Audio Version:By: Dr.s Jill Glasspool Malone and Robert W. MaloneFor five years, the medical freedom movement demanded accountability. It demanded accountability from Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, the FDA, CDC, NIH, pharmaceutical companies, universities, physicians, journalists, and politicians. It challenged emergency authorizations, mandates, censorship, vaccine safety claims, and the extraordinary speed with which a novel pharmaceutical technology was deployed across the population.At the center of much of that movement stood Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Children’s Health Defense, which Kennedy chaired, petitioned the FDA in 2021 to revoke the Emergency Use Authorizations for the COVID vaccines. Kennedy himself described the COVID vaccine as the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” Whatever one thinks of the scientific argument, there was nothing ambiguous about Kennedy’s position. These products were dangerous. The regulatory system had failed. The public had been misled. Government had to act.That history matters because Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is no longer standing outside the gates of the FDA demanding action. He is the Secretary of Health and Human Services. FDA, CDC, NIH, NIAID, and BARDA are all components of the department he leads.The Secretary of Health and Human Services is the Cabinet officer responsible for the overall supervision, direction, and administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Secretary establishes departmental policy and priorities and oversees HHS programs, operating divisions, and activities, including the FDA, CDC, NIH, and CMS, subject to authorities established by Congress and applicable law.-—42 U.S.C. § 3501, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesNineteen months into his tenure, the Pfizer and Moderna COVID mRNA vaccines remain licensed. NIH continues to fund mRNA vaccine research. New mRNA vaccine research awards have been made during his tenure.And on August 5, 2026, Kennedy’s FDA approved Moderna’s MFLUSIVA, the first mRNA influenza vaccine licensed in the United States, granting traditional approval for adults 50–64 and accelerated approval for those 65 and older, despite Kennedy himself having announced when not part of the Trump administration that mRNA vaccines “fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu.” The man who spent years warning America about mRNA vaccines now presides over a department that has approved another one. That is not a minor detail. It is the sort of contradiction that the medical freedom movement once would have torn apart.Nor was Kennedy’s promise limited to vaccine recommendations or research priorities. On September 26, 2024, six weeks before the election, Kennedy explicitly endorsed Representative Paul Gosar’s End the Vaccine Carveout Act. “If we want safe and effective vaccines, we need to end the liability shield,” Kennedy said. Yet the COVID-19 PREP Act declaration protecting manufacturers remains in force through December 31, 2029. There are things Kennedy cannot do without Congress. This is not one of them.Under the PREP Act, the HHS Secretary can amend the declaration prospectively by publishing a notice in the Federal Register.He cannot retroactively eliminate immunity that manufacturers already received, but he can alter its application going forward. Kennedy has not done so. His own HHS demonstrated that it knows perfectly well how to use this authority when it issued a new PREP Act declaration in May 2026 granting liability protection for Andes virus countermeasures. The authority exists. Kennedy has exercised it.He simply has not exercised it against the COVID liability shield he once publicly opposed.Kennedy’s defenders have accomplishments they can legitimately point to. His FDA narrowed routine COVID vaccine approvals. He dismissed the entire ACIP and replaced its membership. HHS substantially revised the childhood vaccine schedule, although a federal court subsequently blocked that action. His administration has proposed changes to the vaccine injury compensation process, but they have yet to take effect. These are consequential actions. But many of the administration’s most significant promised reforms remain proposals rather than enacted policy. None removed a licensed COVID mRNA product from the market, and none ended the PREP Act immunity protecting its manufacturers.Instead, Kennedy’s supporters point repeatedly to the $500 million BARDA mRNA cancellation as though it settles the question. It does not. The August 2025 action terminated or de-scoped 22 BARDA investments in mRNA vaccine development, and it was a significant policy decision. But BARDA represents only a small part of the biomedical research enterprise within HHS. BARDA’s entire FY2025 budget was roughly $1 billion, compared with nearly $50 billion for NIH alone. The cancellation therefore addressed one relatively small corner of federal biomedical research funding, not HHS-wide mRNA research.Nor was it the removal of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines. Much of the affected work concerned future pandemic preparedness, including H5/H5N1 avian influenza, next-generation COVID vaccines, and rapid-response vaccine platforms. Some advanced mRNA projects were explicitly allowed to continue. Most importantly, HHS itself inserted a sentence into the announcement that somehow disappeared from much of the celebratory coverage:“Other uses of mRNA technology within the department are not impacted by this announcement.”This was a BARDA research-development pivot. It was not the end of federal mRNA research, much less the removal of the COVID products that Kennedy and