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Former CDC director: Gain-of-function research "probably caused the greatest pandemic our world has seen"
2023-03-10
[Hot Air] No kidding. However, don’t consider Robert Redfield a johnny-come-lately to the lab-leak explanation for COVID-19’s origin. Almost exactly two years ago, just after the former CDC director took his leave of the Biden administration, Redfield stunned CNN host Sanjay Gupta by declaring his conclusion that the pandemic started as a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and resulted from gain-of-function (GOF) research funded in part by the US despite warnings against it.

Two years later, Redfield declared himself even more convinced today of his conclusions. Redfield testified today at a hearing of the House select subcommittee on the pandemic, and he didn’t hold back:

Posted by:Besoeker

#6  It was a fail. The plan was to kill the oldest 1/3 of the human population quickly. Didn't happen. The "vaccine" was supposed to help the project along.

Instead, all the Gen XYZ who supported vaxx mandates are now on time delayed lethal injection.

Wall Street has adjusted accordingly.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-03-10 16:19  

#5  Economically, this was bigger in the same way that current hurricanes do more economic damage than one in 1901. The economic damage would have been much less if we had not done dumb stuff. Much of the dumb stuff was recommended. By Fauci and Birx after they initially recommended hugging Chinese people.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-10 15:29  

#4  He was right there with Fauxi and scarf woman. He clearly senses he's the one to go under the bus and he doesn't want to go.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2023-03-10 13:52  

#3  Of course we aren't done with it yet.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-10 13:32  

#2  Small potatoes.

How many people died from the Spanish flu pandemic?

Guess that's why he's the xCDC Director.
He couldn't inflate numbers.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-10 13:32  

#1  The first round of the Black Plague in Medieval times took out a quarter of Europe.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-03-10 08:24  

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