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Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent.

One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America’s Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic.

Senator Paul presents the evidence that:

The Covid virus was likely the product of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China—research funded in part by the U.S. government.
Taxpayer dollars for that research were deceptively funneled to Wuhan without the required regulatory review.
Fauci and his scientific yes-men knew from day one about Covid’s origin and tried to cover it up.
Fauci and his allies ruthlessly attacked everyone—including highly qualified scientists—who threatened to reveal the truth about the pandemic.

Why? Hundreds of millions of dollars of grants and unreported royalties were at stake, and heads would roll if the truth got out.

It almost worked. At Fauci’s insistence, the government imposed needlessly extreme lockdowns on Americans at the cost of immense personal and economic destruction.

Covid-19 was deadly, but the real killer was the coverup, led by America’s most durable medical bureaucrat—a man for whom the truth was too often expendable.

Senator Paul makes a powerful case that funding dangerous bioengineering in a totalitarian country is madness. If we don’t heed this warning, the next pandemic could be far worse.

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"Senator Paul’s new book is another act of leadership pointing out how the government mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a must-read for all Americans."
— Washington Times

"Senator Rand Paul is taking his challenges of Dr. Anthony Fauci and the government's handling of the COVID pandemic and putting it in print."
— West Kentucky Star

"Sen. Rand Paul’s book, Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up, reads like a mash-up of the true-crime and spy thriller genres."
— The Federalist

"Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) new book Deception is exactly what you thought it would be: a thorough takedown of Dr. Anthony Fauci and his disciples."
— Washington Examiner

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Rand Paul, M.D., an energetic opponent of government overreach, has represented Kentucky in the U.S. Senate since 2011. He and his wife, Kelley, live in Bowling Green and are the parents of three sons.

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Much documentation with many footnotes

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024

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I suspect those of us who are suspicious of Fauci will like this book better than those who are not. Paul writes with permission and detail (sometimes too much) and leaves me with little doubt that what he is portraying is very close to accurate if not 100% accurate. It was fascinating to see how many were involved and how the wheels turn.

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A great addition to a large library of investigative books on the origin of Covid 19

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2023

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Rand Paul has done a tremendous job on the history of Covid 19 and all of the behind-the-scenes machinations which have been kept secret from us for far too long. This book is a worthy addition to a large library of excellent, well-researched books on the question of the origin of Covid 19—books which have largely been ignored (purposefully) by the mainstream press.

My focus here is on the question of the origin of Covid 19 (lab leak or natural spillover), but Paul does a very good job of outlining the quick devolution of Covid 19 from a purely medical disease to a political disease, where key questions about its origin and how best to treat it were not in fact based on “science” but rather political leanings, including the attempted cancellation of opposing views—the very opposite of the true scientific process.

Surprisingly in my mind Paul left out a key early Slack message chain that was released earlier this year (although he mentioned it in a news interview when it was released). The famous paper to the editor of Nature Medicine magazine (March 17, 2020) entitled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” was designed as an early effort by Anthony Fauci and others to quash any notion that Covid 19 might have come from a lab leak in Wuhan, China. Now, over three years later, we have the release of the early emails and other messages from the participants in that letter that clearly show that at the time they were drafting the letter claiming to show that Covid 19 was absolutely of natural origin, they privately believed that a lab leak of a man-made virus was more likely the cause. (There was no new data from the time they wrote it to the time it was published that would have changed their private views.)
One of the unstated participants in the writing of the Proximal Origin paper was Jeremy Farrar. In his 2021 book, Spike The Virus vs. The People: The Inside Story (p. 66), he wrote of the time period about February 1: “Eddie [Holmes] and Kristian [Andersen] were still nursing concerns [that is might be man-made]. ‘At that point,’ confesses Eddie, ‘I was about 80 per cent sure this thing had come from a lab.’ Kristian was about 60 to 70 per cent convinced in the same direction. Andrew [Rambaut] and Bob [Garry] were not far behind. I, too, was going to have to be persuaded that things were not as sinister as they seemed.”

The question is then why would eminent scientists turn themselves into shills for a claim they did not fully believe and write a purposefully disingenuous public letter? Farrar wrote (p. 68) in Spike of the decision for a group of the scientists after a joint February 1 call to take up the task of determining the cause of the virus. He noted, “Despite his experience with Ebola and Zika, Kristian had never fronted such a pressured and sensitive investigation: ‘I was battling with the idea that, having raised the alarm, I might end up being the person who proved this new virus came from a lab,’ he says, ‘And I didn’t necessarily want to be that person, well-known across the world.’”

