Trump Wants $10 Trillion China COVID Reparations
In April 2020, according to Politico,
The Trump administration has pulled funding for a group of scientists studying coronaviruses in bats and the risk of their spillover into humans -- the very kind of infection that started the COVID-19 pandemic -- according to EcoHealth Alliance, the New York-based nonprofit organization conducting the research.
. . . In a statement, the EcoHealth Alliance said it wanted to know more about the NIH's reasoning. “For the past 20 years our organization has been investigating the sources of emerging diseases such as COVID-19,” the group said. “We work in the United States and in over 25 countries with institutions that have been pre-approved by federal funding agencies to do scientific research critical to preventing pandemics. We are planning to talk with NIH to understand the rationale behind their decision.”
So talk with NIH is just what EcoHealth Alliance did. In August, just a few months later,The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $7.5 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization focused on finding unknown viruses in nature, months after the cancellation of an earlier award to the group prompted an outcry over political interference.
EcoHealth had previously established a partnership with a virology laboratory in Wuhan, China — the city where the Covid-19 pandemic is believed to have begun — under the terms of a five-year grant from the NIH. That grant was due to run through 2024 but was abruptly canceled in April.
At the time, conspiracy theories were emerging that suggested that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, was either accidentally or deliberately released from the lab in Wuhan. There is no proof to support the theories, but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed in April that U.S. intelligence was investigating the claims. And at a news conference that month, President Trump, when asked about the EcoHealth grant, pledged to “end that grant very quickly.”
No reports from August mentioned that the specific grant Trump ended was in the $600,000 range, while the new grant as reported comes to $7.5 million.Amid the grandstanding calls for reparations, nobody seems to be asking to call either Peter Daszak or Francis Collins, the NIH director, to testify in front of congress, though this would clearly be a productive path. And if the US funded so much of the COVID reaearch that led to a lab leak, it would only be logical for other countries that felt entitled to damages to go after the US, which has the deep pockets, not China.
EcoHealth Alliance is clearly a major deep state player, and the current lab leak kerfuffle apparently hasn't stopped the steady stream of money headed to the Wuhan lab through it. Drs Fauci and Collins of the NIH aren't the major players, either, as it's generally acknowledged that grants to EcoHealth from the Defense Department and Homeland Security are far larger.
Precisely what are all these grants going to? Is there any audit or even followup to be sure we know? Who are the major players, especially if Fauci and Collins are just handy scapegoats?
The EU is now calling for an "unfettered" investigation into COVID's origins, but it's focusing on China. Unless such bodies ask just as many questions about Washington, this will remain kabuki, which I suspect it's desined to do.
But countries like India, which could actually use serious reparation money, will need to go after the deep pockets, which is to say the US.
