The Daszak Chronicles (Part I?)

One lesson that I have learned in my time on this blue-green marble we call Earth is that when someone suddenly appears in the mainstream spotlight, and then disappears just as quickly, there’s likely more to their story than what we are being led to believe. If you subscribe to the notion that the news media only presents the information that is relevant to advancing the agenda of the day, you may be inclined to reach the same conclusion. After all, people don’t just abruptly acquire status solely from the merits of their work. If that were true, the cult of celebrity would have collapsed under the weight of its own hubris long ago.

Perhaps you’ve heard of Peter Daszak. At this point, I’d honestly be surprised if you haven’t. You know Peter. He’s the guy that was making the rounds on all the newsy programming at the beginning of the SARS CoV-2 melodrama claiming that the lab-leak “conspiracy theory” was completely unfounded and offering absolutely zero evidence as proof. Yeah… that guy.

Daszak is the president and ostensible driving force behind the EcoHealth Alliance, a non-governmental organization that alleges it is “dedicated to protecting wildlife and public health from the emergence of disease.” A quick Wikipedia search reveals that EcoHealth is actually the result of a rebranding effort that took place in 2010, and the organization assumed this new moniker to replace the Wildlife Trust name the organization was founded under in 1971. Among EcoHealth’s corporate partners listed on their website are Johnson & Johnson and Reckitt Benckiser(makers of fine products like Clearasil, Lysol, Woolite, Durex, and Calgon, just to name a few.) The venerable Ripple is listed as EcoHealth’s official IT partner. Make of that what you will.

The Wildlife Trust still exists today. You can even visit their website right now. And in doing so, you’re just a couple clicks away from seeing for yourself that this alleged non-profit lists one patron only: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

Tracking the Tangled Web

For those of you who may not remember, or may have trouble reaching that far back into your memory with everything that has transpired since, the international medical periodical the Lancet published a letter at the beginning of the scam-demic discrediting and condemning the lab-leak hypothesis as a possible origin for the SARS CoV-2 virus. This statement was not attributed to any single author, was signed by 27 “leading experts” in the field, and obviously was strongly endorsed by the Lancet.

It was later revealed, through a FOIA request by U.S. Right to Know, that it was actually Daszak who had authored the letter the Lancet published in February of 2020, and that 4 of Daszak’s colleagues at EcoHealth were among the “leading experts” that were signatories. Additionally, the FOIA request revealed, through email correspondences, that Daszak orchestrated the letter’s publication to purportedly “avoid the appearance of a political statement.” To me, that is interesting… it’s almost like he knew in advance that political polarization would be utilized to create tension in the population. How insightful of him.

The Lancet also failed to mention, or was specifically directed not to mention, that Daszak and EcoHealth had been awarded millions of dollars worth of government grants(taxpayer money) for the express purpose of genetically manipulating coronaviruses in what is commonly referred to as “gain of function” research. The Lancet again made sure that nowhere in the letter’s publication was there any indication of a relationship between EcoHealth and the BSL-4 Wuhan Institute of Virology, or Daszak and fellow researcher Shi Zheng-Li(often referred to as the Batwoman of Wuhan).

The problem with that is that those relationships were well established, and now they are well known. Indeed, Daszak’s own bibliography includes several research papers authored with Zheng-Li, among others. Many of those papers feature work on coronaviruses, including this one from 2013 titled Isolation and Characterization of a Bat SARS-like Coronavirus that Uses the ACE2 Receptor.

Daszak also gave an interview to Slate magazine in early March of 2020. While my interpretation of this piece is that it was clearly designed to influence public sentiment by presenting Daszak as some sort of uber-expert on pandemics, his answers actually demonstrated how much bullshit was actually coming out of his mouth. Early on, Daszak states:

“In most outbreaks, you never really know when it begins…”

Then shortly after, responding to a different question:

“These outbreaks are now moving in a matter of days. We saw cells emerge after two months and spread globally. This one took two weeks.”

Well… which is it, Peter? Do we know conclusively when these outbreaks begin, or don’t we? It can’t possibly be both. Daszak also used this particular interview to talk about “high-tech solutions to design vaccines,” well before anyone else was floating the possibility of this concept. Again, it’s almost like he knew, months ahead of time, that this would be the proposed solution. Daszak also employs all of the Agenda 21 buzzwords(Sustainability, Equity, etc.) during the course of the interview. This interview may also be one of the first instances where a so-called “expert” talks about the SARS CoV-2 virus being “with us indefinitely.”

Later in the year, Daszak would be invited by the WHO to become part of the investigation team that would visit the BSL-4 facility, as well as the now infamous “wet market,” in Wuhan allegedly seeking to determine the origins of the SARS CoV-2 virus. When this invitation became public knowledge, many of Daszak’s peers took to the social media sphere to point out his stark conflicts of interest, as well as express their opinions on his work and the reputation of the man himself. Many of their characterizations are not kind. Unsurprisingly, at the end of the WHO team’s rather hasty investigation, the lab-leak hypothesis was once again denounced by Daszak as a possible cause for the origin of SARS CoV-2 virus.

