Name: Josh Rogin on Anthony Fauci's Influence
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Josh Rogin on Anthony Fauci's Influence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-27. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience so they hired the guy the best friends of the lab to
investigate the lab all right it's like hiring Robert Kardashian to investigate
OJ you know what I mean it's like and and and when they interview these guys
on TV they always say the same thing don't you want the best friends the lab
to interview the lab isn't that we know the most about it we're doing the
research it would be like Robert Kardashian being like I know OJ really
well you know let me do the investigation I'll figure out the truth
I'll get to the bottom of this right so anyway so they go to the lab for three
hours talk to their best friends look at them straight like did you do it no we
didn't do it okay case closed and then they concluded in their WHO report that
the lab theory is very unlikely we don't need to look into the lab case closed
and
everybody was like oh that doesn't make any sense we can't have that these guys
have a conflict of interest their careers are tied to this lab if the lab were
found to be guilty again we don't know I don't know you don't know Peter Daszak
doesn't well maybe he knows but I don't think he knows you know their legacy
this
entire project of 200 billion dollars 200 million dollars rather to dig up
viruses
all over the world would be kaput it would have to necessarily be stopped this
whole industry okay now here's the part where I'm gonna get a little
controversial are you ready mm-hmm is it okay sure okay so if I've gotten you
that
far again just to say that I don't blame anyone out there for having this
notion
that like this lab accident theory is kind of a kooky thing that like was
cooked up by
Mike Pompeo or something like that I get why you think that but now Trump's not
he's
not here anymore right we don't have to argue about Trump anymore hopefully
ever
again right and we can just look at the piles of circumstantial evidence and
there's a plenty of circumstantial evidence that it could have come there's
some circumstantial evidence that it could have come from nature I feel that
the lab
theory has more compelling circumstantial evidence because again they were
doing
that kind of research they also there's a huge cover-up in the virus database
went
mysteriously offline somehow in December 2019 it's also the evolution of the
virus
itself right that's what Robert so Robert Redfield who was the CDC director
the time a trained virologist he says I took a look at this virus and I
concluded
that is so powerful that it must have been evolved in a lab setting and he
pointed to the gain-of-function research and they called him a racist and a
conspiracy theorist and all the rest yeah all right now here's the
controversial
part that the godfather of that industry the head of the the of the pyramid is
a
guy you may have heard of called Anthony Fauci I've heard of that guy right
yeah do
you want to hear more yeah okay so Anthony Fauci the hero of the pandemic is
the
most important person in the world of gain-of-function research there is
in other words he is look and not just him there's Francis Collins at the NIH
and
some other people but basically he he is the one dispersing all the grants for
this he is the one who pushed to turn it back on after Obama turned it back off
that's a whole nother crazy story he turned it back on without really
consulting the White House that's breaking news never been reported just broke
some news on your show right now yes he consulted the office of science and
technology policy which is like a part of the White House but he didn't you
know
the White House put a pause on it and then he like undid the pause it the
details
are a little sketchy I'm not saying that he did anything necessarily wrong or
illegal I'm just saying that a lot of people that I know inside the Trump
administration had no idea this had turned it back turned back on he found a
way to turn it back on in the mess of the Trump administration because the
Trump
administration is full of a bunch of clowns right so at the end you could get
stuff done if you just knew how to work the system Fauci is the head of that
system why what was his incentive that's his that's everything that's his whole
career that's so what he would say and to be fair again to be perfectly fair to
him he's trying to predict the next pandemic he thinks this is the way that you
predict the next pandemic by digging up all these viruses we got to dig up more
and more viruses and play around with them because we're gonna find how they
evolve then we're gonna come up with therapeutics and vaccines and all this
stuff there were no therapeutics right but we did have vaccines quicker than
most
because the DARPA funded a program to make our mRNA vaccines ten years ago that
actually worked you know that was a military funded program but we can get to
that in a second that's not related to this right so that's that's a very fair
observation in other words the the 200 million dollar program to predict and
preempt the pandemic failed to predict and preempt the pandemic but it may have
also sparked the pandemic may have sparked but that's my my question when I
read all about the research they were doing I didn't see what they were doing
to
prevent it I just saw they were what they were doing was examining these
