2022-11-04
Including who was in charge of the pandemic response, apparently.
Of course the lead was taken by America, but evidence has been uncovered that the Anthony Fauci - Deborah Birx duality was not in charge.
It seems that the legal situation was changed, effectively by presidential fiat:
"An astonishing Government document dated March 13th 2020 ... reveals that United States policy in response to SARS-CoV-2 was set not by the public health agencies ... but rather by the National Security Council"
"The NSC does not include as regular attendees any representatives from public health related agencies"
" ... on March 18th 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – which comprises the CDC, NIAID, NIH and other ... agencies – had no official leadership role in pandemic response"
"On March 13th 2020, President Donald J. Trump declared a nationwide emergency under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act ... authorising assistance administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Five days later, the President notified then-FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor that the agency would assume leadership of the federal pandemic response effort"
OK, so we have an unprecedented (in recent times) pandemic emergency, apparently originating from China, which required resolute, precise and effective action, and the first step was to give control of the federal response to a security agency that had no medical experience to speak of ... what could possibly go wrong?
This is a bit of a deep dive onto the legal labyrinth (as far as so far possible) but the implications for the practical management of the policies measures and staff required to counter the incoming threat can't be understated - the whole raft of established pandemic preparedness planning was turned upside down at precisely the time that it was actually needed.
But there's more ...
"I believe that the national security authorities took control of the Covid pandemic response not just in the U.S. but in many of our allied countries (the U.K., Australia, Germany, Israel and others) because they knew SARS-CoV-2 was an engineered virus that leaked from a lab researching potential bioweapons"
(It seems that the UK was a bit slower off the mark in the reorganisation race, not completing the transition from Public Health England to the UKHSA until April 2021. It still reports to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, although I note that it coexists cheek by jowl with an adjacent military establishment of some repute at Porton Down)
The Daily Sceptic brings an entirely new perspective to our understanding of how the pandemic response was handled, and this is essential reading for those of us who wish to inform ourselves (as well as we may) on this historic event.
