House pandemic subcommittee report 'basically said all the conspiracy theorists were correct' — Joe Rogan
The House subcommittee’s Coronavirus Pandemic report
When Dr. Jay Bhattacharya opened the House COVID Subcommittee on March 1, 2023, he asserted that after all the abuse of authority and dishonesty experienced during COVID, the American people deserve an honest subcommittee. Michael P. Senger tweeted his opening remarks:
Science bureaucrats abusing their authority to create an illusion of scientific consensus in favor of destructive ideas… With such a litany of failure, the American people deserve an honest COVID commission.
Now, after a two-year investigation, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its 520-page report, titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward,” which suggests that the committee seems to have lived up to Dr. Bhattacharya’s expectations. The subcommittee in its press release wrote that it documented in the report,
. . . high-level corruption in America’s public health system, confirmed the most likely origin of the pandemic, held COVID-19 bad actors publicly accountable, fostered bipartisan consensus on consequential pandemic-era issues, and more.
Report vindicates "conspiracy theorists"
The report was favorably accepted by those who have long been complaining about the abuses that have taken place during COVID-19.
Podcaster Joe Rogan, reading some of the report’s findings, concluded that it shows that the so called conspiracy theorists were correct, as Chief Nerd highlighted in his tweet:
ROGAN: "The House released a 500 page report on COVID-19 pandemic key findings ... The Select Subcommittee on Coronavirus Pandemic basically said all the conspiracy theorists were correct. Every single one of them. No repercussions, no retractions, no apology from Rachel Maddow. None of it."
Calling the report “[t]he most thorough report ever released on America’s reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic,” Washington Standard senior reporter and editor Ben Johnson praised the subcommittee’s report. In his commentary article carried by the Daily Signal, Johnson emphasized that according to its conclusions “virtually everything that would have gotten you banned from social media for spreading “misinformation” was true,” including the lab-leak theory, and that the countermeasures were not scientifically based, doing more harm than good. The subcommittee concluded that even then-President Trump’s travel ban which was widely criticized probably saved lives.
The report finds that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 likely originated from a lab leak at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, where it may have been manufactured as a chimera.
Lockdowns, mask mandates, social distancing, and vaccine mandates were not based on sound science and did more harm than good, the House subcommittee report says. Natural immunity exists for COVID-19, as it does for other viruses. And then-President Donald Trump’s “racist” travel bans likely saved lives.
However, one was not allowed to say any of this on social media, he noted.
Expressing any of these would have been enough to get one banned from social media.
Focusing on social media censorship, Johnson reviewed the policies of Twitter (now X), Facebook, and Meta which worked with the World Health Organization and the US government to decide what to ban, censor, or remove from their platforms.
Twitter, now X, infamously set up a portal for government agents to flag “misinformation” and target posts or whole accounts for shadow bans, censorship, or removal. Meta, owner of Facebook, boasted that, since December 2020, “following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO),” the company had “removed false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts” from Facebook and Instagram. In February, Meta broadened its list of verboten ideas “to include additional debunked claims about the coronavirus and vaccines” such as “COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured” and “Vaccines are not effective at preventing the disease.”
The report’s key findings
The summary of the report’s key findings, included in the committee’s press release, highlights the following:
COVID-19 origins
- The report concludes that “COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The report lists five strong arguments for the lab leak theory. The fifth item states the obvious — that if there was a natural origin we would have seen it already.
By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.
- “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,” a publication used by media and health officials to discredit the lab leak theory, was prompted by Dr. Fauci to promote his preferred narrative.
- COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research. The current government mechanisms overseeing this risky research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
Relief programs
Over $200 billion taxpayer dollars earmarked for relief funds were incorrectly allocated due to “waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars during the pandemic.”
Countermeasures
Congress raised concerns about the WHO’s handling of the pandemic, calling it an “abject failure” that prioritized China’s interests over its duties, noting that “the WHO’s newest effort to solve the problems exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic — via a “Pandemic Treaty” — may harm the United States.”
The committee’s criticism of the WHO, in the image below, is found on page 171 in the body of the report. “What was seen,” they wrote, “was an organization that rather than serving all of humankind, became beholden to and entrapped in politics.”
Countermeasures such as social distancing, mask mandates, and lockdowns were all criticized for lack of evidence behind them, arbitrariness, and the harm they caused. Regarding social distancing they wrote, “During closed door testimony, Dr. Fauci testified that the guidance, “sort of just appeared.”
New York’s governor at the time, Andrew Cuomo, was criticized for bringing sick patients into nursing homes as medical malpractice and called out for his administration’s attempts to “cover up the tragic aftermath of their policy decisions in an apparent effort to shield themselves from accountability.”
They noted that while Dr. Fauci publicly criticized then-President Trump’s travel restrictions he privately agreed with them, counter to the public narrative that Trump’s travel bans were xenophobic.
The subcommittee excoriated public officials as purveyors of misinformation and the Biden administration for censorship stating that it,
. . . employed undemocratic and likely unconstitutional methods — including pressuring social media companies to censor certain COVID-19 content — to fight what it deemed misinformation.
Vaccines
It is noteworthy that while Operation Warp Speed is cited as having been highly successful and having “helped save millions of lives” on the one hand, several problems with the vaccines were listed, raising questions about claims of their success (a point Johnson noted was made by Dr. Malone as well).
