Posted on 05/29/2020 12:29:13 PM PDT by Starman417
This is one of those things that's been stirring in my head pretty much since the beginning of this crisis.
COVID 19 is also known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which is shortened to SARS-CoV-2. It is also called COVID 19 is a Corona Virus Disease discovered in 2019.
COVID 19, properly called the Chinese Wuhan Lab Virus, is more pathogenic than the previous version of SARS which appeared in 2003. The reason for that is thought to be attributable to the presence of a "spike" protein on the virus.
Spike proteins are what coronaviruses use to bind to the membrane of the human cells that they infect. The binding process is activated by certain cell enzymes.So how did it get there? We'll speculate on that later.SARS-CoV-2, however, has a specific structure that allows it to bind “at least 10 times more tightly than the corresponding spike protein of [SARS-CoV] to their common host cell receptor.”
Partly, this is due to the fact that the spike protein contains a site that recognizes and becomes activated by an enzyme called furin.
Furin is a host-cell enzyme in various human organs, such as the liver, the lungs, and the small intestines. The fact that this enzyme resides in all of these human tissues means that the virus can potentially attack several organs at once.
SARS-CoV and coronaviruses in the same family do not have the same furin activation site, some studies have shown.
The “furin-like cleavage site” recently discovered in SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins may explain the viral life cycle and pathogenicity of the virus, say researchers.
November 2019: China knows of Patient Zero
Jan 3, 2020: China orders Wuhan scientists to destroy samples and suppresses information. Despite that, China allows a potluck dinner in Wuhan with 130,000 to attend
Jan. 14: Under orders from China, the World Health Organization declares COVID 19 is not contagious.
Now for some things you might not know. Fauci is neck deep in the Wuhan lab:
But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.But "what's Gain of Function?" you ask. ThisIn 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.
Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.
Gain of Function ResearchFauci has spent a lot of time talking up "transmissibility."Certain gain-of-function studies with the potential to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility of potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) have raised biosafety and biosecurity concerns, including the potential dual use risks associated with the misuse of the information or products resulting from such research.
Now follow:
On October 16, 2014, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the launch of the U.S. Government (USG) gain-of-function (GOF) deliberative process to re-evaluate the potential risks and benefits associated with certain GOF experiments. During this process the USG paused the release of federal funding for GOF studies anticipated to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility among mammals by respiratory droplets of influenza, MERS, or SARS viruses.Enhance the transmissibility, you say...
And don't miss this:
A second phase of the project, beginning that year, included additional surveillance work but also gain-of-function research for the purpose of understanding how bat coronaviruses could mutate to attack humans. The project was run by EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit research group, under the direction of President Peter Daszak, an expert on disease ecology. NIH canceled the project just this past Friday, April 24th, Politico reported. Daszak did not immediately respond to Newsweek requests for comment.How to cause mutation it so it could infect humans. Hmmm
A top Australian vaccine researcher calls COVID 19 virus almost perfectly adapted for humans:
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is “almost perfectly human adapted” — lending credence to the possibility it was man-made in a Chinese lab, a top Australian vaccine researcher says.Fauci strenuously argues that this virus did not come from a labNikolai Petrovsky was shocked when research found that the virus was more virulent in humans than any other animal, the Daily Mail reported.
He said it was like the new strain of coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, was “completely optimized from day one without the need to evolve” like other viruses.
“This is a new virus that has never been in humans before, but it has an extraordinarily high binding to human receptors, which is very surprising,” Petrovsky told the Mail. “It is almost perfectly human adapted, it couldn’t do any better.”
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” Fauci told the publication on Monday.But Mike Pompeo says that there is "enormous evidence" that the virus came from a lab:Based on the scientific evidence, he said the coronavirus wasn’t accidentally released from a lab either.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “enormous evidence” exists indicating the coronavirus pandemic began in a lab in Wuhan, China and that the ruling Communist Party did everything it could to keep the outbreak under wraps.Now the same Australian researchers suggest this virus was manipulated:“There’s enormous evidence that that’s where this began. We’ve said from the beginning that this was a virus that originated in Wuhan, China. We took a lot of grief for that from the outset. But I think the whole world can see now,” he said on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday.
“Remember, China has a history of infecting the world, and they have a history of running substandard laboratories. These are not the first times that we’ve had a world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in a Chinese lab.”
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Because he bet money on it.
One of my FB friends, who lives in Florence, Italy had COVID in October. Her husband was also infected. She (about 50 years old) spent 10 days in ICU and has 40% lung function now. This has been around longer than we have been told.
Fauxi funded research grants to Wuhan lab to fund risky virus research that was illegal in the U.S.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/why-us-outsourced-bat-virus-research-to-wuhan/
Not defending Fauci per se. one of the things I learned working at a hospital is that the infectious control people will keep you up at nights with their “alarming” stories.
It has really just been a matter of time before a virus with some danger got loose in the world. Our Emergency Prep team pulled out our plans for excercises during the Ebola outbreak a few years ago. This lead to a lot of discussion on what could happen.
So, long story short: This has been on the horizon for a long time. The Administrators and politicians never wanted to spend a nickel on something they could not understand, so they never funded the appropriate stockpiles.
As I wrote, this is not a defense of Fauci. Just an explanation of who was talking about this years ago.
“Just an explanation of who was talking about this years ago.”
I noticed periodic articles predicting a pandemic for at least a couple of years, and wondered what was up.
I speculated that we were being gaslighted, groomed to panic when the powers that be told us we should.
As it happened, we were told to panic over COVID, and many people did.
The bastard is a lying pile of stuff. I hope he gets the disease.
The little bassturd PAID for it! $3.7 or 7.3 Million to Wuhan lab
What did Biden know, and when did he know it?
October 25, 2019 tweet...
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1187829299207954437
“One of my FB friends, who lives in Florence, Italy had COVID in October. Her husband was also infected. She (about 50 years old) spent 10 days in ICU and has 40% lung function now. This has been around longer than we have been told.”
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Around 15% of FReepers think they had COVID-19 last fall. Of course they didn’t because just because someone says they had it (and maybe actually believes they had it) doesn’t mean they had it.
The one in Italy was confirmed with COVID in October.
Because it was in the works when Trump got elected as a method of trying to bring him down. He slipped when he said that.
Smoking gun?
He was in on the plan. A sleeper cell that was activated.
Anybody with half a brain could have predicted what Fauci said. Hello, Avian flu, Swine flu, SARS, Ebola, MERS, Zika? It would have been unlikely that we would go 4 years without an outbreak popping for Trump to deal with.
The Chinese told him.
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