Daszak was also selected by the WHO to chair a 12-person panel that would be dubbed the Lancet Covid-19 Commission. Coincidentally, half of the members of this panel were also signatories to the letter published in February of 2020 by the Lancet, as well as having either direct or indirect relationships with EcoHealth.

While reliable information on Daszak and the funding for EcoHealth is difficult, if not impossible, to find, some researchers have been able to uncover material that may shed some light on what is really going on and where his funding is actually emanating from. Contrary to what has been reported in the mainstream media, EcoHealth’s largest sources of funding appears to come not from the institutions that have been reported, but actually streams directly from the U.S. Department of Defense(DTRA) and the State Department(USAID). So much for the myth that the bulk of their funding comes from NIH.

A visit to Daszak’s bio page on EcoHealth’s website reveals more conundrums. It lists all the normal platitudes that you would expect to find from a career scientist, along with the appropriate bloviations, and a short list of his affiliations. One of these affiliations in particular stood out to me: membership in the Cosmos Club. My first thought was “what the hell is the Cosmos Club?”

Some subsequent digging revealed that the Cosmos Club, located in Washington D.C., was founded in 1878 by John Wesley Powell along with several of the founding members of the National Geographic Society. It was intended to be a private “gentleman’s” club (not that kind) that had as one of it’s stated goals “the advancement of its members in science, literature, and art.” While the individual names of the club membership are secret, it is claimed to currently number in excess of 3000, and the club proudly boasts that it has been home to 3 U.S. Presidents, 2 Vice Presidents, 12 Supreme Court justices, 36 Nobel Prize winners, and 61 Pulitzer prize winners.

Good luck finding out exactly who those people are. The brief couple of hours that I spent trying to track down something that even vaguely resembled a membership list yielded exactly zero results. The most I was able to uncover was a list of recipients of the annual Cosmos Club Award, which includes names like McGeorge Bundy and Paul A. Volker. This may be worth at least a mental bookmark, as I’m certain it may become relevant later.

While Wikipedia would have us believe that Daszak toiled in obscurity for the majority of his career, fighting the good fight to save the Earth primarily and all of humanity as a secondary concern, the opposite would actually appear to be the case. Daszak has a lengthy history of being quoted for articles seen in various publications for more than 20 years, all the while pushing the main Agenda 21/2030 talking points. For example, in 2010(the same year EcoHealth was “founded”) Daszak gave a presentation on Conservation Medicine for TEDMed, which you can view here if you so choose. According to TED, Daszak was qualified to give this presentation because he is an expert on “issues ranging from the environment to national security.” Damn… where do you go to school for that double major? That’s as astounding an academic pairing as economics and machine engineering.

I wouldn’t waste your time watching it. While Daszak is clearly comfortable with public speaking, and maybe even fancies himself as a bit of an entertainer, the presentation itself comes off as disingenuous as a result of the P.T. Barnum-like execution Daszak employs. If you’ve ever seen a segment from Letterman or the Tonight Show with Jack Hannah from the San Diego Zoo, Daszak’s antics will suddenly appear familiar. However, one thing did jump out at me from the torturous 30 minutes of video: Daszak makes the claim that a new disease is being discovered every week.

Remember that this video was released in 2010, regardless of when it was filmed. If what Daszak claimed at that time was accurate, that would mean that we would have added more than 500 new diseases to the medical lexicon in the last 10 years. I decided to put this to the test. After perusing several reputable sources in an attempt to find out how many new diseases had been discovered in the decade of the 2010’s, I eventually settled on this list from the University of Baylor College of Medicine, which lists approximately 40 new diseases discovered since 1971. This was the longest list I found, which is why it was chosen. Several times during the presentation, Daszak throws out statistics that sound mind-blowing, and then quickly transitions to his talking points without offering a shred of evidence to back up any of his claims.

Further study of the staff of EcoHealth, and Daszak’s professional connections, exposes names like Greenspan, Cuomo, and Epstein; however, not the ones that may immediately come to mind. Added research into these three individuals revealed much less information generally available than Daszak himself. However, Sasha Greenspan can be connected to an environmental NGO that advocates for Cumberland Island located off the coast of the state of Georgia, which is coincidentally called home by families with names like Carnegie and Rockefeller.

So, who exactly is Peter Daszak: altruistic crusading environmentally-minded science man, or front man for something much darker than the available information would appear to indicate? My personal opinion is that he is likely a useful idiot, a patsy; someone that the predator class can financially prop up to advance their own agendas, and then, if necessary, sacrifice on the altar of public opinion if the true motives behind their actions begin to be revealed.

Speaking intuitively, I don’t believe that this is the last the public will be hearing from one Peter Daszak. Given that he was effectively thrust into prominence with the intent to advance opposition to what is now quickly becoming a widely accepted hypothesis for the origin of the SARS CoV-2 virus, and the money trail that leads away from his doorstep, my inclination is that he will be rolled out again whenever it becomes necessary to run interference to advance the agenda. Or, I could be completely wrong. Either way, based on what is already known and documented, I think it would be a shrewd judgement to keep at least one eye on Peter Daszak going forward.