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On December 9, 2019, before the outbreak of the pandemic became generally known, Daszak gave an interview in which he talked in glowing terms of how researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been reprogramming the spike protein and generating chimeric coronaviruses capable of infecting humanized mice.
“And we have now found, you know, after 6 or 7 years of doing this, over 100 new SARS-related coronaviruses, very close to SARS,” Daszak says around minute 28 of the interview. “Some of them get into human cells in the lab, some of them can cause SARS disease in humanized mice models and are untreatable with therapeutic monoclonals and you can’t vaccinate against them with a vaccine. So, these are a clear and present danger….
“Interviewer: You say these are diverse coronaviruses and you can’t vaccinate against them, and no anti-virals — so what do we do?
“Daszak: Well I think…coronaviruses — you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a lot of what happen with coronavirus, in zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work a lot with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert into the backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab. So you can get more predictive when you find a sequence. You’ve got this diversity. Now the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s insert some of these other things and get a better vaccine.” The insertions he referred to perhaps included an element called the furin cleavage site, discussed below, which greatly increases viral infectivity for human cells.
In disjointed style, Daszak is referring to the fact that once you have generated a novel coronavirus that can attack human cells, you can take the spike protein and make it the basis for a vaccine.
Virologists like Dr. Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. In their laboratories they routinely created viruses more dangerous than those that exist in nature. They argued they could do so safely, and that by getting ahead of nature they could predict and prevent natural “spillovers,” the cross-over of viruses from an animal host to people.
originally posted by: myselfaswell
a reply to: CharlesT
Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
It's written by Nicholas Wade, a science writer who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science and, for many years, on the New York Times.
Virologists like Dr. Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. In their laboratories they routinely created viruses more dangerous than those that exist in nature. They argued they could do so safely, and that by getting ahead of nature they could predict and prevent natural “spillovers,” the cross-over of viruses from an animal host to people.
Honestly, to suggest that Sars-Cov-2 is anything but genetically modified is fairly embarrassing considering the 2 options.
If you wish to believe that a species of bat, that lives in caves about 1000km from Wuhan, somehow managed to get to a wet market, have sex with a pangolin, which some how managed to create a virus that has avoided innumerable evolutionary steps and also developed the ability to transfer itself to humans, fine, be my guest.
Personally I'll stick with;
Virologists have been making these things for about a decade, the science is published.
If you're still unsure, maybe apply a bit of Occams razor
originally posted by: TzarChasm
originally posted by: myselfaswell
a reply to: CharlesT
Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
It's written by Nicholas Wade, a science writer who has worked on the staff of Nature, Science and, for many years, on the New York Times.
Virologists like Dr. Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. In their laboratories they routinely created viruses more dangerous than those that exist in nature. They argued they could do so safely, and that by getting ahead of nature they could predict and prevent natural “spillovers,” the cross-over of viruses from an animal host to people.
Honestly, to suggest that Sars-Cov-2 is anything but genetically modified is fairly embarrassing considering the 2 options.
If you wish to believe that a species of bat, that lives in caves about 1000km from Wuhan, somehow managed to get to a wet market, have sex with a pangolin, which some how managed to create a virus that has avoided innumerable evolutionary steps and also developed the ability to transfer itself to humans, fine, be my guest.
Personally I'll stick with;
Virologists have been making these things for about a decade, the science is published.
If you're still unsure, maybe apply a bit of Occams razor
Which means this can happen again.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: CharlesT
Good find.
Maybe one day Fauci will be held to account for his actions.
originally posted by: CharlesT
a reply to: carewemust
Can you imagine, using your sworn enemy's labs to develop a biological weapon? And it was released just before the November general election, using it as cover to justify mass voter fraud. The democratic party has sold it's soul to the devil.