Dr. Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Ban U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in China
Rand Paul
July 26, 2022
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Dr. Rand Paul Introduces Amendment to Ban U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in China
Rand Paul
July 26, 2022
Senate Democrats Object to Dr. Paul’s Amendment to Ban U.S. Funding of Gain-of-Function Research in China
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July 26, 2022
Contact: Press_Paul@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4343
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senate Democrats objected to U.S. Senator Rand Paul’s amendment to the CHIPS-Plus Act that would permanently ban all U.S. funding of gain-of-function research in China. In the rush to pass this newly emerged legislation, some of the provisions the Senate previously agreed to in the original CHIPS bill were cut, including Dr. Paul’s gain-of-function amendment which was designed to help prevent the next pandemic and was passed unanimously in the Senate last year.
Below are excerpts from Dr. Paul’s floor remarks
“Gain-of-function research enhances the severity or transmissibility of existing viruses that may infect humans. The dangers are so acute that from 2014-2017, the National Institutes of Health suspended funding for all gain-of-function projects…the emergence of COVID serves as a reminder that dangerous research conducted in a secretive and totalitarian country is simply too risky to fund.
“I, therefore, ask my colleagues to restore this crucial provision that would prohibit the funding of gain-of-function research in China.”
SOURCE:
https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/sen...research-china
Yeah....but what about gain of function in Ukraine? Or gain of function at UNC at Ft. Detrick? Still, ya gotta start somewhere.
Too little, too late.Quote:
Originally Posted by WisconsinLiberty
Pissing up a rope is nowhere, and that is all this is.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmdrake
Bioweapons are here, and to stay. We won't kill the bastards, so we may be killed BY them.
Humans are just the worst, on average.
Gee, what was that other thing that happened in 2017? Somebody was sworn in, I think. Someone with authority over executive branch agencies like the NIH.Quote:
Originally Posted by WisconsinLiberty
Most humans aren't so bad. They just insist on voting for the few that are. Even after they see their true colors.Quote:
Originally Posted by osan
How does that make them not so bad? That is precisely what makes them horrid creatures - so corrupt, that even when they twig to the ugly truth of tyrants, they sit idly and watch as their own destruction unfolds before their very eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by acptulsa
Either that, or they're so proud that they simply never twig to the elephant in the room. Or they simply refuse to.Quote:
Originally Posted by osan
I guess it's a philosophical question. Does the fact that the snake is more horrid make the ass any less horrid?
Edgar Bergen: "Mortimer, how can you be so stupid?"
Mortimer Snerd (Bergen again): "I guess it's just sheer determination."
And you think they can't come up with worse bioweapons? For that matter they probably already have. But they could come up with even worse. And Fauci should be in prison for what he already helped cause. (Wuhan Coronavirus and Monkeypox).Quote:
Originally Posted by osan
All that you list does nothing to help the Meaner. He is a filthy, rotten-to-the-core beast, regardless of how "nice" he may be. "Nice" buys nothing in my house, and yet is niceness one of the qualities most heavily peddled by the evil we know as "left"? PC and woke are all manifestations of this peddling and they are pure cancer.Quote:
Originally Posted by acptulsa
As for snakes, neither they nor asses are capable of making the choices that we have at our beck. A snake cannot be anything but what it is. A human being, however, can choose objective right or wrong. That he chooses the deepest and most insidious of all the wrongs, damns him most resolutely; irretrievably so when his error is made clear yet he maintains his love-lock on evil.
Dead is dead, so what does it matter if Theye do?Quote:
Originally Posted by jmdrake
I wish people would just leave one another the hell alone. This petty drama bullshit is intolerable boring.
I've survived COVID 19 and without getting vaccinated. Based on the description of monkeypox it seems it can be avoided without intimate physical contact with men who have sex with men so I'm not worried. So nothing that they've released so far risks death for me. I'm not sure what you're calling "petty drama." :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by osan
SARS-COV2 is not a particularly potent bug and I do not believe it was released with the intention of killing masses. More likely, an experiment - a test run if you will. It seems like an anal probe to measure and assess our responses, and possibly to build a statistical model of the pathogen's effect on broad and large populations, worldwide.Quote:
Originally Posted by jmdrake
Consider the scenario I forwarded at the beginning of this nonsense: Theye release this bug, drive people nutty, then retreat. Then release another bug, drive people crazier, retreat. Rinse and repeat until people are so fed up with it all, they stop listening altogether. That's the time when you release the real deal - the 99% fatal bug. Once again, you cry wolf, nobody listens to you, only this time the wolf comes, but nobody takes it seriously. The next thing you know there are five billion corpses piled high and in need of disposal. Could Theye be so evil? Could Stalin? Mao?
To my way of thinking, Theire most pressing concern in all this is the reaction of the otiose eaters. Theye need to know whether they will be able to handle every conceivable response by the dregs, the human dung. Once Theye have their favorable answer, I se little reason for them not to act swiftly, striking while the iron is hot, and all that.