[Grem] The Wuhan Virus may have been deliberately engineered ......
Sziklay Levente
lsziklay at freemail.hu
2020. Ápr. 27., H, 11:39:44 CEST
Trump nem normális - szó szerint! Csütörtökön azt az ötletét osztotta meg élőben egy sajtótájékoztatón, hogy háztartási tisztítószert kellene az amerikaiknak befecskendezni otthon!! Megtámadta a WHO-t, most Kínát - utóbbit némi joggal a kezdeti beteges titkolódzás miatt. Így mivel egy olyan rendszerről van szó, ami önkényuralomon és titkolózáson alapul. Ilyen rendszerekben az első reakció a baj, a probléma tagadása - ahogy meg is történt a vírusfertőzés elején. (Most , hogy itt az évforduló, érdemes megnézni a nagyon realisztikus Csernobil sorozatot, de a Kurszk tengeralattjáró katasztófájának kommunikációjára is jó példa ) Így, amikor bizalomra lenne szüksége a rendszernek - pont az nincs meg - viszont minden hír és híresztelés szabadon burjánzik, és nem tudjuk hitelt érdemlően ellenőrizni akár a koronavírus mesterséges voltáról szóló híreket sem. Így a rendszer beteges kontroll és információmonopolizáció mániája üt vissza - tasz sebezhetővé, ad támadási felületet - itt és most - Trumpnak. Cikk Trump Suggested ‘Injecting’ Disinfectant to Cure Coronavirus? We’re Not SurprisedFalse “bleach cures” have been touted for autism, cancer — and now Covid-19.
By Melissa Eaton, Anne Borden King, Emma Dalmayne and Amanda Seigler
The authors are mothers of autistic children who have been working to prevent medical misinformation.
April 26, 2020 President Trump at the White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday.Credit...Al Drago for The New York Times At a news conference on Thursday, President Trump surprised nearly everyone when he suggested using powerful cleaning agents, through an injection, as a possible Covid-19 cure.
As advocates against pseudoscience, we weren’t surprised at all. While Mr. Trump now claims his comment about injecting disinfectants was “very satirical,” there has been speculation that he was influenced by the leader of a group peddling such cures, even as the Food and Drug Administration moved to block the group from distributing its product.
In the social media groups we monitor, President Trump’s words were taken as a beacon of hope. As one promoter wrote: “Mr. President Donald Trump I totally agree with you. Chlorine Dioxide is a very noble product that has been used for many years throughout the world to cure people.”
For the past five years, as concerned parents of autistic kids, we’ve been documenting, following and reporting the “bleach cures” movement. The Genesis II Church and Kerri Rivera, among others, have been selling products like chlorine dioxide, marketed as “Miracle Mineral Solution,” or M.M.S., stating that the substances will cure autism, acne, cancer, diabetes, Covid-19 and so much more. This is a crucial red flag for pseudoscience: When a product claims it can cure anything, it’s a fake.
It has taken a pandemic to expose this movement and the ways that pseudoscience scammers use social media and fear to sell their products. It’s crucial, now more than ever, to look at the consequences of misinformation and why we need a more responsible approach to content management from big tech companies such as Facebook and our regulating authorities.
We have been infiltrating pseudoscience groups on social media in order to report these companies to regulators, with mixed results. We’ve gotten a close look at the psychology that draws people toward such products — and in our view, it is akin to the psychology that drives some of the Trumpist worldview. It is a siege mentality, rooted in the ideology of the anti-vaccine movement, based on anecdotes, conspiracy theories and a fear-mongering distrust of so-called Big Government.
Thanks for reading The Times.Subscribe to The Times From monitoring these groups, we’ve watched as the marketing of the “biomedical cure” industry has become increasingly linked with a distrust of social institutions in general. Much of it is based around the autism-vaccine myth, first made popular by Andrew Wakefield and later perpetuated by Jenny McCarthy, Robert Kennedy Jr. and others.
