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A Prince would not have let it get this far.

A Prince would have had his royal guard immediately investigate the involvement of certain Fed bureaucracies in the affair. Upon finding the inevitable mountain of evidence of culpability, he would promptly sentence every person in the leadership chain to death by hanging, and nail the evidence to the gallows pole for all the public to see.

When your 3 year old is trying to start fires, you don't reason with him - you smack the magnifying glass out of his hand before he *starts an actual fire*. If he does start a fire, guess who's going to jail? Protip: they have no jails for three year olds.

We wonder why this sh*t keeps happening. Its because bureaucrats have nothing to fear. They can cause a literal worldwide pandemic, and not see a day inside a jail cell.

These arsonists need nothing other than to be under the constant and watchful authority of a leader that they actually *fear*.

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An excellent article by Nicholas Wade, on Medium, goes into considerable more detail on Daszak’s role in funneling US NIH coronavirus research funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology—what the work was that was actually being performed at the Institute— and Daszak’s prominent role in organizing opposition to the idea that the coronavirus could have escaped from the lab. Highly recommended. https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

To give you a flavor, here is a small excerpt:

“From early on, public and media perceptions were shaped in favor of the natural emergence scenario by strong statements from two scientific groups. These statements were not at first examined as critically as they should have been.

“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” a group of virologists and others wrote in the Lancet on February 19, 2020, when it was really far too soon for anyone to be sure what had happened. Scientists “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,” they said, with a stirring rallying call for readers to stand with Chinese colleagues on the frontline of fighting the disease.

Contrary to the letter writers’ assertion, the idea that the virus might have escaped from a lab invoked accident, not conspiracy. It surely needed to be explored, not rejected out of hand. A defining mark of good scientists is that they go to great pains to distinguish between what they know and what they don’t know. By this criterion, the signatories of the Lancet letter were behaving as poor scientists: they were assuring the public of facts they could not know for sure were true.

It later turned out that the Lancet letter had been organized and drafted by Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance of New York. Dr. Daszak’s organization funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. If the SARS2 virus had indeed escaped from research he funded, Dr. Daszak would be potentially culpable. This acute conflict of interest was not declared to the Lancet’s readers. To the contrary, the letter concluded, “We declare no competing interests.”

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