Post by The Natural PhilosopherPost by Bill SlomanThere's no information there. There are a few American senators who
know what they want to believe, but no facts at all.
Here is a fact or two that I posted earlier.
https://news.yahoo.com/nih-admits-funding-gain-function-125103852.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAACPGaZ5dUJFM3q5AfcrA5yai45fdGG3fYRStdwAE3MyFcIuuVbjhdODrC9uQ1A6LkPTUjWl_y8le4SgMvvACZ5x16IR1_pOPgESFBYUgzj4cwPwtZk-heYt6_aG9uwn6DGb2nG0XNAx5OppmF3ArrFkja-d9TWqB8_U1lS1BLWYu
That wasn't "gain of function" research. The question examined was
whether "“spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses
circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2
receptor in a mouse model.”
The naturally occurring bat coronaviruses weren't modified in any way.
The question was whether they were potentially dangerous to humans,
and it got the right answer, though nobody seems to have acted on the
information obtained - not that they could have done much.
"More than three years have passed since the first case of a new
coronavirus infection (SARS-CoV-2) in the city of Wuhan (Hubei, China).
The Wuhan Institute of Virology was founded in that city in 1956 and the
country’s first biosafety level 4 laboratory opened within that center
in 2015. The coincidence that the first cases of infection emerged in
the city where the virology institute’s headquarters is located, the
failure to 100% identify the virus’ RNA in any of the coronaviruses
isolated in bats, and the lack of evidence on a possible intermediate
animal host in the contagion’s transmission make it so that at present,
there are doubts about the real origin of SARS-CoV-2. This article will
review two theories: SARS-CoV-2 as a virus of zoonotic origin or as a
leak from the high-level biosafety laboratory in Wuhan."
...
"Do these findings close the discussion on the origins of SARS-CoV-2?
No. As can be seen, there are two theories that could coexist or the
debate could be closed by choosing one or the other. Defining chains of
infection and seeking the origin of them is a fundamental aspect of
public health. Therefore, on the one hand, it seems evident that the
transmission originated in the Huanan market. But, on the other hand,
three fundamental questions remain that have not been definitively
answered. First, where did the virus come from? Second, what was the
intermediate animal host? And third, why has the virus genome not been
reproduced 100% in any of the coronaviruses found in bats?"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019034/
In short whilst there is no *conclusive* evidence one way or another the
balance of probability is that it was made in a lab but not as a
bioweapon. It was an accident.
and they keep them confined. A wet market offers a lot more
exposed to a human-infectious variant.
ACE-receptor, but it clearly wasn't related to Covid-19.
talks about minks and badgers as intermediate hosts of Covid-19.
Badgers were bush-meat items at the Wuhan wet market. It got cleaned out
was infected.
ancestor didn't have to do all that well in it's intermediate host.
the lab workers.