This Election "Is a Farce"...Was Covid Origins a Hidden Winning Campaign Issue?

The Democratic establishment has covered up...Green Party candidate is "5000% on board" but publicly silent...Notable Republicans like Paul leading on the issue increased their margins of victory.

I recently posted on Facebook and Twitter a photo of my ballot from Tuesday on which I wrote in bright marker: “This is a Farce”. One reader asked why I didn’t vote for the Green Party candidate.

Here’s why:

Back in September, I bumped into Nancy Wallace, who was running for Green Party candidate for governor of Maryland.

She pitched me on writing pieces she wanted to get published. I heard her out and then told her about my work on pandemic origins.

She would tell me that she was “5,000% on board with the questioning” of Covid origins but that “I don't want the campaign to touch the pandemic origin issue.”

She would write me: “It's hard enough getting basic legitimacy with the voters when they can't see any mention of us in the press, major yard signs, etc. There are much more immediate, important, local and global issues such as criminal justice reform, climate change, marijuana legalization approaches (there are several variations) that matter to the voters.” Citing no evidence, she added: “Basically numbers wise, no significant number of voters will change their vote based on this pandemic issue.”

She also told me “My father died from the swine flu emergency government vaccine” in the 1970s. Also: “I nearly died a year and a month ago, with a beginning heart attack but got to the emergency room in time — 5 weeks after the Pfizer covid vaccine.”

But she didn’t want the campaign to address vaccine mandates as well.

I responded to Wallace: “You're disregarding your own personal lived experience, as well as that of your father, for what you *think* is the politically shrewd thing to do. 

“You're also likely ignoring the concerns and lived experiences of millions of people -- possibly a majority of the public.

“And then you wonder why people go rightwing. 

“Maybe it's because some rightwingers actually give voice to some legit concerns.” 

She never responded. I posted our full exchange on a main Green Party email list. Silence.

Wallace sought “legitimacy” and in that, lost it.

Elections — especially for candidates who expect to lose, as Wallace and most Green Party candidates do — are supposed to be opportunities to raise issues that resonate with voters.

We had a pandemic which may well have been caused by dangerous lab work that makes pathogens more deadly — biowarfare by another name — turn all our lives upside down and Wallace and other “progressives” want to ignore it. Wallace’s stance was all the more indefensible when one considers that Maryland is home to Fort Detrick, the largest center of US “biodefense” work and the source — according to the FBI — of the 2001 false flag anthrax attacks on the Capitol.

Another Green Party candidate, who, like Wallace, would get less than one percent of the vote, was Matthew Hoh. He ran for the US senate in North Carolina. North Carolina is home to Ralph Baric’s lab. Baric worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to make coronaviruses more pathogenic. His work could well have caused the pandemic. We don’t know — largely because he won’t release the relevant documents. See information at US Right to Know and from the Organic Consumers Association. But Hoh, like Wallace, stayed mum on pandemic origins. (Disclosure: Hoh is on the board of an organization that I’m on the staff of and I highlighted how the Democratic Party tried to keep him off the ballot.)

Covid upended every life in the US over the last two and a half years. It’s remarkable how the Democrats in the House have blocked any real move to investigate the origins of the pandemic. And given that it’s effectively an issue of biowarfare, that progressives have stayed silent or worse, become apologists. And it's remarkable how little the Republicans stressed the origins of the Covid pandemic as a campaign issue. (Though, what lobby would push the issue, there’s no counter to the Big Money of Big Pharma.)

It’s virtually impossible to try to establish causality, but Republicans who did question the establishment claims on pandemic origins like Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had strong showings on Tuesday. 

Paul went up from 57.3% in his last election cycle to 61.8% in this year.

Paul gained notoriety by repeatedly questioning Biden's head medical advisor Anthony Fauci on Covid origins. Fauci and much of the establishment pretended from the beginning of the pandemic that it could not have lab origin, which was a ridiculous falsehood. A reckoning on this issue is long overdue and with a few exceptions, the Republicans did not seize the political opening. 

Indeed, Paul declared his victory party Fauci’s retirement party, see video.

Gov. Ron DeSantis jumped from 49.6 in his last run to 59.4 this year. DeSantis, like Paul, has questioned a number of aspects of Covid policy, but has also called for an investigation into the origins of the pandemic. 

In the House, Rep. Michael McCaul who led by producing a report -- "The Origins of Covid-19: An Investigation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology" -- for the House Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee saw his numbers jump over ten points from 52.5% in 2020 to 63.7% in 2022. 

Other Republicans who did work on this issue didn’t fair as well however. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who has done work on pandemic origins through House Energy and Commerce, won her seat two percent less than in 2020. But Rep. Frank Pallone, the Democratic chairman of that committee, who has been a major impediment to investigation, lost a full five points.

The most prominent Democrat preventing an investigation into the origins of the pandemic (with the possible exception of Speaker Nancy Pelosi herself), Rep. James Clyburn, the chair of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis went down from 68.2% in 2020 to 61.5% in 2022. See exchange between him and Rep. Jim Jordan on his refusal to allow an investigation.

Republicans tend to focus blame on China and sometimes the NIH for Covid origins. Off their agenda by and large are wider questions of US biowarfare. Indeed, the Democratic House leadership's refusal to investigate Covid origins should not be seen as a purely partisan move. Congress has refused to investigate the 2001 false flag biowarfare attacks on it. Thus, they may not be seeking the full story, but they at least acknowledge that pandemic origins is a deadly serious issue.

The public — even with all the media dismissals regarding lab origin — isn’t buying the notion that lab origins should be dismissed.

Over a year ago, Politico reported on a poll the outlet did with Harvard which found “52 percent believe the virus came out of a lab, including 59 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats.” YouGov had similar results last year regarding the US public.

This is a globally held view. A YouGov-Cambridge poll from September of this year found that over 70 percent of the people in Kenya and Nigeria think Covid came from a lab. It’s not surprising that Africans should have especially high numbers given the possibility that, as recently reported, the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa may have had lab origins.

Leighton Woodhouse, who is affiliated with the White Coat Waste Project, notes that some Democrats in Congress are beginning to question pandemic origins.

On this issue, as with others, there may well be a hidden radical majority. How that gets reflected in the machinations of political figures is an open question.