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In the new research, which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron's spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells.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.
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Artificially create deadly viruses that may never appear naturally so that they can develop vaccines against viruses that never appear naturally.
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I’ve been pointing out the fallacy of this logic from the beginning.
They are celebrating if it kills the right rats. The real story for the leftist maniacs is if they have a true vaccine they can issue to political allies to the cause.
Fauci’s felonious follies!
Getting things ready for election 2024...2028...
Materialistic “education” + typical leftist arrogance + “science” = THIS. I don’t know what the 21st Century version of the guillotine will be, but when the time comes it’s going to be very busy.
Hard to believe...no, scratch that. It’s not hard to believe there are people that evil.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I am sure Pfizer is working on a vaccine as we speak. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
I don’t want to find out.
This problem has been going on for a long time. These alleged intellectuals are clueless fools, and then you have the ones who are simply traitors because they are fully aware of how they are undermining American national security, and approve of it.
There needs to be a purge of many in academia and the medical profession.
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Idiots abound. Seriously; a quick trial and hanging is appropriate for this kind of genocidal behavior.
You bet they are. I’m surprised the midnight pounding on the door hasn’t become more widespread. They’ve been running a few test cases to see what they can get away with, but so far not a single judicial problem.
The Stand by steve king..... effacy.scary
The government should place a thermonuclear device, just big enough to incinerate the labs, and burn them down. Andromeda strain these S O Bees.
They're never going to kill us with the virus, when they can selectively target us with the "vaccine" (and make a fortune while doing so).
EXCLUSIVE my ass, been posted at least two times here already.
See tag. Now even more important.
“M-O-O-N” spells moon.
This seems more like the Army of the 12 Monkeys.
And lemme guess—the vaccine will become mandatory because..
At some point I have to think that another country could view this as an existential threat to humanity and just sterilise the area with a few hundred kilo tons of heat and light
And frankly they’d probably be justified
That’s where we are now and this is completely f*cked up
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