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Even if we could prove it, and I believe with a high credence that it was the Wuhan lab, nothing would happen. Because it's China.

The argument about "manslaughter" is laughable because that's a legal classification in US laws. It doesn't apply... because it's China.

Gain of function research has been considered too dangerous in most developed countries, and funding it could be considered a crime. We have the evidence that Fauci directed funds to the Wuhan lab for this purpose. But nothing will be done, because he's a darling of Democrats for standing up to Trump.

There's a reason Xi Jinping's government replaced the head administrator of the Wuhan virology lab back in March of 2020 with a military officer. It was not so the research would stop, it's so that it would be more tightly controlled. This was actually announced, though the rest of the world was too busy freaking out at the time.



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