Dollars to donuts, some NIH lab — or, more likely, some offshore NIH-funded lab à la the CCP-controlled Wuhan lab — is actively working on gain-of-function to make bird flu transmissible from human to human. This is thus far the only missing piece of the puzzle to turn it into the next full-on pandemic, which has been pledged for many years.
Is Trump going to sic the Kash Patel FBI on the agency to find out what they’ve been up to, or will he take a more moderate approach to flushing out the Public Health™ swamp?
Certainly, he is surrounded by incoming members of his cabinet on both sides of the coin, so time will tell.
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We do have at least a modicum of a glimpse into the goings-on in the incoming administration vis-à-vis bird flu and the public health bureaucracy more generally.
Via NBC News (emphasis added):
Amid an escalating bird flu outbreak spreading in the United States, federal health officials have begun to brief members of the incoming Trump administration about how they’ve responded to the crisis so far.
“We sent them all of the information on our work,” said a Biden administration health official familiar with transition briefings within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It’s the first indication that the two administrations appear to be working together to prioritize the H5N1 response.
Until now, it was unclear whether the Biden White House and Trump’s incoming health team had discussed bird flu in any transition meetings. A lack of coordination between the two groups would have huge consequences, public health officials and infectious disease experts warn. They worry that the H5N1 virus has the potential to set off another human pandemic.
“You’ve got something that’s clearly evolving here in the United States,” said Dr. Cameron Wolfe, an infectious diseases expert and professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Sharing surveillance information and resources is crucial to understanding and getting ahead of emerging viral threats like bird flu, said Howard Koh, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who was assistant secretary of health and human services for health in the Obama administration…
Working together… can help both teams understand the magnitude of the problem, said Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, who was speaking generally about bird flu and not about any specific administration.
“A pandemic due to bird flu is a looming threat,” Schaffner said. “As we transition from one administration to another, coordinating public health concepts and policies is of course very important.”
According to former Obama HHS official Koh, “These teams have a shared responsibility to prioritize continuity of operations. That means maximizing preparedness to the fullest, especially after Covid.”
None of that sounds particularly reassuring, especially since the incoming Trump team hasn’t pushed back on the bird flu propaganda publicly with any degree of specificity that I’ve seen, and I follow this stuff closely.
However, in response to NBC’s request for comment, to their credit, Team Kennedy expressed unequivocally that they have no interest in colluding with the Biden regime on bird flu or any other national crisis.
Continuing:
Kennedy’s team has signaled it didn’t see value in seeking input from Biden health officials.
In a statement, Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Kennedy, said via text that the American people “don’t want or need the Biden administration to tell us how to do anything.”
“What would career bureaucrats who failed our nation during COVID know how to handle anything,” Miller added. “They have failed beyond measure on every national crisis.”
More of that, please, and less playing patty-cakes in “briefings” with these ghouls — unless the understanding among everyone on the Trump side of the ledger is that these are not cooperative endeavors but rather intelligence-gathering operations to be used in prosecutions later, in which case: God bless.