President Trump himself has lent support to the autism-vaccine myth, tweeting in March 2014:
>Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrump Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
> 23.4K2:35 PM - Mar 28, 2014Twitter Ads info and privacy
33.6K people are talking about this The belief that there is a link between vaccines and autism has been disproved by many studies, but some parents still decline to vaccinate their children. As a result of lower vaccination rates, communities around the world have experienced outbreaks of measles, mumps, rubella and other serious illnesses.
What do the “cures” being touted look like? Unfortunately, parents of autistic children have been advised by M.M.S. sellers to feed their children a protocol of 16 doses of bleach orally, in addition to a bleach enema to “cure” their condition. In the last five years, poison control centers have managed more than 16,000 chlorine dioxide cases, including a 6-year-old autistic girl hospitalized with liver failure.
Thousands of parents have been swayed into the dark world of autism “biomedicine” and their children have become 24-hour test subjects for dangerous protocols such as M.M.S., chelation and other products that have no evidence of benefit and clear evidence of harm. We think of the case of Abubakar Tariq Nadama, who died following a “chelation for autism” treatment.
One reason it is so difficult to combat M.M.S. is that it’s more than just a product: It’s a belief system. With Genesis II, for example, bleach products are made by an organization calling itself a “church” and touting its products as “sacraments.” We have seen the sellers create online “parent support communities” where the ideology around the product is continually reinforced. Group administrators, who work directly for the seller, cajole parents to “stay the course” and keep using the product.
Think about the message this sends to children with autism. To know your parents want to “cure” your neurological differences to the extent that they would feed you bleach multiple times a day is devastating.
The lack of regulatory protection is a big part of the problem. Pseudoscience thrives when there is cultural complacency. We reach out regularly to Facebook and other platforms asking for the M.M.S. “support group” pages to be shut down, but often Facebook’s response is that the groups do not “go against one of our specific Community Standards.” Kerri Rivera’s bleach-cure Facebook groups had thousands of followers before they were shut down — only after pressure from the media.
YouTube was also initially slow to respond in our view; however, it is responding now. To their credit, Amazon and eBay have removed M.M.S. products for sale.
While Health Canada has been cracking down on M.M.S., and one seller was convicted under Canada’s Food and Drug Act, the F.D.A. has been much slower to take action. Although we’ve contacted the F.D.A. for years, it wasn’t until this month that it issued temporary injunctions against the bleach-cure sellers based on the groups’ Covid-19 marketing. In our view, this should have happened long before the pandemic, to protect children with autism and others.
This week, scientists, doctors and public health authorities are themselves taking to social media in an attempt to reverse the harm of the bleach-cure myth. We hope this will bring more attention and action against all pseudoscience. For years, we have watched parents become so engulfed in misinformation that they have turned from hopeful parents to abusers, recruiting others into their deluded, fear-based ideology.
We have a message for America: When you see such fear-based ideology coming from our country’s leadership, don’t be surprised. Instead, take action. And please: Don’t take bleach.
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Itt az a rettenetes felelősség merül fel ,hogyha valaki eleve ismerte a ennek a dögnek a tulajdonságait és időben szól akkor esetleg egészen másként kellett volna ellene hatóanyagot keresni .A fertőzés még is csak Wuhanból indult ,azzal együtt hogy nem kínai cégek is benne voltak a projektben.
E.
2020.04.26. 21:46 keltezéssel, csakany írta:
>Kedves Mindenki!
>Ha a vírus mesterséges, akkor viszont bárhol készülhetett, nem biztos, hogy Kínában. Ez egy Trump köreiből származó, de azért mégiscsak összeesküvés-elmélet.
>Sziasztok Rita
>
>
>On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Reinisch Egon wrote:
>
>>
>>A jó öreg Luc ,már rájött erre .
>>
>>2020.04.26. 19:47 keltezéssel, Emoke Greschik írta:
>> How COVID-19 may have been deliberately engineered in a China biolab
>>
>> The Wuhan Virus may have been deliberately engineered in the laboratory by joining
>> parts of different viruses together using what is called recombinant technology.
