During Obama's reign, Wuhan Labs received 3.7 mil from us. Plus....

[Rambunctious]

This is a phony "Christian" right-wing propaganda piece. Shameful. These cult pervs need stop identifying the Christian faith with right-wingers and the orange whore. Who is this susan kennedy? We are not a nation identified with any religion, Christian or otherwise. Why spread this crap? Why bring the Christian religion into disrepute?

Documented fool....

 

[yidnar]

it was a good investment.... the trump admin pulling out of it, is just another mistake of his, that allowed the corona virus outbreak to go undetected...


Why the Coronavirus Slipped Past Disease Detectives

In 2009 the U.S. government launched a program to hunt for unknown viruses that can cross from animals to humans and cause pandemics. The project, called PREDICT, was funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, and it worked with teams in 31 countries, including China. It was just one part of an emerging global network for infectious-disease surveillance.


Despite this network and the efforts of thousands of scientists working to ward off dangerous new outbreaks, the coronavirus behind COVID-19 was unidentified when it launched into an unprepared world at the end of 2019. How did the virus slip by disease detectives looking for exactly this type of threat?


Experts say that like a fishing net with many holes, the surveillance network had numerous gaps, with too little money and manpower to be truly effective. “We’ve been gutting surveillance for too long,” says Michael Buchmeier, a virologist and associate director of the Center for Virus Research at the University of California, Irvine. “And by doing that, we’re creating blind spots in our ability to identify and contain threats of infectious disease in the world.” Indeed, in September 2019, just months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, USAID announced it would end funding for PREDICT. The agency claims it has plans for a successor effort, but it has not provided any additional details, and many worry that critical momentum is being lost.


An estimated 600,000 unknown viruses, possibly more, have the ability to jump from animals to people. To find such “spillover” microbes, researchers look in disease hotspots where wildlife and humans intermingle, such as forests that are razed for development or agriculture or markets that sell bushmeat. Sampling tends to focus on species with high viral loads, such as bats, rats and monkeys. And scientists run laboratory tests to find out if newly discovered viruses can infect human cells. Investigators also try to look at the various ecological and social drivers that can bring disease-carrying wild animals and humans together.


Researchers were well aware that coronaviruses, one of which caused severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), could be a recurring threat. That pathogen, SARS-CoV, first surfaced in China in 2002 and spread to nearly 30 countries before the outbreak died down the following year. In 2007 researchers from the University of Hong Kong published a paper stating that the presence of many other SARS-CoV-like viruses in bats made this type of pathogen a “time bomb.” In southern China there was a culture of eating exotic animals that could pick up such viruses from the bats, they noted, and this practice made it easier for them to make the jump to people. Several other groups of scientists later echoed their fears, and the virus that causes COVID-19 turned out to be so similar to the 2002–2003 microbe that it was named SARS-CoV-2.


Kevin Olival is a disease ecologist at the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York City–based nonprofit research group that was part of PREDICT. He says that EcoHealth researchers and their partners, including a team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, had identified numerous SARS-related coronaviruses in bats and were following up with laboratory experiments on several of them. But, he adds, how and where the SARS-CoV-2 spillover occurred is not known for certain. There was an early suspicion that the initial outbreak could have started at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, which was closed on January 1. But “we don’t know if the spillover happened outside the market and then began spreading after it was brought there,” Olival says. It is also unclear if there was an intermediate animal host between the disease-carrying bats and humans.


Getting a better grasp on animal-human exchanges is critical to predicting these spillovers. According to Olival, what is needed is detailed knowledge of local ecology, maps of species distributions, an understanding of people’s behavioral interactions with other species and an awareness of the “cultural and economic drivers of the animal trade.” If these analyses sound complicated, that is because they are: Olival says such assessments take a lot of scientists and facilities, as well as training and money. As a result, they are only being carried out at a handful of sites around the world. Yet the information they provide is essential for protecting local communities. High-risk markets where wildlife is cut up and sold as food can be closed, for instance. Or people can be alerted when virus-shedding bats are more active around human food sources, such as fruit trees, so individuals can minimize their contact with the animals.


Rohit Chitale, an epidemiologist at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, says the explosion of COVID-19 reflects a global failure to adequately invest in prevention. “There’s too much emphasis on treating infectious diseases after the fact,” argues Chitale, who is program manager of DARPA’s surveillance effort, called Preventing Emerging Pathogenic Threats (PREEMPT). Early detection efforts, in contrast, “are very poorly funded,” he says. Olival notes that PREDICT received approximately $200 million dollars over its decade-long life span—which is a tiny fraction of the $2 trillion in emergency-relief spending authorized by Congress as a response to COVID-19 last week.



ANOTHER READ ON THE PROGRAM

Scientists Were Hunting for the Next Ebola. Now the U.S. Has Cut Off Their Funding.