CHD had spent years demanding be taken off the market.There is another distinction that deserves far more attention. Kennedy took dramatic action against the ACIP committee members that he inherited. The ACIP is the CDC advisory committee that makes recommendations about who should receive vaccines after they are licensed. He dismissed all seventeen members and rebuilt the committee.Yet VRBPAC, the FDA advisory committee that deals with the vaccines themselves and advises FDA on licensing, continues functioning. VRBPAC met in March to select influenza strains. It met again in May to consider the 2026-2027 COVID formula. It met in June to consider MFLUSIVA and voted unanimously in favor of it for the age groups considered. FDA then approved Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine. Updated Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccines were also approved for the 2026-2027 season. The CDC’s ACIP committee was torn apart. The machinery associated with licensing the products continued to operate.That distinction becomes even more troubling because of what happened to ACIP’s COVID vaccine workgroup. By February 15, 2026, that workgroup had completed a report recommending federal recognition of post-acute COVID-19 vaccination syndrome, new diagnostic codes, clinical guidelines, and a national network of specialized treatment centers.Dr. Robert Malone, a co-author of this essay, served as vice-chair of that workgroup. HHS postponed the February ACIP meeting after failing to publish the required public notice on time and offered no substantive public explanation. Privately, some committee members, including Dr. Malone, were told by the deputy chief of staff of HHS, Stefanie Spear that officials in the White House did not want these issues discussed publicly because of the anticipated media backlash. HHS then deliberately chose not to publish the required public notice and subsequently blamed a CDC employee for the oversight. CDC later rescheduled the meeting for March, despite knowing that a pending lawsuit could result in the committee being invalidated and the meeting canceled. As anticipated, the federal court subsequently invalidated the committee and halted its work. In other words, it is not sufficient to say that a judge stopped ACIP. HHS had already stopped the February meeting where vaccine injury was finally going to receive serious public attention, while knowing that the pending AAP lawsuit could result in further cancellations. As Secretary of HHS, Kennedy should be asked what he knew about these decisions and the litigation strategy unfolding under his watch.The personnel story is even more troubling. The people inside FDA who were actually prepared to impose significant restrictions on COVID and mRNA vaccines were disappeared. Tracy Beth Høeg, who advocated much stronger warnings and restrictions concerning COVID vaccination in young males, was abruptly fired without explanation. Vinay Prasad imposed tougher vaccine standards, restricted COVID vaccine approvals, took direct control of vaccine safety surveillance, and ultimately refused even to review Moderna’s new mRNA influenza vaccine. FDA reversed that decision after White House involvement. Prasad subsequently left. Marty Makary, who had brought both Prasad and Høeg into positions of influence and had challenged much of the old COVID consensus, then “resigned.”Except “resigned” does not adequately convey what happened. Contemporary reporting indicates that White House officials had already approved a plan to replace Makary and that Kennedy had become frustrated with his leadership. An administration official said the decision to replace Makary was Kennedy’s and had White House approval. Makary had other disputes with the administration, including over flavored e-cigarettes, so it would be wrong to reduce his departure entirely to vaccines. But the basic sequence is difficult to dispute. The administration had decided to replace him. Makary resigned before he could be removed.Prasad’s story is somewhat different, but hardly comforting. He had already been pushed out once in July 2025 after attacks over his regulatory decisions. Makary fought to bring him back. After returning, Prasad took direct control of vaccine safety surveillance and pushed much tougher vaccine standards. Then came the confrontation over Moderna’s mRNA influenza vaccine. Prasad refused to review it. FDA reversed him. He subsequently left FDA. Three months after Prasad’s departure, the vaccine he refused to review was licensed.So strip away the press releases and look at the outcome.Makary is gone. Prasad is gone. Høeg was fired. David Kaslow, is director of CBER’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review and who presided over the FDA’s presentation of Moderna’s mRNA influenza vaccine to VRBPAC, remains. The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines remain licensed. And the Moderna mRNA influenza vaccine that Prasad refused to review has now been approved.Those facts ought to be causing an earthquake inside the medical freedom movement. If Xavier Becerra had presided over precisely this sequence of events, Children’s Health Defense would have been incandescent. Yet because the man sitting in the Secretary’s office is Bobby Kennedy, the scrutiny becomes remarkably gentle.Meanwhile Kennedy has publicly supported nominees whose records would once have caused outrage within this movement. Erica Schwartz, nominated and subsequently confirmed to lead CDC, told senators plainly that she believes in vaccines and defended mRNA vaccination. Nicole Saphier, Trump’s Surgeon General nominee, has defended childhood vaccination and publicly criticized elements of Kennedy’s own vaccine