[ExI] conspiracy theories, was: RE: Satoshi

[John Clark]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2026 at 12:21 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *> Since you bring up conspiracy theories, what about that one suggesting
> that Dr. Fauci covered up aspects of the origin of covid, then claimed
> there was scientific consensus that it was natural origin, while there was
> still plenty of dissent in the scientific community? *
>

*Dr. Fauci never claimed that. In March of 2020, just 2 months
after COVID was first discovered when very little was known about it, he
did said there was very strong evidence that the origin of Covid came from
a jump between animals and humans; but only a few months later, when more
evidence came in, he said there was probably a natural origin for Covid but
he remained "open minded" about it and a lab leak was a plausible
hypothesis that could not be ruled out. Even today there is still no
scientific consensus about the origins of Covid. And I find it difficult to
believe your outrage over Dr. Fauci allegedly telling a lie is genuine when
your buddy, He Who Must Not Be Named, has told THOUSANDS of bald-faced lies
to the American public, and unlike Dr. Fauci POTUS has never once corrected
himself. *

*I'm not saying the man was perfect, Dr. Fauci certainly made mistakes but
he was fighting a virus unlike anything seen before that would end up
killing more Americans in just 18 months than all the wars the US has
fought over the last 250 years PUT TOGETHER. So of course he made mistakes,
so has every general who has ever fought a war, but I don't think there are
many who could've done better than Dr. Fauci.*

*You prefer Covid to have come from a lab leak because you hate China. I
prefer Covid not to have come from a lab leak because I love laboratory
research. But neither of our preferences have any bearing on the fact that
Covid either came from a lab leak or it did not, and no matter how
frustrating it may be, we're just not gonna know the full truth until more
information becomes available.*

*I also think it's interesting that Senator Rand Paul, the guy who
orchestrated the Dr. Fauci witch hunt, at one time called himself a
"libertarian" and had a political reputation as a staunch advocate of
privacy rights and was a vocal critic of federal surveillance, but he
somehow got a hold of Dr. Fauci's personal diary and quickly made all of it
public. Yes there were some embarrassing things in that diary, but if I was
an 80 year old man who kept a diary and I met a beautiful movie star who
kept telling me how brilliant I was, I would certainly write a few lines
about that in my personal diary, and I'll bet you would do the same thing.
But neither of us would want what we had written to be made public. So if I
was forced to testify before that stupid committee and demanded an
explanation for every line I had written in my diary then I would have told
that hypocritical son of a bitch I was taking the fifth amendment too.*


*John K Clark*
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