The fear of determining the virus was man-made and not natural is not a scientific concern, it is a political concern. Leaving aside the separate issue of the potentially corruptive influence that many millions of dollars of NIH and related funding for the status quo—overseen by Anthony Fauci, et al.—can have, Slack messages from two of the authors of the Proximal Origin letter show a non-science reason. Somehow Paul’s excellent book missed this key exchange (February 2, 2020) from the time that the Proximal Origin letter was being drafted:

[Andrew Rambaut:] “Given the s--- show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural process.”

[Kristian Andersen:] “Yup, I totally agree that’s a very reasonable conclusion.” Andersen then added: “Although I hate when politics is injected into science – but it’s impossible not to, especially given the circumstance. We should be sensitive to that.”

Thus the concern was not about providing a balanced look at all of the possible options regarding the origin of the virus; they instead defaulted to a “political” answer. They were not forced to do that; they brought politics into it, in part so that they could continue the status quo with China and the NIH.

It should be noted that because some pandemics had been a result of natural spillover, they naturally defaulted to that option if possible. They were reasonably comfortable with the definition of a “lab leak” as being an infected lab worker who was infected by an animal (i.e., natural spillover) and then that worker’s infection leaked from the lab. Kristian Andersen even wrote in this exchange: “The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely—it’s not some fringe theory. I absolutely agree that we can’t prove one way or the other, but we never will be able to—however, that doesn’t mean that by default the data is currently much more suggestive of a natural origin as opposed to a e.g. passage. It is not—the furin cleavage site is very hard to explain.”

Note: the understanding of the virus is that its backbone is a bat coronavirus. No bat coronavirus had ever been known to have a furin cleavage site which is a critical component in Covid 19. While there is no example of that happening in nature, it could be easily added in a laboratory. Again, as Andersen correctly noted: “the furin cleavage site is very hard to explain.” By that he meant in nature.

Andersen talked about the extremely controversial issue of Gain-of-Function (GOF) research, which for our purposes means lab work to alter a virus to make it more lethal or transmissible, for research purposes. The chief premise of most lab-leak believers is that GOF work in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) created Covid 19, which then accidentally leaked into the public. (The Chinese determined very early that it did not come from the infamous Wuhan wet market.) Lab-leak proponents generally believe that it was just that, a “leak” and not a purposeful release of a bioweapon. Paul’s book discusses this critical issue of GOF research extensively.

Andersen commented on GOF work and research:

“I have evolved a bit on this point. I used to think they’re really important, but I’m actually not so sure anymore. I thought it was really important that we understood whether, e.g., avian influenza could be transmissible between humans—and importantly which steps (and how many) would need to be involved [to make it transmissible]—but honestly I’m not sure that type of knowledge is at all actionable, while, of course being exceptionally dangerous. It only takes one mistake.”

To rephrase Andersen’s last observation: for a pandemic to happen, it only takes one mistake.

One of the concerns was that it had been learned that WIV researchers has been working with bat viruses in Cat-3 or even Cat-2 labs, which are less secure than Cat-4 labs. Rambaut said “. . . my primary concern is that these [GOF] experiments are done in Cat 3 labs.” Andersen responded in part: “. . . performing these in BSL-3 [i.e., Cat-3] (or less) is just completely nuts! IMO it has to be performed at BSL-4 with extra precautions.”

Andersen followed up on February 2:

“Bottom line is that we can’t prove whether this is natural or escape—leaving it to others to make that decision, but hopefully we can ensure they’re more informed.” He said he found the whole subject natural spillover option interesting and “I would love to go down the natural selection rabbit hole” followed by a smiling face emoji.

By February 5, Andersen was ready to punt and let Tony Fauci and Jeremy Farrar run with it:

“. . . there might be a time where we need to tackle that [the “lab escape” theory] more directly head on, but I’ll let the likes of Jeremy and Tony figure out how to do that.” (It should be noted that publicly Fauci tried to distance himself from the paper so that he could present it as a completely independent product of interested experts.)

Three days later, Andersen admitted what in retrospect appears obvious: “Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory.” If they were truly neutral scientists, why would they start with that obvious bias in something so important? He then added “but we are at a crossroad where the scientific evidence isn’t conclusive enough to say that we have high confidence in any of the three theories considered.”

