Bret Weinstein: People are sick this summer. That's not supposed to be.

"People are sick this summer. That's not supposed to be. And everyone's saying, I cannot kick it. I can't get rid of it. No one feels like a cold is the same anymore. Right, right. So, okay, we've just engaged in this massive program that at best was the result of hubris that said that we know what to do to make you safer. And we've got a population that is now a lot more vulnerable to disease. The likely connection is not hard to see, so we ought to be obsessed with figuring out whether that connection is in fact what is causing this increased level of sickness, but of course we are not. We also ought to recognize, you know, if the net effect of bioweapons research is that you screw up and you make your own population vulnerable to a foreign bioweapon, maybe bioweapons research isn't such a good idea. Right. At the same, in the same way we were told that the research that was going on, the gain of function research on these viruses, what was the purpose we were told? We were told that it was so that we could create these viruses so that we could know what to do if a pandemic ever happened. Well, no benefit came from that research. We didn't manage to do any better with COVID based on something we learned. The story isn't plausible in the first place, right? If you turbocharge a pathogen, the only thing you're going to learn is how to deal with that pathogen. Right. So the story was nonsense to begin with. At best, this is a message. We've learned how to handle a very specific enemy that we created. Right. As though somehow we've learned something. This particular coronavirus could mutate myriad different ways, and all this knowledge would be useless to us. Right? Right. And it proved to be useless."