6 Questions An Honest, Intelligent Reporter Would Ask Dr. Fauci About COVID-19

August 10, 2020 in News by RBN Staff

source: www.zerohedge.com
by Tyler Durden

Authored by Stecey Lennox via PJMedia.ocm,

If you had been going down the rabbit hole of COVID-19 research for long enough, a few things would be astounding to you.

  • First, how uninformed, uncurious, or deceptive reporters in the corporate media are on a matter of life and death.
  • Second, how much publicly available information about COVID-19 is on the internet contradicts what is reported and said by Health Experts™on cable news.
  • Finally, it is impossible to believe Dr. Anthony Fauci enjoys a 62% approval rating.

Of course, part of the reason Dr. Fauci enjoys this level of trust is that reporters who interview him put a sort of religious faith in every word he utters. Having worked with doctors for years, I don’t suffer from any such affliction. There are some great ones, some awful ones, and some who are great at one thing and not another.

It is also quite reasonable for doctors to disagree. Medicine is the art of applying science and it is rarely “settled.” This healthy tension is why patients get second opinions. Yet during the COVID-19 pandemic, only one doctor has had almost no pushback in any public interview. This is journalistic malpractice, but not surprising. Most of the corporate media agree with his recommendations or can use panic porn clicks.

However, if there were a courageous and intelligent reporter who could score an interview with Dr. Fauci, here is a list of questions I would suggest.

1. How is COVID-19 a novel virus?

Dr. Fauci, can you please explain how COVID-19 is a novel virus when it has an overlap with the structure of SARS at a rate of 79%? In addition, there are several human coronaviruses that we have dealt with seasonally for years. Is “novel,” as in completely new, an unnecessarily shocking term?

I cannot find a reference to MERS that calls it a “novel” virus. All coronaviruses have the telltale spike protein we have all become familiar with and MERS was less similar to SARS than COVID-19 is. Why add the qualifier to COVID-19 when even the NIH published an article with the following “facts” on June 26, 2020:

Only minor differences have been found between the genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV

In another section of the same paper, it says:

Genome sequence analysis has shown that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the Betacoronavirus genus, which includes Bat SARS-like coronavirus, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV [6].

SARS-CoV-2 possesses a genomic structure which is typical of other betacoronaviruses.

Typical and novel are hardly synonyms. Framing the virus as something completely new makes it scarier.

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