I find the criticism of Fauci over emails regarding a lab leak from March/April of 2020 somewhat overblown and tone deaf to what the country was going through. If I think back to that time, the pandemic was ravaging New York and killing over 1000 people a day. Preventing deaths and managing the spread of the virus seemed much more important than deciding the source of the virus at that time. In addition, would Fauci's time have been best spent trying to discover the source of the virus whether naturally based or lab based? Would Fauci pushing more on the idea that a lab leak occurred have saved more lives? Would it have sped up the development and production of a vaccine? There are only 24 hours in a day, would it have been worth the time to prioritize investigating a lab leak knowing that little info would likely come out of China at the time and that the efforts would do little to prevent the deaths and infections in the United States?
Thought provoking as always Isaac. Thank you for the read.
What Kristian Anderson first said, and later said didn't matter, in layman terms is this:
SARS-CoV-2 is identical to another, longer-known bat virus that was sequenced in the Wuhan lab, except for differing in one spot comprising 0.1% of the genetic code. If that spot resulted from a series of natural mutations, why are there zero mutations in the entire other 99.9%? Why, also, did that mutation not only allow covid to infect humans, it also made the virus suddenly incapable of infecting bats?
Nature does not work that way. But it is precisely how genetic engineering works.
I find the criticism of Fauci over emails regarding a lab leak from March/April of 2020 somewhat overblown and tone deaf to what the country was going through. If I think back to that time, the pandemic was ravaging New York and killing over 1000 people a day. Preventing deaths and managing the spread of the virus seemed much more important than deciding the source of the virus at that time. In addition, would Fauci's time have been best spent trying to discover the source of the virus whether naturally based or lab based? Would Fauci pushing more on the idea that a lab leak occurred have saved more lives? Would it have sped up the development and production of a vaccine? There are only 24 hours in a day, would it have been worth the time to prioritize investigating a lab leak knowing that little info would likely come out of China at the time and that the efforts would do little to prevent the deaths and infections in the United States?
Thought provoking as always Isaac. Thank you for the read.
What Kristian Anderson first said, and later said didn't matter, in layman terms is this:
SARS-CoV-2 is identical to another, longer-known bat virus that was sequenced in the Wuhan lab, except for differing in one spot comprising 0.1% of the genetic code. If that spot resulted from a series of natural mutations, why are there zero mutations in the entire other 99.9%? Why, also, did that mutation not only allow covid to infect humans, it also made the virus suddenly incapable of infecting bats?
Nature does not work that way. But it is precisely how genetic engineering works.
Thanks for the breakdown, Isaac. This is a worthwhile read.