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2021-06-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Why Was the US Department of Defense Funding Bioweapons Research at Wuhan?

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-08 14:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 14:10|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 14:15|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 14:16|| Front Page Top

#4 a garbage eating street dog

Which could be considered a bioweapon variant.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-08 14:34|| 2021-06-08 14:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 14:37|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 15:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 15:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 16:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 16:47|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 17:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2021-06-08 17:53|| Front Page Top

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