Over-hyped animal and bird pandemics may be even more lucrative for the drug companies than over-hyped human pandemics. From A Midwestern Doctor at mercola.com:
Biodefense
In a previous article, I discussed how the biodefense industry regularly cultivates bioweapons in labs to “protect” us from them. Before COVID-19, this industry had been under great scrutiny as many within the scientific community were worried its risky actions could lead to a catastrophic lab leak.
However, once SARS-CoV-2 leaked, the entire scientific establishment chose to double down on this research and label any insinuation lab leaks could occur “a conspiracy theory” or “a danger to science.”
Note: This characterizes Peter Hotez, who in 2012 secured a 6.1 million grant3 from the NIH to develop a SARS vaccine with the stated aim of responding to any “accidental release from a laboratory,”4 some of which was then used to fund gain-of-function research conducted by the leader of the Wuhan lab in 2017,5 but after people became aware of the 2019 lab leak, Hotez switched to denying lab leaks and attacking those who discussed them.
These leaks are alarmingly common and remarkably, the industry has not addressed it, as its funding is contingent on a threat continuing to exist (rather than it being eliminated). Furthermore, many of these lab leaks are quite consequential such as:
• In 1950, the U.S. Navy covertly sprayed “harmless” bacteria in the San Francisco Bay Area, causing infections and fatalities. Those bacteria then became endemic in the area.6
• The Cambridge Working Group estimated in 2014 that dangerous lab leaks occur, on average, twice each week in the U.S. alone, and by 2018 this number had risen to an average of four times per week.7
• Numerous fatal lab leaks involving smallpox and anthrax occurred in the U.S., U.K., and Soviet Union.8
• Lyme disease emerging next to a U.S. government facility that was weaponizing the same bacteria.9
• The 1977 H1N1 influenza pandemic being traced back to a lab leak.10
• The 2001 Anthrax attacks in the U.S. being linked to a weaponized strain found only in bioweapons labs.11
• Numerous SARS lab leaks occurring since 2002,12 some of which led to broader outbreaks (and hence why Hotez applied for his vaccine grant).
• Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) actually emerging from chimpanzee research activities.13
• Numerous disastrous veterinary pandemics having emerged from leaks.14
• Significant evidence suggests the current bird flu pandemic originated from a USDA lab leak.
Note: A more detailed list of consequential lab leaks can be found here.