agenda. Kennedy nevertheless praised her as a “long-time warrior for the MAHA movement.” A Cabinet secretary does not personally select every presidential nominee, and disagreement inside an administration is healthy. But there is a remarkable asymmetry here. People who actually attempted to put serious regulatory brakes on mRNA vaccines have left, while officials with conventional histories of supporting vaccination receive Kennedy’s public blessing.And then, this month, Kennedy went home to Children’s Health Defense.The September 17 CHD conference should trouble anyone who believes that the medical freedom movement is actually about independent thought. Kennedy walked into an organization he once led and received the kind of adulation that ought to make a movement founded on skepticism deeply uncomfortable. Kennedy told the audience that they had “a strong and steadfast friend at the White House” and urged them to be patient. Government is difficult. Bureaucracies move slowly. Courts interfere. Change takes time. Some of that is obviously true. But what followed was less an exercise in holding a powerful Cabinet secretary accountable than a celebration of Bobby Kennedy.There is another side to Kennedy’s description of that “strong and steadfast friend” that deserves to be told. Earlier this year, Kennedy’s principal deputy chief of staff and senior counselor, Stefanie Spear, told Robert that President Trump and his West Wing advisors did not want ACIP meeting again until after the midterm election. Others were present for that conversation. No written directive has surfaced, and this can only be reported as what Spear told us. But that is what we were told. At CHD, Kennedy’s audience heard about their steadfast friend in the White House. They did not hear an explanation for why the committee where vaccine injury was finally receiving sustained attention had remained silent.After the court ruling effectively halted the reconstituted ACIP’s work, members were instructed not to discuss committee matters with one another or with the press. That was about the point at which I resigned. The practical consequence is worth noting: since February, the physicians and scientists Kennedy himself selected for ACIP, many of them prominent voices within the medical freedom movement, have effectively been silenced as members of the committee.Tony Lyons provided perhaps the clearest example of what the medical freedom movement is becoming. He described Kennedy as an “incredible human being” with extraordinary “integrity” and “honesty,” a man essentially sacrificing himself to protect America’s children at tremendous personal cost at the recent CHD conference. He declared Kennedy the most dangerous individual to the existing system to emerge in a generation. This was delivered at a conference supposedly devoted to transparency and accountability, at precisely the moment when there are some very difficult questions Kennedy ought to be answering.But there is another dimension to Lyons’s praise that should not be ignored. Lyons is president of MAHA Action and co-chaired American Values 2024, the super PAC that supported Kennedy’s presidential campaign. Lyons founded Skyhorse Publishing, which publishes Kennedy’s books and reportedly has him under contract for another. Skyhorse contributed $100,000 to American Values 2024 in 2023, after earlier in-kind expenditures for pro-Kennedy newspaper advertisements. MAHA Action has subsequently promoted numerous Skyhorse titles. Lyons may be entirely sincere in his praise of Kennedy. But there are also longstanding political, professional, and financial relationships between them that matter. The medical freedom movement spent five years teaching people to examine the financial interests behind glowing statements about pharmaceutical products and public-health officials. That same standard should apply to glowing statements about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Sayer Ji promoted the CHD gathering as a meeting of people on the “front lines” fighting for “transparency, accountability, and justice in public health.” Those are admirable words. Then apply them. None of the published accounts I have seen describe anyone publicly pressing Kennedy at CHD about the surviving COVID liability shield, the COVID mRNA products still on the market, Moderna’s newly approved mRNA influenza vaccine, the continuing NIH mRNA research, or the departures of Makary, Prasad, and Høeg. The Secretary of Health and Human Services stood before the organization he once chaired, surrounded by people who had spent years demanding answers on precisely these issues, and apparently received far more adulation than interrogation.Accountability that stops at Bobby Kennedy’s feet is not accountability. It is allegiance.There is a word for the behavior developing around Kennedy. When a political movement reaches the point where virtually no possible outcome causes its supporters to reconsider their faith in its leader, the standards of evidence have changed. Success is attributed to the leader. Failure is attributed to his enemies, the bureaucracy, the courts, or other forces beyond his control.That is not skepticism. It is sycophancy.And when loyalty to an individual becomes more important than the principles and standards the movement once claimed to uphold, the behavior becomes cult-like.And there is something particularly Kennedy-esque about it. