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MTA ADA Gate Saga Continues; Ending of Gain-of-Function Research Funding Gives One Leg Up For Safety in Science 5-7-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. It's hard to believe that
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow will be twenty five years since Cardinal O'Connor's funeral
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  Speaker 1: at Saint Patrick's Cathedral. It's even more hard to believe
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  Speaker 1: how cyclical life seems to be. Did you know twenty
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  Speaker 1: years ago Cardinal Edward Egan was at the conclave picking
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  Speaker 1: Pope Benedict. Well, twenty years later, twenty twenty five, our
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  Speaker 1: very own Cardinal Dolan is in the conclave right now,
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  Speaker 1: about to elect the next Pope, and I pray for him.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for the conclave that they make the right
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  Speaker 1: choice following the death of Pope Francis. But I also
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  Speaker 1: find it amazing that in my thirty third year of life,
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  Speaker 1: age thirty three, I'll have witnessed three cardinals at beloved
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  Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Cathedral and the installment of, and the installment
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  Speaker 1: of and rule of three popes Pope John Paul, the second,
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  Speaker 1: Pope Francis, Pope Benedict. So this will really be the fourth, actually,
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  Speaker 1: but I've seen three already, and that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: special because I forget Pope John Paul did live into
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  Speaker 1: my early years, having passed No. Five, so it'll be
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  Speaker 1: our fourth pope at the age of thirty three. But
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  Speaker 1: I've seen three popes and three cardinals, and that number
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  Speaker 1: just clicks me. Thirty three, three and three. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you why I love having resources in the city,
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  Speaker 1: because I tax Center for Independence Disabled New Yorkers on
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  Speaker 1: the recent podcast about the fact that they are letting
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  Speaker 1: ferry vaders through while punishing the disabled community in the
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  Speaker 1: in the subway transit world. Well, it gets kind of
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  Speaker 1: worse than that, because Sidney themselves sent me this link
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  Speaker 1: saying MTA is now delaying This is from May TWI
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  Speaker 1: now delaying emergency gate openings to thwart ferry evaders, which
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  Speaker 1: say people say are putting people's lives at risk. The
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  Speaker 1: MTA has gone off the rails, so writes Nicole Rosenthal
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  Speaker 1: and Haley Brown, with its fairy crackdown, and now will
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  Speaker 1: lock subway emergency gates for fifteen seconds after they're open
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  Speaker 1: in a bid to stop scofflaws from sneaking in without pain.
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  Speaker 1: Riders could still hold the doors open for fair beaders
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  Speaker 1: even under the pilot program, which the MTA announced Monday,
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  Speaker 1: it was expanding to at least one hundred and fifty stations.
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  Speaker 1: Some straphangers are adding that the initiative could be dangerous, foolish,
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  Speaker 1: and spark mass panic in case of emergency such as
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  Speaker 1: a fire or God forbid a shooting, and ripped it
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  Speaker 1: as unfair to those with disabilities. Doctor Sharon McLennan Weir,
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  Speaker 1: who we had on the podcast, told the Post, when
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  Speaker 1: you're in the state of panic and need to get
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  Speaker 1: out of place fast, that fifteen second delay is a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Dustin joneso uses a wheelchair and who sued
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  Speaker 1: the MTA in twenty seventeen, called the program very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: If the average person with the disability is moving slowly
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  Speaker 1: and they have to wait for a certain time for
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  Speaker 1: the door to open, that's time that you're losing. So
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  Speaker 1: now not only are they guarding the door, they're not
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  Speaker 1: even letting someone in with the disability or in this case,
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  Speaker 1: someone out with the disability until fifteen seconds later. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: talk about punishing people with disabilities. Now you're saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and wait fifteen seconds as God Forbid of
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  Speaker 1: fire rages behind you. By the way, this is at
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  Speaker 1: a level of crisis, says the MTA, which found turnstile
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  Speaker 1: hoppers costs the agency six or nine million dollars in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two alone. So now to deal with this,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to punish the disabled community again a by
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  Speaker 1: having guards to the door and b the big b
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  Speaker 1: here is now you can't even open it for fifteen
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  Speaker 1: seconds one way or the other. And disabled people need
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  Speaker 1: to commute just as much as an able bodied person.
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  Speaker 1: So I thank Sydney, I think Nicole Rosendahl and Haley
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  Speaker 1: Brown for pointing this out that we are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a situation where they're continuing to overlook disabled community's need
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  Speaker 1: for effective access to the subway stations, let alone getting
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  Speaker 1: on and off the subway. And by the way, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the panic buttons that we're now funding for bodega's is
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  Speaker 1: one point eight million dollars. That one point a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars could be best served to protect the disabled community.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, we want to protect the bodegas obviously, but
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  Speaker 1: we could spread that money around a little bit to
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  Speaker 1: protect those with disabilities as much as the local bodego worker.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you agree, Alex at Alexianeci dot com, wouldn't you agree?
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  Speaker 1: And then one So we'll keep on our eye on
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  Speaker 1: that as as the days go along. And then one
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  Speaker 1: more thing when it comes to adaptability, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to you know, health, And I realize I have trashy
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  Speaker 1: an ah before on this podcast, and maybe that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the best idea, but at the time they were covering
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  Speaker 1: up what they were doing in Wuhan labs. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: like that. But what I do like now is finally
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  Speaker 1: someone has stood up and said we will no longer
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  Speaker 1: tolerate gain of function experiments because we know that's what
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  Speaker 1: the house at Also, we know that's how COVID leaked out.
