CNBC/Reuters: China rejects WHO plan for study into Covid-19 origin
* The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and markets in the city of Wuhan, calling for transparency from authorities.
* “We will not accept such an origins-tracing plan as it, in some aspects, disregards common sense and defies science,” said Zeng Yixin, vice minister of the National Health Commission (NHC).
* In May, U.S. President Joe Biden ordered aides to find answers to questions over the origin saying that U.S. intelligence agencies were pursuing rival theories potentially including the possibility of a laboratory accident in China.
China rejected on Thursday a World Health Organization (WHO) plan for a second phase of an investigation into the origin of the coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis it could have escaped from a Chinese laboratory, a top health official said.
The WHO this month proposed a second phase of studies into the origins of the coronavirus in China, including audits of laboratories and markets in the city of Wuhan, calling for transparency from authorities.
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WNU Editor: Am I surprised that China has said no? No. But I am surprised that people are surprised that China has said no.
Here is the official Beijing response .... China says WHO's plan to focus on lab leak lacks common sense (CGTN).
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22 comments:
Fred the "China shill" will make a statement shortly ( after he finishes celebrating).
what sort of asshole are you?
1. Fred feels sorry for all those who have gotten sick or died.
2. Fred wonders: what do you suggest we do if we could prove the virus came out of the Chinese lab?
3. Has any virus ever come accidentally from an American lab?
THE CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST
#1 is a lie. You have stated as much before
#2. We are not surrender monkeys. We would do the opposite of what you would do.
#3 The US does not develop bioweapons for a long time. For example all stocks of nerve gas were destroyed per an agreement withy the Russians.
Which is really weird that you do not know this as you claim falsely it seems that you have a lot contacts with intel people and elsewhere. You also claim to be a programmer and good at using the internet. Maybe it is not your internet savvy that is at fault, but the fact you will tell any lie to further the liberal cause.
Note: The only guy who links to imugr.com is Fred. Linking to a site stands in for argument made by Fred. Composing you own thoughts is such a drag for a language major.
Liar.
Gotta keep that "face".
[this piece does not tell us about accidental leaks but shows how little you know]
In the 1960s, the U.S. changed its main approach from biological agents aimed to kill to those that would incapacitate.[12] In 1964, research programs studied Enterotoxin type B, which can cause food poisoning. New research initiatives also included prophylaxis, the preventive treatment of diseases.[12] Pathogens studied included the biological agents causing a myriad of diseases such as anthrax, glanders, brucellosis, melioidosis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, Q fever, coccidioidomycosis, and other plant and animal pathogens.[12]
The Vietnam War brought public awareness to the U.S. biological weapons program.[22] The use of chemicals, riot-control agents, and herbicides like Agent Orange drew international criticism, and negatively affected the U.S. public opinion on the development of biological weapons.[22] Highly controversial human research programs and open air experiments were discovered. Jeanne Guillemin, wife of biologist Matthew Meselson, summarized the controversy:[23]
The entire experimental legacy is dismaying, from the hundreds of dead monkeys at Fort Detrick to the spectacle of Seventh Day Adventist soldiers, the vaccinated volunteers in Project Whitecoat, strapped to chairs amid cages of animals in the Utah sunlight as Q fever aerosols are blown over them. Most chilling are the mock scenarios played out in urban areas: light bulbs filled with simulated BW agents being dropped in New York subways, men in Washington National Airport spraying pseudo-BW from briefcases, and similar tests in California and Texas and over the Florida Keys.[23]
The Nixon administration felt an urgent need to respond to the growing negative perception of biological weapons.[23] The realization that biological weapons may become the poor man's atom bomb also contributed to the end of the U.S. biological weapons program.[21] Subsequently, President Nixon announced that the U.S. was unilaterally renouncing its biological warfare program, ultimately signing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1972.[24]
End of the program (1969–1973)
Main article: Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs
President Richard M. Nixon issued his "Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs" on November 25, 1969 in a speech from Fort Detrick.[25] The statement ended, unconditionally, all U.S. offensive biological weapons programs.[26] Nixon noted that biological weapons were unreliable[26] and stated:[25]
The United States shall renounce the use of lethal biological agents and weapons, and all other methods of biological warfare. The United States will confine its biological research to defensive measures such as immunization and safety measures.
In his speech Nixon called his move "unprecedented"; and it was in fact the first review of the U.S. biological warfare program since 1954.[27] Despite the lack of review, the biological warfare program had increased in cost and size since 1961. From the onset of the U.S. biological weapons program in 1943 through the end of World War II the United States spent $400 million on biological weapons, mostly on research and development.[28] The budget for fiscal year 1966 was $38 million.[29] When Nixon ended the program the budget was $300 million annually.[27][30] Nixon's statement confined all biological weapons research to defensive-only and ordered the destruction of the existing U.S. biological arsenal.[31]
U.S. biological weapons stocks were destroyed over the next few years. A $12 million disposal plan was undertaken at Pine Bluff Arsenal,[32] where all U.S. anti-personnel biological agents were stored.[31] That plan was completed in May 1972 and included decontamination of facilities at Pine Bluff.[31][32] Other agents, including anti-crop agents such as wheat stem rust, were stored at Beale Air Force Base and Rocky Mountain Arsenal.[31] These anti-crop agents, along with agents at Fort Detrick used for research purposes were destroyed in March 1973.[31]
[this place is now for sale...do you know why that might be?]
