Federal Covid Website Redirects to White House “Lab Leak” Page
COVID.gov now is the damnatio memoriae Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves.
The ancient Romans had a practice referred to as damnatio memoriae, a modern Latin term meaning “condemnation of memory.” It refers to the deliberate erasure of an individual’s presence from public memory, most famously practiced in ancient Rome but with roots and parallels in other ancient societies.
The phrase itself was not used by the Romans; it was coined by scholars in the 17th century to describe a practice typically enacted after a political figure—often an emperor—fell from favor, was overthrown, or died following a disgraceful reign.
We now have a pitch-perfect example of damnatio memoriae in the news today.
The federal website COVID.gov, which previously provided public health information about COVID-19—such as vaccine guidance, testing resources, and treatment options—has been fundamentally altered. As of this morning, the site now redirects users to a White House page that prominently promotes the theory that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China, rather than from natural animal-to-human transmission.
…[T]he new White House page echoes a final report issued last year by the Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, linked on the site. Republican members of the committee concluded last fall that the virus originated in a lab; Democrats issued a separate report that did not draw a definitive conclusion about the virus’ origins but also pressed for more transparency.
The new White House site also details perceived failures of the Covid-19 response, including “lockdowns,” mask mandates, infectious disease research funding and HHS “obstruction” of those congressional probes.
Some of those officials are named. A section of the page is dedicated to President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of retired National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Today at https://t.co/eX5NBl4hWk @rantinglydotcom is epic. pic.twitter.com/tGk69wNeHC
— Leslie Eastman ☥ (@Mutnodjmet) April 18, 2025
The site contains much of the same information I have presented in the articles prepared for Legal Insurrection on the subject since my first post on a “strange pneumonia” in January of 2020. The updated White House website notes that the coronavirus was artificially created and leaked from a Wuhan infectious disease laboratory, describing the virus as exhibiting “a biological trait not found in nature” and claiming that evidence for a natural origin “would have emerged by now. But it hasn’t.”
What is most gratifying for me is the damnatio memoriae of Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. This man took his position of public trust to promote a “preferred narrative” that the virus originated naturally, formed an alliance with Big Tech to silence critics on social media, and threatened the reputations of professional epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists who challenged his policy choices.
Biden’s pardon of Fauci is one of the highlights of the new webpage. It’s important to underscore that the pardon extends for 10 years because the current timeline suggests that Fauci and his team ignored the Obama administration’s 2014 restrictions on gain-of-function research, pausing federal funding for studies that enhance the transmissibility or virulence of pathogens.
Trump just changed the official White House COVID website to include the lab leak and Fauci’s preemptive pardon.
This is incredible!
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— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 18, 2025
Legal Insurrection readers may recall that Fauci commissioned and finalized a scientific paper written in February 2020 to disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a Wuhan lab. The piece was entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.”
Eventually, one of the authors who smeared the COVID lab leak hypothesis as a fringe conspiracy theory admitted they went ‘too far.’ The White House Lab Leak page highlights how this paper was abused.
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory — was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated in nature.
It is especially fitting that COVID.gov now is being used to inform the public of Fauci’s true role in the creation of the virus, the manipulation of information to overstate the effectiveness of vaccines in preventing transmission, analysis that exaggerated the risks COVID-19 posed to children, and a myriad of other contrivances that were damaging to both the nation and the rest of the world. COVID.gov was the go-to-spot when “fact-checkers” wanted to dismiss the reasonable challenges to the narrative by experienced professionals or those on social media who had experiences with the disease or the vaccine that didn’t align with Big Government or Big Pharma preferences.
I have one quibble with the “Lab Leak” webpage the White House has published: It needs more Dr. Deborah Birx. “Scarf Lady” teamed up with former Vice President Mike Pence to extend the lockdowns. She should really be a featured part of this timeline.
But as of right now, COVID.gov is a fitting homage to Fauci, who once declared that an attack on him was an attack on science.
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I actually have COVID today and have to go on the AIDS cocktail (Paxlovid) due to leukopenia from radiation therapy for stage 3 cancer. I’m hoping it can do the job but many Americans in my position during the case explosions of 2020-2021 died without this option.