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was born into America’s most mythologized political family. The Kennedy family has lived with this kind of adulation for generations. After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy deliberately helped construct the “Camelot” mythology that would define his presidency for decades. Journalist Theodore White later acknowledged that he had allowed himself to become her instrument in creating that myth. JFK became more than a president. He became a symbol, a heroic figure surrounded by glamour, tragedy, sacrifice, and destiny, while inconvenient parts of the historical record were pushed into the shadows. Historians spent decades trying to separate the actual presidency from Camelot.Thanks for reading Malone News! This post is public so feel free to share it on social media, crosspost, or even publish it elsewhere with author attribution.ShareRobert Kennedy Jr. grew up inside that world. The crowds, the reverence, the family tragedy, the courtiers, and the assumption that a Kennedy was not merely another politician but a figure of history were part of his inheritance. Much of this surrounded him during adolescence, when identity, sexuality, power, and the understanding of what it meant to be a Kennedy were still being formed. Kennedy has subsequently written publicly and privately about his own struggles with what he called his “lust demons,” describing them as his “greatest defect.”Those struggles do not establish anything about his political leadership today, but they are part of the complicated personal history that developed alongside the Kennedy mythology. I cannot know what Kennedy privately needs or craves, and I am not going to pretend that I can see inside another man’s head. But something much simpler can be observed:he does not discourage this behavior.He returns to audiences that treat him this way, accepts the accolades, asks for their patience and loyalty, and remains the heroic protagonist in a story where successes belong to Bobby and failures belong to everyone around him.The danger is that his followers appear increasingly willing to participate in that mythology. A movement that once warned Americans never to surrender their judgment to experts is now surrendering that judgment to an authority figure of its own. A movement that warned Americans not to trust government officials now tells its followers to trust this particular government official. A movement that insisted intentions did not matter when Fauci, Collins, Walensky, or Becerra were in charge suddenly asks everyone to consider Kennedy’s intentions, his obstacles, his enemies, his sacrifices, and how terribly difficult Washington is.This kind of sycophancy is dangerous for Kennedy as well. Powerful people surrounded by admirers eventually stop hearing what they need to hear. Nobody wants to be the person who spoils the standing ovation. Nobody wants to tell the hero that the great victory being celebrated was considerably smaller than advertised, that the products remain on the market, that the liability shield remains intact, or that most of the people who actually tried to impose meaningful restrictions are gone. Eventually the leader hears increasingly little except reassurance from people whose status, access, careers, businesses, or identities have become intertwined with his success. That is how movements lose the capacity to correct themselves.There is an easy test for all of this. Replace Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with past HHS secretary Xavier Becerra. Imagine that under Becerra the COVID mRNA vaccines remained licensed, the COVID liability shield remained intact through 2029, NIH continued funding mRNA vaccine research, new mRNA projects received federal money, FDA approved the nation’s first mRNA influenza vaccine, an FDA official pushing aggressive COVID vaccine restrictions and to make public the FDA’s records on vaccine-related deaths was fired, the CBER director who refused to review Moderna’s mRNA influenza vaccine left after his decision was reversed, and the FDA commissioner who had brought those people into government resigned after the administration had already decided to replace him. Imagine that HHS also postponed an ACIP meeting where a completed vaccine-injury report was to be heard and offered no substantive explanation. Then imagine Becerra appearing before his former political organization and asking everyone to be patient while its leadership praised his integrity, courage, and personal sacrifice.Would Children’s Health Defense accept that explanation? Would Tony Lyons stand up and praise Becerra’s extraordinary integrity? Would Sayer Ji tell everyone that Becerra was fighting heroically behind the scenes? Would medical freedom influencers explain that government is complicated and people simply need to give Xavier more time?Those questions do not determine whether Kennedy’s individual policies are right or wrong. They expose something much more important:whether the medical freedom movement still has principles that apply regardless of who holds power.The contradiction becomes even harder to ignore when Kennedy’s own words are compared across time. In 2021, he called the COVID vaccine the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” Four years later, sitting before the Senate as HHS Secretary, Kennedy was asked whether Donald Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed. Kennedy answered,“Absolutely.”He went further, calling Operation Warp Speed “genius” and saying it got a vaccine to market that was “perfectly matched to the virus at that time.”The medical freedom movement spent five years telling Americans that friendship, credentials, reputation, and institutional prestige were irrelevant. Follow the evidence. Question authority. Demand transparency. Hold powerful people accountable.Fine.Then do it.Ask Robert F. Kennedy Jr. why the COVID mRNA vaccines are still on the market. Ask whether he still believes they should be removed. Ask whether he still believes