Doctors Orders.

Navarro’s account linked below is of great interest. Yet it omits some important analysis:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/.../fauci-diary-tells.../

Navarro asks himself:

“Why did Dr. Fauci bury [the Wuhan lab-leak] theory [that] he privately considered plausible?”

(Of course, I would have phrased the question more forcefully than Navarro, as in “Why did Dr. Fauci bury the Wuhan lab-leak that Fauci already KNEW caused the COVID pandemic?” Fauci had to have been already using his “diary” as a self-preservation tool once the pandemic hit, which is why the subject Fauci diary-entry was purposefully cast in the realm of plausibility only as opposed to certainty. Fauci was making a record seeking to protect himself from later eventualities, and he was right about that - they actually occurred. Otherwise, adult men don’t write “Dear Diary”. But as soon as the pandemic hit, Fauci knew that the pandemic had to be military-grade gain-of-function rearing its ugly head courtesy of Wuhan, and that’s my quibble with the manner in which Navarro framed his question above).

In any event, Navarro then answers his own question why Fauci buried the Wuhan lab-leak explanation:

“Dr. Fauci had a powerful conflict of interest. His institute had funded dangerous coronavirus research routed through EcoHealth Alliance to Wuhan. If that research contributed to a laboratory accident, ‘St. Fauci’ would not merely lose his halo. He would face responsibility for championing the risks, failing to police the work[,] and then helping shape the public story about its possible consequences”.

Yet that’s far too pedestrian and superficial an analysis, as it only speaks to Fauci’s selfish motivations. Additionally, I would keep in mind that the pandemic may have resulted from CCP gain-of-function work at Wuhan, as opposed to U.S. gain-of-function work at Wuhan, even if Fauci-funding helped facilitate it – and you don’t think for a moment that the CCP gave the Americans full access to the whole Level 4 military bioweapons lab in Wuhan, do you?

Moreover, Navarro’s psychological deconstruction of Fauci’s mindset alone, quoted above, cannot possibly be the whole story. The answer to Navarro’s self-asked question HAS TO be bigger than that.

Fauci HAD to have conferred with higher-ups in U.S. government before participating in a purposeful P.R. squash of the Wuhan lab-leak. Those higher-ups may have included those at the State Department, NSA, CIA, FBI, other agencies, and even the White House. The purposeful P.R. squash of the Wuhan lab-leak was far too premeditated and far too important an act for Fauci to have decided to simply improvise it on his own – particularly because it was an intentional worldwide deceit on a life-and-death matter. Fauci would never have gone out on a limb on an intentional worldwide deceit on a life-and-death matter like that. Not without back-up. Sure, Fauci may have been stunad about putting his diary on a government server, but it is unimaginable that Fauci would have crossed a clearly-visible line into obvious and foreseeable self-harm. Look at the ego reflected in his diary entries. Fauci would have protected himself first.

So the real question is, why would those at the highest echelons of U.S. government seek to P.R.-squash the Wuhan lab-leak in favor of the preposterous bat guano cover-story? It’s essentially the same reason why Obama and John Kerry tried to make all of us say “Daesh” instead of “Islamic State” years ago. In each case, the principal motivation was to avoid triggering an international incident, particularly one that could prejudice the U.S. militarily and potentially put members of the armed forces further in harm’s way. The second motivation, related to the first, was to avoid triggering domestic unrest arising out of Asian hate within the American population, just like saying “Daesh” was supposed to make six-pack Americans feel better about their Muslim neighbors. Whatever else these items are ideologically, both of them are significant matters of national security.

As for avoiding an international incident, specifically, anyone at State, NSA, CIA, FBI, or the White House who saw the Wuhan lab-leak story coming down the pike, would have immediately tried to squash it, for fear of what its release would do with respect to Chinese-American trade, China’s effect on the American economy otherwise, possible Chinese-American military interactions particularly in the South China Sea, and Chinese-American relations generally. Again, national security. Well beyond Fauci’s own pay-grade and candlepower, even if he was the highest-paid government official of his type at one point.
COVID originated in the Wuhan lab due to human manipulation of material. COVID then traversed the Earth because of that Wuhan lab leak. Fauci misled, misdirected, and lied to Congress and the American people about it. Fauci knew it was a lab leak of a military-grade bioweapon in development, as of the naissance of the pandemic. Along with so many other misguided individuals, Fauci then pretended that the pandemic originated from the “natural origin”, which he and others attributed to a bat brought to “wetmarket”.

Yet Fauci was told to lie – instructed to lie – nay, ORDERED to lie. And when Fauci Took Five 111 times yesterday, one of the things that Fauci was doing was covering up for one or more higher-ups in U.S. government who ordered him to tell and propagate that lie.
No, that doesn’t make Fauci any less culpable for lying.

But imagine what they might have done to Fauci if he DIDN’T lie.