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Is Gain-of-Function Research a ‘Risk Worth Taking’? Or ‘Insanity’?
Free Press ^ | 3.06.2023 | David Zweig

Posted on 03/07/2023 7:41:38 AM PST by Carriage Hill

For years, our officials—from Anthony Fauci on down—maintained that Covid-19 probably originated from a natural pathway in Wuhan, China. Bats in a wet market, some said. But according to a new report, the U.S. Energy Department believes the virus likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology before going on to kill millions around the world. The FBI and a number of prominent scientists also think Covid may have leaked from the lab, where researchers were allegedly conducting “gain-of-function” experiments on coronaviruses, potentially making them deadlier.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; gainoffunction; wuhanlableak
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A lab leak in Wuhan may have led to the outbreak of Covid. So what were scientists doing there? And why?

To summarize: scientists at the Wuhan lab, whose specific work on coronaviruses was funded by the U.S. government, took juiced-up viruses from bats and infected mutant mice engineered to have human receptors for SARS viruses to see what would happen.

1 posted on 03/07/2023 7:41:38 AM PST by Carriage Hill
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To: Carriage Hill

Developing bioweapons. What could go wrong?


2 posted on 03/07/2023 7:44:17 AM PST by bruoz
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To: bruoz

We haven’t seen the worst of it, yet. More and worse to come...


3 posted on 03/07/2023 7:47:52 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Look it worked!!


4 posted on 03/07/2023 7:50:42 AM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Carriage Hill

Gain of function is for prevention
like taxes are for the children.


5 posted on 03/07/2023 7:52:54 AM PST by conservativeimage (The world is not dark. The future is not bleak. Tomorrow will be a good day.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Yeah sure, “escaped”. It was released on purpose. China had a problem with protests that were spreading and growing in Wuhan and Hong Kong in the fall of 2019. Donald Trump was headed towards reelection like a runaway freight train on the economy. The Tiananmen Square mass murder solution was no longer viable in the world of 2020 compared to 1989. The deliberately released the virus and they gave them an excuse to lock down the entire nation in China and kill the protest, and stop the economy here. The deep state in America cooperated because they share the same goals.

At first they denied it was man-made. When it was proven that it was man-made they had to say it leaked. This is their fallback position from their initial lie.


6 posted on 03/07/2023 7:52:59 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Carriage Hill

Insanity.

We humans have no business meddling with technologies beyond our wisdom and maturity, and moral integrity to control.


7 posted on 03/07/2023 7:54:22 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: DesertRhino

When it first happened, I suspected we were in bio-warfare with China, and there’d be no winners. There weren’t.


8 posted on 03/07/2023 7:56:25 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: metmom

I feel the same about nuclear weapons for war.


9 posted on 03/07/2023 7:57:06 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill

To me, this stuff feels like building a Fallout Shelter. How do you know if your Fallout Shelter actually works? Well, as Step #2, you need to invent an atomic weapon and drop it on yourself. Then you find out if you have mitigated the risk that you created.


10 posted on 03/07/2023 7:58:02 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: Carriage Hill

“In theory”, in a perfect world, yes.

BUT, the ONLY “perfect” thing in this world is JESUS!

And I’m pretty sure (POSITIVE) that He would want man to have NOTHING TO DO WITH gain of function research.

Stuff like that and climate control (weather) is God’s domain.


11 posted on 03/07/2023 8:01:42 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Carriage Hill

Obama defunded hyperviralization in 2014 in the US as too dangerous. In other words, they offshored it and voila no oversight. Not a single voice except me is connecting the dots. Unfortunately no one is listening. #plandemic.


12 posted on 03/07/2023 8:02:58 AM PST by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: Carriage Hill

With 8 billion guinea pigs available...why not?


13 posted on 03/07/2023 8:06:31 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Carriage Hill

I gather that lab leaks are hard to prevent.

I seem to recall that Fauci was asked if he trusted Chinese scientists. His words and attitude said ‘absolutely.’ This is just one more case that demonstrates that “scientists” should not be in charge of themselves. The lab leak from the Manhattan project is another example.

Was this intentional bio-warfare from the Chinese communists? It seems obvious that the Chinese government was monitoring events. However, an accidental lab leak could still have happened. We have been told that many Chinese have died from the Wuhan virus.


14 posted on 03/07/2023 8:13:05 AM PST by ChessExpert (Informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine you might want to consider.")
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‘...the virus likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology before going on to kill millions around the world.’

yeah, it escaped from a lab environment, any one with a scintilla of brainpower knows that...but no, it did not, by itself, kill millions of otherwise healthy people; any one with any awareness at all knows that as well...


15 posted on 03/07/2023 8:15:45 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: metmom

‘We humans have no business meddling with technologies beyond our wisdom and maturity, and moral integrity to control.’

with a mindset like that, our species would never hae left the shelter of the caves...


16 posted on 03/07/2023 8:18:42 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Carriage Hill

We were in bio warfare, China and Washington DC attacked America. DC was not caught by surprise. The disease was created in America at Chapel Hill North Carolina, then Fauci transferred it to China. They were in cahoots. They did it. It was a weapon that targeted both of their enemies, Chinese protesters for China, and Donald Trump for Washington DC.


17 posted on 03/07/2023 8:19:53 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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‘And I’m pretty sure (POSITIVE) that He would want man to have NOTHING TO DO WITH gain of function research.’

so God creates virii that have the capacity to really mess up our lives, and then wishes us to have nothing to do with attempting to control these pathogens by our own means...?

there is nothing wrong with gain of function reasearch; we’d still be using leeches to draw blood if we didn’t expand our medical boundaries...what is objectable is when this research is done sloppily and with devious oversight...


18 posted on 03/07/2023 8:27:48 AM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: Carriage Hill

Yes, makes perfect sense so long as no crooks or idiots are involved.

Put the lab underground in a Pacific island. Beneath the lab a nuke. If SH** hits the fan push the button and blame the Froggies for testing another nuke.

Take all transmitted data to lab #2 and resume work.

Lab techs will be very, very careful.


19 posted on 03/07/2023 9:00:38 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: DesertRhino
I agree with what you posted. It is a perfect summary of the events surrounding the COVID-19 "plandemic".

Our intelligence agencies know this story is true. NSA even publicly released information from a "low level Chinese defector" that basically confirms what you posted. Those articles seem to be carefully ignored these days.

One faction of the "Deep State" attempting to undermine other factions, is how I interpret the publication of that information.

I believe the initial release of COVID-19 was accidental and premature. They had an unstable prototype and were still testing it when the "oops" happened. There may have been more than one "oops" as well (September 2019, April 2019). The rest was just improvisation and cover-up. They exploited the situation very well, but they are not as clever as they look.

The sponsors of the program should be hunted down and executed. After "fair trials" and "due process" of course.

20 posted on 03/07/2023 9:03:43 AM PST by flamberge (We don't get the government we vote for. We get the government we will tolerate.)
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