the COVID vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” Ask why NIH continues funding mRNA vaccine research. Ask why his department approved an mRNA influenza vaccine after he publicly said mRNA vaccines fail against respiratory viruses such as influenza. Ask why the COVID PREP Act liability shield remains intact when Kennedy publicly supported ending that protection before taking office and now possesses the authority to amend the declaration prospectively himself.Ask what happened to Prasad, Makary, and Høeg. Ask what Kennedy did to protect the people inside FDA who were actually willing to confront these issues. Ask why Prasad’s refusal to review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine was reversed after White House intervention, only for Prasad to leave and the vaccine to be approved months later. Ask what role Kennedy played in the decision to replace Makary. Ask why Høeg was fired, and whether Kennedy supported or opposed that decision. Ask why Kennedy is now praising nominees with long records of supporting vaccines, including mRNA COVID vaccination.And ask what happened in February. Ask why HHS postponed the ACIP meeting at which the COVID vaccine workgroup was prepared to present its completed report on post-acute COVID-19 vaccination syndrome beforeThose are not acts of betrayal. They are exactly what accountability is supposed to look like.Kennedy does not need more palace courtiers. He has plenty.What he needs, and what the medical freedom movement desperately needs if it intends to retain any intellectual credibility, are people willing to look him in the eye and apply exactly the same standards to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that they applied to everyone who came before him.Otherwise, this was never really a movement about questioning unaccountable authority.It was about replacing one authority with another.Independent journalism is easy when the target is someone everyone around you already opposes. It becomes much harder when the questions involve friends, allies, institutions you once supported, or people whose success you genuinely hoped for.Speaking truth to power means very little if it applies only when that power is held by your opponents. The real test comes when power is held by your friends.That is why reader support matters. Malone News does not answer to a pharmaceutical company, political party, government agency, foundation, corporate advertiser, or even friends. That independence means following the evidence wherever it leads and asking difficult questions regardless of who is sitting on the other side of them.If you value independent journalism willing to speak truth to power, even when that power is held by friends, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Paid subscriptions make this work possible and help keep Malone News independent.Subscribe nowThank you for reading, sharing, and supporting independent journalism.ReferencesChildren’s Health Defense.“CHD Calls on FDA to Immediately Take COVID Vaccines Off the Market.” May 20, 2021. Documents the Citizen Petition filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Meryl Nass asking FDA to revoke the COVID-19 vaccine EUAs and refrain from licensing the vaccines.CHD petition coveragePutterman, Samantha. PolitiFact.“No, the COVID-19 vaccine is not the deadliest vaccine ever made.” December 10, 2021. Documents Kennedy’s December 6, 2021 statement to Louisiana legislators that the COVID vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made,” as well as his reliance on VAERS reports.Kennedy’s 2021 statement and fact checkU.S. Department of Health and Human Services.“HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA.” August 5, 2025. 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The release of theFauci diarieshas filled in some missing pieces. They help elucidate how the years of hell unfolded in Fauci’s own mind. Working with military intelligence and pharmaceutical companies, Fauci and his colleagues eventually hatched an audacious plan to delay natural immunity for a full ten months as they awaited both the November election and the viable release of the injectable product called a vaccine – all in the hope that it would be given credit for fixing the problem they created in the first place.This scheme, however, was Fauci’s personal Plan B.Plan A is revealed in the diaries. It was to bury the existence and spread of the virus in question within a broader fabric of a bad flu season. This might have worked too. With the overwhelming fatality threat falling nearly entirely on the aged and infirm, the deaths from Covid in particular could have been overlooked completely. This was his preferred outcome, or, rather, the best that he could come up with given the panic of the first weeks of January 2020.The problems all began much earlier. Whenever the lab leak occurred, it had become apparent to military intelligence following theMilitary Olympicsof October 18-27, 2019, held in Wuhan. In this high-profile event, 9,308 athletes from 109 countries competed in 329 events in 27 sports. It is highly likely that Covid was already known to be there, judging by how strict the Chinese authorities were in managing exposure.We have testimony from US participants that they came back with an unusual flu that US military authorities were keen to keep quiet with extended quarantines of the sick.Fauci was surely kept apprised of this through intelligence channels. He knew that he had a problem on his hands. It was only a matter of waiting to see whether news of this leak would go public.For him, the bad news arrived on January 3, 2020 when the diary entry reads:“Also 44 unusual cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China over the past couple of days. Etiology still unknown. Said to be a “viral pneumonia’’of unknown etiology. Flu ruled out. Cases linked to a seafood market. No human-to-human transmission documented at this time.”Just above that, however, we see the origins of Plan A. January 2 and 3 we find the first mention of a bad flu year. It was his first attempted cover story.