely a Trumpian ploy to try to blame Obama and Democrats for Covid as the NIH began funding WIV in 2014.
Fauci was simply doing his job. The US government was funding a very bad line of research, that went very wrong, then lied about it and covered it up, and moved that research to different facilities as the US government tends to do. It's something the US government and people in it should answer for, and things that should come out into the light. But this isn't any attempt to honestly do that. This is Trump's evil puppeteers trying to find a way to pin something huge and awful on Democrats before the midterms in case his other plans to rig or cancel the elections don't pan out.