What kind of doctor wants to work for the government?
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If at first they don’t succeed;
With all the controversy about gain-of-function research and all the concerns about how dangerous it is, you might think that scientists have stopped doing that kind of work.
Well, no.
In the latest news, a team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus and used it to infect macaques. Let’s be clear here: the 1918 flu vanished from the Earth, long ago. It’s simply not a threat, or it least it wasn’t, until someone figured out a way to bring it back.
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Interview: Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has also served as the chair of the COVID-19 commission for leading medical journal the Lancet. Through his investigations as the head of the COVID-19 commission, Prof. Sachs has come to the conclusion that there is extremely dangerous biotechnology research being kept from public view, that the United States was supporting much of this research, and that it is very possible that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, originated through dangerous virus research gone awry.
Prof. Sachs recently co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calling for an independent inquiry into the virus’s origins. He believes that there is clear proof that the National Institutes of Health and many members of the scientific community have been impeding a serious investigation of the origins of COVID-19 and deflecting attention away from the hypothesis that risky U.S.-supported research may have led to millions of deaths. If that hypothesis is true, the implications would be earth-shaking, because it might mean that esteemed members of the scientific community bore responsibility for a global calamity. In this interview, Prof. Sachs explains how he, as the head of the COVID-19 commission for a leading medical journal, came to the conclusion that powerful actors were preventing a real investigation from taking place. He also explains why it is so important to get to the bottom of the origins of COVID: because, he says, there is extremely dangerous research taking place with little accountability, and the public has a right to know since we are the ones whose lives are being put at risk without our consent.
Goals? Who said anything about goals?
For a mass vaccination program that was supposed to end the pandemic, how did we arrive at the notion that we are now facing a diminished immune response from repeated infections?
In a recent situation update, Ontario public health officials noted that evidence is emerging SARS-CoV-2 can cause “immune dysregulation,” a vague term that’s used when the immune system isn’t behaving normally.
Research is suggesting that T cells, the cells that help produce antibodies and kill infected cells, are taking a particular hit, and that repeated SARS-CoV-2 infections may be prematurely aging human immune systems.
Defeat of the narrative
Gee, I wonder if there was a scientist out there who had predicted exactly how and why Covid is behaving in such an out of the ordinary manner as we see today? Could his name be Geert Vanden Bossche?
Two and a half years in, the world is discovering SARS-CoV-2 isn’t behaving with neat, predictable, winter-bound waves like the flu, but with multiple rollers that are coming faster, each new wave starting before the last one hasn’t quite finished with us. Instead of a lull period, peaks are occurring within months of each other.
A nation of glitches
Well, hey, I guess its worth it if it keeps us all safe, right?
Crouch is quadruple vaccinated, has not tested positive for COVID-19 and is showing no symptoms. The border guard who waved him back into Canada last week said nothing about getting a COVID test, or quarantine, but when he got home he found an email and a notification in his ArriveCan app, telling him to stay home for two weeks.
“It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy when Minister Mendicino says ArriveCan will reduce border delays. But it will not be due to technology, it will be due to reduced volume.”
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NIH Records Reveal FBI Inquiry of Wuhan Grant
Judicial Watch announced today that it received 1651 pages of records from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) revealing an FBI “inquiry” into the NIH’s controversial bat coronavirus grant tied to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The records also show National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) officials were concerned about “gain-of-function” research in China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2016. The Fauci agency was also concerned about EcoHealth Alliance’s lack of compliance with reporting rules and use of gain-of-function research in the NIH-funded research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China.
It doesn’t feel like much of a story anymore. I get the sense that governments, media and academia have quietly accepted that Covid-19 was a lab leak, and they’re going to let that messy little factoid fade into the background undisturbed and unaddressed, as though nothing about it was extraordinary.
And after a time, we’ll be told by experts that test tube pandemics are just a small price to pay so that governments can keep us Safe® from the more deadly natural pandemics, and that only dangerous extremists and science deniers would even raise the question of accountability.
The forever vaccine
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the mainstream pandemic narrative is collapsing into a heap of naked contradictions and frantic back-pedalling.
