Posted on 05/15/2020 11:12:29 AM PDT by dennisw
Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan US-funded $3.7 million project approved by Trump's Covid-19 guru Dr Anthony Fauci in 2015 after US ban imposed on 'monster-germ' research
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded bat-coronavirus research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to the tune of US$3.7 million, a recent article in the British newspaper Daily Mail revealed.
Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research – altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and infectious – as a result of rising fears about a possible pandemic caused by an accidental or deliberate release of these genetically engineered monster germs.
This was in part due to lab accidents at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in July 2014 that raised questions about biosafety at US high-containment labs.
At that time, the CDC had closed two labs and halted some biological shipments in the wake of several incidents in which highly pathogenic microbes were mishandled by US government laboratories: an accidental shipment of live anthrax, the discovery of forgotten live smallpox samples and a newly revealed incident in which a dangerous influenza strain was accidentally shipped from the CDC to another lab.
A CDC internal report described how scientists failed to follow proper procedures to ensure samples were inactivated before they left the lab, and also found “multiple other problems” with operating procedures in the anthrax lab.
As such in October 2014, because of public health concerns, the US government banned all federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses – influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, at the White House on March 24, 2020, in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP In the face of a moratorium in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and currently the leading doctor in the US Coronavirus Task Force – outsourced in 2015 the GOF research to China’s Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding.
The Wuhan lab is now at the center of scrutiny for possibly releasing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and causing the global Covid-19 pandemic.
It is understandable that the Chinese lab likely struggled with safety issues given the fact US labs share similar problems, and indeed in January 2018 the US Embassy in Beijing sent cables warning about the safety of the Wuhan lab and asked for help.
Additionally, the embassy warned that researchers “showed that various SARS-like coronaviruses can interact with ACE2, the human receptor identified for SARS-coronavirus,” meaning bat coronaviruses can be transmitted to humans to cause SARS-like diseases.
Now, the US is up in arms to hold China accountable for the global coronavirus pandemic, filing class-action lawsuits domestically, as well as building a coalition with allies internationally.
Lawsuits have been filed within the US and the International Criminal Court alleging that China used the virus as a bioweapon, and other suits are under way at the International Court of Justice. Republican lawmakers such as Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Dan Crenshaw have also introduced legislation that would allow Americans to sue China in federal court over the deaths and economic damage wrought by the virus.
US spy agencies are also investigating whether the virus originated in the Wuhan lab, and seeking evidence that is needed to support the bio-WMD theory promoted by Republican lawmakers.
If evidence is found that Covid-19 is a biological weapon, some pundits such as Fox News host Lou Dobbs have called for the US to declare war on China.
Nonetheless, it is unclear what the legal ramifications would be if the virus was indeed leaked from a Chinese lab, but as a result of a research project that was outsourced and funded by the US government.
Also, if there was a government ban in 2014 on federal funding being used for GOF research, what are the federal compliance and ethical issues surrounding the fact that the NIH still gave federal funding instead of private funding to the Wuhan lab to continue the experiments?
How come Herr Doktor Fauxi is never asked about this?
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I hope Fauci gets the virus he helped create.
I want him to also be asked about his new China Flu that he’s working on...per Secy Alex Azar.
Maybe they figured they could make a few extra yuan selling the used bats to KFB. Korona Fried Bat. It’s Chicken of the Cave!
Why?
The Cliff Notes version:
- CDC labs screwed-up twice and almost sprung a pandemic on us by accidently releasing engineered pathogens.
- In response to that new regulations were passed to bar gain-of-function research in CDC labs.
- But Anthony Fauci still wanted to do such research for whatever reason so he outsourced the project to the ChiComs.
Investigations, prosecutions, prison, lampposts are all in order.
I’ve heard this before weeks ago. Why didn’t any Senator ask Fauci about this when he testified??!!
Obama Administration getting around legislation.
2014. The Obama administration.
Note. They had to blame President Trump somehow. Unbelievable.
“US-funded $3.7 million project approved by Trump’s Covid-19 guru Dr Anthony Fauci in 2015 after US ban imposed on ‘monster-germ’ research”
This is an insurance policy they put in a can on the shelf just in case. Just look around at the devastation it caused an the perfect opportunity to put thier plans in action
Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research – altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and infectious – as a result of rising fears about a possible pandemic caused by an accidental or deliberate release of these genetically engineered monster germs.
Anthony Fauci's personal Gain Of Function research project, which kicked into high gear in the Wuhan laboratory in 2019, is killing people and eviscerating economies.
Surprise nothing. Fauxi ordered it up. Little pr1ck.
Since Dr. Fauci allegedly had a very good idea of what was going on in Wuhan, shouldn’t he have been the first to sound a “heads up” instead of initially telling the country not to worry about it?
That’s the way it works in the movies anyway.
Corrections, insights welcome.
We funded research at a chinese lab with $$ we borrowed from China. This was a money laundering operation by the 0bama administration.
Have you seen this one on PEPFAR? It’s 45 minutes but...wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSfP8sXtMbk&list=PL1qEHolxtoZM65j4gsG9-L5ogZ2ea7rkq&index=6&t=0s
In a nutshell:
CDC/PEPFAR (Birx, Fauci, Pence) > Global Fund (Birx, Gates, vaccines, $10’s of billions from Fed>via PEPFAR) > UN Development Program (oversees GF spending with closed books via “special immunity”, gets $100’s of millions from Fed for administering) > GF grant recipients (a mystery).
This was in part due to lab accidents at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in July 2014 that raised questions about biosafety at US high-containment labs.
Dr Anthony Fauci – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and currently the leading doctor in the US Coronavirus Task Force – outsourced in 2015 the GOF research to China’s Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding.
Brilliant!
We decide that it is too dangerous to experiment with weaponizing viruses in US labs so the eminent Dr. Fauci decides that it just has to be done.
But where?
Well, hey, China has just built a state-of-the-art research lab in Wuhan. Why don’t we contract the research to that lab?
Sure, why not subcontract bioweapons research to a hostile country with a history of ignoring environmental and every other kind of safety.
And to be sure we would get all of the research results we are paying for from this lab.
The Chinese are always completely honest and above board with us.
So we were banned from doing this research (understandably) and had problems keeping bad bugs contained so we paid a lab in Wuhan to do it and the same thing happened there.
Can we have a collective shaking of heads!
The obvious question is why was anyone making any virus worse. The only logical answer is so it could be used as a weapon. A weapon than could not be reasonably contained.
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