>>Wed Apr 22, 2020 - 4:04 pm EST
>>https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-covid-19-may-have-been-deliberately-engineered-in-a-chin
>>a-biolab
>>
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>>April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Let’s start with the bats, the species known as
>>Intermediate Horseshoe Bat, to be exact. The Chinese Communist authorities claim that the
>>China Virus, called SARS-CoV-2, is a naturally occurring coronavirus that is carried by
>>the Horseshoe Bat. They also claim that the virus “jumped” from its normal host to humans
>>at the Wuhan “wet” market.
>>
>>Both of these claims are demonstrably false.
>>
>>Let’s start with the Wuhan “wet” market. As I told Jesse Watters on his FOX news show,
>>“Watters World,” last week, if the “wet” market was actually “ground zero” for the
>>outbreak, the authorities would have burned it to the ground. Instead, they have now
>>reopened it.
>>
>>It is an open secret in Wuhan that, as a team of researchers from Wuhan noted in late
>>February, that there were no bats in the market and that direct transmission from bats to
>>humans in the market was “unlikely.”
>>
>>Two other researchers had reported the same thing a week earlier, namely, “[T]he bat was
>>never a food source in the city and no bat was traded in the market.” But these
>>researchers, both surnamed Xiao, went even further. They pointed out that there were bats
>>in Wuhan--thousands of them—but they were being kept in two biolabs not far from the “wet”
>>market where they were used for research purposes.
>>
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>>They identified the two labs as the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
>>and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The Wuhan CDC is the national center for
>>China’s bat coronavirus research. Wuhan Institute of Virology uses recombinant technology
>>to create and study new coronaviruses. The conclusion of the two Doctors Xiao was that
>>“somebody was entangled with the evolution of [SARS-CoV-2] … the killer coronavirus
>>probably escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.”
>>
>>Their word choice is a little awkward because the researchers were writing in what is for
>>them foreign language. But what they clearly mean is that the China Coronavirus now
>>plaguing the planet is not the result of a natural recombination of two different viruses
>>in nature through an intermediate host, as many claim. Rather it was deliberately
>>engineered in the laboratory by joining parts of different viruses together using what is
>>called recombinant technology.
>>
>>More on the science of how this was done later. Right now all you need to know is that,
>>within a few hours of its publication, their paper on “The possible origins of
>>[SARS-CoV-2] coronavirus” was withdrawn. This same fate has since befallen several papers
>>by Chinese authors who have attempted, at great risk to themselves, to reveal the truth
>>about the origin of the outbreak to the world.
>>
>>Now back to the bats.
>>
>>China’s chief bat hunter is an employee of the Wuhan CDC named Tian Junhua. Mr. Tian’s
>>full-time job since 2012 has been collecting bat viruses for research purposes. Over this
>>time he collected thousands of live bats, as well as countless samples of bat urine and
>>feces, from caves over six hundred miles distant from Wuhan. The tiny mammals obviously
>>didn’t get to the city under their own power, but were trapped and transported to the two
>>biolabs by the industrious Mr. Tian. As the two Drs. Xiao wryly noted, “The probability
>>was very low for the bats to fly to the market.”
>>
>>As a result of the efforts of Mr. Tian and others, China now boasts that it has “taken the
>>lead” in global virus research. It claims to have discovered over 2,000 new viruses since
>>the SARS Coronavirus epidemic of 2003. To give you a sense of the scale of China’s
>>effort, the total number of viruses discovered over the last two hundred years is, at
>>2,284, only slightly more. China’s frenzied collection efforts have nearly doubled the
>>total number of known viruses, and includes hundreds of new and possibly dangerous
>>coronaviruses.
>>
>>That’s a lot of potentially harmful pathogens to keep track of. But it is also a huge
>>cache of coronaviruses to harvest parts and pieces from if you are looking to make an
>>already deadly coronavirus even deadlier.
>>
>>And that seems to be exactly what a group of researchers at the Wuhan Institute of
>>Virology, led by a woman named Shi Zhengli, may have been intent upon doing right up until
>>the end of 2019.
>>
>>We all know what happened then.
