Posted on 10/22/2014 4:13:56 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. Judith White, who runs a research lab at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, submitted a proposal to the National Institutes of Health to test potential countermeasures against Ebola in March just as Liberia was confirming its first two cases of the deadly virus.
The project, a collaboration of the university, the Army and a drug company, showed promising early results: Mice injected with two compounds one used in a drug to treat female infertility, the other found in a breast cancer drug showed immunity to Ebola.
But a few months later, not long after Doctors Without Borders deemed the virus out of control in West Africa, Ms. White learned that her proposal fell short of qualifying for funding.
A lot of us are feeling frustrated because we have some promising things, and we want to contribute to this, Ms. White said in an interview.
Were sitting back here. Im not a health care worker. I cant go to Liberia and do anything there. But this is who we are. Were scientists, and we do the background work, she said.
As the public clamors for cures or vaccines, and top administration officials blame funding shortages for the lack of progress, its researchers who are enmeshed in work who eventually will achieve critical breakthroughs.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Maybe NIH was too financially stressed because it had to fund studies to find out why lesbians get fat?
Don’t forget the $25 million in Executive bonuses. Oh, and the mood lighting and yoga rooms.
PING!
How to get Government funding. Inform the that you are a transgender, lesbian, inter species pedophile and you will get your funding!
This was for some 3,600+ programs that NIH determined were most important.
Finding the money for Ebola Research wasn't a big enough priority. The budget wasn't the problem, it was the NIH's choice.
I learned that one of the things that separates us from the animals is that we have an awareness of the future from our own past experiences, and from records and memories of others. Where animals seem to prepare, like a squirrel collecting acorns before the winter, it is just instinct.
However, politics and corruption have destroyed our ability to so plan, and even severely suppressed our instincts, so that even a squirrel looks smart in comparison.
At this point in time, generally 10% or less of proposals are going to have a chance at funding. When you get down to those levels there are many very good proposals that get trashed, and the process becomes very arbitrary. All it takes is one person with an agenda or an ax to grind to trash a proposal. All proposals should get separate reviews and scores for the science and the ability of the investigative team to do the science - and the science should be reviewed without any knowledge of who the investigator is.
However, politics and corruption have destroyed our ability to so plan, and even severely suppressed our instincts,....
I do not know about everyone.
I see what is coming down the road and I have been planning my a$$ off. From food, to water, to ammo and to 800 yard clear field of fire around my hacienda. Oh, and party surprises....
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the Bring Out Your Dead ping list (formerly the Ebola ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the Bring Out Your Dead threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Interesting article. Thanks for posting. TPTB have know about Ebola for how long? All the wasted money at NIH and CDC over those years and the best that CDC’s Frieden can come up with is, “but at some point, there was a breach in protocol, and that breach in protocol resulted in this infection.”
$heesh
Indeed, too busy on global warming, solar energy etc...
Which is precisely why Obama has fostered policies to bring Ebola to America’s shores and CONTINUES to maintain those policies, namely keep letting Ebola into America, and then HOPE that the incompetent CDC and America’s creaky health care system can deal with it until those researchers spurred by the Ebola invasion can find a way to prevent/cure it, naturally with Africa receiving the primary benefit of such research. Q.E.D.
A 31.3 BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET, up 1.5% from 2012.
Obamas Phony War on Ebola.
Why are the so called experts at CDC, Homeland Security and TSA not stepping up and doing their job to protect Americans from passenger fly ins with Ebola or exposed to Ebola in countries raging with deadly Ebola, without banning or severely restricting air travel from Africa?
They dont want to. Again, this is a prime example of the need to use Cui Bono, the old Latin phrase which asks the question, Who benefits?
o Cui Bono or who benefits with no real travel restrictions from Africa to the USA?:
1. The airlines, which fly people and freight from and to Africa.
2. The businesses which service the air lines and need their business.
3. The need of our left wing progressives to have another unending war like the war on poverty. A war on Ebola is the ultimate wet dream of liberals, who never let a good crisis go to waste.
#1 and #2 above are obvious to any of us with half a brain.
#3. Requires a little explanation. A War on Ebola will make the War on Poverty look like a very small wet puddle compared to a full scale and large flood like Noahs.
A liberal/progressive War on Ebola will require us to hire millions of people with worthless degrees or psychiatric problems to fight this war. We will have shore to shore facilities to provide offices for these previously unhireables. They will require hundreds of thousands of supervisors to motivate and to monitor them and to waste money like VA hospital administrators do now.
Our worthless State Department will expand our embassies around the world to the size of the one in Baghdad to house and office the warriors of the War on Ebola.
Moosella and Jill Biden and the worthless Follywood idols will do thousands of PSAs telling us to spend our time and money supporting the War on Ebola.
They will start marches, marathons and other BS social circle jerks to raise money and to support the War on Ebola.
They will pour gallons of ice water or whatever on sports idols and Follywood idols to support the War on Ebola.
Our military will no longer fight Isis and bad guys, they will be included in the great War on Ebola. Barrack E Obolabama has started that process with our troops in and being sent to Western Africa to fight Ebola.
None of the above will save lives. Like the War on Poverty and other expensive liberal wastes, this fight Ebola will thrive without any real positive results. Each death from Ebola will result in more money and more worthless people involved in the War on Ebola.
They will tie the War on Ebola in with Global Warming to take away any rights we have left.
The government narrative is that Ebola is no big deal. You can only give it to people. You can’t catch it.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
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