That longstanding danger led Congress to authorize the Department of Agriculture to create a laboratory to fight animal diseases back in the 1950s, with one major condition — the facility had to be located on an island, to reduce the danger of pathogens or infected animals escaping and spreading to farms, according to this September 1956 booklet. Plum Island, the site of the U.S. Army's Fort Terry from 1879 to 1948, fit that criteria.
A Super Prison for Deadly Animal Diseases
A 1971 New York Times article described the facility as a "Devil's Island for the deadliest animal disease germs known to man," and described the elaborate security measures. They included round-the-clock patrols along the island's perimeter (intended to warn away boaters who might be attracted by the pristine beaches), buildings with airlocks to keep bacteria and viruses from escaping, and holding tanks to sterilize the waste water from mandatory showers taken by staffers before leaving at the end of the work day. In part because of the risk of a terrorist attack on the facility, in 2003 it was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security, even though agriculture researchers continue to work there, and additional measures such as door sensors and alarms were added, as this 2007 Government Accountability Office report describes.
Now, dear detractor:
that Island where that above was being done, is directly across from Lyme, Ct. the town that gave us....yes...first cases of Lyme Disease!
that same island our govt has now put up for sale.
The 70s is over 40 years ago. It is more than a generation.
The topic was this century not last century. Do you want to try again?
but you said it all ended in 1945!
the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made headlines last month when an estimated 84 of its scientists were exposed to a live and potentially deadly strain of anthrax.
A second probe into the incident has discovered a number of additional lapses in the CDC's handling of the situation, including the use of expired disinfectant, the transportation of dangerous materials in Ziploc bags, and the storage of anthrax in unlocked refrigerators in unrestricted hallways.
1)
Chemical Weapons Convention
Signed 13 January 1993
china signed it and is cheating.
2)
The research on Plum island was for agricultural purposes
In response to disease outbreaks in Mexico and Canada in 1954, the US Army gave the island to the Agriculture Department to establish a research center dedicated to the study of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle.:
If you do not like research on disease affecting livestock then become vegan. You are like Bloomberg. You are an idiot who does not know much about farming or ranching. Do you have a get well plan to get rid of your hideous ignorance?
the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made headlines last month when an estimated 84 of its scientists were exposed to a live and potentially deadly strain of anthrax.
There were fears Russia/USSR was developing anthrax weapons. There was no offensive weaponizing of anthrax, there was investigation of how to defend against it.
It is one reason everyone in the military has had anthrax shots since the 1990s. If you really had contacts in intel or the military, you would have known this.
Promises promises, remember?
The ex-student didn't bite did he Lapides.
For everyone interested in gain of function and bioweapon research and what Fauci knew and didn't know, funded and so on
https://rumble.com/vk5csw-david-knight-full-show-wednesday-72121.html
In 2008, a sterilization device malfunctioned and unexpectedly opened, exposing a nearby unvaccinated worker to undisclosed pathogens.
In 2009, a new high-security bio research facility, rated to handle Ebola, smallpox, and other dangerous pathogens, had its decontamination showers fail. The pressurized chamber kept losing pressure and the door back into the lab kept bursting open while the scientists leaned against it to try to keep it closed. Building engineers were eventually called to handle the chemical showers manually.
In 2011, a worker at a lab that studied dangerous strains of bird flu found herself unable to shower after a construction contractor accidentally shut off the water. She removed her protective equipment and left without taking a decontaminating shower. (She was escorted to another building and showered there, but pathogens could have been released in the meantime.)
Now, the vast majority of these mistakes never infect anyone. And while 1,059 is an eye-popping number of accidents, it actually reflects a fairly low rate of accidents — working in a controlled biological agents lab is safe compared to many occupations, like trucking or fishing.
But a trucking or fishing accident will, at worst, kill a few dozen people, while a pandemic pathogen accident could potentially kill a few million. Considering the stakes and worst-case scenarios involved, it’s hard to look at those numbers and conclude that our precautions against disaster are sufficient.
pansy is still at it. called Projection
They didnt cooperate in the first one
Face it, the person posing as fred or fred himself is a Chinese shill.
There is a difference between studying a pathogen to to design and build equipment to defend against it and studying and changing a pathogen to weaponize it. fred has no proof of the latter.
Home, the army a year or two in the real world, an ivory tower and then decades sequestered in a retirement village. It does not know how the federal government works. I think it should pay more taxes so the government can have better equipment.
Fred now goes to the "feelings" and "what about" arguments. Name the American lab Fred. Bet you can't.
He gave us a Vox article from 2019.
The FDA fucking up inventory control of frozen anthrax (forgetting they had them in a freezer) is not the same as the Chinese military conducting gain of function experiments.
Conflating them is plain dishonest.
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