>>
>> The Technology
>>
>>Shi Zhengli received her master’s degree from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 1990.
>>After earning her Ph.D. in France, she returned to WIV to direct the Institute’s research
>>project into bat coronaviruses. If Mr. Tian is China’s batman, Dr. Shi is China’s
>>batwoman.
>>
>>Some of the articles published by Dr. Shi and her team of virologists describe naturally
>>occurring SARS-like coronaviruses that, like the SARS virus itself, could infect human
>>beings directly.
>>
>>But Dr. Shi’s group was not content to merely study existing coronaviruses. They were also
>>genetically engineering new ones. In a 2008 article in the Journal of Virology, she and
>>her team described how they were genetically engineering SARS-like viruses from horseshoe
>>bats to enable them to use angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to gain entry into human
>>cells.
>>
>>In other words, more than 10 years ago, Shi’s team was already creating entirely new and
>>deadly coronaviruses. They did so by inserting that part of the dangerous SARS virus that
>>allows it to infect people into a second bat coronavirus, which was then able to attack
>>human cells just like the original SARS virus does.
>>
>>But simply recreating a new SARS virus was only a first step. Shi and her team wanted to
>>move beyond that to create completely new, and potentially even more deadly coronaviruses.
>>For that she needed a new and more advanced recombinant technique. She may have found one
>>in research being done at the University of North Carolina by Prof. Ralph S. Baric.
>>
>>Prof. Baric had developed a technique for quickly and easily producing what he called
>>“infectious clones.” This involves taking coronaviruses from horseshoe bats and
>>genetically engineering them to more easily infect human cells.
>>
>>Why would he--or anyone else for that matter--do such a thing?
>>
>>Baric explains: “In 2013 preemergent SARS-like Coronaviruses were identified in horseshoe
>>bats and found to be poised for entry into the human population. … preemergent
>>coronaviruses (CoVs) pose a global threat that requires immediate intervention. Rapid
>>intervention necessitates the capacity to generate, grow, and genetically manipulate
>>infectious CoVs in order to rapidly evaluate pathogenic mechanisms, host and tissue
>>permissibility, and candidate antiviral therapeutic efficacy.” (italics added)
>>
>>Now all of this—preemergent coronaviruses … poised for entry … global threat … requires
>>immediate intervention—all sounds very ominous. But what people need to understand is
>>that the good professor is talking about coronaviruses that have not actually infected a
>>single, living, breathing human being. Rather, he is talking about coronaviruses that
>>might, possibly, at some point in the future, make the leap from bats to humans. Or they
>>might not. Ever.
>>
>>This means that the phrase “preemergent coronavirus” is at best misleading, at worst a
>>fiction. It is a fiction because neither Prof. Baric, nor Dr. Shi Zhengli, nor anyone
>>else, can possibly know whether any one of these naturally occurring viruses will ever
>>infect a single human being.
>>
>>In any event, Prof. Baric is very pleased to inform us, citing his own research, that
>>“much of the [coronavirus] research over the last 15 years has been possible because of
>>the capacity to generate infectious clones using highly efficient reverse genetics
>>platforms, coupled with robust small animal models of human disease.”
>>
>>In other words, he and his team used the technique they created to easily construct
>>unnatural coronaviruses and see if they will infect and kill mice. Dr. Shi Zhengli
>>collaborated with Baric in carrying out some of this research, as highlighted in a 2015
>>article in Nature Medicine in which they discussed bat coronaviruses that were potentially
>>capable of infecting human beings.
>>
>>Now, a sane person might think that the idea of creating dangerous new pathogens in the
>>lab for which humanity had no acquired immunity, no vaccines, and no drug therapies might
>>not be a good idea. The U.S. National Institutes of Health, under the direction of Dr.
>>Anthony Fauci, however, initially funded Prof. Baric’s research.
>>
>>But then Dr. Fauci had second thoughts. In late 2014 he sent a letter to the University
>>of North Carolina, notifying the university that Prof. Baric’s research project may
>>violate a new moratorium on risky virology studies involving influenza, MERS and SARS
>>viruses.
