Posted on 02/01/2021 8:45:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Mengele would be so jealous.
THE FAUCI VIRUS
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You took the words right out of my mouth. It is simply amazing that this story is not getting traction in the media.
Oops, a mental lapse - It really isn’t surprising at all.
Here is the alleged "smoking gun" paper shown briefly and discussed in the first linked video [video of Steve Hilton's special investigation for his Fox News show “The Next Revolution.”]:
While this may be fodder for conspiracy theorists, it does NOT describe any gain of function experiments. What it DOES describe are the researcher's efforts to catalog and characterize the coronaviruses that are circulating in a population of bats in a specific cave.
They chose these bats because of the similarity of the coronaviruses these bats carry to the SARS that could have become a pandemic back in 2001. (Actually, the authors of the study described it as a pandemic. But it was controlled very quickly and is now gone.)
They mapped the evolutionary relationships of the many strains of coronavirus they found in the cave. They found them all to be very similar, with the exception of one protein, called the "S protein," which was highly variable between different coronavirus strains.
The S proteins differ in a region called the "receptor binding domain" (RBD). Since the researchers thought that the RBD is important for coronaviruses to infect humans, they did some experiments in which they swapped the different S proteins into a strain of SARS that they know can infect humans and tested them. Indeed, two of the S proteins that they tested enabled the "recombined" viruses to enter into cells and replicate. Viruses containing the other S proteins did not infect cells.
Very importantly, nothing in this paper describes "gain of function." The researchers only tested naturally occurring components of naturally occurring viruses to see which ones could cause human disease.
This kind of research is important because there remains a fear that another coronavirus with deadly potential can emerge to cause a pandemic (which is what happened in 2019). The more we understand about the viruses and the factors that enable them to be pandemic capable, the better we can respond when such a virus emerges. Who knows, with more time and more research like this, there could be drugs in the pipeline to target the S protein, which could be used to treat the first affected patients and stop another pandemic capable coronavirus from spreading. Similar concerns about deadly pandemics have driven influenza research for the last century. The more we know, the better we are able to counter the threat.
The bat cave where those researchers collected their samples is a perfect incubator for such a virus--many strains of coronavirus are circulating in that cave, and new strains arise frequently through sharing genetic material and through various mutational mechanisms. In addition, bats are very good incubators of deadly viruses, because they are not affected the way humans are. Their immune systems protect them from viruses that would kill us. For this reason, bats have also given us Ebola, Marburg, and other deadly viruses that don't affect them nearly as severely.
Last, two points: one, that if researchers were clandestinely trying to create a pandemic virus, they would not publish papers that anyone can access in the scientific literature. Such work would be done in secret. Two, that Mother Nature is perfectly capable of creating pandemic organisms and has done so many times throughout history.
Collins is a brilliant scientists and a humble Christian.
Fauci is a phony punk who crushes those he feels inferior to which is just about everyone.
The KEEBLER ELF made cookies, POISONED COOKIES!
Old news to us?
Faux chi was exposed here in FreeRepublic about a year ago.
Obama defunded hyperviralization during his pres.. i was shocked becaus this is dangerous work. Does no one except me remember? Looks like he just outsourced it. For a reason. Shut the darn lab door.. o wait, how can you develop a vax without producing immunity in a population. For the forced vax crowd you need to understand how they are maed. With the exception of our miracle mrna vax.
The connection is there for all to see, soros, gates, fauci Hillary, bill, Obama, bushes.
Finally, the truth about Fauci and his part in the pandemic is slowly starting to creep out. What I don’t understand is how he can justify playing with a dangerous virus. It was completely unnecessary and could only end badly like it has.
Fauci: “I had to create the virus, otherwise we couldn’t herd the entire world into taking the Mark-O-the-Beast”
Supposedly to study how viruses mutate so they can be better able to develop new vaccines and prevent pandemics. But could also be used for nefarious purposes. And if one of these mutated viruses manages to escape the lab ......
How does one man in our government unilaterally make the decision to arm a nation sworn to destroy us with this biological agent? How has the American government gone astray? Purely rhetorical question but fundamental to the Fauci for 40 years story.
In a sane world, Fauci would be tried for treason.
In a sane world, a lot of peeps in DC would be.
“None Dare Call It Treason”
“if researchers were clandestinely trying to create a pandemic virus, they would not publish papers that anyone can access in the scientific literature.”
No, I don’t think that’s quite right.
They would publish papers, but what they would publish would be for the purpose of covering up or diverting attention from the criminal aspects of the research.
It really is not that easy to fool scientists. No one gets accepted into graduate school or has a career in research unless they are extremely intelligent.
Believe me, when someone is conducting the type of research that we call "dual purpose"--research that could have malevolent or benign purpose--we (the scientific community) watch VERY closely.
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