While listening to the clown show that was the recent Senate Health Committee hearing, HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s exchange with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in the opening minutes caught my ear.
First, as Sen. Paul raises, “A U.S. government lab studying the world's deadliest diseases has been shut down over safety concerns after a spat between two scientists who were romantically involved,” per the Daily Mail. “Speaking anonymously, an HHS source revealed that one of the researchers poked a hole in the other's protective equipment during a vicious 'lovers' spat'. Dr Connie Schmaljohn, the lab's director, was also placed on administrative leave after she allegedly failed to report the incident to other officials.”
This is the vaunted professional to whom we entrust our Public Health™ — who is willing to risk a deadly viral outbreak because her lab partner boyfriend didn’t remember her mother’s birthday or whatever. (The details of the “spat” were not forthcoming.)
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Far more concerningly, though, Paul suggested in the hearing that the DHS is actively working on aerosolizing the extremely lethal Ebola virus — i.e., making it transmissible through the air:
The research establishment — which rakes in billions of dollars in federal grants each year — has pushed back against Trump’s recent funding freeze in friendly media outlets like Nature. Proponents argue that souping up viruses is necessary to get ahead of mutations and pre-emptively develop vaccines against theoretical strains that might, against all odds, despite having never predicted a natural mutation in all of history, emerge in nature.I am told in public records that they are doing experiments or have done experiments to aerosolize Ebola at the Impact lab, that’s the DHS lab nearby Fort Detrick… The idea of aerosolizing Ebola, I think is, uh, and/or training Ebola to be aerosolized is incredibly dangerous and probably goes against the Biological Weapons Convention.
Via Nature (emphasis added):
US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order suspending all federal funding for ‘gain of function’ research that his administration considers dangerous. But some scientists say the order is so broad that low-risk research will also be affected…
Modifying pathogens such as viruses inside a secure laboratory facility* can help researchers to understand the risks the pathogens pose to society and develop vaccines and drugs against them. The work sometimes involves making pathogens more dangerous or transmissible in people…
Researchers are often unable to predict whether their changes will make a virus more pathogenic or transmissible in people, so they might now have to avoid doing such work altogether, says Gronvall.
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*These “secure laboratory facilities” leak one hundred viral pathogens per year — and that’s just in the United States. The numbers in U.S.-funded labs abroad with even less oversight probably pump out many more such “accidents.”
Via Daily Mail, March 2024 (emphasis added):
America suffers a 'startlingly high' number of lab leak incidents at its top virus labs every year, data shows — amid calls for centers to slash the number of experiments carried out on diseases that could spark pandemics.
Official data reveals more than 600 releases of 'controlled' pathogens - which may include anthrax, tuberculosis and Ebola - were recorded in the US over the eight years to 2022, equivalent to 70 to 100 releases every year.
At least two US workers were infected after the 'release events' over the last eight years — including the crippling mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya and the bacterial infection Q fever — although no deaths were reported.
With a fatality rate of over 50% by some estimates, all it takes is a lab team striking gold with an Ebola mutation that enables airborne human-to-human transmission, and we’ve got a calamity brewing that makes COVID, with a less than one percent fatality rate, look like “a small disturbance in comparison,” to borrow a phrase from deposed WEF villain Klaus Schwab.
Klaus Schwab says a major cyber attack will make the Covid crisis look like a small disturbance. This is man is truly sick and evil. pic.twitter.com/2STHqnSLCw
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