This is the crux of it, and it is good to see AG Murrill taking it on. Nearly every catastrophic decision traces back to the concealment of the virus’s origin. That was the foundational deception from which everything else followed. Had Fauci not funded and empowered the Wuhan lab, including its access to advanced Western biotechnology, there may never have been a crisis to begin with. But even leaving that aside, once the virus appeared, honesty about its origin was essential because origin determined virtually everything about how the virus should have been understood and confronted. A virus engineered for efficient human infection does not behave like a newly emerged natural virus. The distinction made mass testing largely futile, contact tracing completely useless, explained why children faced far less risk because the virus had been lab optimized for ACE2 receptors, and carried many other critical scientific implications. The truth would also have forced immediate accountability, both for China and for Fauci himself. He could never have exercised the same unchecked reign of terror had the public known that he helped fund the experiments and the lab at the center of the outbreak. That is why the origin cover up sits at the heart of the entire Covid scandal. Fauci understood this from the beginning. His first priority was not to investigate what had happened, warn the public, or establish the facts. It was to conceal his own connection to the virus’s origin and cover his tracks, as the email below catches him doing in real time.