For four years, a cabal led by Dr. Anthony Fauci has been trying to hide from the public the origins of COVID-19 in a Chinese laboratory.
With active support from Beijing, they nearly succeeded.
Skeptics like me who suggested that Americans shouldn’t believe China’s crazy bat-dropping story about the virus coming from a wet market were dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” in the US and attacked as “racists” in China.
My New York Post article exposing the lab was censored on Facebook by Fauci’s best friend, Mark Zuckerberg.
Of course, now the truth has finally come out: as the Chinese say, “the waters have subsided and the rocks have come out.”
Even the New York Times, which once mocked Senator Tom Cotton for questioning whether a lab leak might have caused the pandemic, has now caved in.
What was once dismissed as a “heretical theory” may now be accepted as scientific fact.
And the scientific fact, as Professor Richard Ebright of Rutgers University stated before the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week, is that there is “zero evidence” that the COVID virus has a natural origin and “multiple credible lines of evidence point to a laboratory origin.”
Now that the mystery of COVID-19’s origins has been solved, accountability must be demanded.
The good news is that the role of Dr. Fauci and his bought-off virus acolytes in funding dangerous research in the Wuhan lab and then trying to cover it up is slowly coming to light.
Unfortunately, one very nefarious actor has thus far largely escaped scrutiny for his role in creating COVID-19 and spreading it around the world.
China is directly responsible for the loss of up to 20 million lives, the collapse of the global economy, and the destruction of children’s mental health and education.
Simple justice demands that China’s leaders be held accountable for crimes against humanity and that China pay trillions of dollars in reparations for the damage it has suffered.
In an ideal world, the international community would join forces and demand exactly this.
But the world is silent.
The United Nations has never criticized China or its leaders, much less condemned their actions.
Although the International Criminal Court in The Hague exists to try individuals who commit crimes against humanity, we should not expect it to take action.
These days the ICC is much more interested in charging Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu with “war crimes” than focusing on the fact that Xi Jinping’s China has caused as many deaths as World War I.
If it is impossible to bring to justice those responsible for unleashing a global pandemic, can we at least make the countries responsible pay damages?
All told, the damage to the global economy over the last three years of the pandemic amounts to tens of trillions of dollars.
By 2023, the United States alone had lost an estimated $14 trillion (more than half its annual GDP) due to the pandemic.
I am under no illusion that as long as President Joe Biden is president, we will not receive a penny from China, because he sees Beijing as merely a competitor when in fact it is a dangerous adversary.
During Biden’s last meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco, he silently ignored the entire COVID-19 pandemic.
He did not call for an investigation into the Wuhan laboratory, nor did he insist on compensation for the havoc that the virus developed there caused around the world; he simply ignored the issue.
The meta-message of Biden’s continued silence is: “Don’t blame China.”
Don’t demand reparations. Don’t cut off our economies. Don’t disrupt the geopolitical order that China is relentlessly forging ahead despite spreading a devastating virus around the world.
Of course, Biden is not the only one who is afraid to beard the dragon. We have not heard of our allies calling for reparations either.
The only person speaking out is the same person who initially classified the virus by its country of origin and claimed it came from “China.”
Donald Trump is also the only leader with a plan to repair the losses America has suffered because of China’s misdeeds, and the will to carry that plan out.
In lieu of reparations, which Beijing would almost certainly refuse to pay, Trump has promised steep tariffs across the board.
Tariffs would do much more harm to China than they would to the United States.
Thanks in part to President Trump’s previous set of tariffs (which are still ongoing), our dependence on China is not as high as it once was.
Meanwhile, China’s economy remains a one-trick pony, heavily reliant on an export sector that often relies on forced, even slave, labor to keep costs down.
If the United States takes this lead, some of Europe’s promising populist leaders are sure to follow suit.
None of this will bring back Grandma and Grandpa and Grandma, but by imposing harsh consequences on China, it will force Beijing to recalculate the costs of its reckless biological weapons program.
And maybe it will help prevent the next pandemic.
Stephen W. Mosher is director of the Population Research Institute and author of The Devil and Communist China: From Mao to Xi Jinping.
