Tickling the Tail of a Sleeping Dragon: Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100% lethal in humanized mice

Hotair ^ | 01/17/2024 | David Strom

[SeekAndFind]

Don’t call it gain of function. Call it creating new life or something similarly uplifting.

Whatever you call it, know that it is dangerous as hell to play God.

"Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100% lethal in mice—despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic."


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— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) January 16, 2024

In the wake of a plandemic that killed millions of people, caused by a bug that likely escaped from a Chinese biolab that was funded by the US government, the Chinese have decided to double down on playing with viruses that have the power to wipe millions or billions of human beings off the face of the earth.

The arrogance is breathtaking. 100% kill rate.

This time, the Chinese have announced that they have been breeding a bug that has a 100% kill rate in humanized mice, which is pretty impressive until you realize that this is not some fancy new way to eradicate rodents but a scary new way to liquify the brains of human beings.

Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic.

Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice.

The mice had been ‘humanized’, meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans.

Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as ‘surprisingly’ quick.

The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice’s brains and eyes – suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way.

Writing in a scientific paper that has not yet been published, they warned the finding ‘underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans’.

This news immediately reminded me of the practice during the Manhattan Project called “tickling a sleeping dragon’s tail,” where scientists measured the critical mass of radioactive materials that could cause an atomic reaction. It was all done by hand, and if you screwed up the results could be deadly.

“Tickling the sleeping dragon’s tail” is a metaphor for risking severe consequences by taking an unnecessary provocative action. Its origin can be traced to the last year of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 1946. When investigating the critical mass of plutonium, LANL scientists usually brought two halves of a beryllium reflecting shell surrounding a fissile core closer together, observing the increase in reaction rate via a scintillation counter. They manually forced the two half-shells closer together by gripping them through a thumbhole at the top, while as a safety precaution, keeping the shells from completely closing by inserting shims. However, the habit of Louis Slotin was to remove the shims and keep the shells separated by manually inserting a screwdriver. Enrico Fermi is reported to have warned Slotin and others that they would be “dead within a year” if they continued this procedure. One day the screwdriver slipped, allowing the two half-shells to completely close, and the increased reflectivity drove the core toward criticality. Slotin immediately flipped the top half-shell loose with a flick of the screwdriver, but by then he had endured a lethal burst of fast neutrons. He was dead nine days later. Richard Feynman characterized the activities of the critical mass group as “tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon.”

There is literally no reason to play with dangerous pathogens like this, whatever bulls**t excuse you cook up. No good can come from it, but somehow the “scientists” who do this sort of thing are irresistibly drawn to it just as Louis Slotin was drawn to playing with fissionable materials in a way that could kill himself or everybody in Los Alamos.

It is pathological.

Professor Francois Balloux, an infectious disease expert based at University College London, wrote on Twitter (X): ‘It’s a terrible study, scientifically totally pointless.

‘I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanized mice with a random virus. Conversely, I could see how such stuff might go wrong…’

Professor Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com he wholeheartedly agreed with Professor Balloux’s assessment.

He added: ‘The preprint does not specify the biosafety level and biosafety precautions used for the research.

‘The absence of this information raises the concerning possibility that part or all of this research, like the research in Wuhan in 2016-2019 that likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, recklessly was performed without the minimal biosafety containment and practices essential for research with a potential pandemic pathogens.’

There is no indication that this particular experiment was done with US funding, but chances are good that we built the infrastructure that made it possible or funded the precursor work.

Disturbing news — they are going wild with gain-of-function-research.

Their latest test created a new virus that had a 100% kill rate in transgenic mice.
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— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) January 14, 2024

Lest you think that it is only crazy Chinese scientists who do such things, think again. One of the reasons the Chinese are able to do this is that Western scientists decided to take advantage of the cheaper and less restrictive environments afforded them in China. Fauci and the EcoHealth Alliance partnered with these guys for that very reason.

The people who are in charge of the most sensitive and important roles in our society are sociopaths.

They are playing God, and somebody has to build Noah’s Ark.

