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GURPS

INGSOC
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Boston University Researchers Develop COVID Strain With 80 Percent Kill Rate in Mice



The team of researchers extracted the Omicron variant’s spike protein, which they noted has “an unusually large number of mutations.” The researchers then attached Omicron’s spike protein, which is a structure that allows a virus to bind and invade human cells, to the original Wuhan COVID-19 variant that reportedly emerged in late 2019. They dubbed it “Omicron S.”

“In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection,” they wrote (pdf), “the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of [Omicron] S.”

“We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant,” the researchers wrote. “The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells.”
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
The announcement has prompted outrage from at least one lawmaker, who pointed to the Wuhan lab leak theory and further questioned the purpose of such research.

"It is unconscionable that NIH [National Institutes of Health] sponsors this lethal gain of function virus research through Boston University and EcoHealth Alliance in densely populated areas, creating potential to kill more people than any singular nuclear weapon," said Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in a press release. "History has taught us that viruses have managed to escape even the most secure labs. This is not a risk that scientists alone should be able to take without concurrence from the American public. This research must stop immediately while the risks and benefits can be investigated."

"NIH continues to fund this dangerous research while it obstructs Congressional investigations into the COVID origins despite admissions from the U.S. Intelligence Community, the WHO, the Lancet, and countless others that it is possible the COVID-19 pandemic arose from a lab accident in Wuhan," he went on.




 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
To me a non-scientist it strikes a fear in me of Spiked protein running wild.
What is the Covid vaccine made up of?

Spiked protein.

Years ago the bubonic plague wiped out thousands.. It occurred naturally
Today we have "Scientists" thinking they can turn men into women, and women into men, we have learned educated people playing with diseases that cause pandemics., we have Doctors who in history have worked for humanity killing babies by the millions. We have alleged brilliant people who believe they can stop the tides and change the environment.

I may be just an ignorant redneck, but I can see that this is not leading to a good future for mankind. The Atomic bomb was a step that was taken for peace but may end up wiping us off the face of this earth if used wrongly, These experiments with disease and Virus may do the job the bomb did not. It is at least as dangerous as the Atomic Bomb in the wrong hands.
 

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
Years ago the bubonic plague wiped out thousands.. It occurred naturally
Today we have "Scientists" thinking they can turn men into women, and women into men, we have learned educated people playing with diseases that cause pandemics., we have Doctors who in history have worked for humanity killing babies by the millions. We have alleged brilliant people who believe they can stop the tides and change the environment.
And to date, can't cure the common cold.
 

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
PREMO Member
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stgislander

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PREMO Member
There was a passing line in a Big Bang Theory episode where Bernadette, who was working in a microbiology lab, said something about her job like "What do you think we do... aerosolize Ebola for fun?" The look on her face and tone in her voice said that's exactly what they did.
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
On Friday, BioRxIV naively published a blandly-named study titled “Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron.” There are 23 scientists credited with helping create the study, and the acknowledgements identify it was funded by a major grant from the NIH/NIAID.

The study provides a detailed, step-by-step recipe for how to genetically enhance the Omicron virus to make it vaccine-resistant, lung-penetrable, and 80% lethal.

They didn’t even wait till the first pandemic was over! They’re so excited for a doomsday virus, and so impatient with Mother Nature, that they are going to just manufacture it themselves, through gain-of-function research that should be so toxic it gets you hounded out of your career and driven into a life of humiliating obscurity. Not published.

Think I’m exaggerating? Here’s how the researchers described their work:

We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80%.​

These mad scientists and generous government grant-approvers know better than anyone that we JUST went through a global pandemic almost certainly caused by a virus that was produced by gain of function research to “enhance” its transmissibility and pathogenicity, which LEAKED OUT OF A LAB. And they know it’s been illegal to conduct gain of function research in the U.S. since the Obama Administration.

Why, oh why, are these criminals, I mean scientists, still allowed to tinker around with this kind of explosive material? Why haven’t we ALREADY passed laws criminalizing ALL gain of function research? Seriously. Gain of function research merits the death penalty or something, no appeals. And WHY is the government still PAYING FOR gain of function research, or whatever obtuse euphemism they are using these days to disguise the fact that it’s ‘gain of function research’?

Have we learned NOTHING from the Wuhan lab leak?

