So, this thread probably won’t get 300 posts. But I will do it anyway.
We are well and truly screwed.
A *CHINESE* source — backed up by the French — confirm the significance of, though not the origin of, those amino acid sequences the Indian researchers talked about.
When looking at the genome sequence of the new coronavirus, Professor Ruan Jishou and his team at Nankai University in Tianjin found a section of mutated genes that did not exist in Sars, but were similar to those found in HIV and Ebola.
Instead of hooking up to the ACE2 receptor, the novel coronavirus has a cleavage site on the spike. This tricks something called the furin enzyme, on human cells, to cleave the spike at that point — allowing the viral membrane and the human cell’s membrane to join, effectuating the entry of the virus into the cell.
Guess which viruses actively have their own Furin? Ebola and AIDS.
Guess which viruses DON’T have anything like this?
“The mutation could not be found in Sars, Mers or Bat-CoVRaTG13, a bat coronavirus that was considered the original source of the new coronavirus with 96 per cent similarity in genes, it said.”
Remember — confirmed by the French, too, Chinese source.
Meanwhile, a study by French scientist Etienne Decroly at Aix-Marseille University, which was published in the scientific journal Antiviral Research on February 10, also found a “furin-like cleavage site” that is absent in similar coronaviruses.
Per BNO News, 10:27 GMT - 104 new cases and 4 new deaths in Iran.
Please tell me I am crazy. I am NOT normally a conspiracy nut.
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It was mentioned today on today’s Steve Bannon’s War Room Pandemic that the SARS vaccine development exposed a strange side effect that is related to this. Apparently mice would survive the vaccine and have a testable immunity, but then they would die suddenly when exposed to the real virus. Their immune systems would over react and kill them. This might explain why some people who seem healthy would die suddenly from what is possibly a second exposure.
So here’s my theory on all this.
It appears for most people COVID-19 is like a mild cold or flu, that’s it. For some however it gets very serious, but it’s a small portion that it effect this way. There’s no need talking %’s because we won’t know for a year what the % is.
The CDC is doing almost no testing whatsoever, nearly none compared to most nations. You have to be deathly ill and still have bat-wing crumbs in your mustache to get tested. They also won’t let anyone else test, results take 5 to 7 days. But why?
Here’s why. COVID-19 isn’t very serious at all for almost everyone that is going to get it. However, unlike what we are used to each year during the cold/flu season for some individuals it goes hyper and straight for the lungs, it’s serious for them, very.
The CDC and sadly probably President Trump know that COVID-19 is already circulating widely in the US. It cannot be stopped, to attempt to do so would start a mass panic. I think there thinking is we are in better health, have better hospitals, and might night be as susceptible to the more serious lung issues as the Chinese for a whole host of reasons.
To simply announce daily how many new COVID-19 we have would accomplish nothing, nothing good anyway. Therefore, we don’t test. The very sick will show up at the hospitals and be helped.
If the US can come out of this stronger than most other nations we will rebuild internally and with Trump has President we’ll begin to end our reliance on China and other nations for critical needs. This might be a wise strategy though it will anger many when they find out our government knew all it along it was here, and big time.
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