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."
Maybe the Russians have already captured most of them? :)
Agreed.
“Covid-19 vacines are safe and effective.”
I count four lies. In truth,
Wuhan virus gene therapies are unsafe and in-effective.
What is the purpose of “gain of function” research? The only purpose I can think of is to develop bioweapons.
lolol
There is one thing that we all have learned. Congress may have banned it or claimed they banned it, but this government pays no attention to laws or rules.
So, I simply do not believe anyone really banned anything at all.
They called it “biodefense” to cover their tracks, but what are you defending against unless you first create a bioweapon then create the antidote.
Good one.
RE: Defunding Wuhan: Congress quietly bans federal funds from labs in China, Russia and Iran
1. Why no mention of Ukraine?
2. Federal funds for labs also in Russia and Iran? Which bureaucrat gave the OK to this travesty?
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