PA Counties locked down

[bogey1]

Do you lose smell and taste from a cold or flu? A friend was sick a couple weeks ago for for days and still can't smell or taste.

[eatmydust]

Do you lose smell and taste from a cold or flu? A friend was sick a couple weeks ago for for days and still can't smell or taste.

Colds and flus have rarely been associated with loss of smell and taste, however, over use of zinc gluconate products like Zicam can cause those side effects.

[RockIsland]

Do you lose smell and taste from a cold or flu? A friend was sick a couple weeks ago for for days and still can't smell or taste.

Colds and flus have rarely been associated with loss of smell and taste, however, over use of zinc gluconate products like Zicam can cause those side effects.

I always have since I was little. Almost every time my nose gets stuffed up, I can't taste or smell.

I assumed that was normal.

[ImminentDanger]

FBI: Fauci Funded 'Alarming' COVID Research in Wuhan
By Nick Koutsobinas - 20 April 2024
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/co...20/id/1161804/

A new COVID-19 revelation has come about via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request released Friday.

In the FOIA, internal FBI communications show the Bureau was tipped off in April 2020 that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci, had funded coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The "alarming" nature of the FOIA draws on a paragraph in the NIAID grant's "description," which, in its original form, appears to be erased from the internet. Nonetheless, the paragraph in the FOIA mentions how a "novel" coronavirus would be engineered "to infect human cells" while leaving no trace of its lab origins - thereby misleading future researchers - in the case of a future outbreak - that the novel virus had sprung out of nature.

Judicial Watch released the five FOIA pages of internal FBI communications on Friday.

"These smoking gun documents showed the FBI quickly understood that Fauci's agency funded the gain-of-function research that could disguise the resulting coronavirus as 'natural,'" Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch President, said, according to the New York Post.

"These new documents further demonstrate the need for a comprehensive criminal investigation into Fauci's gain-of-function scandal."

On April 23, 2020, the FBI email exchange took place under the subject line "Follow up call." A person, whose name has been redacted, shared information and analysis with several officials from the FBI Newark Field Office regarding the $661,980 grant awarded by the NIAID to EcoHealth Alliance for bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan lab.

"The reason I am writing," the unnamed individual wrote to the FBI, "is that the experimental strategy proposed in Aim 3 ('infectious clone technology'), if performed using commercial or in-house gene synthesis to prepare the infectious clones, *** would leave no signatures of purposeful human manipulation***."

"Hey are you going to be in office tomorrow?" one agent wrote in a forward of the email. "We just interviewed our person from [redacted] and he provided us with some alarming new info. Give me call if you can."

"This interesting," an unnamed agent wrote to Newark Field Office Special Agent in Charge Gregory Ehrie. "I'm following up with the squad tomorrow morning."

"Details when you can," Ehrie replied.

Emails obtained by Judicial Watch show FBI inquired into the grant for bat coronavirus at the Wuhan lab in May of 2020.

Last year, the FBI concluded that the most likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic was an accidental lab leak.

"The FBI has, for quite some time now, assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," FBI Director Christopher Wray stated on March 2023.

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[bogey1]

We knew this already, judicial watch posted it last year. The fed works real slow huh

[ImminentDanger]

Ex-intel Officer: U.S. Had Proof of China COVID Cover-Up
By Eric Mack | Sunday, 05 May 2024 02:31 PM EDT
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/co...05/id/1163548/

The politicization of COVID-19 in America during the 2020 presidential election cycle ultimately led to worldwide skepticism that the intelligence was a "radioactive American political issue," according to a report.

Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly shared evidence of a Chinese cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic with the U.K. before former President Donald Trump left office in January 2021, but American politicization made recipients of the Five Eyes' intelligence sharing skeptical of it, The Telegraph reported Sunday.

"We saw several pieces of information and thought that they were, frankly, gobsmacking," a former intelligence official who worked on the report shared by Pompeo with the U.K. told the Telegraph. "They obviously pointed to the high likelihood that this was indeed a lab leak."

Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations convened to discuss the evidence presented that China covered up coronavirus research, including gain of function, and military activity at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.

U.K.'s then-Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was on the previously unreported call with Pompeo and with representatives from Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, according to The Telegraph.

Two Trump officials said Raab and the U.K. government ignored the intelligence from the outgoing Trump administration, instead accepting government scientist resistance to the lab leak evidence.

Among the evidence of a Chinese lab leak, the State Department warned of "consistent stonewalling" by China, which accused local officials of "gross corruption and ineptitude."

Also, the intelligence included:

The first evidence that Chinese military officials worked at the WIV in the years leading up to the pandemic.
Lab staffers had fallen ill before the first cases of COVID-19 developed nearby.
Chinese scientists had been working on gain of function research.

The dismissal of the U.S. intelligence report from Pompeo led former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to publicly argue months later in June 2021 that "the advice that we have had is that it doesn't look as though this particular disease of zoonotic origin came from a lab," The Telegraph reported.

"Once the thing became fundamentally political, the ability to pursue it internationally really just collapsed because no one else was interested in touching it," one Trump official told The Telegraph. "I think [Five Eyes] were kind of annoyed by the way the issue had become treated in U.S. politics."

The sources told The Telegraph that the U.K. government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies' Sir Jeremy Farrar was one of the leading people to reject the lab leak intelligence report.

With the 2020 U.S. presidential election long in the rear view, the U.K. is now sharing the belief COVID-19 originated in the WIV, according to the Telegraph.

That January 2021 call was held on an "open line" in an effort to allow Chinese intelligence to pick up the fact the Five Eyes intelligence community had the goods on a China cover-up, the sources told The Telegraph.

"We did that deliberately," a State Department source said. "We wanted to put pressure on the bad guys."

The point of continuing to post these reports is to show that those who controlled the response to this created PANIC, acted according to their own interests, rather than presenting the facts as known. No actual, open discussion was conducted on the situation as it developed, nor were scientific approaches taken to evaluate the proper responses. These admissions, now coming to light, need to be widely broadcast as warnings against the future responses to such accidental or intentional assaults on humanity.

Even though many here were already of the opinion (perceived truth) that has now been admitted to by others, it is still necessary to document these facts to have them available for review in the future. It might be preaching to the choir, but we still need to create the songbook from which voices must be heard in future similar situations.

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