Fauci: We ‘Need’ to Do Things ‘That Make a Pathogen More Transmissible or More Pathogenic,’

[Anti Federalist]

Mankind's epitaph..."some people did some things"




Fauci: We ‘Need’ to Do Things ‘That Make a Pathogen More Transmissible or More Pathogenic,’ and ‘Some’ Call that Gain of Function

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023...n-of-function/

IAN HANCHETT 21 Mar 2023

During a portion of an interview aired on Tuesday’s edition of PBS’ “American Masters,” former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci argued that there are “a number of experiments that need to be done on viruses” that would require “doing something under certain circumstances that make a pathogen more transmissible or more pathogenic, which some people refer to as gain of function.”

Fauci stated, [relevant remarks begin around 1:12:35] “There [are] a number of experiments that need to be done on viruses. How are you going to know whether or not they’re capable of infecting humans unless you examine them? Which means doing something under certain circumstances that make a pathogen more transmissible or more pathogenic, which some people refer to as gain of function.”

He also stated, “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was insidiously throwing into his little questions that the work that was done in the Wuhan lab, funded by a small grant from NIH — a strong implication that that created a virus that made COVID. I have 10,000 grants throughout the world. What they’ve done is…they’ve looked at various grants and they make something of it that it isn’t. The microbe they were working on, not only was not SARS-CoV-2, it would be molecularly impossible for them to turn it into SARS-CoV-2.”

[TheTexan]

We need to make viruses more deadly, so we know whether or not viruses can become more deadly

[TheTexan]

Mankind's epitaph..."some people did some things"

Of all the ways for human kind to go extinct,

getting killed by that annoying little $#@! Fauci is probably the lamest.

I'll take a Giant Meteor any day over that stupid $#@!ing $#@!

[vita3]

Bigger crisis more $$$$ his agency got.

Not hard to see where this greedy little bastard conniving angle came from

[AngryCanadian]

It makes one wonder about those certain biolabs in Europe...

[Anti Globalist]

Essentially what Fauci is saying here is that he wants to create deadlier viruses so they can be unleashed on humanity.

[Occam's Banana]

He also stated, “Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was insidiously throwing into his little questions that the work that was done in the Wuhan lab, funded by a small grant from NIH — a strong implication that that created a virus that made COVID. I have 10,000 grants throughout the world. What they’ve done is…they’ve looked at various grants and they make something of it that it isn’t. The microbe they were working on, not only was not SARS-CoV-2, it would be molecularly impossible for them to turn it into SARS-CoV-2.”

Given Fauci's mealy-mouthed waffling on what "gain of function" is, it's difficult not to suspect he's trying to play a rhetorical shell game here, too.

IOW: Given "SARS-CoV X", solve for "X".

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