{"id":101928,"date":"2024-05-18T09:46:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101928"},"modified":"2024-05-18T10:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T15:01:57","slug":"101928","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101928","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/16\/opinion\/we-now-know-the-likely-truth-about-covid-and-how-scientists-lied\/\">We now know the likely truth about COVID, and how scientists lied.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19, which killed 1.1 million Americans and destroyed the lives and livelihoods of millions more, is a manmade virus that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/19\/10-reasons-we-know-that-covid-19-leaked-from-the-wuhan-lab\/\">escaped from a Chinese lab partly<\/a>\u00a0funded by the US government.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, you\u2019re not supposed to say that \u2014 even though it\u2019s the only plausible scenario.<\/p>\n<p>No, \u201cfact checkers\u201d will rush in to claim that eminent scientists deny this. Which is because those scientists have too much invested \u2014 in money, in time, in their own beliefs \u2014 to admit the truth.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"32102756\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-32102756\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 3660w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=300,200&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=768,512&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 768w, 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https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=140,93&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 140w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=107,71&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 107w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=93,62&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 93w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=84,56&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 84w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=200,133&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=231,154&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=322,215&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 322w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=600,400&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=87,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 87w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=150,100&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/USATSI_23288814.jpg?resize=50,33&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 50w\" alt=\"NIH Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak \" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" data-modal-image=\"32102756\" \/><figcaption><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China before the COVID-19 pandemic started.<span class=\"credit\">Jack Gruber \/ USA TODAY NETWORK<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/01\/us-news\/house-covid-panel-urges-criminal-probe-over-gain-of-function-virus-research-in-wuhan\/\">Congress continues to probe<\/a>, that truth is coming out, little by little, and the lies are being exposed:<\/p>\n<p>China tried to deflect blame immediately by saying the virus supposedly began in a \u201cwet market\u201d of animal meat in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly argued it \u201cevolved in nature and then jumped species\u201d in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, both long investigations and government reports have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/02\/29\/world-news\/scientists-may-have-started-the-covid-pandemic-article\/\">concluded that the virus is manmade<\/a>. Fauci grudgingly admitted it \u201ccould be\u201d true.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>LIE:<\/strong>\u00a0The virus didn\u2019t come from the lab in Wuhan<\/h2>\n<p>Anyone who questioned this claim \u2014 including The Post \u2014 was censored online in 2020. The reason? A statement published in Lancet by 27 scientists calling it a \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We now know that statement was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/04\/who-is-peter-daszak-exec-who-sent-taxpayer-money-to-wuhan-lab\/\">drafted by Peter Daszak<\/a>, president of EcoHealth Alliance, the company working on research in the Wuhan lab. He was just trying to cover his own complicity.<\/p>\n<p>All signs point to a lab leak. The only reason we can\u2019t say it conclusively is because China has been allowed to destroy all evidence.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>LIE:<\/strong>\u00a0The US didn\u2019t fund \u2018gain-of-function\u2019 research<\/h2>\n<p>Scientists sometimes experiment with viruses, making them easier to catch or more deadly, as a way to determine what might happen or what vaccines may be needed.<\/p>\n<p>But in May 2021,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/25\/fauci-admits-nih-funding-of-wuhan-lab-denies-gain-of-function\/\">Fauci stated unequivocally<\/a>\u00a0that the US \u201chas not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak directly contradicted that.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/05\/16\/us-news\/nih-director-admits-taxpayers-funded-gain-of-function-research-in-wuhan-four-years-after-covid-pandemic-began\/\">US taxpayers did fund EcoHealth<\/a>, which was working on gain-of-function research in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Tabak\u2019s new excuse? \u201cGain of function\u201d doesn\u2019t mean what we\u2019ve always been told it means. It\u2019s perfectly \u201csafe,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>On cue, the National Institutes of Health has changed the definition of the term on its website to make it sound benign.<\/p>\n<p>Except it isn\u2019t benign. EcoHealth was specifically working in China because such work was not allowed in the United States. What researchers were doing with coronaviruses was very dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>And while there may be a scientific debate about whether such inquiries are worthwhile, deadly viruses have leaked from Chinese labs before. It is the height of irresponsibility for the US to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritage Foundation has called the cover-up of the origins of COVID \u201cThe Lie of Century.\u201d We agree. This is a scandal of colossal scale, one that requires a complete overhaul of the entire National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n<p>They lied about a weapon that devastated our country. They can\u2019t be allowed to get away with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now know the likely truth about COVID, and how scientists lied. COVID-19, which killed 1.1 million Americans and destroyed the lives and livelihoods of millions more, is a manmade virus that\u00a0escaped from a Chinese lab partly\u00a0funded by the US government. 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