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Posted By: earlybird, 4/30/2020 3:06:25 PM

Why did U.S. taxpayers spend $3.7 million to investigate bat coronaviruses in Asia? It's one of the media's mysteries that has endured during the COVID-19 pandemic, spurring plenty of speculation and intrigue. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's chief infectious disease specialist, was the latest to fan the debate when he mentioned the grant during a White House briefing without offering many details. Officials at the National Institutes of Health and Fauci's own division there, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), say there is far less to the story than meets the eye.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Bur Oak 4/30/2020 3:13:27 PM (No. 396680)
A couple of questions. Why should we believe what the government tells us? What did the taxpayers get for their money?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: pros7767 4/30/2020 3:31:21 PM (No. 396701)
#1, we got over 60,000 dead, $2.2 Trillion to $6+ trillion in added debt, a thriving economy shut down, the same expert who authorized the study dictating the terms of re-opening an economy where many small businesses will not be able to come back. All for the low sum of $3.7 million dollars of our money. The Dems must be so proud! If only they knew how easy it would be, we could have skipped Russia, Russia, Russia, and the Impeachment fiasco.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: iraengneer 4/30/2020 3:34:47 PM (No. 396705)
Was this a SPECIFIC line item in the budget? Oh, wait. Sorry, we haven't had one of those for a while, have we? Yes, obviously better to let the bumblecrats have free use of taxpayers' money without oversight nor accountability. The results are so wonderful.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Mofongo 4/30/2020 3:38:54 PM (No. 396710)
Terribly written story that positions the government explanation as fact. Who posted this?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bazi 4/30/2020 3:44:09 PM (No. 396721)
Yada yada yada. Spillover?! I think we all know about the spillover now. So, before this pandemic, the Chinese were plagued by bat Coronaviruses? The Chinese were already dropping dead from bat flu...for years? Hence the studies? Bats...we have bats in the USA-but we aren't eating them. BUT the idiot environmentalists do want us to be BFF with bats.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: harleynyc 4/30/2020 3:54:40 PM (No. 396734)
Theirs actions have meaning. Their words mean nothing except that they are liars. NIH gave china $3.7 million. China released a killer virus on us, killing 60,000+ and wrecking our economy for over $2 Trillion, so far. And they dare brush it off with meaningless words.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 4/30/2020 4:00:39 PM (No. 396740)
My take on this whole bat research controversy has been that there were and are still, legitimate scientists in China, like the many scientists and engineers from the former Soviet Union that I met, hired and worked with, who are basically OK or good people, just doing their research, not trying to make weapons. But the have to live in a horrible system. If you look at the papers that were openly published about the bat research, it shows that they recognized that these bats became infected with various viruses, but somehow managed to avoid becoming seriously ill. This is very interesting, and potentially has important implications for human ability to deal with viruses, too. We learned bat's sonar tricks and use it for submarines and your backup warning beepers on your car, and other things. These researchers were looking into how the bats manage to "lightly suppress" their immune response to keep from the overreaction of the immune system which often causes serious health problems, and yet hold the virus at bay and remain health. It is in the openly published papers, which I have scanned, and understand moderately well from things learned my days of managing projects on vaccine developments, and other related bioresearch, and a 40 year friendship with a microbiology researcher. I am convinced that some incompetent person - a researcher, grad student, or just lab flunky who cleans cages, whoever....got infected and passed it on outside the lab unknowingly. We know there is a substantial asymptomatic period, some people always asymptomatic. It had nothing to do with the wet market except a nearby location. THEN the ChiCom propagandists and thugs took over. They arrested the first doc to announce it, lied to WHO and the rest of the world that it "can't be transmitted to humans", while buying up all the PPE it could around the world, ending all travel out of Wuhan INSIDE China, yet leaving travel OUTSIDE of China open, and exposing the rest of the world, while lying about it. The ruthless suppressed it in China, and yet it is apparently still killing, and apparently killed huge numbers, not reported. I think it was an incompetent but not malign beginning, and the the ChiCom thugs went totally malign and evil, their standard mode and made it one hell of a lot worse than it needed to be. Chinese Communists are evil people, no question.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 4/30/2020 4:10:52 PM (No. 396753)
Read the book "Hot Zone". We effed it up pretty badly in a monkey research facility in Reston, Va in 1989. There was an outbreak of "ebola virus" in the monkeys and it was killing them rapidly. Once things were figured out a little bit, the facility was locked down, the monkeys all died and were cleaned up at a Level 4 hazmat. The researchers thought that they had BARELY avoided a major Ebola outbreak in the USA....until they tested the lab workers, a number who tested positive for the disease, but which apparently is almost not transmissible by human to human contact, and not deadly to humans. That substrain of ebola virus was named RESTONV, and we now know it can't QUITE jump to humans, most of the time, and isn't as deadly to humans as the real human ebola, which is nearly identical. Our research folks screwed the pooch on that one, and accidentally infected themselves, but just by luck the virus "misfired" and was a 'monkey ebola' not human ebola. So, I guess I kind of am primed to understand that researcher screw up sometimes and get infected from their lab animals. We damned near had a full blown ebola pandemic in the USA starting just outside of DC in 1989.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: red1066 4/30/2020 4:58:39 PM (No. 396787)
They should have been finding a vaccine while they were at it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Gnana1 4/30/2020 5:00:13 PM (No. 396789)
I research EcoLab. This little article is not much more than the words of the EcoLab. NIAID say far less to the story than meets the eye....and this article just lets that stand. There is more...because there are always several pieces to every grant and US aid of any kind. Can't believe Just the News simply bought the talking points of all mentioned. Not good reporting. Sorry.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: stablemoney 4/30/2020 5:52:54 PM (No. 396838)
What I read was a confirmation that the USA did indeed spend $3.7M in Asia for the study of coronaviruses. The NIH spends 4 paragraphs saying exactly that.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Faldo 5/1/2020 1:51:13 AM (No. 397091)
More info on the recipient of the grant, Ecolab/Peter Daszak and UNC's Dr. Ralph Baric, Sina Bavari's sidekick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oeK2OeXXB4
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Trigger2 5/1/2020 2:19:06 AM (No. 397100)
Like I'm going to believe anything that demonrat Fauci says. He's part of the problem and the whole virus thing was carefully orchestrated by the demonrats.
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