The Chinese government and American treason puppets should absolutely be held responsible for their international crimes.
Sorry to hear, fsu. You’re correct. Vengeance is due.
I’m sorry to hear of your health issues but I would be remiss of to tell you to get on ivermectin and throw away throw away the Paxlovid
Interesting that no mention of the vaccine in the scathing report.
Trump Can’t let go of the disaster of Warp speed and the “vaccine” that wasn’t a vaccine, but a lethal weapon
“Warp Speed” was not the disaster. The disaster was Big Pharma deciding to go the route of mRNA (and one DNA) vaxxes. There has never been a safe and effective mRNA vaccine. I don’t know what got into them to think that they could make one work right out of the gate. Trump didn’t direct the researchers into this alley.
What Trump’s DOJ can do now is sue Big Pharma for breach of contract, removing their immunity for the damage caused by their products. All COVID vax contracts were for a “safe, effective vaccine that prevents transmission and disease,” and Big Pharma failed to deliver on all counts (the vaxxes aren’t even vaccines, if they work at all, they work as therapeutics – which is why I usually refer to them as “vaxxes” and not “vaccines”). The failure to deliver the contracted product means that Big Pharma can be stripped of its immunity, immunity that was conditioned upon delivery of the specified product.
Much to answer for indeed.
Holding good thoughts. Get better soon.
So TIL: the Romans invented cancellation.
Who knew!
they probably stole it from the greeks like everything else they stole. the romans were chinese before the chinese were chinese
The Egyptians were known to do it. They removed Tutankhamun’s father, Akhenaten, from the record, destroying his statues, obliterating his name from inscriptions, and abandoning the city he built. This was done for his heresy of declaring there was only one god, Aten.
To think that this was a self-inflicted phenomenon, compounded when the wrongdoers tried to cover their tracks. Damn straight they should pay, not only for the direct harm, but the indirect harm that damaged individuals from the coerced environment.
Some should go to jail, too.
The only quibble with the leak page is that with Trump so front and center it will be rejected flatly by the TDSers and some that might actually be persuaded by the substance. Yes, they are shallow, but perhaps will grow fed up being misled so easily.
Love your TDS comment.
Now who do we know of those who post here will be most affected?? Some clues:
* Muslim cardiac surgeon
* Iowa wind passer
* Upticks own posts
* Opposite of senior
Well can anyone guess? Bueller?
Some are unpersuadeable, Guess it’s time to again pull the label from the cabinet. They are less cultists than dupes, and can always be counted on to go along with the newspeak of the day, with a whiff of arrogance no less. They have a low grade TDS. It’s a wonder how they can put up with being dupes. Guess it’s hard to break away when NPR is your daily diet. They are a large part of the 20%. The true believers have the control now and it seems they will not be satisfied until another 1972 or 1984.
Brutal! Love it!
Fauci isn’t science. Fauci killed science. That is what he should be remembered for.
Finally, someone at the government is actually telling some truth.
Leslie, is this still a “theory” “that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan”?
Is there still not enough evidence to make it a fact?
Occam’s razor tells us all this is the most likely source, but I sure do hope it can be proven beyond the shadow of a doubt. Other the the TDS’ers, who will never accept it, and the perpetrators who were behind it, the rest of the world needs to be assured of the facts.
There are multiple points of data, many confirmed from independent sources, that COVID-19 was created in a lab from a natural virus. There is literally zero evidence to the contrary.
Also, I should note that even if the virus is completely natural, and not engineered in any way, this would not discount the lab-leak theory. Dangerous natural viruses can escape from research labs. So even proof the COVID wasn’t engineered would still not discount the lab-escape theory. (It surprised me to see objectively intelligent people espousing the “natural virus” claim as if that would be fatal to the “lab-leak” theory. The two theories are not mutually exclusive. Either their logic was simply faulty, or they were gas lighting, counting on lack of critical thinking skills to prevent the public from spotting the falacy.)
Until Fauci, Birx &etc spend the rest of their misbegotten lives in prison jumpsuits, it’s meaningless.
https://youtu.be/_dPSxHInMko?si=qWkukgPVAwe_95ri