Call Me Crazy, But Was There A COVID Cover-Up?

The COVID pandemic is over, and the virus is now one of those that circulate through the population annually. There has always been doubt, to many, about the apparently spontaneous emergence of COVID-19 in a Chinese live market. Claiming that a Chinese virology lab intentionally developed a pandemic-capable virus was deemed by most of the media to be some sort of racist right-wing conspiracy.

Believe what you will, but my feeling has always been that the virus was developed purposefully in the lab. For what use? As a biological weapon? Maybe so, maybe not.

In any case, how did it get out? it was unlikely to have been intentionally released into the country’s own population; that would violate the purpose of biological warfare in general. It could be as simple as a lab employee selling some infected bat carcasses at the market for a little extra dough. Or, leaving the live market out of it, some incompetent worker just didn’t follow the right protocol for disposing of dead lab animals and caused some form of contamination.

It appears that some U.S. federal agencies were aware of the intentional development of the virus that killed seven million people. Initially proposed to the Department of Defense’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) as the “DEFUSE” project, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and some other entities wanted to “defuse” SARS-like coronaviruses by reverse-engineering new RNA viruses from bat vectors. Theoretically, a vaccine or antidote would be developed at the same time. Pitching the idea along with the Wuhan lab was Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and an organization called Ecohealth Alliance. This proposal was considered problematic, however, in terms of the risks of developing new possibly pandemic viruses or even, possible biological weapons to existence.

In 2021, a leak to the media by a group of researchers claimed that the highly dangerous COVID-19 virus was suspiciously similar to what the DEFUSE project wanted to develop. None of the involved parties, however, came forward to warn the public that a highly transmissible virus was possibly released into the environment.

Enter Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who wondered if there was some kind of cover-up . It seemed that there was a  lot of  shade thrown on those suggesting that COVID originated in the Institute of Virology. US health agencies even enlisted a scientist involved in the effort to write a paper called “Proximal Origins.” This document, commissioned by Dr. Fauci and operatives at the National Institute of Health, criticized anyone putting forth the notion that COVID-19 might have originated in a lab.

It’s certainly possible that US agencies had been working in tandem with the Wuhan Institute of Virology; If so, were they attempting to deflect blame for developing a dangerous virus in the lab and allowing its dispersal into the population? If we had known early enough that a virus purposefully adapted  for human transmission was out there, proper containment might have saved many lives . Senator Paul is now conducting a further investigation into the nature of the US involvement in keeping things quiet.

If true, what should happen to those who withheld this information? Seven million life sentences comes to mind. Unfortunately, I doubt Dr. Fauci and his accomplices will ever suffer any consequences. COVID is no longer news; even now, many virologists state publicly that COVID was a completely natural phenomenon. They would certainly deny any knowledge to the contrary.

Whatever your opinion, researchers should realize that developing new viruses has risks attached: Virologists aren’t all mad scientists, of course, but we need a watchdog. The next lab-developed virus could be a useful research tool, an accidental pandemic, or a biological weapon.

Joe Alton MD