Unfortunately, Graham will condemn, and maybe tomorrow state he is going to investigate the entire thing, and then do nothing.

Covid has changed America, changed our lives completely, and some shattered. Masks, staying home, not even family at times, all kinds of mandates, lost jobs, lost businesses, various vaccines & on and on and on and on.

And one does have to wonder, how much was 100% necessary? What were we lied to about and from whom? What did they know initially? What did they learn since?

Was this virus at all engineered?

Was there anything at all that was known prior to the election that was then released after the election? (yeah, I know, we'll never know)

Maybe an investigation would in fact answer some questions. But even with expectations of not learning much from our politicians, no way in hell China would let anyone in to launch a full and proper investigation.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham: COVID lab leak raises serious questions about politicization of science, 2020 election

Early and near-total dismissal of lab leak theory played a prominent role in Trump's defeat in 2020 presidential race

We know that COVID-19 is deadly, but after more than 15 months in which COVID-19 has changed every aspect of our life, there remain many things about COVID-19 that we don’t know.

Did it come directly from nature, a lab leak in Wuhan, or some mixture of the two? Did science become politicized? Why didn’t American scientists, many of whom immediately raised the concerns about a Wuhan lab leak when COVID-19 entered our world, actively pursue further investigation of their concerns?

The more we learn the more troubling these questions become. In many ways, the situation involving COVID-19’s origins and explanations strikes me much like the now-discredited Steele dossier, which served as the legal basis for the Mueller investigation of President Trump.

In the Steele dossier, former FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok intentionally choose to pursue an outcome, not follow the facts. Had they conducted a legitimate investigation, Page and Strzok would have quickly realized the Steele dossier was likely a Russian disinformation campaign. By putting an outcome first – facts be damned – Page and Strzok led the country on a wild goose chase, which ended up accomplishing nothing but eroding trust in the FBI.

Did American scientists follow the Page and Strzok model of pursuing an outcome – there was no Chinese lab leak – when it came to the origins of COVID-19?

On Feb. 19, 2020, right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of 27 acclaimed scientists penned a letter in The Lancet, an international medical journal, where they spoke out against the "conspiracy theory" of COVID-19 origins:

"We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin," wrote the scientists. "Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus. We support the call from the Director-General of WHO to promote scientific evidence and unity over misinformation and conjecture. We want you, the science and health professionals of China, to know that we stand with you in your fight against this virus."

We now know that one of the leaders in coordinating The Lancet letter was Dr. Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance. Daszak is a close collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and their lead investigator on bat viruses, Shi Zhengli, also known as "Bat Woman."

Daszak has received National Institute of Health (NIH) grants to conduct coronavirus research in the Wuhan lab as well as funded gain of research studies manipulating bat genome sequences. Daszak was the lone solitary representative from the United States that China allowed to participate in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) extremely limited investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

Another letter from five virologists in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020, added to the narrative saying, "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

There is no doubt in my mind the combination of prominent scientists coming out strongly against the lab leak theory, along with officials from the State Department shutting down additional inquiries, ended up being two of the most consequential events in the 2020 election cycle.

Rest - https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/covi...lindsey-graham