As if we didn't already have enough to worry about with Covid.

'This is playing with fire - it could spark a lab-generated pandemic': Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid strain with an 80% kill rate

18 October 2022

* Researchers added Omicron's spike protein to the original Wuhan Covid strain
* Omicron's spike is highly mutated which made it the most infectious variant ever
* Eight in 10 mice infected with the lab-created strain died at Boston University lab

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We humans really are a most stupid species - no doubt about it.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.18.512756v1






Abstract

To prevent future pandemics, it is important that we understand whether SARS-CoV-2 spilled over directly from animals to people, or indirectly in a laboratory accident. The genome of SARS-COV-2 contains a peculiar pattern of unique restriction endonuclease recognition sites allowing efficient dis- and re-assembly of the viral genome characteristic of synthetic viruses. Here, we report the likelihood of observing such a pattern in coronaviruses with no history of bioengineering. We find that SARS-CoV-2 is an anomaly, more likely a product of synthetic genome assembly than natural evolution. The restriction map of SARS-CoV-2 is consistent with many previously reported synthetic coronavirus genomes, meets all the criteria required for an efficient reverse genetic system, differs from closest relatives by a significantly higher rate of synonymous mutations in these synthetic-looking recognitions sites, and has a synthetic fingerprint unlikely to have evolved from its close relatives. We report a high likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 may have originated as an infectious clone assembled in vitro.

Lay Summary To construct synthetic variants of natural coronaviruses in the lab, researchers often use a method called in vitro genome assembly. This method utilizes special enzymes called restriction enzymes to generate DNA building blocks that then can be “stitched” together in the correct order of the viral genome. To make a virus in the lab, researchers usually engineer the viral genome to add and remove stitching sites, called restriction sites. The ways researchers modify these sites can serve as fingerprints of in vitro genome assembly.


We found that SARS-CoV has the restriction site fingerprint that is typical for synthetic viruses. The synthetic fingerprint of SARS-CoV-2 is anomalous in wild coronaviruses, and common in lab-assembled viruses. The type of mutations (synonymous or silent mutations) that differentiate the restriction sites in SARS-CoV-2 are characteristic of engineering, and the concentration of these silent mutations in the restriction sites is extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution. Both the restriction site fingerprint and the pattern of mutations generating them are extremely unlikely in wild coronaviruses and nearly universal in synthetic viruses.

“Suggests” means “Dammit, I WANT it to be a lab virus!” YOU want Fauci to be guilty for some weird reason.


But the papers I cited show covid19 came from the wet market.

Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 26^th, 2022 at 3:03pm:



No amount of evidence is good enough for you or -
will ever change your mind -
you have taken a position and you're sticking with it.

Baronvonrort wrote on Oct 26^th, 2022 at 11:27pm:



I think he's just trolling - he knows I'm right.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 26^th, 2022 at 2:40pm:

Okay... firstly, "LifeSiteNews" is a Catholic-run, far-right anti-abortion advocacy
website and news publication.  It's published misleading information and conspiracy
theories, and last year, was banned from some social media platforms for spreading
COVID misinformation.

It was founded for the purpose of opposing legal abortion, and that remains a primary
focus.  It also regularly publishes articles expressing opposition to contraception,
homosexuality, and transgender rights.

Paul Moses wrote for Commonweal that  the LifeSiteNews spread confusion about
COVID, and that their coverage "is so slanted that anyone relying on it would be
terribly misled on what the science shows."

So... having said all that, it's more than obvious that anything they claim about Fauci's
purported "fingerprints" on the pandemic virus is all—to put it mildly—arrant bullshit,
and can safely be ignored.     End of story.

Bobby. wrote on Oct 26^th, 2022 at 10:34pm:


You never post evidence! You post absolute rubbish, like “the” (nonexistent) GSM will cause an ice age. It is always YouTubes and crap like that with you.

A hundred pages of crap is . . . 100 pages of crap, is not evidence.

The papers I cited and quoted showed that the virus couldn’t really have come from the lab. that remains the position.