By LINDA BOYLE

It’s amazing to see all the articles suddenly being written about the origin of Covid-19 and how it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 

For years we were told it came from the wet market, and that it had nothing to do with the lab, according to our own government and that of the Chinese government. Those poor pangolins and bats were vilified. 

If you said the virus did not come from the wet market, you were banned from several social media platforms. And you were accused of spreading misinformation, violating so-called community standards. You were called a conspiracy theorist.  

Even my social media posts back then were marked misinformation by the “fact checkers.”  The Facebook fake news trolls were looking for anyone who dared spout something other than the agreed upon government narrative.     

While the higher ups in the U.S. government or those of foreign powers continue to try and cover up the origins of Covid, the truth continues to leak out. And leak it does—only because of the persistence of some members of Congress and courageous doctors who were maligned during the “pandemic.” 

Freedom of Information requests are finally being answered. The U.S. Right to Know organization obtained documents that demonstrated American researchers had concealed the fact they wanted to conduct high-risk coronavirus research in Wuhan because the of lax safety standards. This attempt to get research funding at the Wuhan Institute of Virology occurred the year before the COVID-19 pandemic. Amazingly, a group of elite scientists with the assistance of a complicit media drove the fake narrative. 

Dr. Peter Daszak, the president of the Ecohealth Alliance, received grants from the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases to conduct  research at the Wuhan Institute. One of the “most controversial” of Ecohealth’s work was a project titled “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.” This research was started at the WIV in 2019 and then paused by the National Institutes of Health because of concerns of a lab leak. Daszak kept pushing NIH for months as he wanted to continue this project. 

Daszak, who has been at the center of the debate since 2020, testified to Congress in November 2023. However, Congress wanted him back for more questioning because there were some inconsistencies in his previous testimony. 

On May 1, 2024, in testimony to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Daszak suggested that the intelligence community was aware of these experiments being carried out at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  He also stated our government sent money to the WIV despite concerns and Daszak identified the institute as a lab where the Chinese government made bioweapons.  

If that weren’t enough to make you go “wow,” Daszak stated the institute has more than “15,000 samples of other coronaviruses that may belong to the US government through past taxpayer-funded research.” Add to that, Daszak said Ecohealth Alliance is still receiving a staggering $16 million a year in U.S. taxpayer cash.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, chairman of this select subcommittee, stated “Dr. Daszak and his organization conducted dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute for Virology, willfully violated the terms of a multi-million-dollar NIH grant, and placed U.S. national security at risk.”

More new information has come forward and these documents confirm that Dr. Fauci lied about Covid.  Sen. Rand Paul, who is a doctor, has been on this since the pandemic started and has sparred repeatedly with Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has continued to state the National Institutes of Health had nothing to do with any gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, despite what was done meeting their very own definition.  

“Newly obtained documents confirm yet again Fauci lied about COVID. Fauci’s NIH lab was a partner with Wuhan on a proposal to engineer a highly transmissible coronavirus in 2018,” Sen. Paul wrote on X/Twitter. “But he wasn’t alone, 15 government agencies knew about it and said nothing. Americans deserve answers.”  

Judicial Watch filed Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine what the agency knew and when they knew it regarding gain-of-research in China. It seems the FBI was informed in April of 2020 that this type of research might be being accomplished in China, funded by none other than Dr. Fauci’s former agency. Emails obtained about this research stated that such research could be done and “leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.” 

The president of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton, stated, “These smoking gun documents showed the FBI quickly understood that Fauci’s agency funded the gain-of-function research that could disguise the resulting coronavirus as ‘natural.’”

Because of earlier FIOA requests by Judicial Watch, the FBI had opened an “inquiry” into the bat coronavirus grant awarded to Wuhan Institute of Virology around May of 2020. In 2023 the FBI determined the most likely cause of the Covid-19 pandemic was an “accidental lab leak.”  

Not only was our government trying to downplay the origins of Covid, so was the Chinese government. Rather than trying to assist with determining how the virus came into being, the Chinese government continues to hide whatever truth on the origins existence by closing labs, shattering collaborations, and preventing Chinese researchers from leaving the country. The Chinese government went as far as to say the U.S. military brought the virus to China when the military games were held in Wuhan in October of 2019.  

Where does the truth lie? We may never get to it, but I’m banking on a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was known to have lax safety rules. And I also bank on the fact we paid for part of that research and even gave them coronaviruses to manipulate and genetically engineer. 

What about Dr. Fauci? Did he not in 2012 argue for the gain-of-function research on viruses “to increase their potency was worth the risk, even if the work could accidentally lead to a pandemic”? He did qualify his comment to indicate his support, as long as there was significant oversight—something it doesn’t appear the Wuhan Institute of Virology was capable of doing. 

Fear can be used as a weapon. That worked well the last time round. The government knew the truth about the origin of Covid back in April of 2020. The State Department concluded Covid came from a lab.  Did they share that with us?  No they backtracked and hid its tracks.  

Jeff M. Smith, in his article for RealClearWorld, stated that the origin of Covid being in the wet markets “was always a lie; one of the most consequential lies of the 21^st century.”  If truly evaluated, the lab leak theory was always more “compelling and has grown substantially more persuasive with time.” 

The truth continues to emerge.  You can’t shut it off.  You can choose not to believe it, much like the Flat Earthers did not believe the world was round. But bear in mind our government and the World Health Organization are already gearing up for the next “pandemic.” They seem to believe they can convince you of anything since they were so successful four years ago.

There are those of us who continue to roll up our sleeves, injecting an unknown “vaccine” into bodies that was never completely tested.   

U.S. Navy Captain (ret) Charlie Plumb, a Vietnam prisoner of war, talks about the eight-foot cell he lived in for years and said the restrictions weren’t there. The restrictions are the eight inches between your ears. That set him free in a horrible environment where he lived for six years.  

Most of us don’t like to be told we were wrong. We try to twist and turn the truth to match our beliefs. I can only hope to educate you and provide you with the truths currently emerging. You can decide which prison cell you want to keep in your mind. Or let yourself be free. 

Linda Boyle, RN, MSN, DM, was formerly the chief nurse for the 3rd Medical Group, JBER, and was the interim director of the Alaska VA. Most recently, she served as Director for Central Alabama VA Healthcare System. She is the director of the Alaska Covid Alliance.