 

[cowboyusa]

Marxism is the deadliest virus ever.

[DoughtyOne]

With China’s populace predicted to drop like a rock over the
next few decades, it needs other nation’s populace to do
the same.

Of course we know the WEF seems to be hoping for the same
thing. I suggest we ask China nicely to start with the
WEF this time.

[Dogbert41]

Well I hope that we are splicing together an even MORE powerful virus at our labs in Ukraine as a deterrence to the labs we are funding in China!

[ETCM]

With China’s populace predicted to drop like a rock over the next few decades, it needs other nation’s populace to do the same.

Not really. China, like most "wealthy" nations could fix many of their problems by just killing off the huge part of the population that is not productive. Especially those who are past their breeding years AND non-productive. And its so easy to vaccinate those you want to keep. No elderly to spend money on, and their wealth flows to the state.

Of course killing off your rivals would be good too.

[DoughtyOne]

While I do somewhat agree with you, you’re still left with a
populace drastically smaller than it had been.

Even then, you’re still left with a high median age, unless
you kill off a massive portion of your populace.

The one child policy left them in serious trouble, and I’m
not sure your idea really works. It may. At what cost?

[himno hero]

Especially when it’s married to Islam.

Obamanites have infected America and it’s attacked every institution.

[webheart]

Talking about the original covid: it was created in a lab with specific functions in mind and they keep saying it escaped. Escaped or leaked from a lab where it was designed and created. Why is everyone afraid to postulate that it might have been released for a purpose?

[Signalman]

Didn’t these idiots learn their the first time?

[Signalman]

Didn’t these idiots learn their lesson the first time?

[ETCM]

While I do somewhat agree with you, you’re still left with a populace drastically smaller than it had been.

China could kill 2/3 of their population, and still have a lower population density than the USA. Their population outstrips their natural resources, and is nearly impossible to manage. Previously, their population WAS their primary natural resource, now it is too old to be productive. Of course, this is placing an artificial limit of their current borders. There is a lot of land and natural resources surrounding them with low population density, ripe for expansion. Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan...

Still, I'm not sure even the CCP would go so far as killing off their elderly and unproductive, and they probably couldn't survive the fallout.

[Owen]

It has always been profoundly puzzling how, in the year 2020, the virus was like a scythe through the US, Italy, France and most of Europe, killing 65+ people by 100s of thousands, but in Asia, nearly none.

Very hard for that to happen unless the virus was designed to spare Asians. Then as mutations arrived, it started killing Asians, too.

2020 was before vax.

[DoughtyOne]

I suspect that if China pulled something like that off, it
would become an island, with nobody venturing out to do
business with it any longer.

Any nation ruthless enough to do something like that to its
own people, would not be a nation anyone could trust.

[Dr. Franklin]

It’s the 2024 Biden Reelection Coronavirus variant, as predicted.

[ETCM]

Any nation ruthless enough to do something like that to its own people, would not be a nation anyone could trust.

That's true, and probably enough to prevent such an act. Even evil wants to survive. Still, I'm sure there are people, both here and there, that would like to.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ll grant you that.

I had a guy I had known for twenty years or more. He was
a mild mannered guy who wanted to see at last half the
world’s population disappear.

Moonbats are nesting everywhere.

My suggestion is if that’s how they really feel, they should
start volunteering to be the first to go.

[Peter ODonnell]

I am surprised that nobody posted this thought before I did, but surely we should draw the logical conclusion that the 100% kill rate of human beings would best benefit China if it occurred in a continent they wanted to colonize and settle?

Like all the world except China?

What a nightmare scenario, a few survivors trying to hide on a planet that is 99.9% Chinese people all looking to exterminate us. Well, at least we would be safe to hang out in roadside cafes because Chinese drivers never stop for anything.

[alexander_busek]

China could kill 2/3 of their population, and still have a lower higher population density than the USA.

True.

Regards,

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The Red Chinese can afford to lose hundreds of millions of their own people and still have enough to conquer all of Asia and then some.

[chopperk]

Did Fauci fund this experiment for the CCP?