>>
>>The letter and the document from the “Public Health Emergency” office of HHS that it
>>references, orders a pause on “Gain of Function” research into SARS-like coronaviruses.
>>What is “Gain of Function” research, precisely? The document defines it as “research that
>>improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease … [by] “confer[ing] attributes to …
>>SARS [coronaviruses] such that the resulting virus has enhanced pathogenicity and/or
>>transmissibility (via the respiratory route) in mammals. … [that] may entail biosafety and
>>biosecurity risks.”
>>
>>The original scientific rationale for “enhancing” the ability of certain coronaviruses to
>>infect and kill human beings was to get one step ahead of the net pandemic. “We will
>>create superbugs in the lab,” the scientists said to themselves, “and we will learn how to
>>defeat them by developing drug therapies and vaccines. Then when the next superbug
>>emerges from nature, we will be ready.”
>>
>>But what happens if you create a new superbug in the lab and, before you have devised a
>>defense against it, it escapes from the lab. What then?
>>
>>The consequences of unleashing such an “enhanced” coronavirus on the world—a pathogen for
>>which human beings had no natural defenses, and for which human science had no treatments
>>or vaccines—would be incalculable.
>>
>>The U.S. pause on such research was not lifted until December 29, 2017, over three years
>>later, when NIH put in place what it called “robust oversight” that considers the
>>“scientific merits and potential benefits,” as well as the “potential to create ... or use
>>an enhanced potential pandemic pathogen.”
>>
>>In other words, the brakes were put on the dangerous “gain-of-function” research being
>>done in the U.S. for fear that it would “create” a pathogen that could, if it leaked from
>>the lab, cause a pandemic. We decided that the risks associated with such research were
>>generally not worth the benefits.
>>
>>Not so in China, however. There, in Dr. Shi’s laboratory, the creation of dangerous
>>“pathogens of pandemic potential” apparently went forward without pause or effective
>>oversight. Communist China is not known for its concern for human life.
>>
>>Since we are now dealing with exactly the kind of deadly and infectious SARS-like
>>coronaviruses that scientists have been creating in the lab for at least the past ten
>>years, it is reasonable to ask if the China Coronavirus is a naturally occurring virus.
>>Or is it one of batwoman’s concoctions?
>>
>>Virtually everyone now agrees that the China Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, leaked from Dr.
>>Shi’s lab. But I would suggest that the virus itself is the product of Gain of Function
>>research in which its potency was artificially “enhanced” to make it more infectious and
>>more lethal using recombinant techniques first developed in the U.S., perhaps at Prof.
>>Baric’s lab. The leak was an accident. The “enhancement” was deliberate.
>>
>>On March 30th of this year, an unusual, unsigned “Editor’s Note” was added to Shi and
>>Baric’s original article in Nature Medicine. The oddly worded note read: “We are aware
>>that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel
>>coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true;
>>scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.”
>>
>>Actually, the “most likely source” of the coronavirus is not just one animal but two,
>>whose distinct but related species of coronaviruses were isolated from their hosts and
>>then pieced together in the lab using recombinant technology to create a new and much more
>>infectious variety.
>>
>>* * *
>>
>>In Part II I will review the evidence that the novel coronavirus is the result of what
>>Chinese researchers themselves have called an “unusual insertion” in a Horseshoe Bat
>>coronavirus that may have come from a Pangolin coronavirus.
>>
>>Steven W. Mosher @StevenWMosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and
>>the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s “Dream” is the New Threat to World Order.
>>
>>RELATED: Listen to minutes 10-15 of interview with Senator Ted Cruz
>>
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Kedves Lista !
Mint tudjátok mást sem tettem eddig a listán mint összeesküvés
elméleteket próbáltam cáfolni .
De ez a kérdés most több mint érdekes. Akit érdekel a téma Írja
be a keresőbe "Luc Montagnier ,Wuhan " szavakat és előjönnek
magyar és angol nyelvű cikkek.
