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liberal_mama

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1. I saw his interview today with Jim Acosta. Fauci seemed a bit nervous and had changed his tune to

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Sun Mar 12, 2023, 02:43 AM

Mar 2023

consider it could have been a lab leak.

In the beginning, Fauci really scrambled to get the science journals to dismiss the idea that it was a lab leak.

A lot of the emails have since come out from FOIA requests and an article on the topic was published a few days ago.

What puzzles me is why did they want it to look like it was almost certainly a spillover event?

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Fauci on CNN - could be manipulated " a bit" [View all] womanofthehills Mar 2023 OP

I saw his interview today with Jim Acosta. Fauci seemed a bit nervous and had changed his tune to liberal_mama Mar 2023 #1

Because it most likely is a spill over event? Phoenix61 Mar 2023 #3

I think maybe because Eco Health Alliance was funding Wujan research womanofthehills Mar 2023 #4

And because of those decades of work, we had a vaccine within a few years. yardwork Mar 2023 #7

In Major Shift, NIH Admits Funding Risky Virus Research in Wuhan Celerity Mar 2023 #8

I disagree with that characterization. yardwork Mar 2023 #6

In 2020 Dr. Fauci said the steps in the evolution of C-19 virus seemed to have naturally occurred. John1956PA Mar 2023 #2

Dr. Fauci didn't sound nervous to me, lapucelle Mar 2023 #5