Category: Gain of Function

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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Last week, the man who oversaw safety programs at the U.S. Army’s maximum-containment lab at Fort Detrick, Md., examined the way the Chinese government runs its labs and warned that, “It is very, very apparent that their biological safety training is minimal.” Yesterday, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released its full report, detailing the evidence that researchers affiliated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology started working on a vaccine for the virus that causes Covid-19 before the rest of the world had even heard about the virus. In this light, it is not surprising that most Americans agree with the FBI and Livermore Labs: The most likely cause of the Covid-19 pandemic was a lab accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Let That Sink In

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“I’ve never had a Twitter account. I don’t intend on having a Twitter account, and I’ve had nothing to do with Twitter. “

The Fauci Files are finally out.

Related, from Judicial Watch;

Judicial Watch announced today it received 552 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) which include the initial grant application and annual reports to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from EcoHealth Alliance, describing the aim of its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to create mutant viruses “to better predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people.”

Eco Health planned to sequence the spike protein from coronaviruses obtained from bats for the purpose of “creating mutants to identify how significantly each would need to evolve to use ACE2,” which is explained as “the receptor to gain entry to human cells.” […]

In the initial “Application for Federal Assistance” submitted on June 5, 2013, by EcoHealth Alliance, a section is titled “Specific Aims,” which notes the intention to create mutant bat viruses and “predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people:”

Rewriting history

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Normally I would suggest reading a book as opposed to judging it according to a review, but in this case I would have to admit that it’s probably not worth whatever the bookseller wants for it.

It’s one thing to claim that your pandemic strategies were undertaken with good intentions, but to not even acknowledge some obvious falsehoods that affected the decision making process takes dishonesty to a whole new level.

To recap, Deborah Birx—the woman who did more than almost any other person in the United States to promote and prolong COVID lockdowns, and attempted, with the support of mainstream media outlets, to silence anyone who disagreed with her—tells us in 2022 that she’d been inspired in her work by images that were widely known to have been faked (as if the real images of old age homes in Italy and elsewhere weren’t bad enough) before the lockdowns even started.

That’s Chapter 1.

She also admits that her guidance regarding the maximum allowable size of social gatherings—10 people—was arbitrary, because her real goal was zero—no social contact of any kind, anywhere…

Collectivist thoughts

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I’m frankly amazed that Tyson even agreed to be on Del’s show, but this is a revealing exchange nonetheless.

Tyson doesn’t seem to understand a very basic point: the purpose of the scientific method is not to “produce consensus” but rather to discover the truth.

Entire interview here.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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Yuri Deigin:

Wow, a curiously similar case of “frozen evolution” of an RNA virus to the 2021 Ebola outbreak: a 2015 outbreak of the bluetongue virus in livestock caused by a strain “frozen” since 2008.

Demonstrating admirable intellectual honesty, the authors (@davidandthebees et al.) suggest that accidental release is the most plausible hypothesis right in the title: “Frozen evolution” of an RNA virus suggests accidental release as a potential cause of arbovirus re-emergence”.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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Alina Chan (@Ayjchan);

In NASEM expert panel, Feb 2020, Peter Daszak & Ralph Baric did not reveal they had given their Wuhan colleagues the idea to put furin cleavage sites in SARS-like viruses. Even while Kristian Andersen claimed all genetic engineering could be ruled out.

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NASEM_Andersen-Email_Baric-1.pdf

That private conversation could’ve gone in a completely different direction if these 2 scientists had said “actually last year we shared the idea to create viruses matching the pandemic virus blueprint with our Wuhan collaborators”.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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It’s like a bad SNL skit now: The Energy Department, which was previously undecided on the origin of the pandemic, now joins the FBI’s stance that the coronavirus likely spread due to a mishap at a Chinese laboratory, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.


Jonathan Turley: The categorical rejection of the lab theory is only the latest media narrative proven to be false. The Russian collusion scandal, the Hunter Biden “Russian Disinformation,” the Lafayette Park “Photo Op” conspiracy, the Nick Sandmann controversy, the Jussie Smollett case, the Migrant Whipping scandal.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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Sen Rand Paul;

The coronavirus outbreak brought the world’s attention to the dangers of gain-of-function research. This kind of research occurs when a virus is manipulated to increase its strength or contagiousness—literally, causing it to gain a function.

Dr. Anthony Fauci continues to repeat the talking points of the Chinese Communist Party and insists that SARS-CoV-2 spread from bats to an intermediate host animal, then to humans. A wet market in Wuhan, China, is allegedly where this “spillover” occurred.