Hey, lawmakers: LABS LEAK!! This is the kind of lesson we really, really don’t need to learn again. Pretty please.

How about, instead of paying scientists millions to cook up civilization-ending viruses, we could invest those resources in tracking down rogue terrorists cooking up bugs in garage labs and stuff. We should be finding those people and blowing them to Kingdom Come. Don’t even knock. But, in this case, thanks to our witless ‘health agencies,’ we — taxpayers! — are funding our own destruction.

You’ve GOT to be kidding me. Please tell me I’m dreaming all this.

The preprint study carefully and methodically walks the reader through exactly how the scientists created the ultra-lethal covid variant, step by step, right down to describing the make and model of the incubator, the names and serial numbers of the human cell lines, and the brand of centrifuge. It’s a flipping recipe. Anybody could follow it.

Hello! We’re now about two seconds away from midnight on the Doomsday clock. If we aren’t even smart enough to stop GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH after what the entire world just went through, then we should grudgingly accept the title from the Ch’kkukolaitans, who’ll be relieved to lose their status as the Universe’s most imbecilic civilization.

And, this is just ONE study. If they’re paying for THIS kind of research, imagine what ELSE the government must be funding, scads of other projects described only in obscure, densely-worded grant proposals buried deep in the NIH’s sub-basement file cabinets.

Sometimes I’m convinced we are literally sprinting toward the apocalypse, at the speed of science. All those horrible afflictions in the Book of the Revelation, the terrible boils and deadly plagues and stuff? I’m starting to believe that those aren’t caused by God. I’m starting to believe we’re going to do it to ourselves.

Here’s a link to the study.

And here’s a PDF version archived in my Dropbox, just in case the original has an ‘accident’ or something.




 

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
PREMO Member
There was a passing line in a Big Bang Theory episode where Bernadette, who was working in a microbiology lab, said something about her job like "What do you think we do... aerosolize Ebola for fun?" The look on her face and tone in her voice said that's exactly what they did.
Of all of her Lab work quotes, I liked this one the most.

Bernadette: All I have is our new urine flow drug. Won't help with his anxiety, but it's so strong, when he pees he'll fly around the room like he's got a jet pack.

:lmao:
 

Hijinx

Well-Known Member
For every 10 brilliant Scientists, at least 3 of them are careless. This messing around with stuff like this in a laboratory is far scarier than the A-bomb to me.
Worse. We are paying for it. Either with taxes or what we pay to Big Pharma.
 

Sneakers

Just sneakin' around....
After everything we've all been thru, why on earth would they 1) allow this kind of bio-engineering 2) WANT to do this kind of bio-engineering?

"OH it's ok.... we're better than Wuhan. It won't get away from us..."
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

NIH director Erbedling NOW admit Boston lab that created new COVID chimera strain did NOT clear research with agency & only learned of details in media; NIH was 'unaware' of the nature of research



“She claims she only found out the experiments might have involved enhancing a pathogen of pandemic potential after reading reports in the media on Monday.

Dr Erbelding admitted feeling uneasy about the type of research the grants had been used to fund — given the lingering questions about the role of virus manipulation studies and the origins of Covid.”


Can you imagine the director is saying she was uneasy about the research yet they funded it?

SOURCE:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...vid-strain-did-NOT-clear-research-agency.html
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member

Boston University falsely denies gain-of-function accusations, lamely claims creation of chimeric SARS-2 virus will lead to "Targeted therapeutic interventions to help fight against future pandemics"



Boston University denies vehemently that their researchers’ development of a chimeric SARS-2 strain amounts to gain-of-function research:

“They’ve sensationalized the message, they misrepresent the study and its goals in its entirety,” says Ronald B. Corley, NEIDL director and BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine chair of microbiology, of the news reports. …
Corley says the news reports pulled one line from the paper’s abstract out of context, with the Daily Mail suggesting in its headline that the researchers had created a “deadly Covid strain with an 80 percent kill rate.” The newspaper went on to make a series of other misleading claims, including that the study was “gain of function research,” alleging researchers set out to make a more deadly virus.
Not true, says Corley. And the University’s statement strongly denied it.
“We want to address the false and inaccurate reporting about Boston University COVID-19 research, which appeared today in the Daily Mail,” said the BU statement. “First, this research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the [wild-type virus] or make it more dangerous. In fact, this research made the virus replicate less dangerous.”
 
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