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It's equally likely that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was testing constructs created in the Baric Lab in their bat and mice models, and this was initiated du
by photochemsyn 1y ago
It's equally likely that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was testing constructs created in the Baric Lab in their bat and mice models, and this was initiated during the 2014-2017 ban on gain-of-function research in the USA that Fauci vocally opposed.
The reality here is that there are thousands of mammalian viruses that don't infect humans that could be modified to infect humans via specific modifications of their target mammalian cell-surface receptor proteins, as was done in this specific case of a bat coronavirus modified at its furin cleavage site to make it human-targetable. Any modern advanced undergrad student in molecular biology could explain this to you, if you bothered to listen.
So first, we need an acknowledgement of Covid that vastly embarrasses China and the USA, and second we need a global treaty banning this generation of novel human pathogens from wild mammalian viral types... I guess I won't hold my breath.
- fc417fc802 1y ago> there are thousands of mammalian viruses that don't infect humans that could be modified to infect humans via specific modifications of their target mammalian cell-surface receptor proteins Are you claiming that's what happened here? What virus do you propose was modified in such a manner? Where was it sourced from? Why was it not on the published lists of discovered viruses? > as was done in this specific case of a bat coronavirus modified at its furin cleavage site to make it human-targetable Did you even read the comment you're responding to? It details why the furin cleavage site does not resemble something that you would expect humans to have produced.