Posted on 06/29/2021 12:34:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
… The simmering concern that the US funded risky research in China burst into the national discussion on May 11, when Senator Rand Paul accused Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of funding “supervirus” research in the US and “making a huge mistake” by trading the know-how to China. Paul repeatedly confronted Fauci and demanded to know if he had funded gain-of-function research in that country. Fauci denied the accusation, stating categorically: “The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The denial rests on the NIH’s specific definition of what was covered by the moratorium: work that would have deliberately enhanced SARS-like viruses, MERS, or flu by—for example—making them easier to spread through the air. The Chinese research did not have the specific goal of making the viruses more deadly, and rather than SARS itself, it used SARS’s close cousins, whose real-world risk to humans was unknown—in fact, determining the risk was the point of the research. Just as when you trade in part of a poker hand for fresh cards, there was no way of knowing whether the final chimeras would be stronger or weaker.
The NIH has still not fully explained its decision-making and did not reply to questions. Citing a pending investigation, it has declined to release copies of the grant that sent the Wuhan institute about $600,000. It has also revealed little about its system for assessing gain-of-function risks, which is carried out by an anonymous review panel whose deliberations are not made public. Until there’s more sunlight, the agency will be fighting speculation, from Paul and others, that what occurred is a scenario Fauci himself had outlined in a 2012 commentary discussing research on pandemic germs…
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Less than 8 years later the Patriot missile, made in Huntsville Sweet Home Alabama, was knocking down Hussein's (the first Hussein, not the Obama one) Russian made scud missiles at a 94% success rate during the first month of the first Iraq war.
MIT can kiss this Huntsville software engineer's Alabama butt.
The days of MIT being among the actual intellectual Institutions of Primacy have [perhaps been long] past.
Totally funny and true.
Pic so stolen...
Chicken of the Cave
https://youtu.be/_0MAj3qUAfU
Yup. The insufferably condescending Kostas Tsipis, among others. I remember them well.
Tsipis checked out last year, at age 86.
Please steal to your hearts content.
I did.
Anthony Fauci’s Presentation of Gain-of-Function Research on Viruses
https://rumble.com/c/CovidCoverUp
Whatever happens it is apparent that Fauci is a criminal.
Good article. Gain of function research in the US was done under biosafety level 3. “Labs are walled off by two sets of self-closing, locking doors; air is filtered; personnel use of PPE and N95 masks and all are under medical surveillance.” In Wuhan the research was done under biosafety level 2. Biosafety level 2 is “the biosafety level of a US dentist’s office.”
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I don’t know what was/is going on, but I just get the feeling that they were doing things that would be illegal in the US, so as a way to skirt those limitation, they give money to the Wuhan lab, and THEY do the tests because THEIR government doesn’t give 2 shits, so long as the cash flows in. (And then, they can use any discoveries as bio weapons, should the need arise).
That is actually my understanding, as well.
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