FIRING Line with William F. Buckly Jr.: Guest Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.

WHOLLY CONCEIVABLE ZOONOTIC ORIGINS FAUCI SAYS

In July 2021, according to the Washington Examiner, the most trusted voice, according to the press, the face of the government response, according to the Washington Post, in their announcement about his retirement, and the nation's leading infectious disease control expert that reporters at Aljazeera had expressed as early as April 2020 that Americans should listen to for guidance, because of his years of experience, was "keeping an open mind" and had kept a lot of wiggle room in his statements about a "possible" zoonotic origin, coming just two months after the President had tasked the Intelligence Community and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to redouble efforts on determining the still elusive origins, but limiting the focus to only two "low to moderate probability" scenarios around which they were reported to have "coalesced."

Most hammer Fauci regarding reversals on nonmedical grade facial coverings guidance, but as many as 23% of Americans believed at the beginning that the novel coronavirus had its origins in a laboratory, whether or not they had seen the report in CNN in late January 2020 regarding the possible snake origins, specifically Chinese krait or king cobra, and were aware that coronaviruses do not infect snakes, but there is a moral problem posed by a laboratory leak, if you follow the legal logic of the problem: somebody would have at least accidentally killed over a million Americans and more people than Hitler in half the time. Where is the outrage from those who believe Fauci lied about the origins? Hence, Fauci is not in jail.

On the empirical record, even by January 10, 2020, on the report of the first fatality, even Chinese health officials had determined that they could not conclude that COVID-19 was an infectious disease, with only at that point a total of 40 known cases in China, five less than Dr. Ralph Northam had, with only one fatality, when he decided to shut down an entire state with the population of Wuhan, which would not shut down until January 23, 2020, by which time the virus had even reached the United States, and then only for a month.

While China was in the process of reopening its economy in February 2020, they had clinically found, after examining 55,924 laboratory confirmed cases in China, by 1,800 teams of at least five epidemiologists, a secondary attack rate between 0.9% and 4.8% from a disease that had presented a pattern of clustered outbreaks with no wider community spread, from which they concluded, again, "it is not clear whether this correlates with the presence of an infectious virus."

If a virus is not determined to be infectious by secondary attack, and less than five percent is 12 times too low to be described as "highly contagious", falling below the 60% threshold, like smallpox, which would only then be capable of setting off a super spreader event, logically and mathematically, it could not in any probable scenario escape from a laboratory or zoonotically evolve into a pandemic that managed to kill 527,000 Americans by the first anniversary of the pandemic declaration, equal to the death counts in both world wars, the conflict in Southeast Asia and the 9/11 terror attacks, a logical step that perhaps many require instruction to be guided through, but, again, if a person believed that the virus came from a laboratory, a basic sense of legal duty not to be at least negligent as a rational person would necessarily impute liability, for which there is no particular public outcry, subordinated to elections, just like the pandemic on issues as simple as nonmedical grade facial coverings the NIOSH conclusively determined were wholly ineffective a decade ago.