“Did TV interview with Cox TV this year’s influenza situation. Interviewed by Samantha Manning.” And: “Jan. 3, 2020 – Influenza is heavy in the media. Did an interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN for her Blog. Also, did a live radio interview with John Catsimatidis for his ‘Cats Roundtable’ from NYC.”His flu-themed Plan A continued and stepped up over the coming days. Keep in mind that the China situation was not yet public. He knew, but the public was not alert to it. There was still a chance that it could be kept under wraps.Jan. 7, 2020: “Did TV interview with Canadian TV (CTV) on the viral outbreak in Wuhan, China. Did interview (print) with HealthDay on the influenza season.”Jan. 10, 2020 (Friday): “Influenza is hot and heavy. Vaccine match is OK for H1N1, but not so good for B and H3N2. Did WUSA local TV on flu as well as interview with Elizabeth Cohen of CNN that went on her blog with multiple references to our conversation.”That same day, Fauci writes in bold print, alarmed and now newly aware that his scheme might not work:“Chinese publish sequence of the virus on public data base.”Now, it is the weekend. Fauci reports the following: “Barney Graham ordered the constructs using credit cards,” meaning he bought the sequence.Who is Barney Graham? He is the professor of microbiology at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, home of the CDC. He is formerly the deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center (VRC), part of Fauci’s NIAID. Graham is holder of 38 patents related to immunization, in particularUS10960070B2, “Prefusion coronavirus spike proteins and their use” granted in 2017. He worked with Moderna from very early, with the blessing of Fauci.Fauci later confirmed this weekend frenzy, reporting that he got “his team” together on January 10 and they started working with Moderna.Two highly relevant clips.pic.twitter.com/FJGfYmVaH9— British_CItizen_x (@955196)August 18, 2026Then comes the diary entry, again in bold.“Jan. 14, 2020 –Barney Graham’s team starts work on GMP vaccine in collaboration with Moderna”Here was the birth of Plan B: prepare the population for the shot for which he would get the credit. It would take 10 months, during which time endemicity needed to be delayed. There were the slogans “15 days to slow the spread,” “Flatten the curve,” and so on, alongside a variety of schemes to keep seroprevalence levels as low as possible by banning meetings and pushing social distancing.The plan came just in time because the CDC was starting to get annoyed that Fauci had been going around warning of a bad flu season of which there was zero evidence.From January 14, Fauci reports of a private meeting at CDC to which he was not invited. Here they were apparently completely confused as to why Fauci was going on this way. Puzzled gossip in private.“Apparently, CDC is upset because I am saying that this is on a course to be as bad a year as 2017-2018 and 2014-2015. In fact, the flu infection ‘numbers’ are exactly on track with those years. However, there are less total deaths and hospitalizations…. I say it is a bad season and CDC says no. There was a discussion between Azar and Nancy Messonnier of CDC about this and about my statements, but no one thought of getting me on the conference call. Not good. Typical CDC!”Fauci continued to experiment with his flu idea over the coming several days. But the cat was already out of the bag. It took him time finally to admit that it was going to be Plan B all the way down. January 21 was one turning point: the virus had been discovered in the US.“CDC announced today that the first case of n-CoV has been identified in Seattle.”But what really sealed the deal was the news of the lockdowns in China. There was to be no going back. The mythical and wholly fabricated bad flu season was at an end and the Covid plot began.A week later he writes the following without any real explanation:“Jan. 26, 2020 – GAME ON!!!”What was that game? He would become the leading spokesman for several experiments without precedent in history, all designed to cover up his and others’ culpability for the leak of the new virus they had manufactured through gain-of-function research.Number one, he would need to crush the nasty rumors that this was a lab-created virus. That was easily accomplished by getting some compliant scientists to write a flimflam paper to be distributed to all the scientific journals. That was already in play within a week.Number two, he would arrange ajunket to Wuhanfor any necessary clean up, sending his emissary Clifford Lane along with officials from around the globe, under the auspices of the World Health Organization. The WHO would generate a report blessing China’s response to the virus as the way to go.Number three, he would attempt coercion on a mass scale, just like China, to slow population immunity to the new virus as a means of keeping seroprevalence levels as low as possible. Otherwise, the vaccine would arrive too late to make any real difference. He proposed sending a team to China to learn from them. At his first meeting with Trump, he pushed for Trump to ask permission of Xi Jinping.Number four, he would attempt to bring the injected inoculation to the population in record time, something that had never been done before on grounds that doing so would normally be considered