Congressman Mike Rogers believes the public has a right to know where the COVID-19 virus originated. This comment was in response to revelations that the U.S. Department of Energy now accepts as likely the theory that the COVID-19 global pandemic probably originated in a lab in China rather than as something that naturally occurred.
That theory was almost as old as the virus itself but was denounced by the media and many government agencies as a “fringe” conspiracy theory. Increasingly though, a growing number of official voices acknowledge that they now accept the theory as likely factual.
Following the revelation that the Energy Department accepts that the global pandemic was likely the result of some sort of an escape from a laboratory, many Republicans are demanding answers.
“Republicans were written off as conspiracy theorists for claiming that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan lab,” Rep. Rogers told Alabama Today via email. “Now that the Department of Energy has concluded that a lab leak is indeed the likely origin of COVID-19, the Biden White House remains curiously silent. The public deserves to know the origins of this disease, and any effort by the Biden administration to mislead the public on that front is shameful.”
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton had suggested that the disease resulted from a lab leak as early as Feb. 2020. He was slammed for it by the New York Times and the mainstream media.
Now Cotton wants answers.
“China’s lab leak, being proven right doesn’t matter,” said Sen. Cotton on Twitter. “What matters is holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable so this doesn’t happen again.”
“The elites and academics owe everyone who had legitimate questions and concerns about the origins of COVID an apology,” Rep Ken Buck said on Twitter. “The American people deserve to see all the information concerning the Chinese lab leak and the origins of COVID. This won’t be forgotten.”
The FBI also reportedly has come to the same conclusion – that the COVID-19 global pandemic had nothing to do with a natural disease outbreak from an infected animal at a meat market in Wuhan – the story the Chinese initially reported – but rather that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab there.
The Wall Street Journal reported last week that the Energy Department had joined the FBI’s stance on the pandemic.
The Wall Street Journal report cites individuals who have seen a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
The National Intelligence Council and four other agencies assess at “low confidence” that the COVID-19 pandemic originated due to natural transmission from an infected animal. In contrast, the CIA and another unnamed agency are undecided.
The updated report maintains there is a consensus between all the intelligence agencies that the pandemic was not the result of a Chinese bioweapons program.
The U.S. intelligence agency consensus is that the COVID-19 pandemic likely resulted from an accidental lab leak in Wuhan.
“It was obvious from the beginning that this was the case.,” Dr. Stewart Tankersley told Alabama Today. “But Fauci and all his sycophants continue to maim and kill without apologizing. But it’s actually one of the many lies that they have supported and propagated the past 3 years.”
Tankersley has been a skeptic of how the COVID-19 virus has been handled by the World Health Organization and federal and state healthcare authorities.
“Repentance is the first step to getting through this,” Tankersley added.
The Energy Department oversees a network of U.S. national laboratories, some of which conduct advanced biological research, so has the research brainpower to reach that conclusion. Reportedly both the FBI and the Energy Department arrived at the same conclusion independently of each other.
Wuhan is the center of China’s extensive coronavirus research.
COVID-19 is a condition first identified in late 2019 in China. The illness, which can frequently be deadly, is caused by a coronavirus infection. Coronaviruses are extremely common throughout nature, but the virus that caused the outbreak, SARS-CoV-2, was new to science.
The coronavirus has spread globally and is now endemic. To this point, 6,798,868 people have died in the global pandemic, including 1,145,293 Americans. 20,852 Alabamians have died.
Rogers is the Chairman of the powerful House Armed Service Committee. He is in his eleventh term representing Alabama’s Third Congressional District.
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