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1,381 posted on 05/25/2021 9:41:48 AM PDT by bitt (People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full miss the point. The glass is refillable.)

what a crap story and they don't even see the irony...

"Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat."

The PREDICT program didn't predict it!
The program fails and they complain cause it wasn't funded?

just shoot me.

1,386 posted on 05/25/2021 10:13:47 AM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.)

from the article:

"Two months before the novel coronavirus is thought to have begun its deadly advance in Wuhan, China, the Trump administration ended a $200-million pandemic early-warning program aimed at training scientists in China and other countries to detect and respond to such a threat.

The project, launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2009, identified 1,200 different viruses that had the potential to erupt into pandemics, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The initiative, called PREDICT, also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories — including the Wuhan lab that identified SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19."

Looks to me like a DERP operation to find the most promising viruses (virii?) for weaponization. Call me cynical.

1,387 posted on 05/25/2021 10:14:14 AM PDT by Oratam (Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging.)

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