Omicron might have come from a mouse, but what kind of mouse?

https://medicalxpress.com ^ | January 5, 2022 | by John Hewitt , Medical Xpress

[Red Badger]

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing recently reported intriguing new evidence for a possible mouse origin of the Omicron variant. Their paper, posted on the BioRxiv preprint server, was quickly picked up and published a few days later by the Journal of Genetics and Genomics, and defies the prevailing theory which claims that the polymutant spike sequence of Omicron must have evolved under protracted infection in a severely immunocompromised patient.

[buridan]

a maoist?

[Red Badger]

A MEOWist....................

[SmokingJoe]

REPORT: Nearly 80% of Omicron Cases are in Vaccinated People.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2021/12/31/vaccinated-21-times-more-likely-to-get-omicron/

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[StAnDeliver]

"Several of these mutations, and the associated viral accouterments afforded by them are rather curious. For example, the still inexplicable insertion of a furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2"

"Still inexplicable".

[Magnetar]

I have it on good authority that the next variant will come from turtles.

[cowboyusa]

Danger Mouse.

[M Kehoe]

Mandarin Mouse was involved from the start.

5.56mm

[Triple]

From the commies that brought us the meat market hypothesis.

I give more credence to the conjecture that omicron was a white hat engineered release, to end the pandemic, than to a back and forth through a mouse with 50 mutations that reduce lethality and boost contagiousness natural process.

[Daffynition]

[StAnDeliver]

"I give more credence to the conjecture that omicron was a white hat engineered release, to end the pandemic, than to a back and forth through a mouse with 50 mutations that reduce lethality and boost contagiousness natural process."

Legit but given the engineering candidates and their motivations, they would have fried it with ebola and made it worse. Only half-joking.

The mouse story also doesn't account for the two-dozen novel mutations (non-Beta and non-Delta) in Omicron; and neither does a re-engineering attempt, which in doing so, they would have patently avoided novel mutations IF in fact they could have figured out, in the first place, how to neutralize the cytokine storm and the 'shattered glass' pneumonia, by taking down the ACE2 and TMPRSS2 affinities.

The mouse story is, at the end of the day, a cover story so that the facts that a South African AIDS patient generated Omicron, is called into question (a la modified limited hangout).

A South African doctor discovered Omicron's Patient Zero, who was an AIDS-riddle f@g. Two competing theories emerge from there: one is that he was untreated, which would put his immune system somewhere short of death; the other one is that he was on PrEP fostering long-haul COVID.

Both scenarios have viral evolutionary advantages, but prefer the PrEP + (the application and failure of) remdesivir, which subsequently merged Beta (almost solely a SaF bug) + Delta = Omicron.

[CJ Wolf]

Interesting theory do you have any sources that discuss omicrons patient zero? Or was that a half joke too?

[StAnDeliver]

"Interesting theory do you have any sources that discuss omicrons patient zero?"

Yep.

Omicron Variant Came From an Untreated HIV/AIDS Patient? Symptoms Are Unusual, Says South African Doctor

[daniel1212]

The viral source remains anonymouse.

[CJ Wolf]

It says possibly. But thanks for the link. I think its a stretch to jump to that conclusion. I don’t see a patient zero either.

[Conservative4Life]

A Rat in government, chyna, cdc ...

[Red Badger]

A slow variant?.................or Mitch?...............

[Triple]

Thoughtful and knowledgeable…why haven’t I see you around here?

Thx

[Reily]

A laboratory mouse !

[StAnDeliver]

Theory #2: A white HK'r picks it up in SaF on the down low and takes it back to HK.

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