EcoHealth President Peter Daszak sent me a picture of a Norwegian skier and then blocked me.

It is what it is.

Earlier today, I asked EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak — now famous for collaborating with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on controversial coronavirus research — if he wanted to reconsider his thinking about “Sweden's remarkably successful pandemic response.” Throughout the first year of the pandemic, Daszak strongly criticized Sweden’s public health policies, which kept schools and much of society open, often posting pictures of himself wearing a Norway hat.

I tweeted a question to EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak.

Instead of directly responding to my question, Daszak tweeted me a picture of a Norwegian skier.

Peter Daszak’s response to my tweet.

I responded with a link to an interview in which a leading Norwegian public health expert had praise for Sweden’s pandemic response. Now, a couple hours later, I see that he blocked me. It’s a bummer, because as a U.S. taxpayer, I have one last thing to say to Daszak: “You’re welcome.”

While the Biden administration has quietly banned funding for Wuhan’s infamous lab, the National Institutes of Health recently restarted a grant to EcoHealth Alliance.