exceedingly risky. Plus, it has never been true that a shot could outrun mutations for a respiratory virus.Number five, he would shepherd the first-ever deployment of a vaccine that focused entirely on the spike protein, essentially reverse-engineering the virus, using modified mRNA technology delivered via lipid nanoparticles. The tech had never been approved by the FDA in normal times but emergency use authorization could make it possible. This was the only method by which the shot could win the race against time.This was the game to which he referred. He sought to slow down mutations by lowering the infection rate through social engineering so that the shot would actually work before the variants came along. It was a perversely brilliant strategy so long as one doesn’t mind violating the rights of citizens all over the country and provoking copycats the world over.In short, he would have to appoint himself the master of the microbial kingdom and get everyone to go along with his scheme.From his point of view, this was the least bad option but keep in mind the objective. The point of this wild dance was not to protect the health of the population. It was to create an alibi so that he would not personally be blamed for funding the creation of the virus in the first place.The goal was to turn his villainy into valor, to use brutality of lockdowns to inspire his own beatification worthy of a healer, to enable a migration from sadist to saint with one magic shot.We know how this story ends. Seroprevalence levels rose despite every attempt to keep them down. It is highly likely that the endemic stage of this pandemic had already arrived by the time the shots were ready to be shipped (a point I can explain in a different article).The first person to reveal this was Jay Bhattacharya. A community-based seroprevalencesurveyof Santa Clara County was conducted on April 3-4, 2020. It found ten times the expected levels, even in a community where there was no real evidence of community spread. The implications were that the infection fatality rate (IFR) was far lower than advertised and that lockdowns would do nothing to stop population immunity gained by natural exposure.Bhattacharya’s study was greeted with ferocious opposition, as one might imagine, and he was smeared far and wide including by BuzzFeed which outrightaccusedJay of financial corruption. He was an early victim of such attacks but there would be many more in the coming months and years.One can see, then, how the information warfare unfolded during the whole of 2020. Anything that contradicted the Fauci et al. Plan B was deemed disinformation, while anything that backed the scheme was regarded as responsible public-health messaging. Frantic efforts involving all major tech platforms and media venues worked to censor anyone who was calling this out. This of course hit theGreat Barrington Declaration, which had the temerity to advocate normalcy before the shot could be deployed.Evidence that the scheme had completely failed arrived the following year just as shots were being delivered. On January 9, 2021, virologist David Ho sent Fauci the note that he dreaded most. The Delta variant was replacing Alpha so the shots were rapidly losing effectiveness. A week later, he told Fauci that they would be largely useless.At this point, however, there was no going back. Fauci had to press on because this was the choice he had made, the game he had chosen to play.He eventually suggested all of the above publicly. It happened on April 14, 2022 during an interview on MSNBC: “You use lockdowns to get people vaccinated so that when you open up, you won’t have a surge of infections, because you are dealing with an immunologically naive population to the virus, because they’ve not really been exposed because of the lockdown.”"But lockdown has its consequences. You use lockdowns to get people vaccinated…"— Anthony Fauci, MSNBC, April 202He said it about China. The doctrine ran here: passports, mandates, 84 million workers under the OSHA rule.And when it came time to own it —Oct 2020,…pic.twitter.com/31oEnoVIKZ— Sayer Ji (@sayerjigmi)August 18, 2026All of this is today coming unraveled at a rapid pace.Here is the bitter irony. If Fauci had gotten away with Plan A, we would have been much better off. We would have used known methods for getting well like off-the-shelf therapeutics, and been spared the horror of what happened with Plan B (the game). It would have come and gone without a great deal of notice rather than becoming a turning point in our lives.We look back in astonishment at the carnage caused by the game: the millions of destroyed businesses, the learning losses, the broken families, the injured by the shot and the dead, and the sweeping loss of trust in all the commanding heights of society, leading to the current population-wide incredulity in essentially everything. Another hugely bitter irony is the rise of vaccine resistance like we’ve not seen in living memory, all brought about by the game.Meanwhile, and thanks to the efforts of the intrepid Senators Rand Paul and Ron Johnson, and many others working outside captured channels, the truth is coming out, even as Fauci has a new-found love for the Bill of Rights and its 5th amendment’s right to remain silent.What did Fauci mean by “Game On”?@jeffreytuckermaps the COVID plot from Fauci's diaries: lab-leak knowledge in 2019, Plan A (frame as flu), Jan 26 pivot, crush the lab-leak story, WHO China junket, suppressed seroprevalence, & impossible mRNA “cure.”https://t.co/Y2nW9HbAoWpic.twitter.com/JfxkB4qWIj— Brownstone Institute (@brownstoneinst)August 19, 2026The postWhat Did Fauci Mean by “Game On”?appeared first onActivist Post.

