Covid report from House devestating to the official story

the people wrote:

Newname wrote:

Oops.

Make that devastating.

BREAKING: House Subcommittee Releases Explosive Final COVID Report: Virus Likely Originated in Lab, Billions Stolen, School Closures Devastated Kids, and Public Health Failures Exposed

Lab Origins of COVID-19: The report suggests that COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory incident, supported by intelligence and scientific evidence.

Failures in Pandemic Response: Significant fraud, waste, and abuse plagued relief programs, resulting in billions of dollars lost to mismanagement.

Gain-of-Function Research Funding: The U.S. National Institutes of Health funded controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

School Closures’ Long-Term Impact: Pandemic-era school closures caused lasting harm to children’s education, mental health, and development.

Public Health Missteps: Mask mandates, vaccine passports, and lockdowns were criticized for lacking scientific basis and causing widespread distrust.

Operation Warp Speed Success: The vaccine development initiative was highlighted as a major success that saved millions of lives. MY ASIDE -- YEAH RIGHT

Misuse of Emergency Relief Funds: Programs like the Paycheck Protection Program and unemployment insurance suffered from inadequate oversight, enabling transnational fraud.

Transparency and Trust Issues: Public health officials and the administration were accused of misleading the public about the pandemic's origins and response measures.

Failures of the World Health Organization (WHO):
The WHO was criticized for yielding to Chinese Communist Party pressure and failing to address the pandemic effectively.

FULL REPORT:

Link:oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads...

we'd like to see the Gaetz report next pls.

rekrunner wrote:

Newname wrote:

Oops.

Make that devastating.

BREAKING: House Subcommittee Releases Explosive Final COVID Report: Virus Likely Originated in Lab, Billions Stolen, School Closures Devastated Kids, and Public Health Failures Exposed

Lab Origins of COVID-19: The report suggests that COVID-19 likely originated from a laboratory incident, supported by intelligence and scientific evidence.

Failures in Pandemic Response: Significant fraud, waste, and abuse plagued relief programs, resulting in billions of dollars lost to mismanagement.

Gain-of-Function Research Funding: The U.S. National Institutes of Health funded controversial gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

School Closures’ Long-Term Impact: Pandemic-era school closures caused lasting harm to children’s education, mental health, and development.

Public Health Missteps: Mask mandates, vaccine passports, and lockdowns were criticized for lacking scientific basis and causing widespread distrust.

Operation Warp Speed Success: The vaccine development initiative was highlighted as a major success that saved millions of lives. MY ASIDE -- YEAH RIGHT

Misuse of Emergency Relief Funds: Programs like the Paycheck Protection Program and unemployment insurance suffered from inadequate oversight, enabling transnational fraud.

Transparency and Trust Issues: Public health officials and the administration were accused of misleading the public about the pandemic's origins and response measures.

Failures of the World Health Organization (WHO):
The WHO was criticized for yielding to Chinese Communist Party pressure and failing to address the pandemic effectively.

FULL REPORT:

Link:oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads...

Devestating for whom? Much of this looks like a damning indictment of the failed and incompetent and delayed initial response of the Trump Administration, losing valuable time.

Two things to keep in mind:

1) A subcommittee composed of politicians are not qualified to answer some of these questions, like "likely origin", nor decide a dispute among competing scientists.

2) The initial responsibility for the COVID response was under the Trump Adminstration, and some of the failures that occurred then were difficult to undo, and will be difficult for decades to come.

Regarding the likely origins, this question cannot be settled as the evidence is lacking. The primary argument against the lab leak is that the Chinese lab wasn't working with any virus closely resembling the SARS-Cov-2 virus. All of the hypotheses regarding the origin (evolution in bats, in intermediate animals, in humans, or in the lab) require more evidence to prove or disprove before deciding one option is "likely". It took 14 years to decide the origin of the SARS 2003 virus.

The failure in pandemic response is a damning indictment of the lack of leadership and competence of the Trump Administration, and unqualified appointees like Jared Kushner, unable to communicate a scientifically coherent message to the people, or organize competent responses, and generally failing to take control of the response.

Regarding gain of function research, it is still debatable whether the research conducted qualifies as gain of function prohibited by the US government, but more importantly, there is still no evidence that the research conducted in Wuhan was on PPP, or that the Wuhan lab possessed any virus that could have become the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Regarding school closures, other countries without so much mixed messaging seemed to have managed it better than in the US. These closures could have been reduced with better messaging, and higher mask and social distancing compliance.

Initial scientific recommendations, e.g. mask wearing and social distancing, were indeed initially not based on COVID-19 science, but on previous experiences from other viruses, until better scientific data was available. The goal was never to prevent the spread, but to reduce the spread and slow the growth, as measured by the "r-factor".

Regarding Operation Warp Speed, this seems to be the one positive thing that Trump could take credit for, but that is the one thing you doubt. It's also contradictory that the Committee acknowledged that Operation Warp Speed was universally considered a good thing, but then criticized the Biden Administration for aggressively approving and distributing the vaccines.

Regarding misuse of funds for emergency relief and paycheck protection -- this lack of oversight and competence are repeated features of the Trump Administration, who seem to have other agendas.

Establishing transparency and trust fell squarely on the Trump Adminstration, and doubt was sowed when Trump started highlighting unproven alternatives like injecting disinfectants, or light radiation, or promoting hydroxychloriquine, and giving voices to anti-vaxxers. Once the seeds of distrust were sown within the public, it would not, and will not, be easy to regain the trust. It will probably take decades and costs lots of lives (especially as we put people like RFK Jr. in charge of resurrecting childhood measles and polio).

The WHO was singled out for not holding the CCP to account, but the Committee acknowledged that the WHO doesn't really have any enforcement power, and relies on cooperation from all members. The WHO was a victim of the CCP's restrictions and restricted access to data, just like the rest of the world. It's unfortunate that scientists' hands are routinely tied by politicians.

There are many areas of valid criticisms for a world that was not prepared for such a highly contagious and fatal pandemic, and the obstruction caused by world and national politics, and other agendas. But we need to stop following politicians -- especially the ones who point fingers at others for their own failures and inaction -- and start encouraging collecting and sharing the data and following the data, and being prepared to change the direction when new data comes (rather than accusing officials of lying when facts evolve), and understand that even among scientists, there will be differing opinions about how to interpret the data, and what to prioritize when preparing a response.

Sub-9:00 guy wrote:

But, but, but… it’s Alex Berenson, Fisky. It’s not exactly the gold standard in the NYT that only the most intelligent people read.

Honestly, would you be at all surprised? I’m not familiar with the mechanism by which this particular snippet of mRNA would be reverse transcribed or integrated into the genome, but, hey, what else don’t we know? Spike is found in germinal centers in lymph nodes up to 60 days per a Stanford study published in Cell. And we put this “immunotoxic” messenger RNA payload into a lipid nanoparticle that can indiscriminately disseminate it quite literally anywhere in the body. And then we gaslit people for another two plus years telling them that natural immunity to COVID wasn’t worthwhile.

But Flagpole/Agip/2600Harambro told you everything was A ok with the vaccine. Why would you not listen? Why would you be skeptical? Aren’t you an intelligent NYT subscriber?