{"id":1120915,"date":"2021-12-15T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120915"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:29:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:29:18","slug":"watch-nih-director-sings-over-the-rainbow-to-praise-himself-health-officials-insist-pandemic-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-nih-director-sings-over-the-rainbow-to-praise-himself-health-officials-insist-pandemic-isnt-over\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: NIH Director Sings \u2018Over The Rainbow\u2019 To Praise Himself, Health Officials, Insist Pandemic Isn\u2019t Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-nih-director-sings-over-the-rainbow-to-praise-himself-health-officials-insist-pandemic-isnt-over%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120915&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a completely self-indulgent moment, Francis Collins, the outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health, sang a version of the iconic song \u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d with lyrics in which he seemingly refused to acknowledge there are swaths of America that have moved on beyond the pandemic and praised HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who interviewed him, for being a \u201cpartner\u201d who \u201cwill help to make the pathway clear to find true healing.\u201d Collins also trumpeted himself and other health officials in the government, singing, \u201cSomewhere past the pandemic we\u2019ll hug our friends and thank the people and science that brought the pandemic\u2019s end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his preamble, Collins stated, \u201cAnd now, if you\u2019ll indulge me, because it\u2019s been kind of promoted as if it might be a grand finale of a musical sort, I guess I\u2019d like to play us out with a little song. So, if I might, I just need a microphone. Why, there\u2019s a guitar right here. How about that? Ah, yeah, this is a song where the tune will be familiar to you, unless you came from another planet recently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he stated that Americans were not past the pandemic, continuing, \u201cBut the words are going to be quite different, because this really is a song for you, a song for all of us who have been going through this pandemic and trying to imagine how it\u2019s going to feel when we\u2019re finally past that. What will that be like? We are gonna get there, and you are going to help us get there. So that\u2019s what this is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He sang these lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic when we\u2019re free<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There\u2019s a life I remember full of activity<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic, masks will come off<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>No more need for a nose swab every time we cough<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As we are gathered here today<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>COVID\u2019s toll has hit and sent us reeling<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But partners like the ones right here<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Will help to make the pathway clear<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To find true healing<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic life will resume<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019ll all complain about the traffic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Forgetting how we hated Zoom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewhere past the pandemic we\u2019ll hug our friends<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And thank the people and science that brought the pandemic\u2019s end<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My dozen years are almost through<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But it\u2019s been great to work with you<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s end COVID now<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Ta_i4NJQX3s&#038;start=345\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Ta_i4NJQX3s&amp;start=345<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Last June, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/nih-deleted-coronavirus-sequences-at-request-of-chinese-scientists-congress-probing-new-lead-report\/\">reported<\/a> that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), led by Collins, deleted gene sequences of SARS-CoV-2 during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic after being asked to do so by Chinese scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe removal of the sequencing data is described in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-official-said-we-may-never-know-origins-of-covid-now-scientist-says-he-discovered-deleted-evidence-of-earliest-known-covid-patients-in-wuhan\">new paper posted online<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday by Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,\u201d The Wall Street Journal reported. \u201cThe paper, which hasn\u2019t been peer reviewed, says the missing data include sequences from virus samples collected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January and February of 2020 from patients hospitalized with or suspected of having Covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reported by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-official-said-we-may-never-know-origins-of-covid-now-scientist-says-he-discovered-deleted-evidence-of-earliest-known-covid-patients-in-wuhan\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, \u201cThe NIH confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it deleted the gene sequences in June 2020 after they had been submitted three months earlier. This came months after serious questions had been raised about the origins of the pandemic inside China and whether China was being transparent about what was really going on. The NIH said,&nbsp;\u2018Submitting investigators hold the rights to their data and can request withdrawal of the data.\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a completely self-indulgent moment, Francis Collins, the outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health, sang a version of the iconic song \u201cOver the Rainbow\u201d with lyrics in which he seemingly refused to acknowledge there are swaths of America that have moved on beyond the pandemic and praised HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, who interviewed him, for being a \u201cpartner\u201d who \u201cwill help to make the pathway clear to find true healing.\u201d Collins also trumpeted himself and other health officials in the government, singing, \u201cSomewhere past the pandemic we\u2019ll hug our friends and thank the people and science that brought the pandemic\u2019s end.\u201dIn his preamble, Collins stated, \u201cAnd now, if you\u2019ll indulge me, because it\u2019s been kind of promoted as if it might be a grand finale of a musical sort, I guess I\u2019d like to play us out with a little song. So, if I might, I just need a microphone. Why, there\u2019s a guitar right here. How about that? Ah, yeah, this is a song where the tune will be familiar to you, unless you came from another planet recently.\u201dThen he stated that Americans were not past the pandemic, continuing, \u201cBut the words are going to be quite different, because this really is a song for you, a song for all of us who have been going through this pandemic and trying to imagine how it\u2019s going to feel when we\u2019re finally past that. What will that be like? We are gonna get there, and you are going to help us get there. So that\u2019s what this is about.\u201dHe sang these lyrics:Somewhere past the pandemic when we\u2019re freeThere\u2019s a life I remember full of activitySomewhere past the pandemic, masks will come offNo more need for a nose swab every time we coughAs we are gathered here todayCOVID\u2019s toll has hit and sent us reelingBut partners like the ones right hereWill help to make the pathway clearTo find true healingSomewhere past the pandemic life will resumeWe\u2019ll all complain about the trafficForgetting how we hated ZoomSomewhere past the pandemic we\u2019ll hug our friendsAnd thank the people and science that brought the pandemic\u2019s endMy dozen years are almost throughBut it\u2019s been great to work with youLet\u2019s end COVID now[embedded content]Last June, The Daily Wire reported that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), led by Collins, deleted gene sequences of SARS-CoV-2 during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic after being asked to do so by Chinese scientists.\u201cThe removal of the sequencing data is described in a\u00a0new paper posted online\u00a0Tuesday by Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,\u201d The Wall Street Journal reported. \u201cThe paper, which hasn\u2019t been peer reviewed, says the missing data include sequences from virus samples collected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in January and February of 2020 from patients hospitalized with or suspected of having Covid-19.\u201dAs reported by\u00a0The Daily Wire, \u201cThe NIH confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it deleted the gene sequences in June 2020 after they had been submitted three months earlier. This came months after serious questions had been raised about the origins of the pandemic inside China and whether China was being transparent about what was really going on. The NIH said,\u00a0\u2018Submitting investigators hold the rights to their data and can request withdrawal of the data.\u2019\u2019\u2019The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}