Canada now needs to decide whether the goal of its strategy with current generation vaccines is to protect against severe COVID or to try to prevent transmission altogether, Gommerman says, until a new vaccine or variant changes the game.
“If your goal is to prevent infection, we’re just gonna have to keep boosting forever,” Gommeman said.
“Omicron has evolved and it’s so much different than our vaccines and infections prior to Omicron — the type of immunity that you got is just a different beast,” said Sarah Otto, an expert in modelling and evolutionary biology at the University of British Columbia.
“And so what we’re seeing with vaccine protection is that it’s not so much the number of doses as it is how recent your last dose has been, and I think that’s because the neutralizing antibodies in our bloodstream, they’re not recognizing the virus as well.”
Intriguing to note that not one of these experts recalls Geert Vanden Bossche predicting exactly this….two years ago.
98% Effective
Word among Israelis on Twitter has it that mask mandates are going to be re-imposed tomorrow. The banging of heads against the wall resumes. Didn’t some guy named Geert Vanden Bossche predict this? Odd how the left-wing corporate media never mentions him.
Some 10,200 new COVID-19 cases were recorded across Israel on Sunday, the highest number of new daily cases seen in Israel since early in April.
Of some 26,200 authorized PCR and antigen tests taken throughout Sunday, 38.95% returned a positive result. The R-rate currently stands at 1.32, a slight increase from the previous day
From Their Cold, Dead Hands
Trudeau is now asking Canadians to submit blood samples to the federal government.
This began back in January. Odd that StatsCan didn’t make a big splash about it.
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The guilty are throwing one another under the bus now: The World Health Organization says its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was inconclusive — largely because data from China is missing, another blow to its years-long effort to determine how the pandemic began.
Monkey Wu
Happy travels?
Now that some airlines are beginning to push back on the vaccine mandates for air travel, it’s possible that the restrictions might end next month. In the meantime, putting the economy through the blender remains official federal government policy. Almost no one in authority seems to care about the impact.
In April, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority said it held 2,204 planes from abroad on the tarmac, versus just eight in the same period pre-pandemic. In the second week of May, 18,000 arriving international passengers were held on board for longer than 30 minutes and 3,000 for longer than 75 minutes. The Canadian Airports Council said it is taking four times as long to process people as it did before the pandemic.
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And another, and another.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is believed to have engaged in the risky form of research regarding bat coronaviruses, as now-deleted webpages reveal the lab manipulating bat coronaviruses to “replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.”
Now, the latest edition of the lab’s journal, Virologica Sinica, appears to contain a similar style of research with the H7N9 virus in chickens and mice. The publication’s Editor-in-Chief is Wuhan’s infamous “bat lady,” Shi Zhengli, who is the lab’s premier bat coronavirus researcher and a recipient of funds from Anthony Fauci through Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance.
Virologica Sinica published the study “Combined Insertion of Basic and Non-basic Amino Acids at Hemagglutinin Cleavage Site of Highly Pathogenic H7N9 Virus Promotes Replication and Pathogenicity in Chickens and Mice” in its most recent edition, published February 2022.
Collateral damage
It’s always a shock when even the CBC publishes a piece where no attempt is made to sugarcoat bad news about the effects of the lockdowns and supply chain snarls. More people are waking up to the reality that the economy is not a VCR which can be seamlessly paused and restarted at will.
Over the years, the business occasionally struggled with slim profit margins, but it started seeing success when it started serving the hospitality industry a decade ago.
That work evaporated once the pandemic hit. While business started to rebound, DeFehr Furniture was hit by supply chain disruptions. There were shortages of the raw materials the company required, and the competition for those products was fierce.
In the last month, DeFehr shut down its plant for four days because it did not have handles.
Wuhan Poo
SARS-CoV-2 has become one of the most studied viruses of the last century. It was assumed that the only possible host for these types of viruses was mammalian eukaryotic cells. Our recent studies show that microorganisms in the human gastrointestinal tract affect the severity of COVID-19 and for the first time provide indications that the virus might replicate in gut bacteria. In order to further support these findings, in the present work, cultures of bacteria from the human microbiome and SARS-CoV-2 were analyzed by electron and fluorescence microscopy. The images presented in this article, in association with the nitrogen (15 N) isotope-labeled culture medium experiment, suggest that SARS-CoV-2 could also infect bacteria in the gut microbiota, indicating that SARS-CoV-2 could act as a bacteriophage. Our results add new knowledge to the understanding of the mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 infection and fill gaps in the study of the interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and non-mammalian cells. These findings could be useful in suggesting specific new pharmacological solutions to support the vaccination campaign.