Predict, a government research program, sought to identify animal viruses that might infect humans and to head off new pandemics.

www.nytimes.com

you just dont get it do you ?? the entire world over 180 countries are fighting this virus . if china had been more forthcoming and the WHO hadn't lied the world could have kept the bug contained to China ! and why should we be sending the chicoms money when they have been able to buy debt and manipulate their own currency to gain an advantage over the rest of the world ! you act a though the chicom government is a good and honorable ally that has been Screwed over by the US ! and you sound like a communist chicom propagandist ! TREASON !

What did they lie about?

Tell Gaetz our biolabs experiment on animals. He is so far up tramps arse, he doesn't even know what day it is.

what ??? are you freaking serious ??? what did china and the WHO lie about ! you heard it folks the democrats communist allies didnt lie ! dems are traitors !

 

[yidnar]

Why do dems want to build China up and tear us down?....

$$$$$$ is the reason that and political ideologies that coincide .

 

[Aletheia4u]

Lock Bill Gates Up!

Millennial Millie investigates the deep conflicts of interest and connections Bill Gates has with the coronavirus and his proposed 'vaccine' to cure the pandemic.

banned.video

 

[yidnar]

This is a phony "Christian" right-wing propaganda piece. Shameful. These cult pervs need stop identifying the Christian faith with right-wingers and the orange whore. Who is this susan kennedy? We are not a nation identified with any religion, Christian or otherwise. Why spread this crap? Why bring the Christian religion into disrepute?

listen to the communist attack Conservative American Christians in defense of its chicom comrades ! treason !

 

[Flash]

Isn't it always the case that when you find out bad shit happen you can almost always trace it back to some stupidity from the Obama Administration?

The damage done by that worthless administration will continue for a long time.

Never elect Democrats. That will fuck things up more ways than you can imagine.

 

[rightwinger]

For Republicans

The buck stops at Obama

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Why wouldnt you invest in finding out about the source of the last couple of pandemics? Where does it say The GREAT OBAMA ok'd anything? His name isnt even in your link.

You know how conservatives work: repeat a lie often enough in the hope it’s perceived to be ‘true.’

 

[evenflow1969]

Why wouldnt you invest in finding out about the source of the last couple of pandemics? Where does it say The GREAT OBAMA ok'd anything? His name isnt even in your link.

Are you serious?....what is your limit?.....how much bending over do you want your country to do?....we...thanks to Obama are partly paying for this pandemic by giving money in 2012 we knew would go to that very lab in Wuhan...against the warnings of doctors all over the world.....and you aren't angry about that?...

China has no business messing around with pathogens like this...they have to copy and steal from the rest of the world to make anything they sell back to us...they are a stupid 3rd world nation and the world wants to treat them like they are sophisticated and civilized...

They are not...and we are endangering ourselves by thinking we can bring them around....

we thanks to bull shit are hearing more bull shnit from the excuse in cheif. Ya, the story did not happen jut more of the Donalds not my fault bullshit. The fucker takes rsponsibility for nothing. yall slay me you belive any fucking thing.

Learn how to spell so we can understand what you are trying to say...damn public schools.....
[/QUOT
Learn logic and how to spot a lie bitch. As far as spelling goes , I have better shit to do than spell check for an idot like your dumb fucking ass.

 

[rightwinger]

Why wouldnt you invest in finding out about the source of the last couple of pandemics? Where does it say The GREAT OBAMA ok'd anything? His name isnt even in your link.

You know how conservatives work: repeat a lie often enough in the hope it’s perceived to be ‘true.’

You mean Obama wasn’t really born in Kenya?

 

[theHawk]

it was a good investment.... the trump admin pulling out of it, is just another mistake of his, that allowed the corona virus outbreak to go undetected...

^^ yea, great investment.

 

[HenryBHough]

This whole virus thing is winding down prematurely. But not to worry! The purchase order for this winter's new and improved, more threatening (but less deadly) version arrived in Wuhan and the work is well underway. The only defense against the new variety will be white masks of surrender bearing a large red star. Old plain white masks won't work and wearing one will brand you as RACIST!!!!!

 

[jbrownson0831]

Obama? Who be Dat?

The Muslim in Chief.

 

[Penelope]

Obama? Who be Dat?

The Muslim in Chief.

The Christian Obama that left tramp a good economy.

 

[rightwinger]

Obama? Who be Dat?

The Muslim in Chief.

The Christian Obama that left tramp a good economy.

The Great Obama left Trump a Democracy that Trump left in a shambles

 

[bendog]

Why wouldnt you invest in finding out about the source of the last couple of pandemics? Where does it say The GREAT OBAMA ok'd anything? His name isnt even in your link.

You know how conservatives work: repeat a lie often enough in the hope it’s perceived to be ‘true.’

It shouldn't surprise me the Trumpeteers don't blame Trump for not forcing a timely inspection of the Wuhan lab. He'd have failed getting one, and that's probably why he didn't even try, and he'd never have gotten intl assistance in trying for one because of his belligerence

 

[LeftofLeft]

Why was this money released in the first place? More importantly, has the practiced ceased? Are we still funding bio labs internationally? After Wuhan, did we cease doing so in China?

 

[Erinwltr]

What the fuck is wrong with you?