POLITICS: COVID origins coverup: Letters

The Issue: The 2021 withholding from President Biden of research indicating COVID began in a lab leak.

COVID-19, or as President-elect Trump would specify, the China Virus, was probably one of the biggest cons of the century (“COVID coverup,” Dec. 27).

It killed millions — while our intelligence community kept President Biden out of the loop on evidence it originated in a Chinese lab. I guess he didn’t have full comprehension of this pandemic anyway, so it really didn’t make a difference one way or another.

The federal government had us believe and accept that either this virus originated at a food market or from rabid bats, which most Democrats accepted without even scrutinizing the cause.

Ron Zajicek

Cortlandt Manor

My wife passed away from COVID-19 in February 2022.

I first blamed President Donald Trump for fumbling the country’s initial response to COVID in 2020. Now, thanks to The Post’s reporting, I understand this tragic waste of 1.1 million American lives was linked to a Biden administration coverup to exonerate China’s deadly lab practices.

Was this China-lite policy under President Biden a way for Hunter to garner multimillion-dollar payments for future Chinese business deals or just more deep-state arrogance?

In the end, we are all diminished by an administration that forgot its sworn duty to protect

its own people.

Ron Spurga

Manhattan

The Post’s cover headline regarding the COVID-19 evidence that was hidden from Biden does not tell the entire story.

The headline should have said “evidence was hidden from the American people.”

Anthony Fauci and his helpers should all be in jail. If the public had known the truth about China, a response would have been demanded.

Instead, people in our government covered up to protect China.

Ezra Ini

Queens

Just think for one second: Did COVID start in caves about a six-hour drive from the Wuhan markets? Or did it start in a lab a few blocks from that market that was studying how to transmit coronaviruses to humans?

Come on, people: You don’t have to be a scientist to get this answer correct.

Bruce Collins

Middletown, NJ

The Issue: The Post’s call for more compassion towards homeless people struggling with mental illness.

New York city and state politicians, up to and including Gov. Hochul, need to show more compassion for our homeless (“Where’s the ‘compassion,’?” Editorial, Dec. 26).

We also need to show more concern for those who are mentally ill and commit crimes.

When I was homeless, I was alone, depressed and hungry — until I encountered the kindness of a stranger who had a room where I could stay until I got on my feet.

There are homeless veterans today with mental health issues, and our government has a responsibility to help them.

Too much time has passed and the homeless and mentally ill are slowly being forgotten.

Frederick Bedell Jr.

Bellerose

The truly compassionate thing to do is take the financial incentive out of homelessness and all related issues.

I’m not confident this will happen because, to those in office, solving the problem means the funds stop.

Unfortunately, that is how they run this.

Robert Sanfilippo

Bellmore

“Perversion of compassion” is an accurate description of Democratic policies.

Letting psychotic people roam is not only cruel for them, but dangerous for us.

Paul Bloustein

Cincinnati, Ohio