COVID-19 Pandemic Politics

The COVID-19 pandemic politics may be more far reaching and impactful than the SARS-CoV-2 virus or COVID-19 disease itself. Major political and economic impacts are still unfolding.

• Challenging the Narratives
• Authoritarianism and government overreach
• Bioweapons research
• Censorship and free speech
• Corruption
• Gain-of-function research
• Propaganda
• Regulatory capture

See also Lysenkoism

The National Institutes for Health has been front and center in a lot of pandemic politics, including funding research that may have led to the pandemic.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/04/francis-collins-nih-step-down-515114 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/francis-collins-longtime-head-of-nih-will-resign-report-says https://www.ageofautism.com/2020/02/the-latest-autism-gene-study-nih-director-collins-hails-deliberate-waste-of-time-money-and-lives.html

Rick Bright steps down https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/06/rick-bright-resigns-nih-barda/

Numerous controversies during the pandemic point to vaccine regulation issues in general.

In some circles, there seems to be a desire to place blame for the pandemic on China without respect to the gain-of-function research pioneered primarily in the United States.

• Oct 28, 2021 - Claim: COVID-19 is the latest in a long line of deadly epidemics that came out of China.¹⁾