Completely agree this is just a sleight of hand.
The sad fact is that Americans tend to care more about their pets than their neighbors.
Fund illegal and immoral research that ends up releasing a virus into the wild that causes the whole world to shit down and results in massive civil liberties violations? The public says “Meh, tell me where to wear my mask and get an untested vac into myself and my kids, Uncle Sam, I’m too stupid to care.”
Kill Fido in a gruesome experiment? “Hang ‘em, hang ‘em high monsters!!”
This will likely end Fauci and then completely hide him from culpability. No, it wasn’t his massive collusion with the Chinese and big pharmaceutical companies, it’s the fact that he tortured a dog that matters.
Look, what they did to Snoopy is heinous, obviously. But what he and his pals did the the world is far worse and created far deeper problems.