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Further up the food chain at Fort Detrick is ex-Commander David Franz - the man who'd nurtured the scio-fear-mongering culture in the lead up to the Anthrax scam - a US Colonel no less. Doubled as a bio-weapons inspector in Iraq - and celebrity scientist on mass media pumping bio-terror - obsessed with it - writing textbooks on the subject - the world's leading expert.

His take on the Anthrax debacle?

I think a lot of good has come from it. From a biological or a medical aspect, we've now five people who have died, but we've put about $6 billion in our budget into defending against bioterrorism.

Yeah, but where's the evidence of the good that's come from that? I’d’ve thought a deliberate release from a BSL-4  lab by a popular-scientist might've been a red-flag moment - for a Mad-scientist culture gone maddist - not a champagne cork popping for moment.  To celebrate the new era, cheers to the  all-you-can-eat funding trough for GoF addict scientists. 

Anthrax was the fork in the road that led straight to Covid

The sliding doors moment where the adults say, what the hell is going on here? it’s time to de-escalate, regulate risky bio-defense experiments, before you cause a catastrophic pandemic! Oh, too late. Brackets - there were lots of scientists warning exactly that - no that's not right - few and far between in fact - Richard Ebright, Wain-Hobson,  Yves Moreau - but they got drowned out by the One-Health show - that's a shame.

Coz with money came  the addictive rush of influence - the power - to entrench it - censor/crush your opponent.  But where has that left us?

Let’s at least - press pause - to discuss what you’re fating us with. I get it that you think you're very clever, but your instating a genetically engineered future that bans individuality - a surveillance-system invented initially - let's not forget - to counter the very bio-terrorism - that you artificially created.

With Franz's reputation sealed as a walking disaster area/disrupter, he follows up by becoming a policy advisor for Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance.  Fanning fear of Bio-terror had been a funding sensation - but was waning - Davey's drafted in to instill a fear of nature instead.  

Now here we go with Covid - making the same mistake again - as Georg Hegel once said - the greatest lesson history teaches us is:

we never learn the lesson