White Coat Waste has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit demanding that the Department of Health and Human Services turn over records on animal experiments and the virus smuggling scandal at NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, the NIAID campus the group has nicknamed “Wuhan West.”The taxpayer and animal welfare watchdog filed thecomplainton September 15 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.The lawsuit covers seven FOIA requests sent in 2025 and 2026, some of which have sat unanswered for more than 18 months.The requests seek IACUC protocols for work at Rocky Mountain Labs on Ebola, other filoviruses, Nipah, Hendra, Lassa, Sudan virus, SARS-CoV-2 variants, Heartland virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, avian influenza, and tick colonies, including photos and video of animals used in those studies.Later requests target records on the undeclared importation of biological materials from Africa by NIH personnel, specifically virologist Vincent Munster, including correspondence with Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, CDC, USDA, DOJ, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the HHS inspector general.The agencies acknowledged the requests, but sent nothing over,according toWhite Coat Waste.White Coat Waste has long worked to expose this lab and scientist.In May, wereportedon a whistleblower letter obtained by White Coat Waste claiming NIH was in “full coverup mode” after a macaque infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever bit a worker through protective gear and after Munster allegedly tried to bring “dozens of vials” of viral hemorrhagic fever samples into the United States from Africa in January.In June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigancharged Munster, 53, a Dutch citizen and chief of the Virus Ecology Section at RML, and research fellow Claude Kwe with conspiracy to smuggle monkeypox and making false statements.Fauci’s Foreign National Bat Virus Mad Scientist Vincent Munster and His Researcher Charged with Smuggling Monkeypox into America from African Outbreak&&&&&&&&&&&Investigators said a case the men described as “diagnostics and testing equipment” held 113 vials. Of the 20 tested at the time of the complaint, 17 contained deactivated monkeypox, one chickenpox, and two human DNA.The same lab generated a second accident report this year, which The Gateway Pundit alsoreportedon.NEW: ANOTHER FAUCI BIOLAB ACCIDENTWe just exposed another recent bioagent accident at one of Fauci’s most dangerous animal labs.And it’s the second accident we exposed at this NIH lab just this year!We uncovered documents revealing the NIH quietly admitted that an…pic.twitter.com/aIXVa6JBQs— White Coat Waste (@WhiteCoatWaste)May 13, 2026Documents obtained by White Coat Waste showed NIH quietly logged an unspecified deadly pathogen as “released, lost, or stolen” from Rocky Mountain Labs in February.White Coat Waste Bombshell: Deadly Pathogen ‘Released, Lost or Stolen’ from Fauci’s Montana Lab — Senators Sheehy, Ernst, Scott & Rep. Gosar Demand Full Investigation&&&&&&&&&&&Senators Tim Sheehy, Joni Ernst, and Rick Scott and Rep. Paul Gosar demanded an investigation.Munster’s name has been on WCW’s radar for years because he authored a 2018 NIH bat experiment using a Chinese coronavirus strain cloned from material tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, had a role in early EcoHealth proposals to engineer COVID-like viruses, and was connected to anew bat facilityat Colorado State University.Justin Goodman of White Coat Waste told Gateway Pundit in June that Rocky Mountain Labs was “another disaster waiting to happen on U.S. soil.”White Coat Waste was the first organization to document NIH money flowing to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.A later FOIA lawsuit producedsmoking-gun emails on EcoHealth gain-of-function animal tests and the experimenter it identifies as COVID’s likely “Patient Zero.”A 2024 suitforced the releaseof videos and photos of primate and pig experiments at RML.In April, the organizationput up billboardsnear the Montana campus reading “WTF RFK? End Fauci’s Labs.”The new complaint names HHS as the defendant and lists NIH, NIAID, CDC, the Office of Inspector General, and the Office of the Secretary as components that received the requests.FOIA law treats silence past the statutory deadline as a constructive denial.White Coat Waste is asking the court to “Declare DHHS’s failure to comply with FOIA to be unlawful,” “Enjoin DHHS from continuing to withhold the public records,” and order the department “to produce the requested public records without further delay.”Jared Goodman, General Counsel at White Coat Waste, told The Gateway Pundit in a statement:“White CoatWaste was the veryfirst to expose Dr. Fauci's fundingfor gain-of-function animal experiments at the Wuhanlabin April 2020 — and nowwe’re suing RFK’s NIH.White CoatWaste’s new FOIA lawsuit aims to force RFK’s NIH to turn over the receipts for dangerous, Fauci-era maximum-pain animal experiments at the notorious Rocky Mountain Laboratories, also known as ‘Wuhan West.’ Our investigations have exposed RML’s cruel experiments infecting animals with deadly foreign viruses, dangerouslabaccidents, and, most recently, whistleblower allegations of VincentMunster’s reckless virus smuggling.Taxpayers have a right to know why RFK’s NIH continues to bankroll wasteful animal experiments that could cause anotherlableak, even after he promised to hold Fauci accountable and cut NIH animal testing.The solution is simple: Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!”The postWhite Coat Waste Sues NIH to Force Release of ‘Wuhan West’ Virus-Smuggling Recordsappeared first onThe Gateway Pundit.