Increasing pandemic risk due to increasing zoonotic spillover is a lie
Zoonotic spillovers, the transfer of viruses from animals to humans, are being used to reinforce the pandemic-vaccine agenda. However, Jeffrey Tucker says that increasing zoonotic spillover is a hoax.
In an article yesterday, the founder and President of Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey Tucker, explained why the increasing zoonotic spillover narrative is a hoax. And why, if spillovers are not a problem, their entire agenda falls apart.
Not only were Anthony Fauci and his colleagues eager to blame SARS-CoV-2 on bats and pangolins in wet markets to deflect attention from the possibility of a laboratory leak in Wuhan, but also to promote the idea that zoonotic spillovers are increasing due to factors such as urbanisation, deforestation and globalisation, or whatever pretext they want to use at any given time.
As Tucker explained, the model presented by Fauci and others involves five steps, including asserting that spillovers are increasing, claiming that only scientists fully understand the threat, and advocating for gain-of-function research and the development of vaccines, particularly mRNA injections, to protect against these threats.
The zoonotic spillover narrative is used to justify extreme public-health measures, such as restrictions on liberty and freedom and to promote a globalist approach to disease monitoring and containment, with the ultimate goal to “rebuild the infrastructures of human existence,” as stated in a 2020 article written by Fauci and David Morens.
Fauci and Morens’ article reflected an apocalyptic tone and claimed that humanity has been facing myriad infections since taking a bad turn 12,000 years ago. “Disease emergences reflect our increasing inability to live in harmony with nature” and the only solution, Fauci and Morens said, is to work towards rebuilding human existence through drastic measures.
As Tucker explained, zoonotic spillovers are a crucial step in justifying gain-of-function research, funding and pandemic policies such as schemes to lockdown until the antidote arrives. If spillovers are not a pressing problem, the entire agenda falls apart.
Research Challenging the Spillover Orthodoxy
Tucker says that the evidence for the increasing rate of zoonotic spillovers is lacking and that the claims made by Fauci and others are based on models, assertions and biased testing.
Last week, the Brownstone-backed team at REPPARE published an article in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health titled ‘Natural Spillover Risk and Disease Outbreaks: Is Over-Simplification Putting Public Health at Risk?’. It challenges the core assumption that pandemic risk is rapidly increasing due to zoonotic spillover and finds that the literature to support it is based on opinion rather than evidence.
The REPPARE team examined the literature and found a pattern of assertive statements about rapidly rising disease risk, which are heavily cited but are largely based on opinions, not evidence. Additionally, cited papers are often misrepresented. Taken together, the cited opinions and misrepresentations have created an evidence-free orthodoxy.
Tucker explained that public health has been influenced by groupthink, with authors citing each other’s opinions as fact in a “game of citation roulette.” As REPPARE’s article notes, private-sector funders, including the World Health Organisation, have contributed to the creation of the zoonotic spillover echo chamber by downgrading or ignoring contrary findings and emphasising studies that support further funding.
In concluding his article, Tucker explained that not only is the zoonotic spillover narrative used to justify gain-of-function research, but it is also being used to cover up the laboratory origins of pathogens to avoid blame and to justify continued funding for biological experimentation:
[This is] why Fauci and the rest were so emphatic that the coronavirus of 2019 did not originate in a lab, for which they had arranged the funding, but instead leapt from a bat or something else from a wet market.
The wet market narrative was not only designed to cover up their scheme and avoid blame for a global pandemic of any level of severity. It was also to deploy the potentially catastrophic consequences and resulting public panic as a rationale for continuing their own biological experimentation and funding grift.
“Sadly, it appears we have a leak from a lab.”
“No worries. We’ll find some scientists and steer some grant money to prove the pathogen in question originated from zoonotic spillover, thus proving the point that we need more funding.”
“Brilliant Dr. Fauci! Do we have contacts in the media?”
“We do. We’ll get on that.”
The Great Spillover Hoax, Jeffrey A. Tucker as published by Brownstone Institute, 27 April 2025
Featured image adapted from ‘The seven deadly drivers of zoonotic disease pandemics’ by Susan MacMillan, Emeritus Fellow at CGIAR’s International Livestock Research Institute
