Coronavirus files: "Ralph Baric is the key. The rest is history"

What has never been reported in the mainstream media, is that when @SenTomCotton discussed some supposedly xenophobic 'fringe theory' of SARS-CoV-2 origins, he was effectively paraphrasing the expert opinion delivered by Baric during a classified BSEG (intel) meeting on 25 or 26 January 2020.

It is quite interesting that coronavirus scientist Ralph Baric informed US intel on Jan. 25, 2020, that he was worried about a lab leak origin for COVID-19 but two months later worked on a letter to Lancet describing the lab leak theory as a conspiracy theory…

What is even more interesting, @RandPaul, is that Ralph Baric probably told the intelligence agencies on 25 January 2020 that he thought a #lableak was possible, but that he did not think it was likely.

So far, so good. But then on 30 January 2020 - five days later - Anthony Fauci hears from @JeremyFarrar that Kristian Andersen has spotted something unusual about the #SARSCoV2 virus. In other words, he sees the furine cleavage site.

Fauci then already knows about the 2015 gain-of-function study by Baric and Shi Zhengli, and Fauci most likely also knows that Baric is a member of the BSEG and that he advises the American Intelligence Community.

Fauci then invites Baric to be at the hastily convened teleconference attended by the four later authors of the Proximal Origin article, and among others, further Lawrences Tabak, Francis Collins, and the three virologists @MarionKoopmans, Ron Fouchier and @c_drosten.

The idea is that Baric will only listen and say nothing , because it was precisely Farrar and the later authors of Proximal Origin who had left Baric out of the discussion precisely because of his close relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. So no one - except Fauci - knows of his presence and he is missing from all invitations.

But Baric listens very carefully and at that moment hears about the furin cleaving site. The question is whether he had already discovered it himself, but in any case, Baric knows on 1 February 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus some 25% different from SARS and is the first ever sarbeco-coronavirus to have a furin-cleavage site.

This is annoying for Baric. Because that virus breaks out in the city in which the institute he works with is located. But not only that. That institute actually has at its disposal a research proposal he wrote himself, in which he proposes to look for a sarbeco-coronavirus that is 20-25% different from SARS and also proposes to craft a furin cleavage site in it.

Telling the @COVIDSelect, Baric spontaneously ‘forgot’ about that proposal. And that he wanted to put in that furin clearance site, ‘just to see what happens’. But Baric didn't just want to ‘see what happens’, he had a very specific goal in mind with this.

Because in 2020, he wrote a paper on a protein-cleavage site in a MERS-like virus, writing very specifically that there are two essential steps a coronavirus needs to be able to jump to humans: the first is binding to a human receptor. The second step, at least as essential according to Baric, is the cleavage of the spike protein between the S1 and S2 parts.

That study will be published online as early as 16 September 2019, but in print it is published in February 2020. It also features Vineet Menachery, the first author of the gain-of-function study by Baric and Shi. Read and convince yourself:

"Overall, our studies demonstrate that proteolytic cleavage is the primary barrier to infection for a subset of zoonotic coronaviruses. Moving forward, the results argue that both receptor binding and proteolytic cleavage of the spike are critical factors that must be considered for evaluating the emergence potential and risk posed by zoonotic coronaviruses."

That study must probably have ‘forgotten’ Baric too. He never mentioned it since. That memory of virologists, it's fodder for neurologists.

Three days later at 3 February 2020 at the NASEM Zoom conference, Baric attacks Kristian Andersen savagely for allegedly spreading conspiracy theories with his analyses of SARS-CoV-2 and the hypothesis that the virus escaped from a lab.

Andersen is very surprised and only wonders if Baric might also be concerned about this. But Andersen does not yet know anything about DEFUSE and what Baric writes in it. That he learns more than two years later.

Ralph Baric was central to the covid pandemic.

His UNC research programs developed key unique splice technology called “noseeum” that may have been used to engineer the virus without leaving the usual tell tail signatures.

His ex grad student Shi Zhengli collaborated in 2014 on genetic engineering experiments led by Ralph S Baric of the University of North Carolina, which showed that two critical mutations that the MERS corona virus possesses that allow it to bind to the human ACE2 receptor were similar to the Covid-19 virus

Baric said in technical conference that he was engaged in gain of function research that had produced very infectious virus with mortality rates in the 50% region and he also mentioned that he had developed a plan to make astronomical profits on the next emerging pandemic.

Baric was the author of Eco Health Alliance 75 page DARPA proposal “DEFUSE” which presented a research proposal that was the road map for the development of the Covid -19 virus that all the unique features that made the Covid -19 virus so uniquely deadly.

I actually located and read the DUFUSE proposal back in the start of the pandemic in early February 2020. Shortly after , it was taken down and all search engine links to the proposal were dissolved.

I mentioned he existence of the DARPA proposal in a post here and one of our other board members involved in this type of research was able to locate it touting her “ extraordinary literature research search skills” with and posted the link while commenting that it was buried pretty deep and difficult to find.

I certainly have to agree her on her extraordinary search skill level because the DARPA proposal got buried so deeply down the rabbit hole I sure could not locate it .

Several months later, Sen Rand Paul produced the DARPA DEFUSE proposal in his Congressional oversight hearings. DARPA denied the proposal at the time because the research was too dangerous for a civilian gain of function research program and the risk's of an escape creating a serious pandemic were too great.

Once Rand Paul produced the DEFUSE proposal in Congressional oversight hearings, it coincidentally re appeared in the search engines.

Several months before the pandemic, two Chinese nationals were arrested for trying to smuggle glass vials of highly infectious virus with bio weapons application potential back to china in their luggage. These vials came from a Canadian Disiease Center storage bank and included samples from Ralph Baric’s UNC gain of function program

Shortly after the DARPA DEFUSE proposal was turned down, Barak Obama banned the US government funding of gain of function research as too dangerous so Eco Health Alliance and Anthony Fauci moved the gain of function research abroad to circumvent the Obama era ban.

In particular, Fauci subcontracted the DEFUSE program to foreign labs in China and Ukraine using artfully concealed flows of USAID money outside his NAIAD funding authority (which is not just illegal, it demonstrates collusion between Fauci and USAID) to fund the programs .

These funds were laundered through Eco Health Alliance to shell companies which were then transferred to the Wuhan lab with Shi Zhengl as P.I. and other foreign labs in China and around the world as well.

There is evidence of a money trail showing that Eco Health Alliance was funding gain of function research in the Ukraine including a Ukrainian unit of Bio Pharma firm with an ownership interest by Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca private equity firm that was heavily financed by banks controlled by the Chinese CCP.

There is a lot more but the web is too convoluted to recall this early in the AM.

Kind of makes your wonder..........

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