Posted on 07/02/2022 12:17:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
While U.S. intelligence has been unable in two years to determine for sure if COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, Congress has decided it no longer wants to take the risk of funding medical research at labs controlled by Beijing or other American adversaries.
With little fanfare and in bipartisan fashion, House appropriators quietly amended the 2023 federal budget for health and science agencies on Thursday to ban any funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which U.S. intelligence fears may have been the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, and other labs like it.
"None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any other laboratory located in a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran," reads the amendment approved by the House Appropriations Committee.
You can read the amendment here:
The vote is the latest official government action to acknowledge that the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan research lab — once panned as preposterous and censored by news organizations and social media giants — is viable enough for the government to vote with its pocketbook.
After more than a year of ridicule, the lab leak theory was officially recognized by the Biden administration's intelligence apparatus as one of the two most viable explanations for the appearance of coronavirus, with the other being natural evolution.
The lab leak theory got even more credence last month when the World Health Organization, the United Nations body that first dismissed the lab leak theory, admitted there was "new evidence" supporting the theory that needed investigating.
WHO said on June 10 that "key pieces of data" to explain how the pandemic began were still missing and that it must "remain open to any and all scientific evidence that becomes available in the future to allow for comprehensive testing of all reasonable hypotheses."
The announcement by WHO led House Republicans to cheer. "Americans were smeared as 'conspiracy theorists' for asking whether #COVID19 came from a lab leak," they tweeted. "Now, the WHO is asking the same questions."
(unable in two years to determine for sure if COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab)
Maybe it was outer space 🌌🌌🌌 aliens? 🛸🛸🛸🛸👽👽👽👽😜🤣
I didn’t hear their question, but the answer is “Aliens!”
Just like the "Spanish Flu" was...the Spanish Flu.
How about defunding Fauci? I think the probability of him releasing Covid in an election year by orders of the Queen Demon Nancy Pelosi is a hell of a lot more likely than China releasing it.
This is a party that does not give ONE SINGLE SOLITARY DAMN about human life, all they care about is POWER. If they did they wouldn’t fanatically protest the abortion ruling or support the wide open border.
The ONLY reason they are against guns is because an armed public is a threat to THEM. If they really cared about shootings they wouldn’t support no bail laws or a revolving door of justice.
How many labs are we funding?! 🤪
You just can’t possibly have enough secret biolabs spread out all over the world including commie land, right?
What about the labs in Ukraine??
That is o.k. The labs in Ukraine will more than make up for them.
“We were never doing the thing we just stopped doing.”
They could determine if it leaked from the Wuhan lab in about 10 minutes.
Criminally supoeana Fauci, Ralph Baric, Francis Collins and Peter Dazak and everyone Fauci & Collins paid off with grants to keep quiet.
Put them under oath and get an outside expert to start asking them real questions, not softballs, then compare their fanciful stories.
When the Pendulum swings back, and Democrats hate big pharma again, heads are going to roll.
why are they leaving it up to the SOS to determine which countries?
What does it buy us under the best of circumstances? I remember $100 million given to subsidize wine advertising in foreign lands when our companies could have paid for their own-lazy. Probably still going on.
They need to continue and go after Chinese funding of universities.
Fauci has the bio-weapons covid. Perhaps they are planning on offing him before a republican congress takes over.
Any word on defunding the Ukrainian Biolabs that Victoria Neuland mentioned to the Senate a few months ago?
Any labs employing a Chinese researcher are helping the Chinese military. These employees don’t have to be working for the government. It works this way. They are required by Chinese law to cooperate with the CCP if required. And it’s required a lot. Several Chinese employees at a Canadian lab were regularly sending samples home with declarations that didn’t match what was in the box. This is incredibly dangerous. Also, if they are asked for data, it doesn’t matter if the data is proprietary.
The thing to do is forbid any Chinese citizens, or dual citizens from working anyplace where they can obtain sensitive data or samples. If that means no Chinese in sensitive positions (like the chauffer for a Senator on the intelligence committee) then, so be it. Have you ever wondered why they’ll generally work cheaper than a native? Well, they are asked to take particular jobs by the CCP. Especially in universities. Our open society has put the entire world in danger. (Oh, and “stuff” diversity.)
After more than a year of ridicule, the lab leak theory…
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B.S.
It wasn’t ridiculed, people were banned from even discussing it as a theory.
Wonder on this: Why did congress not ban funding for labs in Ukraine?
We are in over a dozen of them, doing something.
China, Russia, Iran....
3 enemies of the USA and Fauchi is creating bio weapons with them!!!
Poor Fraudxi. He’s prolly crying in his oatmeal. I’d suggest this snake be watched like a hawk.
Didn’t provide funds for Wuhan by giving funds to another lab, in the UK I think, and then that lab transferred the funds to Wuhan? This allowed him to tell Ron Paul, “No” when asked if he had supplied any funds to Wuhan.
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