Posted on 10/17/2022 5:41:11 PM PDT by John W
Boston University scientists were today condemned for 'playing with fire' after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory.
DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study.
The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.
Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: 'This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire.'
Gain of function research - when viruses are purposefully manipulated to be more infectious or deadly - is thought to be at the center of Covid's origin.
A Chinese laboratory located just miles from the first cluster of cases carried out similar research on bat coronaviruses.
But the practice has been largely restricted in the US since 2017.
Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that: 'The research is a clear example of gain of function research.
He added: 'If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened.’
In the new research, which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron's spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells.
It has always been present in the virus but has become more evolved over time.
Researchers attached Omicron's spike to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic.
The researchers looked at how mice fared against the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Interestingly, they didn’t say squat when such a virus was created in a lab in Wuhan. Or was it created in Ukraine and unleashed in Wuhan...
lab rats were exposed.
Lab mice.
The same thing that saved Potato Joe in 2020 could save the Dems in the Midterms -- cheating.
And are they willing to kill the rest of us rather than surrender power?
It is a serious question that must be considered.
Find out who funded the research and the goal may become apparent.
There could be something sinister going on here. On the other hand...
Scientist #1: We haven’t published any new research papers in awhile. That’s not good. Got any ideas?
Scientist #2: How about we combine the Omicron and the Wuhan virus strains?
Scientist #1: Uh, wouldn’t that be a bit dangerous?
Scientist #2: Sure. But it hasn’t been done before. So it will make for a nice paper. We’ll get published for sure.
Not with the tough new anti ballot fraud laws across a lot of states.
Maybe we should shoot these instead of nuclear weapons. Much less rebuilding.
Yes.
It’s time for reasonable people to go **** the ****** *******.
All of them, everywhere.
“lab rats were exposed”
Thankskill rate” in humans.
“ The scientists admit the hybrid virus is unlikely to be as deadly in humans as it was in mice.‘
So it would probably only kill 50% of all humans.
Question of the century
A similar virus already exists in Wuhan, according to WSJ.
Artificially create deadly viruses that may never appear naturally so that they can develop vaccines against them before they are needed. Something I call “Stupid virology tricks”.
Chinese Military Turns to U.S. University to Conduct Covert Research
wsj.com ^ | 02/23/20 | Kate O’Keeffe and Aruna Viswanatha
Posted on 2/23/2020, 7:23:46 PM by ransomnote
When a researcher from a Chinese military academy applied to study with celebrated Boston University physicist Eugene Stanley, he said her affiliation didn’t raise red flags.
“I’m not interested at all in politics. I’m a scientist,” said Mr. Stanley, whose wide-ranging research has included using artificial intelligence to decode financial markets and applying statistical physics to prevent diseases.
... The recent indictment of the researcher, who is accused of lying on her U.S. visa application to conceal she is a lieutenant in the Chinese military, shows how U.S. universities’ openness to international collaboration in cutting-edge research leaves them vulnerable to potential exploitation.
Mr. Stanley said that he receives droves of research requests and that he vets candidates’ scientific credentials. A Boston University spokesman said the school doesn’t engage in classified research and relies on the State Department to screen foreign applicants for national-security risks.... /snip
My natural immunity is leaping out of my bloodstream like free willy so I’ll be a 20%er.
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