Posted on 01/24/2025 11:15:54 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing an executive order curtailing funding of "gain-of-function" research on pandemic pathogens, in what would seem to be an effort to prevent the next pandemic from spilling out of a federally funded laboratory.
On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was hashing out the details of an order that would impose at least a temporary pause on funding of experiments that could make viruses more transmissible and or deadly.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's nominee to helm HHS, published a book last year arguing COVID-19 was a bioweapon created in the Wuhan lab.
Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's pick for NIH director, has expressed openness to the more modest theory that COVID leaked accidentally from a lab. Before his nomination to head NIH, Bhattacharya served on the board of the anti-gain-of-function research group Biosafety Now.
Both would play key roles in enforcing any forthcoming pause on federal funding of gain-of-function research and would presumably be more dutiful in that role than Collins of Fauci.
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I think that PDJT should allow ‘gain of function’ research, but for a limited time, and only ON Fauxi! When Fauxi meets his Maker, and is to ‘Be gone! I never knew you!, THEN, suspend said research. JMO.
Can’t see any need for the “work” to create more Frankenstein germs and virus.
Any research that cannot be legally performed in the US should be made illegal.
I thought gain of function was already illegal?
While we’re on the topic, DOGE should go after the Ad Council, which pimps government messages to the public through media. Get your free goodies here. Get your vax booster. Get your flu shot. Get your tax credits.
We don’t need the Ad Council.
I guess those US bioweapons labs in Ukraine ( acknowledged by Congressional hearing) are kaput…..strong rumor Vlad “ has the goods” and filed with the UN for Crimes against Humanity.
We shall see.
Of course such shouldn’t be funded.
But in this case it is playing into the fiction that there was a deadly novel virus that called for extreme measures, including killer hospital protocols and killer jab mandates.
Confirmed US bio labs in Ukraine.
https://www.c-span.org/clip/senate-committee/user-clip-us-biolabs-confirmed-in-ukraine/5005055
“ US biolabs confirmed in Ukraine….”
He should also attach the death penalty to all who violate the order.
Didn’t Obama already do that via actual legislation when he was in office? Then Fauci, etc., found ways to sneak around it and do the dirty work anyhow...?
“I thought gain of function was already illegal?”
Yes, by Obama.
Mike Johnson needs to introduce legislation making it a criminal felony and crime against humanity.
Maybe someone could find out who ran that chicom biolab in California.
Absocottonpickinlutely
I think Obama outlawed GoF research being done INSIDE the US. That’s why Fauci et al “outsourced” it to Wuhan. They wanted the work to continue, but couldn’t do it here.
The problem has been the bans have always mile wide loop holes
Trumps action here closes those loop holes by shutting off the funding
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