RE: The Daily Meme #949!

AFTER ACTION REVIEW OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC:
The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024.12.04-SSCP-FINAL-REPORT-ANS.pdf
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"During a time of intense partisanship, the Select Subcommittee had
bipartisan consensus across multiple topics.

1. The possibility that COVID-19 emerged because of a laboratory or research related
   accident is not a conspiracy theory.
2. EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. and Dr. Peter Daszak should never again receive U.S. taxpayer
   dollars.
3. Scientific messaging must be clear and concise, backed by evidentiary support, and come
   from trusted messengers, such as front-line doctors treating patients.
4. Public health officials must work to regain American's trust; Americans want to be
   educated, not indoctrinated.
5. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo participated in medical malpractice and
   publicly covered up the total number of nursing home fatalities in New York.

In addition to these notable bipartisan successes, the Select Subcommittee developed
extensive findings, some of which include:

1. The U.S. National Institutes of Health funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan
   Institute of Virology.
2. The Chinese government, agencies within the U.S. Government, and some members of
   the international scientific community sought to cover-up facts concerning the origins of
   the pandemic.
3. Operation Warp Speed was a tremendous success and a model to build upon in the future.
   The vaccines, which are now probably better characterized as therapeutics, undoubtedly
   saved millions of lives by diminishing likelihood of severe disease and death.
4. Rampant fraud, waste, and abuse plagued the COVID-19 pandemic response.
5. Pandemic-era school closures will have enduring impact on generations of America’s
   children and these closures were enabled by groups meant to serve those children.
6. The Constitution cannot be suspended in times of crisis and restrictions on freedoms sow
   distrust in public health.
7. The prescription cannot be worse than the disease, such as strict and overly broad
   lockdowns that led to predictable anguish and avoidable consequences. "