Rep. Mike Gallagher: Truth on COVID, China – here's why world needs answers about what happened at Wuhan

China refuses to allow independent probe as COVID origins pressure mount

Fox News correspondent Rich Edson has the latest on China’s accountability on ‘Special Report’

At the end of HBO’s miniseries “Chernobyl,” Soviet nuclear scientist Valery Legosov warns: “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”  

We have spent the last 18 months witnessing China’s Chernobyl in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just like the Soviet Union during the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, from the earliest days of the pandemic when the virus emerged in Wuhan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has engaged in a concerted campaign to pile lies on top of lies about the virus and its origins.   

Consider that the CCP refused to allow U.S. Centers for Disease Control experts access to Wuhan, and critical data from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) that could have helped the world get ahead of the disease suddenly disappeared. Chinese academics and doctors who raised the alarm were silenced, forced to release hostage-style videos recanting their “erroneous” statements, and even put under house arrest for daring to challenge the official narrative.  

Abroad, the CCP’s “wolf-warriors” on social media spewed disinformation, going so far as accusing the U.S. Army of creating the virus in order to divert attention from the CCP’s own culpability. Countries like Australia, which called for an investigation into the origin of the pandemic, faced withering Chinese economic sanctions and coercion.  

All of these actions suggested the communists were engaged in a systematic coverup designed to avoid culpability for its mishandling of the pandemic that has killed over 3 million people.   

In contrast, scientists and private companies in the West not only have developed the world’s most effective vaccines against this virus, but also a whole new platform-technology for making vaccines using mRNA that has the potential to save countless lives combating a variety of pathogens beyond COVID-19. 

 Wuhan matters because the CCP gave the world the virus. The freedom and ingenuity of the United States and its allies gave the world the most effective vaccines. There can be no starker illustration of the difference between totalitarian societies and free societies. 

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