Itt az a rettenetes felelősség merül fel ,hogyha valaki eleve
ismerte a ennek a dögnek a tulajdonságait és időben szól akkor
esetleg egészen másként kellett volna ellene hatóanyagot keresni
.A fertőzés még is csak Wuhanból indult ,azzal együtt hogy nem
kínai cégek is benne voltak a projektben.
E.
2020.04.26. 21:46 keltezéssel, csakany
írta:
Kedves
Mindenki!
Ha a vírus mesterséges, akkor viszont bárhol készülhetett, nem
biztos, hogy Kínában. Ez egy Trump köreiből származó, de azért
mégiscsak összeesküvés-elmélet.
Sziasztok Rita
On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Reinisch Egon wrote:
A jó öreg Luc ,már rájött erre .
2020.04.26. 19:47 keltezéssel, Emoke Greschik írta:
How COVID-19 may have been deliberately engineered
in a China biolab
The Wuhan Virus may have been deliberately engineered in
the laboratory by joining
parts of different viruses together using what is called
recombinant technology.
Wed Apr 22, 2020 - 4:04 pm EST
https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/how-covid-19-may-have-been-deliberately-engineered-in-a-chin
a-biolab
PETITION: Thank President Trump for halting U.S. funding to
pro-abortion World Health
Organization Sign the petition here.
April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Let’s start with the bats, the
species known as
Intermediate Horseshoe Bat, to be exact. The Chinese Communist
authorities claim that the
China Virus, called SARS-CoV-2, is a naturally occurring
coronavirus that is carried by
the Horseshoe Bat. They also claim that the virus “jumped” from
its normal host to humans
at the Wuhan “wet” market.
Both of these claims are demonstrably false.
Let’s start with the Wuhan “wet” market. As I told Jesse Watters
on his FOX news show,
“Watters World,” last week, if the “wet” market was actually
“ground zero” for the
outbreak, the authorities would have burned it to the ground.
Instead, they have now
reopened it.
It is an open secret in Wuhan that, as a team of researchers
from Wuhan noted in late
February, that there were no bats in the market and that direct
transmission from bats to
humans in the market was “unlikely.”
Two other researchers had reported the same thing a week
earlier, namely, “[T]he bat was
never a food source in the city and no bat was traded in the
market.” But these
researchers, both surnamed Xiao, went even further. They
pointed out that there were bats
in Wuhan--thousands of them—but they were being kept in two
biolabs not far from the “wet”
market where they were used for research purposes.
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They identified the two labs as the Wuhan Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). The Wuhan CDC is the
national center for
China’s bat coronavirus research. Wuhan Institute of Virology
uses recombinant technology
to create and study new coronaviruses. The conclusion of the two
Doctors Xiao was that
“somebody was entangled with the evolution of [SARS-CoV-2] … the
killer coronavirus
probably escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.”
Their word choice is a little awkward because the researchers
were writing in what is for
them foreign language. But what they clearly mean is that the
China Coronavirus now
plaguing the planet is not the result of a natural recombination
of two different viruses
in nature through an intermediate host, as many claim. Rather
it was deliberately
engineered in the laboratory by joining parts of different
viruses together using what is
called recombinant technology.
More on the science of how this was done later. Right now all
you need to know is that,
within a few hours of its publication, their paper on “The
possible origins of
[SARS-CoV-2] coronavirus” was withdrawn. This same fate has
since befallen several papers
by Chinese authors who have attempted, at great risk to
themselves, to reveal the truth
about the origin of the outbreak to the world.
Now back to the bats.
China’s chief bat hunter is an employee of the Wuhan CDC named
Tian Junhua. Mr. Tian’s
full-time job since 2012 has been collecting bat viruses for
research purposes. Over this
time he collected thousands of live bats, as well as countless
samples of bat urine and
feces, from caves over six hundred miles distant from Wuhan. The
tiny mammals obviously
didn’t get to the city under their own power, but were trapped
and transported to the two
biolabs by the industrious Mr. Tian. As the two Drs. Xiao wryly
noted, “The probability
was very low for the bats to fly to the market.”