- [T]he COVID-19 vaccine did not stop the spread or transmission of the virus.
- Approval was rushed and vaccines mandated despite the warning of two leading FDA scientists “about the dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the likelihood of adverse events.”
- There was no scientific support for the vaccine mandates which,
“trampled individual freedoms, harmed military readiness, and disregarded medical freedom to force a novel vaccine on millions of Americans without sufficient evidence to support their policy decisions.” - Public health officials engaged in a “coordinated effort to ignore natural immunity” in favor of vaccines and mandates.
- VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) was a failure that increased public distrust in the vaccine and the government is failing to properly compensate citizens for vaccine injuries.
Economic impact of countermeasures
The report cited the deleterious effects the lockdowns had on business and the impact of the countermeasures on healthcare and workers.
School closures
Unwarranted school closures seriously impacted children who “experienced historic learning loss, higher rates of psychological distress, and decreased physical well-being.” Regarding long-term effects - “[m]ental and physical health concerns also skyrocketed — with suicide attempts by 12-17 year-aged girls rising 51%.” Additionally, outside influence guided the CDC’s response, allowing the American Federation of Teachers to write and dictate policy.
Holding those responsible accountable.
Those responsible for the COVID-19 debacle actively obstructed Congress’s investigation.
HHS OBSTRUCTION: The Biden Administration’s HHS engaged in a multi-year campaign of delay, confusion, and non-responsiveness in an attempt to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation and hide evidence that could incriminate or embarrass senior public health officials. It appears that HHS even intentionally under-resourced its component that responds to legislative oversight requests.
ECOHEALTH OBSTRUCTION: EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak obstructed the Select Subcommittee’s investigation by providing publicly available information, instructing his staff to reduce the scope and pace of productions, and doctoring documents before releasing them to the public. Further, Dr. Daszak provided false statements to Congress.
DR. DAVID MORENS: Dr. Fauci’s Senior Advisor, Dr. David Morens, deliberately obstructed the Select Subcommittee’s investigation, likely lied to Congress on multiple occasions, unlawfully deleted federal COVID-19 records, and shared nonpublic information about NIH grant processes with EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak.
NEW YORK OBSTRUCTION: New York’s Executive Chamber — led presently by Governor Kathy Hochul — redacted documents, offered numerous illegitimate privilege claims, and withheld thousands of documents without an apparent legal basis to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation into former Governor Cuomo’s pandemic-era failures.
Rebuilding trust
House Speaker Mike Johnson described the report as a key step toward rebuilding trust and preparing for future events."
The COVID Select Subcommittee’s report has delivered a careful evaluation of our nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis exposed serious failures in leadership, and this report is a step in the right direction to rebuild trust and guarantee America is better prepared for future events. Chairman Wenstrup and the subcommittee’s important work will be instrumental in restoring much-needed transparency and accountability.
Chairman Brad Wenstrup, quoted in the Committee’s press release, hopes that this work prevents the next pandemic while highlighting the distrust that was created by America’s leadership.
This work will help the United States, and the world, predict the next pandemic, prepare for the next pandemic, protect ourselves from the next pandemic, and hopefully prevent the next pandemic. Members of the 119th Congress should continue and build off this work, there is more information to find and honest actions to be taken,” wrote Chairman Wenstrup in a letter to Cotakeawaymic requires a whole of America response managed by those without personal benefit or bias. We can always do better, and for the sake of future generations of Americans, we must. It can be done.”
Report criticized for what’s missing
Not everyone was happy with the report, Ben Johnson wrote. Critics felt that the report was not comprehensive enough, neglecting “to address the adverse impact of the COVID-19 shot and suppression of basic civil liberties.”
What else is missing?
While Dr. Fauci, Governor Cuomo, and others were castigated for their roles in the COVID-19 pandemic failures, Dr. Birx, who was Trump's Coronavirus Response Coordinator from 2020 to 2021, was responsible for making up the "15 days to stop the spread;" lied about the vaccine being able to stop transmission, and changed White House reports and special coronavirus advisor Dr. Scott Atlas's guidelines to suit her preferences, as reported by The Gold Report. Dr. Bob Redfield, former head of the CDC, was also complicit as he helped her change special coronavirus advisor Dr. Atlas's guidelines. Then Vice President Mike Pence was also supportive of her subterfuge.
Dr. Birx was forced to leave her position after enjoying a family Thanksgiving gathering of four generations even though she warned the rest of America to eat only with household members.
Government unresponsive
Dr. Robert Malone was perturbed by the lack of action on the part of the federal government in response to the report’s suggestions.
“Forgive my cynicism,” Dr. Robert Malone, chief medical and regulatory officer for The Unity Project, told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” on Tuesday. “I don’t see the federal government at this point in time taking these suggestions in and acting appropriately to respond to them. This should be a very active [case of] ‘lessons learned’ on their openness and transparency. We’re not seeing that.”
Key takeaway for public
Johnson, having noted Dr. Malone’s skepticism due to the government’s apparent inaction, quoted Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, as agreeing with Dr. Malone,
Malone is “right to be cynical, because government rarely learns its lessons.”
Whether or not the new administration will act on the report, it is an important document that can assist the public in feeling confident in their opinions and be forewarned for the future pandemics that are said to be in the offing. And of course, they can hold local representatives accountable for their part in the debacle.
The full report, the summary provided in the press release, and a tweet of the key takeaways are available for the public to read.
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