viruses and trying to find out how they work and trying to see what happens
when
they get more virulent but what I didn't see is that the invention of
therapeutics or then I hear what you're saying I'm I'm I'm willing to give
these
scientists the benefit of the doubt that their honest goal was to create do
good
science to prevent predict oh I am too that's not what I'm saying well I don't
know if they produce therapeutics what I'm saying but did they have a lack of
funding in that department was all the fun I don't know I you know located
towards
examining the viruses themselves and not towards developing some sort of a
therapeutic I don't question I don't know the answer that question okay but
what
I do know is that the majority of their time was spent digging up viruses in
the
wild and bringing them back to these labs but Fauci yeah when he started it
back up
did he started back up with the intent to just uncover more information so we're
be better informed his argument was this is vital research the longer we pause
it
the more danger that we're in I'm trying to save the world and so we got to
turn the
stuff back on because this is how we're gonna save the world from the next
pandemic which I'm sure he believed I'm sure a lot of these people believed but
there is another school of thought out there and the other school of thought is
hey instead of taking 200 million dollars to dig up viruses and make them
more dangerous why don't you put that money into monitoring and surveillance in
the places where the bats are in other words if you put resources where the
outbreaks are likely to occur then you could squelch them when they pop up
because actually viruses change every day and trying to predict the pandemic is
a
fool's error that's another scientific school for that's not the one that
Fauci's in but the reason that there's no debate about this is because the NIH
and
NIAID structure is such that everyone gets funded by them they're funding
everybody so if you are in the field of virology there's a 99.99% chance that
you're getting money from Anthony Fauci in one way or another your grants your
careers your chairmanships so there's no there's no dissent allowed in that
community I learned a lot about the scientific community and the virology
no dissent allowed so no debate I talked I talked to scientists all the time we
say
I think this gain and function research is really dangerous I can't say
anything I'm
gonna lose my grant I'm gonna lose my career this happens to me all the time
and
when Robert Robert Redfield spoke up because he's a big macher and he's a head
of the CDC he said it it's my opinion that it came from the lab because he can't
declassify a bunch of classified information on CNN but he's talking about
what he knows right it's obvious to everyone who's in the know that he's
seen the intelligence and he's not just talking out of his ass he's not some
Joe
Schmo virologist he was the head of the CDC he's seen all of the secret secret
stuff even the stuff I never get got a whiff of and he and he went on TV and
said
hey I think this probably came from the lab we should probably look at the lab
and
he was called a racist and a conspiracy theorist but but what he's saying but
Fauci's disagreed with him publicly right so that's the thing so if you if you
just
think about it just for once again I'm begging people out there just like think
again whatever you thought about the lab accident it doesn't matter whatever
you
tweeted in 2020 March it doesn't nobody cares right and the same thing for the
let it go yeah because it's all confirmation bias now like oh I I said I
tweeted this in March 2020 and I want it to hold up nobody cares what you
tweeted in
March 2020 let's just have a rational moratorium conversation about what are
the
likely ways we got into this horrible crisis that we're in and so for people in
the
know who are listening to Robert Redfield it's clear that he's calling out
Anthony Fauci in other words he's pointing to the gain-of-function research
which he knows because he's the head of the CDC reports up to Fauci he knows
that
right right but he's not saying that because even that's too hot for him to
say it's hot then and the scientists are not gonna say that either now you have
a
lot of people sort of on the on the right-wing media and the mega media who've
been saying that for a long time but they don't have any credibility with the
mainstream media and I'm just like in that weird space where like I wrote a
book
about you know US-China relationship so I had all these this good reporting and
I'm
not bag of media because I criticize Trump in my columns all the time so I am
mainstream media but I'm saying we should look at the lab and it messes with
people's minds because like oh why is he doing this why is Josh pushing the lab
I'm
not pushing the lab that's the problem today with these rigid ideologies
everyone's on teams it's all yes yes but I don't care I don't even care if the
lab accident theory is true if the natural origin theory is true then great I
will leave the ticker tape parade celebrating Peter Daszak and Anthony
Fauci through down you know Fifth Avenue I'm happy to do that all I'm saying is
that we have to also look into this lab these labs rather and that we can't
hire the best friends of the lab to look into the labs right they have a clear
conflict of interest and they fucked it up already catch new episodes the Joe
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