NIH Funding Bat Research Lab….In Colorado?

You can’t make this stuff up folks…

I wish you could, but sadly this is real.

Not that I buy the “bat COVID wet-market theory” but if COVID did spring from bats in NIH-funded research labs in China, what would you think you might want to avoid in the future?

Probably doing more NIH-funded bat research labs, right?

Especially taking those labs and putting them here on U.S. soil, right?

That would be a very bad idea….right?

Well, bad ideas seem to be what the Fauci and the NIH and all these fools specialize in because according to a new report they’re putting a new NIH-funded bat research lab right smack dab in Colorado.

Yes, really:

Plan to Build NIH-Funded Bat Research Lab in Colorado Sparks Fears of Lab Leakhttps://t.co/DcR4ka6NID

— N.K (@NK97111667) May 19, 2023

ChildrensHealthDefense reports the new bat lab will be open in 2025:

Colorado State University (CSU) is proceeding with controversial plans to construct a new research facility to study bat diseases with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Construction is slated to be completed sometime in 2024 or 2025.

University officials and proponents of the new facility argue the laboratory is necessary to enhance research capabilities looking into emerging diseases and viruses resulting from zoonotic — animal-to-human — transfer.

While CSU denies that gain-of-function research will occur at the laboratory, some researchers connected with the new facility previously were associated with actors involved with such research, including experiments conducted in Wuhan, China.

Francis Boyle, J.D., Ph.D., a bioweapons expert and professor of international law at the University of Illinois, is concerned about the facility.

Boyle told The Defender:

“It is well known that Colorado State University has a long and ongoing history of specialization in weaponizing insects with biowarfare agents for delivery to human beings.

“This new lab will magnitudinally increase CSU’s offensive biowarfare capabilities, in gross violation of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972 and my Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 that provides for life in prison.”

Area residents, including a local grassroots group, and bioweapons experts, also have raised concerns over the potentially risky research, involving deadly viruses, that will be conducted at the facility and the risk of a lab leak akin to that which may have occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, and may have led to escape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Christine Bowman leads a group of local citizens who formed the Covid Bat Research Moratorium of Colorado (CBRMC), a grassroots initiative opposing the new facility. The group has launched efforts such as a yard sign campaign to raise local awareness.

In an interview with The Defender, Bowman described being “stonewalled” by state and local officials and by CSU.

“We need answers as to how COVID-19 was modified to transfer from human to human before I will be satisfied that it’s okay to raise diseased bats to study in my neighborhood,” Bowman said.

“Now that we know that the COVID pandemic likely started from a lab leak in Wuhan, China, we are questioning the safety of continuing such research,” she added.

CSU receives ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in NIH research grants annually

According to The Colorodoan, the Chiropteran Research Facility, as it will be known, “would serve as a breeding facility to raise and care for bats of various species that can be used as research models in studies on a wide range of human viruses that are believed to have originated with bats.”

The laboratory will be constructed on the south end of CSU’s Foothills Campus near Fort Collins, at 3105 Rampart Road, within the Justin Harper Research Complex and adjacent to the university’s existing Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (CVID). It will consist of a 14,000-square-foot stand-alone bat vivarium.

According to CSU, the university “is a world leader in research on zoonotic infections. The University’s scientists have been studying bats and other vectors that transmit dengue fever, Zika and West Nile viruses for more than 30 years.”

Construction is scheduled to begin by this summer. The Colorodoan reported the facility is expected to open in fall 2024, while CSU said it will be completed by 2025.

My friends over at TheGatewayPundit were all over this story back in February:

Why Is NIH Funding Biolabs Around the World to Study Bat Viruses – Concerned Citizens in Colorado Don’t Want a Lab in Their Back Door https://t.co/3EGEUQC0wM

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) February 4, 2023

From TGP:

We first heard of NIH-supported Biolabs in 2020 after COVID-19 was released in China. In early 2020, The Gateway Pundit uncovered that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, in the capital city of Hubei Province in China, was likely where COVID-19 was released and it was funded by the NIH.

Think of that – a Biolab in China was funded by the US government.

Since that time, we have uncovered labs funded by the NIH and other US government entities around the world. We found a Biolab in downtown Boston. We identified more than 40 Biolabs in Ukraine. At least one of these Biolabs is connected to Hunter Biden.

So it comes as no surprise that after COVID-19 and the discovery of multiple Biolabs around the world paid for by the USA, that Colorado citizens wouldn’t want one of these labs anywhere near their neighborhoods.

A group of concerned citizens in Colorado is warning about Colorado State University’s proposal to build an NIH-funded bat vivarium in Fort Collins, CO.

The grassroots group called Covid Bat Research Moratorium of Colorado (CBRMC) is requesting a moratorium be placed on the project until more is known about how Covid-19 reached the public in late 2019 and early 2020.

From local news:

It’s not the first time Colorado research labs have been obsessed with bats.

Remember this?

Denver News Bats boiled alive at Colorado State University lab, according to watchdog group https://t.co/FEYHHAGQgE pic.twitter.com/rxgTgD5D9n

— Denver NewsChannel (@Denver_NC) February 27, 2020

From local 9News:

Three bats were killed at Colorado State University (CSU), violating federal law, according to a watchdog group.
National nonprofit Stop Animal Exploitation Now (SAEN) said government documents made public on Wednesday show the bats were run through an equipment sterilizer and has filed a federal complaint against CSU for negligence.

Sterilization in research facilities is achieved by washing items in temperatures high enough to kill most bacteria, meaning the bats were boiled alive, SAEN said in a statement.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said the report that SAEN is referencing says the bats actually died when they were accidentally folded in a shade cloth overnight.

The USDA said in a statement that: “The bats were members of a breeding colony maintained by the facility. To provide environmental enrichment for the animals, shade cloth is hung on the walls of the room that houses the breeding colony. For the health and well-being of the bats, the shade cloth is taken down on a routine schedule to be cleaned and sanitized. During this incident, after being taken down and folded, the shade cloth was taken to the cage wash room and left overnight to be washed the next day. When the shade cloth was unfolded the next morning to be cleaned, three perished bats were found inside the cloth.”

CSU was issued a “critical” citation for violating federal law governing the treatment of research animals after government inspectors reported the deaths in the Jan. 28 report.

A reported 2018 incident involving the deaths of seven bats when their enclosure flooded is also included in the complaint. In that case, the report says the room flooded when a drain flush became stuck during routine cleaning.

The complaint, which includes relevant federal reports and correspondence, can be found on SAEN’s website.
CSU paid a $23,000 federal fine in 2011 for previous Animal Welfare Act violations, according to SAEN.

CSU called the accusations “misleading and untrue” in a statement, and said the deaths were a mistake. The university said the breeding colony died when a dark colored cloth was removed from their habitat for cleaning.

“The person who removed the cloth did not see that three bats, which are small and weigh up to or less than an ounce, were attached to the cloth because both the cloth and the bats were dark in color,” the university said.
The cloth was put in a laundry hamper with the bats attached, and they were discovered dead the next day before the cloth was laundered, according to CSU’s statement.