Isn't that what Obama did when he took money away from the unit tasked with fighting ebola and gave it to Solyndra?
Full Title:
Government Stops New Funding and Calls for ‘Voluntary Pause’ on Research of ‘Pandemic Potential’ of Pathogens
While federal and state agencies institute new policies and procedures in light of Ebola making an appearance in the U.S., the White House has called for a suspension on research involving other viruses with deadly potential for the time being.
Disease is not a single-organism problem. Simply looking at those pathogens that grow in western Africa, you could come up with any number of ways to die. Ebola is getting all the press these days, but you wouldn’t want to die from the other diseases that are just as nasty, either.
Epidemiologists were warning about this much earlier in 2014.
I posted a link here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3190930/posts?page=13#13
I really do wonder if this had something to do with the outbreak in West Africa.
How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Truthfully “gain of function” research is problematic from the start. While it is possible to make a pathogen more lethal by guiding its development that way, that isn’t how nature works. It is useful primarily to create biological weapons.
Nature uses a far longer path, in which pathogens compete against their own kind, then compete with other microorganisms, then have to contend with the immune systems of its hosts.
Importantly, the end goal is not harm, but reproduction. If the pathogen is too harmful, it creates a situation where it has to become less harmful, or die out. This is when a disease is new, it is most lethal. Over time it gets less harmful until it is just “background” in the bodies of its host.
Some viruses have been around so long that human DNA has integrated most of the viral genetic pattern as part of our own.
So what?
Just as long as they don’t stop funding such ground-breaking studies like what kind of deodorant bi-polar lesbians use and how many expensive anti-virals can we use on gay men so they can continue to have anal intercourse w/o the trouble of wearing condoms we’ll be OK...
So, reading between the lines here; are they intimating that the current Ebola outbreak might be the result of someone’s bio-research that went awry?
Or worse. Did some bio-researcher intend for the current Ebola outbreak to happen?
However spending the taxpayers money on such vital research like why Chinese prostitutes don’t wash their genitals and why many lesbians are overweight will continue unabated.
This sounds a little bit like, “I’m not sayin’ the horses are out, but would somebody please shut the barn door?”
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