On February 11, Ian Lipkin, one of the other authors of the paper, wrote of a paper under discussion:

“It's well reasoned and provides a plausible argument against genetic engineering. It does not
eliminate the possibility of inadvertent release following adaptation through selection in
culture at the institute in Wuhan. Given the scale of the bat CoV’ research pursued there and
the site of emergence of the first human cases we have a nightmare of circumstantial evidence to assess.”

By February 17 the final details in the Proximal Origins paper were being worked out. Jeremy Farrar asked if they could change “unlikely” that Covid 19 came from laboratory manipulation to “improbable.” He got his wish.

The WHO estimates the number of Covid 19 deaths worldwide at just under 7 million. Given the importance of that tragic number as well as the incalculable impact it has had on governments and people in other ways, it is shocking how little interest there seems to be in how it started. Rand Paul’s book attempts to change that.

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A Highly Detailed Account

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2024

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A very interesting read. Presents facts and analysis that illuminates the big problems associated with the pandemic.

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Deception The Great COVID Cover Up

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024

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Rand Paul does an excellent job exposing the truth about COVID 19 well written and good information.

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Thank God for Dr. Rand Paul, To Hades with Fauci!

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023

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If you search my name in “Who’s Who” of infectious disease and vaccines, you would not find it. However, in January of 2020, I sent Rush Limbaugh an email indicating precisely what Raul Paul presents in this book, more than three years later. Having been educated and trained in this arena it was obvious from the disease characteristics the virus was designed and engineered as a weapon to create panic and incapacitate, to tie up as many humans to care for the infected as possible.

The book is very well organized and is a chronological account of the author’s pursuit for the truth regarding SARS-2, and initiator and founder of the second largest illegal bio-weapons program in world history. It has a table of contents, six parts, no photographs, a reference section, and easy to use index. There is a copious reference section for this is a capture of emails. If you have no idea regarding this subject Colonel Ken Alibek’s book “Bio-Hazard”( also reviewed and found on Amazon) makes it somewhat easy to understand through his life review. However, you need to have an understanding of some microbiology like bacteria and viruses to be fully terrorized.

In Alibek’s book he for USSR conducted illegal bio-weapons research for over twenty years before he defected to the USA in the 1990’s in violation of the 10 April, 1972 The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) between the USA and the USSR. It appears the USA to get around this agreement sent this research off shore and China has been performing much of this work among others. After reading this book the reasonable reader should come to the conclusion the US was responsible for this pandemic which killed over one million of its citizens with their own taxpayer money!

Chapter three begins to get very technical and may lose the non-microbiologists. The long chapter eight validates my January 2020 email that masks have no place in SARS CoV-2 but natural immunity does! Anyone who took anatomy and physiology with Mr. Costello will know these universal principles. Chapter twenty should alarm the most fervent “fear monger” worrier in that a bio-weapon is easier made than a nuclear one. This was first brought forth by Richard Preston in his novel “The Cobra Event” also found on Amazon.

In this book the reader will learn many things about the US government. All throughout this work the authors use the phrase “Gain of Function.” The military bio-scientist refers to the issue as bio-weapon! The reader will learn what furin cleavage site was placed on corona virus SARS-2 and that ORF8 blocks block human interferon. But the most important lesson is congressional oversight has very little science information and scoundrels like Collins & Fauci and their conspirators put personal gain, their politics above basic science and the lives of American Citizens.

It is amazing the amount of work in research that went into this publication. The analysis of all the emails and studies with the chronology to investigate this crime against the US taxpayer is highly commendable and beyond the oversight requirements. I find this work is a must read for anyone looking to understand the lessons learned from SARS CoV-2- 2020 pandemic. It is not easy to read and understand. It is well structured with references and a helpful index. If you are a prodigy of Anthony Fauci and his merry band, do not read this, for this is their unfortunate legacy.

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Barbara W

Informative

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024

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Well written. Information is important for all. Sad state of affairs with big pharma and our government. We killed many with useless masking useless distancing and killer vaccines.

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N. S. Lee

A truthful account and indictment

Reviewed in Canada on February 1, 2024

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US Senator Rand Paul is one of the few beacons of light and hope in a world full of evil people. He exposes one such character in a damning exposé that should sent him to jail for the rest of his life if the US DOJ would do its job in an impartial manner.

One of the main leaders of the worst crime against humanity stands here exposed and accused. Now all that is left is getting all the accomplices and puppet masters hiding in the shadows to a maximum security prison.

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