I was stunned a few weeks ago due to what I saw unfold during a Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing.
The exchange broadcast on C-Span on May 11, 2021 between Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases created headlines.
I was stunned that I was actually witnessing the long-suppressed discussion unfold on Capitol Hill. I was saddened that it took so long to happen. I was satisfied in knowing that The KDKA Radio Morning Show presented the information long ago.
Listeners to the KDKA Radio Morning Show heard similar details a full 13 months earlier - BEFORE many media outlets and leaders used COVID word games, cover stories, and lies to suppress information that may have been helpful to you.
In those early months of the worldwide pandemic, evidence was destroyed, doctors who released information contrary to the Chinese government were silenced, and journalists who tried to seek answers or clarity were arrested or erased.
In spite of the fact that very little was settled about COVID-19 at the time - even the name of it - The Washington Post called the possibility a ‘coronavirus conspiracy that was already debunked.’ Publicly-funded NPR reported in April of 2020 that there was ‘virtually no chance that the new coronavirus was released as result of a laboratory accident.’ Other media members deemed any talk of the ‘fringe theory’ as ’speculation’ or ‘unproven conjecture.’ China’s foreign ministry spokesman said the US ‘hype about the lab leak theory’ was ‘completely untrue.’
Fast-forward a year (and an election) and the headlines change.
The Wall Street Journal finally reports that several researchers from China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November of 2019. This lab is near the ‘wet market’ that was breathlessly blamed for the ‘naturally occurring’ Covid-19 outbreak.
Twelve months ago, Dr. Fauci said there were strong indications that the virus ‘evolved in nature and then jumped species.’ Now the chief medical advisor at the White House tells NatGeo that ‘No, actually, I am not convinced about that. I think we should continue to investigate what went on in China’ until we find out exactly what happened.
Hmmmm. You can read my previous editorial on Dr. Fauci’s ability to embellish facts here.
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Let’s go back to that Capitol Hill Discussion. Senator Paul asked Dr. Fauci about ‘gain of function’ research which is the process of turbo-charging naturally occurring viruses in a lab for various reasons. I will let you speculate as to why that would be done. The two also had a discussion about giving your tax money to a third-party that then allegedly sent it to the Wuhan Lab to fund the research. Here is their debate:
We should not be partisan as we try to explore various possibilities and gain facts. Scenarios change. Some leads turn to dead-ends and can quickly be dismissed. Others must be followed to a detailed conclusion. A seafood market, a sloppy lab, or copper miners vs. bat guano in 2012. Check into it.
Following various leads and investigating various comments and rumors can be mind-numbing and very time-consuming. But, it led us to Justin Goodman of the White Coat Waste Project.
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Over a year ago he told The Voice of Pittsburgh, quote: ‘We do know that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in the center of the city, years ago with US money was going into the caves in southern China, capturing wild bats, experimenting on them. Bringing them back to the lab and then creating the world’s largest library of coronaviruses. Then, with US tax money, this same lab was manipulating these viruses in what are called ‘gain of function’ experiments. So, they were taking coronaviruses, manipulating them to make them more dangerous to humans and more transmissible.’
We took a lot of heat for allowing him to present his research.
Mr. Goodman does not feel vindicated a year after appearing on the KDKA Radio Morning Show to discuss his investigative work. He says that the world has lost a year’s worth of time fooling around with other theories that make no sense, ‘The partisanship that has surrounded this issue has been really counterproductive and unnecessary.’ Many, including those in DC and the media, dismissed the details over a dislike or distrust of President Trump, who also wondered about a ‘lab-leak.’
The story has finally gained enough momentum that, last week, President Biden was finally forced to ask intelligence agencies to report back to him in 90 days as to the origin of the virus that has killed more than 3.6 million worldwide.
Let’s hope these reports are not politically tainted or edited to favor an expedient conclusion over the truth.
The World Health Organization already had a quick review of events. Its report, heavily influenced by China, leans towards animal transmission.
Mr. Biden told reporters that he will release the full report ‘unless there is something that I am unaware of.’ In the end, you’ll make your own decision.
Speaking of Dr. Paul: Here are some other tidbits his annual ‘Festivus’ Report. On Friday, just in time to be buried or given little media coverage due to the holiday weekend, Senator Paul noted other details of wasteful government spending of taxpayer money:
$700,000 “to determine if Neil Armstrong said: ‘One small step for Man, one giant leap for mankind’ or ‘One small step for ‘A’ man’. Answer: “we just don’t know.”
$3 million to find out if hot tubbing lowers stress
$357,000 to study sex habits of quail on cocaine benders
And, remember ‘shrimp on a treadmill?’ Well, leaders in DC offer the $1.6 million sequel: Lizards On Treadmills!
So, regardless of your political leanings or loyalties, if you’d like to keep spending money on turbo-charging viruses or pimping out coke-snorting quail then keep course.
However, if you’d like to be informed and entertained and possibly hear a different point-of-view from experts 13 months before DC or major media outlets even consider the possibility because their handlers wouldn’t allow it? Then join us in the morning.
Kevin Battle is a little upset that the lizard did better on the treadmill than he did. Battle is currently Co-Host of the KDKA Radio Morning Show with Larry Richert. The show airs M-F 5a-9a on Pittsburgh’s 100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA or on the free Audacy app. Ask, no DEMAND, that your smartspeaker: ‘Play NewsRadio KDKA’