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Further up the food chain at Fort Detrick is ex-Commander David Franz - the man in charge of science culture in the lead up to the Anthrax scam.scam Hisa nextUS jobColonel. He was also a Bush-appointedUS bio-weapons inspector in Iraq.  A celebrity scientist on the media circuit pumping Iraq bio-terror. With Franz's science reputation enshrined as a walking disaster area/disrupter, he then landed a leadership role at Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance. So that’s a handy CV.  His take on Anthrax is worth a look:

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.

But where is the evidence of the good that's come from it? I’d’ve thought a deliberate release from a BSL-4  lab by a popular-scientist might be a red-flag - for a Mad-scientist culture gone maddist - not a green-light for an unprecedented funding bonanza. 

For fuck’s sake, it’s time to de-escalate, regulate risky bio-defense experiments, before you cause a catastrophic pandemic! 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.