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2020-04-23 China-Japan-Koreas
Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan
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Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-23 02:40|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
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#1 Lets start with "Why US outsourced".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 03:15||   2020-04-23 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Same reason the electronic monitoring of Candidate Donald Trump was outsourced. A work-around, a circumvention of existing US law.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 03:23||   2020-04-23 03:23|| Front Page Top

#3 More DS (can stand for Deepstate or Dip $hit, whichever is preferred) hijinks? It does look like another work-around of U.S. laws.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-23 08:33||   2020-04-23 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It's obvious no one really watches this stuff closely:

8 May 2007 Excerpt: At this time a unique opportunity was available to review statistical data on influenza, (a program to computerize disease information to derive trends, cycles and predictions had already been initiated under a CIA Project called BLACKFLAG); the current epidemic in Hong Kong was causing the highest incidence since the first Asian Type A2 epidemic of 1957. While the epidemic appeared to be progressing in a new way, initial curiosity subsided when a laboratory report from Hong Kong identified the strain as the common Type A2 variety.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 08:42||   2020-04-23 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Link to excerpt at #4 found here.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 08:44||   2020-04-23 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Why? How about asking Obozo?
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-23 09:12||   2020-04-23 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, nice framing it as a Trump administration decisions.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-23 10:14||   2020-04-23 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Inasmuch as vaccination was not practical, an antiflu drug, amantadine HCL, which had been shown to help prevent the disease was recommended for these teams. During February 1971

Not all bad, some side-effects might be desirable for old codgers and the economy: unusual urges including gambling, sexual, spending money, binge eating, and the inability to control them.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-23 10:40||   2020-04-23 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 (1) Closer to the contagion reservoir; (2) cheap labor; (3) far from US lawyers; (4) 'kickback' bribes to Chinese interests (check the billing records for money laundering); and did we say cheap labor?
Posted by magpie 2020-04-23 17:03||   2020-04-23 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 5) Expendables
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-23 17:53||   2020-04-23 17:53|| Front Page Top

#11 "As such in October 2014, because of public health concerns, the US government banned all federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses — influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."

If so did we support Wuhan research on same? Without federal funding, how did this happen?
Posted by daniel  2020-04-23 18:30||   2020-04-23 18:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Because the Obama administration brought us Fast and Furious, Uranium One, Haiti Relief, Cash for Clunkers, Cash for Mullahs, Egyptian Coup and Rise of the MoBro, which brought us ISIS, the Death of Qadaffy and The Great Libyan Abyss, etc. etc.

In short, they got paid to?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-23 19:50||   2020-04-23 19:50|| Front Page Top

#13 But what has Obama done for us lately?
Posted by Clem 2020-04-23 21:53||   2020-04-23 21:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Ref #11: Some government entities have virtually unlimited secret budgets. No need to names names, etc. Access comes with a price.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 22:39||   2020-04-23 22:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh, come on, don't be such a "sap".
Posted by Clem 2020-04-23 23:33||   2020-04-23 23:33|| Front Page Top

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