Timothy Birdnow

DEAR GOD! This is insane!

Damn right it should never have been done!

Ebola is a terrifying disease with a kill rate that makes Smallpox seem like a winter cold. You die a horrible death with blood pouring out of every cavity of your body. It eats men's testicles like a gourmet dish. Nobody in their right mind would aerosolize it. The only reason to try that would be to make it into a biological weapon.

ebola has a mortality rate (depending on the strain and the level of medical care) between 25% and 90%, unless it's Ebola Reston which is benign in humans. It's the most lethal pathogen on Earth.

I'm pleasantly surprised Fauci realized the monstrous stupidity of doing this.

USAAMRID, the Army's biological research center, has long studied Ebola and it's cousin Marburg.

Actually, Fauci wasn't upset about the research (which showed vaccinated individuals were more prone to get sic from it than the unvaccinated) so much as about it being made public; he feared it would keep people from getting vaccinated for things and would hamper research.

That said, Fauci did say this should never have been done. Fauci is right on that.

We've been conducting research on bioweapons for decades now despite an executive order from Richard Nixon closing these programs. It is illegal to do them in the United States. But that was the loophole; the U.S. has largely been doing them in foreign countries. There were dozens in the Ukraine, for instance, which leads me to believe that was part of why Russia invaded them. Imagine if Canada or Mexico had hundreds of bioweapons research labs sitting next to the border; we'd attack for sure.

Weaponizing Ebola is insane; it's way, way too dangerous. You couldn't stop the outbreak once you started it.

The people involved in this need to be brought to account.

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