As a result of the efforts of Mr. Tian and others, China now
boasts that it has “taken the
lead” in global virus research. It claims to have discovered
over 2,000 new viruses since
the SARS Coronavirus epidemic of 2003. To give you a sense of
the scale of China’s
effort, the total number of viruses discovered over the last two
hundred years is, at
2,284, only slightly more. China’s frenzied collection efforts
have nearly doubled the
total number of known viruses, and includes hundreds of new and
possibly dangerous
coronaviruses.
That’s a lot of potentially harmful pathogens to keep track of.
But it is also a huge
cache of coronaviruses to harvest parts and pieces from if you
are looking to make an
already deadly coronavirus even deadlier.
And that seems to be exactly what a group of researchers at the
Wuhan Institute of
Virology, led by a woman named Shi Zhengli, may have been intent
upon doing right up until
the end of 2019.
We all know what happened then.
The Technology
Shi Zhengli received her master’s degree from the Wuhan
Institute of Virology in 1990.
After earning her Ph.D. in France, she returned to WIV to direct
the Institute’s research
project into bat coronaviruses. If Mr. Tian is China’s batman,
Dr. Shi is China’s
batwoman.
Some of the articles published by Dr. Shi and her team of
virologists describe naturally
occurring SARS-like coronaviruses that, like the SARS virus
itself, could infect human
beings directly.
But Dr. Shi’s group was not content to merely study existing
coronaviruses. They were also
genetically engineering new ones. In a 2008 article in
the Journal of Virology, she and
her team described how they were genetically engineering
SARS-like viruses from horseshoe
bats to enable them to use angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
(ACE2) to gain entry into human
cells.
In other words, more than 10 years ago, Shi’s team was already
creating entirely new and
deadly coronaviruses. They did so by inserting that part of the
dangerous SARS virus that
allows it to infect people into a second bat coronavirus, which
was then able to attack
human cells just like the original SARS virus does.
But simply recreating a new SARS virus was only a first step.
Shi and her team wanted to
move beyond that to create completely new, and potentially even
more deadly coronaviruses.
For that she needed a new and more advanced recombinant
technique. She may have found one
in research being done at the University of North Carolina by
Prof. Ralph S. Baric.
Prof. Baric had developed a technique for quickly and easily
producing what he called
“infectious clones.” This involves taking coronaviruses from
horseshoe bats and
genetically engineering them to more easily infect human
cells.
Why would he--or anyone else for that matter--do such a thing?
Baric explains: “In 2013 preemergent SARS-like Coronaviruses
were identified in horseshoe
bats and found to be poised for entry into the human population.
… preemergent
coronaviruses (CoVs) pose a global threat that requires
immediate intervention. Rapid
intervention necessitates the capacity to generate, grow, and
genetically manipulate
infectious CoVs in order to rapidly evaluate pathogenic
mechanisms, host and tissue
permissibility, and candidate antiviral therapeutic efficacy.”
(italics added)
Now all of this—preemergent coronaviruses … poised for entry …
global threat … requires
immediate intervention—all sounds very ominous. But what people
need to understand is
that the good professor is talking about coronaviruses that have
not actually infected a
single, living, breathing human being. Rather, he is talking
about coronaviruses that
might, possibly, at some point in the future, make the leap from
bats to humans. Or they
might not. Ever.
This means that the phrase “preemergent coronavirus” is at best
misleading, at worst a
fiction. It is a fiction because neither Prof. Baric, nor Dr.
Shi Zhengli, nor anyone
else, can possibly know whether any one of these naturally
occurring viruses will ever
infect a single human being.
In any event, Prof. Baric is very pleased to inform us, citing
his own research, that
“much of the [coronavirus] research over the last 15 years has
been possible because of
the capacity to generate infectious clones using highly
efficient reverse genetics
platforms, coupled with robust small animal models of human
disease.”
In other words, he and his team used the technique they created
to easily construct
unnatural coronaviruses and see if they will infect and kill
mice. Dr. Shi Zhengli
collaborated with Baric in carrying out some of this research,
as highlighted in a 2015
article in Nature Medicine in which they discussed bat
coronaviruses that were potentially
capable of infecting human beings.
