Nikolai Petrovsky is a Professor in the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University. In his position as a research director at Vaxine Pty Ltd, he's working on a COVID-19 vaccine and expects to commence human clinical trials soon.
Prof Petrovsky is less convinced there was no human intervention in the origins of COVID-19. He says despite intensive search to find its origins, no natural virus matching has been found.
"This raises the very legitimate question of whether the COVID-19 virus might be the result of human intervention."
The genomic sequence of the virus doesn't reveal any artificial gene inserts, something Prof Petrovsky calls a hallmark of a gene jockey. He says the absence of the artificial inserts has been interpreted to mean this virus is not the result of human manipulation.
"This logic is incorrect as there are other ways in which humans can manipulate viruses and that is caused by natural selection," he said.
Prof Petrovsky believes it's plausible that the virus was created in the biosecurity facility in Wuhan, that he says had been cultivating exotic bat coronaviruses at the time - and this could have left the facility via accidental infection of a worker, or inappropriate waste disposal.
But how would it be possible to create this in the first place? He uses the example of a bat coronavirus that is not infectious to humans.
"[If you] force its selection by culturing it with cells that express human ACE2 receptors, such cells have been created many years ago to culture SARS coronaviruses," he said.
"You can force the bat virus to adapt to infect human cells via mutations in its spike protein, which would have the effect of increasing the strength of its binding to human ACE2.
What he is saying here, is that gene manipulation in labs is not always done by gene splicing. Genes can be modified in labs using processes that normally happen in nature, known as natural selection, but by accelerating those processes.
Most importantly, 2 more things. First, the coronavirus COVID-19 as it exists has not been found to exist anywhere in nature, occurring naturally. Second, the closest existing genome to the COVID-19 genome is the RaTG13 genome, which China has long admitted existed in the lab, but does not have the ability to infect humans.
Where is the missing link, the intermediary? TBD, but it’s very possible the intermediary link was done in the lab, using pig cells etc to develop the ability to infect humans.
It may be as simple as this...when wuhan bat lady worked with the Chapel Hill study it was allowed in the US
She took the findings from that study..and with the help of US funds continued studying it in A WUHAN LAB
Then it jumped..which is what chapel warned about..and what she warned about years later..
.. And why US disallowed these studies
Or...it could be a bioweapon experiment
Notice the bait and switch.
The claim is that it is likely the virus escaped from the lab.
The writer switches that to a claim the virus was created in the lab.
This is a huge difference.
“What he is saying here, is that gene manipulation in labs is not always done by gene splicing. Genes can be modified in labs using processes that normally happen in nature, known as natural selection, but by accelerating those processes.”
Exactly. Furthermore, any hack molecular biologist can alter a nucleic acid sequence. It takes skill to do it in ways that leave no trace of outside intervention.
Bttt.
5.56mm
I think we ought to just declare war on China, nuke the bastards, then invade with our army, and get this nonsense over with. We should just put our ass where our mouth is. They’ve got 1,300 million Chinese, we’ve got 300 million Americans. I’m sure we will win.
I’m a little tired of the calls for war with China. Nothing like diversions as to why our media beat this drum in the first place, you know, such as to wreck the economy Trump was running on or to shut down his stadium appearances.
Interesting. The doctor who won a Nobel prize for discovering HIV believes COVID 19 was man made. Who to believe?
Doctor who discovered HIV confident Covid-19 created in Lab!
http://www.westernjournal.com/doctor-discovered-hiv-confident-covid-19-created-lab/
How about that part is irrelevant compared to the fact they closed internal borders and flights when they realized human to human transmission of a deadly virus, but allowed international flights to continue for the purpose of contamination the world.
Sounds more like the whole thing is an act of war done on purpose timed with the lunar new year and right before a us presidential election.
Every bit of this seems perfectly timed, if not it sure is a hell of a coincidence, what are the odds of that.