Rand Paul: Fauci Never Explains Why Research U.S. Government Funded At Wuhan Lab Is Not "Gain-Of-Function"

EN. RAND PAUL: Yeah, but it's not really about me, it's ultimately about the safety of the country and the world. If 5 million people died from a virus that came out of a lab, wouldn't we want to know, wouldn't we want to prevent this from happening again? 

They've experimented with other viruses that are much more deadly. This virus is very deadly, but it has a 1% mortality. What if we had a virus that had a 15%? They are also experimenting with the MERS virus, coronavirus from the early 2000s that had a 50% mortality. 

And here's what they say, they still to this day are trying to get around the truth. They say well, it was unexpected that it gained function. How do you know if it's unexpected or not if it's unknown? If you take a virus from a cave, you combined it with a virus that has a 50% mortality, it either is going to be more transmissible or less, but you don't know in advance whether it's going to be worse or better. So when it gains function, that is something that is expected to. Some of these viruses are going to gain function and the possibility of it leaking out, I think is a horrific thing for mankind.