Yet according to Chinese officials—who have a big incentive to disprove a laboratory accident—none of the animals at that market when it closed, and none of the animals in its supply chain were infected with SARS-CoV-2. In fact, in roughly three years since the pandemic began, not one animal has been identified that was infected with the virus before it infected humans.

In 2018, EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit organization, applied for funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In its grant application, EcoHealth proposed inserting a “proteolytic cleavage site” into bat coronaviruses that interact with furin, an enzyme in human cells. However, DARPA rejected that proposal because adding a furin cleavage site would make the coronavirus more lethal in humans.

Only 18 months later, COVID-19 appeared in Wuhan—but nowhere else. Unlike the original SARS virus and the 2013 avian flu, SARS-CoV-2 didn’t spring up in separate geographic regions (as you would expect of a virus circulating in another species). Instead, it spread from a single location and seemed well-adapted from the beginning to spark a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Genetically, the feature that equips the virus to replicate so quickly is a furin cleavage site in its spike protein. Yet no other SARS-related coronavirus has ever been found in nature exhibiting this feature.

As we later learned, the Wuhan Institute of Virology partnered with EcoHealth on another project involving gain-of-function experiments on bat coronaviruses. However, unlike the project DARPA had rejected, this one found a U.S. government agency willing to fund it: Dr. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Don’t Believe Me, I Work For Pfizer

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The other shoe drops.

Surely Pfizer didn’t think there was only one? Jordon Walker would have known there was more to come.

Incentive to embellish

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What’s not to like about providing financial incentives to arrive at a particular conclusion? What could possibly go wrong? I have to disagree with the authors on one point: there’s nothing “well-intended” about any of this.

This well-intended gesture has created a strong incentive to conflate dying from COVID-19 with passing incidentally while infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

One reason is the added incentive for hospitals to screen nearly every hospitalized patient for COVID, no matter what the underlying diagnosis, whether it is a broken tibia or a gallstone, even for patients with no COVID-like symptoms. Sec. 3710 of the CARES Act stipulates when a Medicare patient tests positive for COVID-19, the facility receives a 20 percent add-on reimbursement as long as there is a National Emergency.

Pfizer Executive Says Company to ‘Mutate’ COVID via ‘Directed Evolution’ to Continue Profiting Off of Vaccines

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So, I guess he’s fired.

Jordon Trishton Walker, Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations – mRNA Scientific Planner: “One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses.”

Woo boy.

Update via Twitter Spaces: Another Pfizer employee leaks…

Breaking via O’Keefe: Pfizer is disabling comments on TikTok, Twitter. Some of their auxiliary accounts are still live.

One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

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Most conspiracies arise from dishonest people collaborating to cover their asses.

The Intercept recently published newly unredacted emails showing that those same “experts” seriously believed COVID could have come out of the lab.

Scientists like Dr. Fauci and other subject matter experts repeatedly sent messages to each other during the early days of the pandemic. Those messages showed that many of them harbored doubts about the possibilities of a natural origin.

But of course, it seems that as soon as they realized the implications, they switched positions dramatically. […]

Multiple “experts” on that conference call repeated, in writing, that they believed the lab leak required strong consideration.

One was described as being “70:30” or “60:40” in favor of an “accidental-release.” Another said he essentially couldn’t imagine the virus occurring naturally.

“I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature. … it’s stunning.”

Of course, they then wrote in a journal article just over a month later that they didn’t believe “any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

That article came about quickly, despite the concerns, thanks in large part to Fauci.

Over the coming months and years, the narrative will shift to “we always said this could be a lab-leaked virus, because the science was essential to protect public health”, then stare at you like guppies when you protest otherwise.

Old news

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For anyone who has followed Geert Vanden Bossche since the pandemic started, this is not even news. The good doctor predicted exactly this outcome from day one, but as is par for the course these days, the article manages to completely avoid any mention of him.

The reason for the continuing decline in bivalent boosters limiting infection is likely due to “immune imprinting,” the idea that the immune response to either previous infection or to receiving a vaccine limits an individual’s future response to new variants. The immune system thus prefers to recall existing memory cells rather than produce new responses when the old and new variants are closely related. We produce antibodies that fight the older strains more effectively than the evolving ones that now dominate.

Thus, new strains that develop will continue to rapidly evade the antibodies produced by repeated vaccinations and we will continue to get diminishing returns. The more we try and prevent new infections with more and more booster shots, the less effective they will likely become in preventing infections themselves.

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