A US report rewrites the Covid story while Spain launches no inquiry

500 pages from the US Congress rewrite the Elbichito narrative

On December 2, 2024, the United States House of Representatives published a report of more than 500 pages on the handling of Elbichito-19. Behind it are two years of work by the Select Subcommittee on the Cobi19 Pandemic: interviews with public officials, administrative and pharmaceutical documents, and a review of more than a million pages. The text, titled After-Action Review of the ELbichito-19 Pandemic: Lessons Learned and a Path Forward, argues that the official pandemic narrative failed on several essential points. And it does so without Spain having launched anything similar five years after year zero.

What the report says about the origin of the bicho

The most uncomfortable chapter is the first. According to the report, the most likely hypothesis is a Wuhan lab leak, which displaces the animal-origin transmission defended since 2019. It would be, it adds, a man-made bicho linked to a gain-of-function experiment funded by the US. The return to the initial version is not a stray notion: it is the conclusion the subcommittee puts in writing after reviewing the documentation. Anyone who claims otherwise will have to explain why the report, with this much paper behind it, reaches the opposite conclusion.

Masks, one-and-a-half-metre distancing and lockdowns

Mask mandates did not stem from conclusive scientific evidence that they prevented the disease, according to the text. The one-and-a-half-metre distance, which closed schools and small businesses, was an equally arbitrary measure. Anthony Fauci even testified that the figure simply appeared. Prolonged lockdowns, the report concludes, caused immeasurable harm to the economy and also to mental and physical health, with a particularly negative effect on the youngest and, specifically, on teenage girls. The arbitrariness of a round number ended up ordering the lives of millions of people.

Vaccines: political approval, health pass and uncompensated harms

The vaccines did not stop the spread or transmission of the bicho, contradicting the central message of the campaigns. Their approval responded to an arbitrary deadline and a political, not health, decision, according to the report, which adds that neither mandates nor the health pass had scientific backing. On adverse effects, the text denounces that the public was not clearly informed and that the Administration is not being efficient, fair or transparent with claims. That point should be separated from circulating claims about alleged mass harms or links to millions of deaths: these are accusations that lack evidentiary support.

Censorship, natural immunity and pressure on social media

Here comes one of the most delicate chapters. The report describes a coordinated effort by public health authorities to ignore natural immunity and discredit effective drugs against the disease. It denounces contradictory messaging, the demonization of hypotheses such as the lab leak, and pressure on social media companies to censor content, using methods it calls anti-democratic and probably unconstitutional.

Relief money and the role of the WHO

Taxpayer funds and pandemic relief programs appear tainted by corruption, fraud and widespread abuse, always according to the report. The WHO response is described as an utter failure, and it warns that its future Pandemic Treaty, forward-looking and binding, could undermine the sovereignty of a country like the US.

The victims who don't appear in the balance sheets

Beyond the macro figures, there is a trail that is not measured in GDP points. The debate recounts the case of Alzheimer's patients who, after being deprived of mobility for a week, lost more quality of life and life prospects than in three years. Teenagers. People who could not endure lockdown. That harm does not appear in infection statistics or pharmaceutical company reports, and it is precisely the one the text puts front and center.

Five years without an audit in Spain

In Spain there is no equivalent investigation. No Washington-style commission, no rigorous public review. What remains are the deaths, the rollback of fundamental rights, medical-institutional coercion and a social fracture that is still felt in the economy, in the health of the sick and the vaccinated, and in distrust of institutions. As highlighted in the thread, the Tribunal Constitucional (Spain's constitutional court) declared the Elbichito measures in the Balearic Islands null and void, and its ruling was published in the BOE (Spain's official state gazette), a warning that barely made headlines. What was once labeled a hoax now shares ground, according to that same reflection, with facts recorded in writing. Despite this, more than two weeks after publication, few mainstream media outlets have given it space, and always in passing, as noted in the material.

Here the analysis gets stuck. With a 500-page report on the table, the question is no longer what peine, but whether anyone will answer for it. Some argue that nothing will change, that television won't report it, and that the neighbor who demanded masks will say he knew it too. And some recall that without an audit there can be no correction for next time. With these ingredients, the discussion stops exactly where the paper ends and politics begins.