Pentagon Conducts An Audit, Claims They Don't Know if They Funded Gain-of-Function Bat Virus Research at Wuhan

Yeah you don't know.

What would you say you do here?

Despite years of warnings that China operates an illicit biological weapons program, the U.S. military remains unable to determine whether it sends American tax dollars to Beijing for research that could make pathogens more dangerous or deadly, the Pentagon's chief watchdog declared in a stunning new warning to policymakers.

"The DoD did not track funding at the level of detail necessary to determine whether the DoD provided funding to Chinese research laboratories or other foreign countries for research related to enhancement of pathogens of pandemic potential," the Pentagon inspector general concluded in a report released this month.

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The findings show the Pentagon has done little to improve transparency on a critical security issue in the two years since the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, first raised concerns that defense officials could not account for how biological research funds sent to China were being used....

The latest inspector general report also adds to momentum in Congress to formally ban the Pentagon from funding "gain-of-function" research in foreign countries, a goal that has increased in priority now that some members of the U.S. intelligence community like the FBI believe the COVID-19 pandemic began with a virus leak inside a Wuhan lab doing research funded by U.S. tax dollars. Gain-of-research refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility and virulence among other things.

Anthony Fauci has a different definition of "gain of function." It's whatever he says it is, or isn't.

Speaking of Fauci, he finally admitted that school closures weren't an example of Civil Servants Sending Their Best.

Don't praise him for his honesty -- even in this admission, he lies, and pretends he was trying to re-open schools.

Yeah, so was Randi Weingartner.

Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci has finally conceded that it was a mistake to keep schools closed as long as they were during the coronavirus pandemic.

"How long you kept it was the problem, because there was a disparity throughout the country," he told CBS News in a recent interview promoting his new book. "If you go back and look at the YouTube, I kept on saying, 'Close the bars, open the schools. Open the schools as quickly and as safely as you possibly can.'

(Files missing)

Deborah Birx has already admitted -- bragged, in fact -- that she wrote the "guidances" for re-opening so severely that it justified keeping the schools closed and made any governor re-opening them look like a dangerous maniac.

But initially to close it down was correct. Keeping it for a year was not a good idea."

As was clear at the time and as has been confirmed through academic research, school closures were generally associated with the power of teachers unions above all else.

As noted by Anthony Lynch at National Review, "Lengthy school closures contributed to generational learning loss, reflected in the generational declines in reading and math test scores observed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress's report card. The learning losses particularly impacted minority and lower-income students unable to afford tutors and other online educational resources. Academic rebounding from the lost learning could take as long as five years."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:11 PM

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