Posted on 05/18/2021 12:07:34 PM PDT by RandFan
Statement by Ralph Baric, PhD, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
"The Baric laboratory has never investigated strategies to create super viruses,” he said. “Studies focused on understanding the cross-species transmission potential of bat coronaviruses like SHC014 have been reviewed by the NIH and by the UNC Institutional Biosafety Committee for potential of gain-of-function research and were deemed not to be gain of function.”
“We never introduced mutations into the SHC014 [horseshoe bat coronavirus] spike to enhance growth in human cells, though the work demonstrated that bat SARS-like viruses were intrinsically poised to emerge in the future,” he added. “These recombinant clones and viruses were never sent to China. Importantly, independent studies carried out by Italian scientists and others from around the world have confirmed that none of the bat SARS-like viruses studied at UNC were related to SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Too many lies for far too long from too many.
Everyone is just playing CYA.
No one is credible imo.
Someone is playing CYA. Notice how he doesn’t deny the science, that Wuhan Flu can only occur by design and not organically.
The thing is - by definition - they WERE investigating gain of function because that’s what you need to know so you know how to STOP transmission!
They weren’t trying to enable gain of function on viruses (which is what he says here) but they were trying to figure out HOW it happens.
Fauci and he wanted to “save the world” and their hubris has killed millions either accidentally or from an intentional release as a bioweapon.
Suspected SARS Virus And Flu Samples Found In Chinese Scientists’ Luggage Arriving In The U.S.: REPORT
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 3/30/2020 | Eric A. Blair
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/suspected-sars-virus-and-flu-samples-found-in-chinese-scientists-luggage-arriving-in-the-u-s-report/
In November 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese biologist who was carrying three vials labeled “Antibodies” in his luggage. The biologist said a colleague in China “had asked him to deliver the vials to a researcher at a U.S. institute. After examining the vials, however, customs agents came to an alarming conclusion,” Yahoo reported.
“Inspection of the writing on the vials and the stated recipient led inspection personnel to believe the materials contained within the vials may be viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) materials,” the report said.
The report, written by the Chemical and Biological Intelligence Unit of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), does not give the name of the Chinese scientist carrying the suspected SARS and MERS samples, or the intended recipient in the U.S. But the FBI concluded that the incident, and two other cases cited in the report, were part of an alarming pattern.
Wow. Lots of very carefully constructed semantics.
You, sir have summed up the zeitgeist of our age.
Not sure what this cautious screed is getting at, but Ralph Baric’s team at UNC used a synthetic lung tissue, modeled on human lung tissue, as a medium to select for mutations of a SARS virus. They sought to find variants that would better thrive among humans, not necessarily for foul reasons. If those experiments succeeded, like much of Baric’s work, they are probably the precursor of today’s pandemic. That work, too unsafe by NIH standards, was later continued at Wuhan, and likely leads to where we are today with “Covid-19”.
“and were deemed not to be gain of function.”
Deeming is a powerful exculpatory tool, it seems. The statements are very very carefully worded, giving me a “meaning of is” feeling.
Neither the infamous Wuhan lab nor Fort Dedrick needed to leak or release any kind of virus for the entire world to end up in a self fulfilling prophecy of a viral epidemic. What really occurred was that the Wuhan University had a research paper published in the definitive Lancet Journal (funded by Bill Gates) that provided the “standard of care” for the purported virus.
Dr. Claus Kohnlein, MD, Germany, stated this standard of care was malpractice and criminal because it was deadly. But at the onset this weaponized standard of care killed many in hospitals in Italy, Iran and New York, especially due with regard to requiring ventilators.
After 9/11, US Homeland Security sent WHO’s Pandemic Response Plan to every public health department in every state, which were posted on their websites. But this WHO Pandemic Plan was never adopted by the legislatures of each state. Nonetheless, when the so-called epidemic panic started, the WHO Plan and the deadly standard of care were jointly rolled out to an unaware public.
So Baric may be right about no gain of function research but there is ample evidence otherwise that Wuhan University, WHO, and Bill Gates funded Lancet fomented the panic.
“The Baric laboratory has never investigated strategies to create super viruses,”
.... “we prefer to call them ‘differently-abled viruses’ instead!”
Yes, basically he sees the writing on the wall and is trying to deflect scrutiny back to WIV instead of his institution.
“Sure we worked with these viruses and realized that you could make a bat SARS virus that would be pandemic in humans, but we didn’t actually MAKE a weaponized version of that virus *cough cough* *looks at China* *cough*”
A typical "nuanced" and tailored phrase. Baric doesn't even say they didn't create "super viruses" or that their research might not have resulted in a "super virus" just that they did not specifically investigate strategies to create "super viruses". That doesn't mean they didn't use existing strategies, or conduct research which others could use to create "super viruses".
and you thought “the definition of the word ‘is’ is” was parsed by a team of lawyers... HA!
wonder how many it took to write this load of 0bama?
The august Commission of Foxes has determined that the regrettable incident in the henhouse was not perpetrated by foxes.
By Baric's standards, Covid-19 is only a mediocre, amateurish virus.
Ahhh… the Bart Simpson defense
I suppose that Baric’s definition of “gain-of-function” didn’t apply when he and Zhengli Shi wrote of their research describing the creation of chimera of the original SARS virus intentionally designed to infect human respiratory tissue:
“we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. ...
On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo.”
Of course it was precisely this research that led to the moratorium on gain-of-function research, which was instigated by scientists concerned that it was fraught with risk and offered little reward (other than government grants to GoF researchers.)
Your tax dollars at work.
There is a great deal of playing word games, but it’s still significant that Baric signed the letter pushing for a full investigation (which has been thwarted by both US and CCP authorities to date).
As I understand it, the science can be argued on both sides, but there’s a simpler test.
The CCP, Fauci, and Ecohealth’s Peter Daszak are all evading, prevaricating, destroying evidence and generally acting like your standard-issue street criminal caught with the goods, and trying to explain away how he wound up in possession of someone else’s credit cards.
They’re dirty, and they know it.
We just don’t know the exact details yet.
Whaaa? So they were studying the “potential” of gain of function research but deemed they weren't actually doing gain of function research? Uhmmmm.....is that like a guy at a strip club declaring he wasn't actually there for the titties?
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