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| Why Was the US Department of Defense Funding Bioweapons Research at Wuhan? |
| 2021-06-08 |
| [Red State] (EDITOR’S NOTE: After reviewing thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of documents regarding the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, we’ve got lots of questions. This post asks a very important question that every American should be asking their representatives to dig into. Our Scott Hounsell had another question regarding EcoHealth Alliance and its participation in the PPP program. Read that here.) Late Friday the British publication DailyMail reported that the United States Department of Defense provided $39 million in grant funding to "EcoHealth Alliance" as part of the aggregated grant funding received by EcoHealth Alliance to conduct various types of "gain of function" virus research — a type of research in which scientists engineer viruses to make them more transmissible or lethal and which can be used to create bioweapons. EcoHealth Alliance used a large amount of its funding to support research projects on the subject at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, led by Chinese "bat virus" expert Dr. Shi Zenglhi — the "Bat Lady." While the Daily Mail report is fairly exhaustive, I think it is important to note that RedState, led by my colleague Scott Hounsell, was asking questions about US government funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab back in February. Further, back on May 11 — three weeks ago — Scott reported on the testy responses by Dr. Fauci to questions posed to him by Sen. Rand Paul about whether or not the US government, through the National Institute of Health (NIH), had provided funding to the Wuhan lab that had been used to conduct "gain of function" research involving viral mutations such as that which is thought to possibly have created the SARS-CoV-2 virus that led to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Fauci adamantly denied that NIH had funded any such research. NIH is not DOD, so you might wonder why these references are important. Since that May 11 story, Scott has written another 16 stories on US government grant funding of research taking place at the Wuhan lab, the individuals involved, the efforts to deflect suspicion or blame for the COVID pandemic on any of the work done in Wuhan or any of the individuals involved in conducting the research. Scott has written many of his stories based on original sources like grant paperwork and other documentation he has obtained through various sources. The DailyMail story today mostly serves to only validate and corroborate much of what Scott has already reported. From the DailyMail: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Why Was the US Department of Defense Funding Bioweapons Research at Wuhan? So it wouldn't breakout here? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-06-08 17:53 |
| #10 #9 No, it's just an expression that came into my mind years ago while reading some anonymous reviewer evaluation of my paper. I, occasionally, reminded of it in circumstances such as above. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-08 17:03 |
| #9 ...a garbage eating street dog. Is that reference some sort of take-off on "dog-faced pony soldier?" Sorry, it just rang a bell. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-08 16:47 |
| #8 ^The great thing about the Western Covid vaccines is that they're specific to the spike protein - the part that makes the virus dangerous. If the virus mutates so far that the spike changes so much that an schooled immune system doesn't recognizes it - it, probably, changed so much it's no longer functional. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-08 16:00 |
| #7 up to the 70s the USA did develop bioweapons partly in order to see what antidotes or vaccines worked In 1970es nobody knew zilch about Immunology. Today we know that every pathogen (even two closely related strains of common cold) are different enough so immunity to one doesn't give immunity to another. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-08 15:48 |
| #6 grom, up to the 70s the USA did develop bioweapons partly in order to see what antidotes or vaccines worked some pretty fearsome bio agents were still in the stock at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds Chemical Biological Center up to the 80s -- they may still have some as this Center is under control of the Dept of the Army they continue to do work on defense against known bio agents, e.g., botulism toxin, ebola virus, etc. I suspect they are, by law, not allowed to create new agents but as we know, the Wuhan Inst of Virology was not under such laws. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-06-08 15:35 |
| #5 ^My point, nobody is that stupid - you don't develop bioweapons to develop defenses. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-08 14:37 |
| #4 a garbage eating street dog Which could be considered a bioweapon variant. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-06-08 14:34 |
| #3 To develop treatments and vaccines for bioweapons, you need to first develop such weapons. Only if one believes that there is a limited number of possibilities for bioweapons. That is, if one has less understanding of the subject than a garbage eating street dog. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-08 14:16 |
| #2 Ques: In the interest of time-saving and accuracy, when discussing or referring to USAID, would anyone object if we simply defaulted to their parent organization, the Central Intelligence Agency ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-08 14:15 |
| #1 Prohibited here, obviously NOT prohibited there. What are your questions ? Bottom line: The Pentagon was, through USAID, funding research of bioweapons as part of its responsibility to develop defenses to bioweapon attacks — anti-viral treatments and vaccines. To develop treatments and vaccines for bioweapons, you need to first develop such weapons. EcoHealth Alliance took funding for research from that USAID, money that came from a Unted States Department of Defense bioweapons research agency, and spent it doing research on bioweapons with a state-run bioweapons lab in China. Therefore, the United States military was (possibly unwittingly) funding bioweapons research at a military bioweapons lab in China. For years. Emphasis added. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-08 14:10 |