Anthony Fauci's private diary and emails show he knew lockdowns failed

Then there's the lab leak.

By now it's widely accepted that the lab leak is the most likely explanation for the origin of Covid. The Wuhan Institute of Virology proposed doing exactly the type of gain-of-function research that could have led to the creation of an enhanced virus, and did not have proper safety protocols for the work they were doing. As just one example.

Early on in the pandemic, however, the forces of institutional science came together to tell the public that a lab leak was a conspiracy theory. The Wuhan wet market was the source, they said, of a naturally occurring virus. They had no evidence for this suggestion, only speculation and the wish to avoid scrutiny of their profession with the hope of avoiding a decrease in funding.

One pivotal moment in the early weeks of the pandemic was a phone call with 12 subject matter experts where they discussed their opinions on a natural vs lab origin.

For years, the contents of this call were mostly hidden. Not anymore.

"There was not total agreement about the likelihood of deliberate insertion," Fauci's diary entry from 2020 explained. "Ron Fouchier said he was sure that this could occur naturally and we should not waste our time and divert effort to pursue this. This is expected of him since he was the original GOF person with Yoshi Kawaoka. Also, Christian Drosten was with Ron; the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible and given the fact that Dr. Zheng-Li Shi at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in GOF in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor…"

So a prominent gain-of-function advocate believed it was natural, of course, along with one other scientist. The other 10? They believed that "deliberate insertion was possible" and potentially even likely, given they knew that scientists in Wuhan had long been doing this exact type of work. Surely, then, those scientists came forward to say a lab leak was possible…right?

Of course not. They did the opposite, to avoid scrutiny, criticism, and funding loss, then deliberately misled the public for years afterwards to cover it up. Fantastic.

Fauci's diary entries are littered with descriptions of his media appearances, excitement, and joy that his fame and public profile had risen. He realized quickly that the mortality rate from Covid was significantly lower than most public estimates, then said the opposite weeks later.

In one diary entry, he believed the mortality rate was "more like 0.2-0.3%." Then said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity shortly afterward, "The mortality for this is about 2-2.5%. It's probably lower than that, closer to 1%. But even if it's 1%, it's 10x more lethal than the seasonal flu."

Wrong. Again.

He admitted in another diary entry that he advised the then-mayor of New York City, Bill deBlasio, to shut down schools and other business, then did the same with the chief of staff for California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Yet in a 2023 interview with the New York Times, "Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did."