Time for Accountability on the Covid Lab-Leak Coverup – WSJ

After the 2020 pandemic, our scientific elite personified by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 should have come clean about the pandemic s laboratory origin, admitted the Wuhan lab s risky gain-of-function research was a giant mistake that cost millions of lives, canceled funding and partnerships with China, and rallied global health authorities to drive higher safety standards and a worldwide ban on suicidal virus experimentation.

None of that happened. Instead, the Chinese Communist Party was permitted to bleach the crime scene, as Dr. Fauci along with a cabal of Wuhan Institute collaborators and National Institutes of Health grantees whitewashed history by insisting for years that the most likely origin of the virus was natural. Dr. Fauci reiterated this claim in a paper published this past November.

Millions dead, billions in economic value lost, and the West can claim zero lessons learned. Dr. Fauci and his supporters, with help from Joe Biden and blue-state Covid tyrants, so sabotaged Americans faith in public health and academic and civic institutions that we are less prepared to confront the next virus than the last one.

Only once we know in detail what happened and who was at fault can we take steps to prevent the next crisis, restore faith in American institutions, and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable. Here s a plan for doing so.

via www.wsj.com

Mike Gallagher.