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  Speaker 1: I had reported on and read at one point COVID
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  Speaker 1: actually was a strain that was traveling from Saudi Arabia
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  Speaker 1: to China. Do you hear about that? Well, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: repost that in the links below to catch you up.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that Trump's got an EO to end
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  Speaker 1: gain of function funding is a big win. It's a
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  Speaker 1: major win for America and for our safety across the
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  Speaker 1: globe because imagine we continue to fund this gain of
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  Speaker 1: function and that leads to dangerous toxins and plagues and
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  Speaker 1: other virus to possibly susceptible to leaks, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: want another leak that leads to a major pandemic, do
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  Speaker 1: we And I know they're gonna say, well, this is
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  Speaker 1: a vital part of research, is it? Though if you're
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  Speaker 1: not careful with it, it looks pretty sloppy to me.
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  Speaker 1: So I know you're gonna say, well, how can you
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  Speaker 1: want funding for certain things but not others? Well, the
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  Speaker 1: fact is gain of function was a reason, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: reason that COVID was leaked out, and maybe we need
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  Speaker 1: to stop this research so we get a hold on
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  Speaker 1: practical protocols in the labs across the globe. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: very happy that Trump's institute of this EO to end
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  Speaker 1: gain of function funding because we can't risk it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: This idea that an experiment gone wrong or gain of
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  Speaker 1: function even control experiment gone wrong, is going to lead
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  Speaker 1: to something that we can't let that happen. And interestingly
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  Speaker 1: I found this on the NPR and others exclusive the
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  Speaker 1: White House, where they say Trump restricts funding for gain
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  Speaker 1: of function research, calling it dangerous. That's what he says,
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  Speaker 1: That's what the NPR writes. The research, known as dual
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  Speaker 1: us research, involves experimenting with other viruses and other pathogens
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  Speaker 1: that have the potential to trigger a pandemic. Those studies
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  Speaker 1: could discover how infectious agents might become more transmissible or
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  Speaker 1: make people sicker. The field has been controversial because of
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  Speaker 1: fears that scientists can make a more dangerous pathogen in
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  Speaker 1: their lab that could get out and cause a pandemic. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what happened here. The COVID strain became a threat.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm excited that this gain of function research
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  Speaker 1: on taxpayer dollars which led to the pandemic. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's indisputable. Even if it wasn't entirely a league, the
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  Speaker 1: fact is this gain of function is not healthy for
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  Speaker 1: any American or any lab tech and it should be
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  Speaker 1: stopped scientists, according to NPR, I also agree better oversight
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  Speaker 1: has needed practical protocols because of the possible risks, And
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  Speaker 1: there's others that say, if we've van it, the next
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  Speaker 1: time another COVID virus comes through, we want to have
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  Speaker 1: the data, says Kristen Matthews. And by the way, speaking
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  Speaker 1: of data, why did Peiser withhold the vaccines fill after
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  Speaker 1: the election in twenty twenty. That's still a question I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out, and I know the answer, But
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  Speaker 1: I don't admit it that it was political. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: have on this podcast before, but I know that they
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  Speaker 1: withheld it for after the election for a reason, and
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious what that reason would be. That's election interference.
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  Speaker 1: That was election interference as well. To not release a
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  Speaker 1: vaccine that Trump could get credit for before the election
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  Speaker 1: is interference. And if you'll want warn Tim Foyle hat here,
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  Speaker 1: Sorry to disappoint you, but this is real stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: think this order to end or suspend or whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to say gain of function funding is a win
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  Speaker 1: for everybody, lab techs and the average American and an
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  Speaker 1: average person around the globe. This prevents the risk even
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  Speaker 1: more of wild experiments that aren't exactly controlled. And even
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  Speaker 1: if they are, why are they getting Why are there
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  Speaker 1: sileaks going on? Richard Ebright, a microbiologist of Rutgers Diversity,
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  Speaker 1: subsides to the soul called Lavely theory to explain how
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic originated. Maybe we'll get him money, and he's
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  Speaker 1: pretty close to here in New York City, Rutgers down
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  Speaker 1: the road. Maybe we'll get another opinion on this. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm very uh, I'm very pleased with this EO to
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  Speaker 1: ban gain of functioning rese and I know also on
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  Speaker 1: prior podcast I was looking it up, I did say,
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  Speaker 1: don't ever listen to the NIH or to Fauci, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of trust in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff. But if the NIH can really focus
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  Speaker 1: on funding that's need, on research that's needed, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: on als or digestive disease or more, that's what the
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  Speaker 1: NIH should be funding focused on if they're gonna get funding.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole time this was doctor Fauchi's NIH. The
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  Speaker 1: whole time he even lied about gain of functioning. Is
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  Speaker 1: point by Senator Ron Paul. Their mistakes in Wuhan led
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  Speaker 1: to this virus one way or the other. And I
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  Speaker 1: think stopping gain of function research is one of the
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  Speaker 1: funding avenues we should hold until we get it right,
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  Speaker 1: until we can have one leg up on practical protocols
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  Speaker 1: in the lab across the globe. I agree we should
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  Speaker 1: find out how these viruses get started, how to treat them,
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  Speaker 1: but not in the errand way that it was going on.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what I think happened five years ago. So
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  Speaker 1: just like the COVID air attacks, credits this finally happens
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  Speaker 1: five years later. I feel like that's a healing, isn't
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  Speaker 1: it part of the healing from that trauma of a
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  Speaker 1: pandemic that locked us all down five years ago? And
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  Speaker 1: I do think this Trump EO will give one leg
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  Speaker 1: up to only lab tech safety and science safety, but
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  Speaker 1: to healing from that hor horrible trauma just five years ago.