But if you want the full story, what happened was that The Intercept FOIA'd to get the EcoHealth grants. They got them back, but one of the reports was missing. The government hadn't withheld it - EcoHealth _had not filed it_, in violation of their grant.
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Replying to @cmuratori @j_KN0X
I am not clear (and we may not know?) exactly what then transpired, but the NIH's compliance department either demanded the report be filed, or EcoHealth voluntarily filed it after The Intercept reported it missing, or something.
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Replying to @cmuratori @j_KN0X
_That_ report, which _was_ filed after the article you cited, is the one where they admit that they ended up doing gain of function research, although they claim it was accidental. Which, it definitely wasn't by any sane read, but, let's just give them the benefit of the doubt :)
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So the reason why someone might not mention the NIH grant prior to the missing report being filed is because the public was not yet in possession of any documents where EcoHealth admitted to performing GOF. Does that make sense?
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Replying to @cmuratori @j_KN0X
I know this is confusing. This is, of course, why I get very angry with people who dismiss COVID origins things as a "conspiracy theory", because guess what folks, even just the evidence we already have is an intricate enough conspiracy that it's not a theory, it's just fact :)
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The question at this point, as far as I'm concerned, is more like "how big is this conspiracy, and in what way did it affect the pandemic", because we are still getting major documents released every week, and each one if more shocking than the next.
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At this point we have know way of knowing how many people and institutions were involved, and we don't know to what extent they are implicated, whether it was a "harmless coverup" of some things that didn't cause the pandemic, or whether it's a blatant coverup that did, etc.
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The only thing we know for sure is that if you read mainstream press about this subject you are completely ignorant of the alarming facts we already know for certain, which is unfortunate, but those are the times in which we now live :(
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I agree this got complicated, and I believe it went from conspiracy theory to evidence-based coverup. But maybe we have different definitions of mainstream media? Because I see it being discussed, and I would bet Krampus's left knuckle the coverage will only increase. :-)
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My main concern now is that it _is_ complicated, and there is no clean villain vs hero that we can point to. And I fear that those who jumped on the conspiracy bandwagon before the good evidence came out probably have ulterior motives and aren't as interested in sussing this out.
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The best source from early on has been and remains @ayjchan if you are interested in following this stuff. Any time I am out of the loop for a week or two, I just go to her feed and read what I've missed. It's indispensable. Very frustrating that she doesn't get wider coverage.
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