Now, a sane person might think that the idea of creating
dangerous new pathogens in the
lab for which humanity had no acquired immunity, no vaccines,
and no drug therapies might
not be a good idea. The U.S. National Institutes of Health,
under the direction of Dr.
Anthony Fauci, however, initially funded Prof. Baric’s
research.
But then Dr. Fauci had second thoughts. In late 2014 he sent a
letter to the University
of North Carolina, notifying the university that Prof. Baric’s
research project may
violate a new moratorium on risky virology studies involving
influenza, MERS and SARS
viruses.
The letter and the document from the “Public Health Emergency”
office of HHS that it
references, orders a pause on “Gain of Function” research into
SARS-like coronaviruses.
What is “Gain of Function” research, precisely? The document
defines it as “research that
improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease … [by]
“confer[ing] attributes to …
SARS [coronaviruses] such that the resulting virus has enhanced
pathogenicity and/or
transmissibility (via the respiratory route) in mammals. …
[that] may entail biosafety and
biosecurity risks.”
The original scientific rationale for “enhancing” the ability of
certain coronaviruses to
infect and kill human beings was to get one step ahead of the
net pandemic. “We will
create superbugs in the lab,” the scientists said to themselves,
“and we will learn how to
defeat them by developing drug therapies and vaccines. Then
when the next superbug
emerges from nature, we will be ready.”
But what happens if you create a new superbug in the lab and,
before you have devised a
defense against it, it escapes from the lab. What then?
The consequences of unleashing such an “enhanced” coronavirus on
the world—a pathogen for
which human beings had no natural defenses, and for which human
science had no treatments
or vaccines—would be incalculable.
The U.S. pause on such research was not lifted until December
29, 2017, over three years
later, when NIH put in place what it called “robust oversight”
that considers the
“scientific merits and potential benefits,” as well as the
“potential to create ... or use
an enhanced potential pandemic pathogen.”
In other words, the brakes were put on the dangerous
“gain-of-function” research being
done in the U.S. for fear that it would “create” a pathogen that
could, if it leaked from
the lab, cause a pandemic. We decided that the risks associated
with such research were
generally not worth the benefits.
Not so in China, however. There, in Dr. Shi’s laboratory, the
creation of dangerous
“pathogens of pandemic potential” apparently went forward
without pause or effective
oversight. Communist China is not known for its concern for
human life.
Since we are now dealing with exactly the kind of deadly and
infectious SARS-like
coronaviruses that scientists have been creating in the lab for
at least the past ten
years, it is reasonable to ask if the China Coronavirus is a
naturally occurring virus.
Or is it one of batwoman’s concoctions?
Virtually everyone now agrees that the China Coronavirus,
SARS-CoV-2, leaked from Dr.
Shi’s lab. But I would suggest that the virus itself is the
product of Gain of Function
research in which its potency was artificially “enhanced” to
make it more infectious and
more lethal using recombinant techniques first developed in the
U.S., perhaps at Prof.
Baric’s lab. The leak was an accident. The “enhancement” was
deliberate.
On March 30th of this year, an unusual, unsigned “Editor’s Note”
was added to Shi and
Baric’s original article in Nature Medicine. The oddly worded
note read: “We are aware
that this article is being used as the basis for unverified
theories that the novel
coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no
evidence that this is true;
scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of
the coronavirus.”
Actually, the “most likely source” of the coronavirus is not
just one animal but two,
whose distinct but related species of coronaviruses were
isolated from their hosts and
then pieced together in the lab using recombinant technology to
create a new and much more
infectious variety.
* * *
In Part II I will review the evidence that the novel coronavirus
is the result of what
Chinese researchers themselves have called an “unusual
insertion” in a Horseshoe Bat
coronavirus that may have come from a Pangolin coronavirus.
Steven W. Mosher @StevenWMosher is the President of the
Population Research Institute and
the author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s “Dream” is the New
Threat to World Order.
RELATED: Listen to minutes 10-15 of interview with Senator Ted
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