Memory-Holing the Apocalypse

Some crimes seem to be too big to talk about, let alone punish

Recently we learned thanks to a senior-level whistleblower that not only was disgraced bureaucrat Dr. Anthony Fauci smuggled into CIA headquarters during the pandemic to influence the Agency’s supposedly apolitical analysis on the origins of Covid-19, but that CIA analysts were also bribed with “significant” cash bonuses to alter their conclusions on the matter. According to the whistleblower, six of the seven-member team set up to assess the question had concluded that the coronavirus most likely “originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China," but then changed their position to favor a natural-origin hypothesis after Fauci’s visit and the alleged assurance of “Exceptional Performance Awards,” which they then duly received.

Now, it wouldn’t normally be a matter of surprise or concern for the nation’s premier intelligence agency to consult the opinion of the nation’s then-top public health official on such an issue, though bribery to change analytic conclusions certainly would be (especially after the Agency’s infamous Iraqi weapons of mass destruction perfidy). But in this case we also happen to know that Fauci was at the time engaged in a sweeping behind-the-scenes effort to cover up the rather obvious origin of the virus and his own role in it. This included secretly directing the fabrication by his associates of the influential “Proximal Origins” paper, published in the prestigious journal Nature in March 2020, which deliberately and knowingly lied about the plausibility of a lab-origin scenario. Facui then used the paper as a weapon, falsely citing it as authoritative independent analysis and leveraging it not only to publicly attack dissenters as “conspiracy theorists” but also to pressure technology platforms to engage in mass censorship of any alternative scientific views on the subject.

This was of course only one part of a pattern of similar behavior by the good doctor and his colleagues, such as then-National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins, who coordinated with Fauci a “quick and devastating published takedown” of the expert authors of the “Great Barrington Declaration,” an open letter that disputed the wisdom of using widespread lockdowns to combat the spread of the virus. (The Declaration and its authors were then duly hit-jobbed, hounded, censored, and suppressed.)

At this point it is clear that Fauci and co. by and large succeeded in mobilizing and weaponizing nearly the whole apparatus of the Western scientific establishment and managerial state toward their ends. Though evidence for the lab-leak scenario eventually piled up to such a degree that it became impossible to entirely deny its plausibility any longer, to this day government and mainstream media studiously avoid further discussion of the issue. And, most importantly, no one involved, least of all Fauci, has been or ever will be held accountable for their actions in any way.

But before the whole saga is completely stuffed down the memory-hole, I think it would be worthwhile for us to take a moment to step back and try to really think through the reality of what just occurred, and what it means if true. In my view the sheer scope of it can be hard to wrap one’s head around, raising as it does some pretty fundamental questions about some of the most cherished beliefs and institutions of our world today. This is, I suspect, the real reason why so many people (both elites and commoners alike) would much prefer to just continue to pretend, even to themselves, that none of it ever happened at all.