Interesting findings.
Our previous work showed that people with COVID-19 had toxin-like peptides, which were almost identical to the toxic components of animal venoms, such as conotox, phospholipases A2, phosphodiesterases, zinc metal proteinases, and bradykinins, in both blood, feces, and urine [6]. In a later study, we observed spontaneous replication of SARS-CoV-2 in bacterial cultures from patient feces for up to 30 days and beyond [7,8]. For that matter, there have also been other researchers who have studied the relationship between the gut microbiota and COVID-19. Wang et al., 2021, for example, found significant alterations in the gut and respiratory microbiome in COVID-19 patients, finding that there was an increase in pathogenic bacteria and a decrease in beneficial ones [9].
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Another very interesting finding emerged from a bioinformatics analysis that revealed that some members of commensal upper respiratory tract (URT) bacteria express proteins that bind the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein, for example the ACE2-like protein. Based on this analysis and available data showing a decline in the population of these bacteria in the elderly, it has also been proposed that some commensal bacteria of the upper respiratory tract prevent SARS-CoV-2 infectivity and that a decrease in these bacteria contributes to infection severity [11]. The same authors, in another study observed that N501Y mutations in the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV2 spike glycoprotein may allow increased binding to the ACE2 receptor when natural products (NPs) of upper respiratory tract bacteria are present [12].
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[W]e collected 22 environmental samples from cold storages for animal products and 80 samples from environment around animal-selling stalls of WHM, once we had brief access to WHM in February, 2020. These samples included swabs taken from grounds, walls, sewers, door handles, chopping blocks, knives, and scissors, and were combined into 11 pools, M1 to M11, and subjected for CoV screening and virome analysis (Table 1, Figure 2A). Sequence analysis revealed that there are four animal CoVs present in M1, M6, and M9 pools, indicating that the techniques and methods used are feasible. The M1 pool contained the sequences of hedgehog HKU31-related CoV under the genus Merbecovirus and rabbit HKU14-related CoV under the genus Embecovirus; M6 contained the sequences of canine CoV under the genus Tegacovirus; M9 contained the sequences of rat CoV of the genus Embecovirus. However, none of any sequence of SARS-CoV-2 or SC2r-CoVs was found in any samples…
Or anywhere else.
Via Yuri Deigin
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America’s coronavirus tsar, Dr. Anthony Fauci, silenced any discussion about COVID being caused by a lab leak – and not through animal-to-human transmission – after helping a controversial scientist get millions in federal funding to study bats, a Vanity Fair investigation has revealed.
Analyzing more than 100,000 leaked documents, the magazine claimed that Fauci’s approval of Peter Daszak helped his nonprofit, EcoHealth Alliance, an organization dedicated to shielding society from emerging infectious diseases, to develop the COVID-19 virus in a laboratory in China.
They also claim researchers associated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including Daszak, tried to hide evidence about the pandemic’s early spread as lab leak hypotheses began to emerge.
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Around that time, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield allegedly urged Fauci to ‘vigorously investigate’ both hypotheses.
‘We had to take the lab-leak hypothesis with extreme seriousness,’ he told the magazine, adding: ‘I personally felt it wasn’t biologically plausible that [SARS CoV-2] went from bats to humans through an [intermediate] animal and became one of the most infectious viruses to humans.’
Redfield claims after suggesting support for research into both theories he was then excluded from further discussions about the virus’ origin.
‘Their goal was to have a single narrative,’ he said of Fauci and his team.
Fauci is guilty as hell.
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If this virus originated in a bat, and naturally evolved to maximize its ability to infect bats, and is genetically most similar to other viruses found in bats in China… why is SARS-CoV-2 proving impossible to find in bats in China?