Posted on 01/17/2024 4:26:52 AM PST by lightman
There’s a new COVID variant that China has been tweaking in the lab, and it’s unbelievable. It was tested on mice and had a 100 percent mortality rate. Dubbed the ‘brain virus,' Chinese scientists are paving the way for another global pandemic if this escapes their labs again. The study involved a “cousin” strain of the coronavirus, which was mutated and then administered to humanized mice; all died within eight days. The study does not say how this could impact humans, but the research has been heavily criticized as pointless, dangerous, and veering into absolute madness (via NY Post):
In a Wuhan-esque study, Chinese scientists are experimenting with a mutant COVID-19 strain that has a 100% kill streak in “humanized” mice.
The deadly virus — known as GX_P2V — attacked the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect similar genetic makeup to people, according to a study shared last week out of Beijing.
“This underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans and provides a unique model for understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses,” the authors wrote.
The deadly virus is a mutated version of GX/2017, a coronavirus cousin that was reportedly discovered in Malaysian pangolins in 2017 — three years before the pandemic.
[…]
Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at the University College London’s Genetics Institute, slammed the research as “terrible” and “scientifically totally pointless.”
“I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanised mice with a random virus. Conversely, I could see how such stuff might go wrong,” the professor wrote on X.
“The preprint does not specify the biosafety level…The absence of this information raises…possibility…this research, like the research in Wuhan…that likely caused…Covid…, was performed without…biosafety…essential for research with a potential pandemic pathogen.”
[…]
Dr Gennadi Glinsky, a retired professor of medicine at Stanford, wrote: “This madness must be stopped before too late.”
Dr. John Campbell's lengthy video about this study and its research has since been removed from YouTube. He, too, agreed this research must stop, as there is nothing natural about this pathogen; we’re creating it. What might have forced him to remove the clip was the insinuation that this research was being conducted for one purpose: the creation of new biological weapons.
Never fear. I'm sure they are working feverishly to iron out those bugs.
“Chinese scientists are paving the way for another global pandemic if this escapes their labs again.”
If the Chinese are still doing this work under inadequate safety protocols like with Covid, escape is almost certain.
They have to be quick. Trump would lock down the borders.
It’s not stupid,
It’s evil.
At the end of the pandemic China was clearly the only world leader on top - they as pulled ahead militarily and economically and their influence had spread throughout Africa and South America. It was a successful bio-chemical attack on the US and world.
Why wouldn’t they take the next step and dominate?
“...escape is almost certain.”
What makes you think it escaped the first time?
wy69
At the end of the pandemic China was clearly the only world leader on top - they had pulled ahead militarily and economically and their influence had spread throughout Africa and South America. It was a successful bio-chemical attack on the US and world.
Why wouldn’t they take the next step and dominate?
The Chinese have been attempting to create a virus that would preferentially exterminate people of non-Han Chinese genetics. They even wrote about this in their military journals a few years ago, detailing a scenario where China could repopulate the North American continent after a plague had removed all of the previous residents.
We have our lunatic fringe. So do the Chinese. Both groups include persuasive (and very psychopathic) individuals who manage to get access to government funding from time to time.
COVID-19 was their first prototype. It did not work as it was supposed to work. And then there was an "Oops" in the Wuhan lab.
"Disease X" will have a similar progression. Hopefully, we will be lucky (again) and it will not work. If it does work, it will only be a problem for the 2% of the human race that survives the plague.
Spoiler: That won't include the Chinese people or the members of the WEF councils. Their very names will have been forgotten in the aftermath of such events.
Plans usually do not work out quite as expected.
Fauci the criminal is behind this.
“But to what benefit?”
To see if they can do it, or to make it to “find a cure” before it occurs naturally. Something I call “stupid virology tricks”.
Any from the man who gave him the presidential commendation for his work on Covid. The last i heard was self praise for the billions of lives saved worldwide by operation warp speed.
Be honest.. who would have taken the vax if Obama or Biden said it will save your life.
A disease with 100% mortality in 8 days won’t spread that far. It needs to be dormant for a period of time in order to be spread and then be 100% fatal. Like AIDS.
Yeah. Read about that. Then a minor mutation happens in the billions of people infected. Everyone dies except that 2% you mention.
Plans usually do not work out quite as expected.
Old military doctrine: no plan survives contact with reality.
Is the answer as simple as ‘because they can.’ There are all sorts of treaties on nuclear proliferation, yet this crap is every bit as dangerous as nuclear bombs and we have mad chemists right now trying to develop the ultimate world kill-off weapon.
Bio attack vector that could be aimed at Taiwan?
Just in time for the 2024 elections!
Say goodbye to efforts to kill mail-order ballots...
Sounds like a fuel air bomb is needed over these labs.
“What makes you think it escaped the first time?”
The Chinese did their “gain of function” work under BSL2 conditions which is basically minimal containment. It should have been done under BSL4 which is maximum containment. There have been official US govt documents released that confirm this. BTW, it’s not uncommon for microorganisms to escape from even high security labs. I’ve heard stories that will turn your hair white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents
I’d say to try it on biden but it would probably make him smarter and more lucid. Then again so would being brain dead.
This is a level of evil I can’t begin to imagine. There’s no reason to mess with something like this anywhere. The only possible reason is to wipe out ALL of the human race leaving the planet devoid of all mammal life, even the animals would be destroyed unless a species has a natural immunity to it.
Hey, maybe a movie could be made called “The Planet of the Apes” or something.
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