Oh my goodness.
I guess once a particular scare-story has popped up, the medical misinformation community is going to jump on it and try to make it sound as scary as possible.
First of all, no one has created a coronavirus. Nothing done with the GX_P2V virus in this study is unnatural. They cloned (i.e. copied) the virus from pangolins and passaged it in cell culture. This is analogous to a virus passing from person to person. The virus mutated, as viruses naturally do every time they infect an animal or a person. The mutated virus caused 100% lethality in a mouse model. They call the mouse “humanized” because it has been altered to express human ACE2 receptor on the surface of its cells instead of mouse ACE2 receptor. These mice were also different from regular lab mice in some other ways which could have affected disease progression.
A virus that has naturally mutated in a way that is possible (not inevitable) to see in nature and which kills some genetically altered mice is not necessarily a virus that will kill humans. Last I checked, mice and humans were two different species with different biologies.
What this study shows is a possibility for this pangolin virus to cross over into humans. That’s all. We can’t determine from this study whether the virus would infect humans or how sick humans would be. There are viruses that are lethal in one species but only cause mild illness in another. The monkey herpes B virus that infects macaques is an example of this. It is fatal in humans, but infected macaque monkeys might not even show symptoms. (Antiviral therapy in case of exposure to an infected macaque is recommended.)
A virus that is 100% lethal is actually far less of a worry than a virus with 1-10% lethality (like SARS-CoV-2). That is because a 100% lethal virus in most cases causes such severe symptoms that the infected individual does not want to go out where they will expose others. When a virus is less lethal, people do not feel as sick as quickly and often expose others before their symptoms become so bad that they only want to stay in bed. The death toll of a less lethal virus quickly surpasses the death toll of a more lethal virus. Ebola, for example, has a death rate of 40-90%. Yet less than 16,000 people have died from it since 1976. Covid, with its initial death rate of 7%, which has now dropped to 1%, has killed nearly 7 million people in four years.
I don’t see anything to worry about at this time.
If a novel coronavirus should cross over from pangolins into the human population with a death rate of 10% or less, it is time to start worrying.
You are trying to hide the obvious.
They're still F'ing around with gain of function.
Did you notice how Fauci's *boss* admitted the lab leak?
And Pfauci admitted the six-foot-rule wasn't based on SCIENCETM?
The risks with a 100% fatal virus aren',t what you say.
Rabies is (without treatment) 100% fatal in human (so you claimed, before being corrected); but we don't lock down entire cities because it's not as transmissible as a flu.
The real danger of a 100% fatal engineered virus is what Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Justin Castreau, and the Dems would do to our freedoms.
Troll.