baja_blast

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by baja_blast 3y ago
>"Hard to find" is not the same as "vanished". Which is strange for a virus as you stated. "found to have jumped to quite a few other animals; cats, dogs, hippos, anteaters, manatees; it's clearly not picky
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by baja_blast 3y ago
>lauded experts Almost all of the researchers throwing ad hominems at scientists who support a lab origin are NOT that lauded. Most had very low H-index scores prior to the pandemic. Especially Angela Rasmussen from the University of Sas
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Well I care, I have family members who died due to this pandemic, and covering up a lab origin to protect dangerous research is not a valid reason. Given how common lab leaks are and the massive growth of this type of research playing down
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by baja_blast 3y ago
>But on the other hand I wouldn't want some guys in suits and American flag lapel pins subpoenaing my DMs or all up in my FOIA requests every time I did a research on a politically adjacent research topic Agreed, but when the resear
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Man-made as in a natural sample collected in the wild that was manipulated to bind to human ACE2.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Also keep in mind all the evidence in support of a natural origin is also circumstantial. So much so Worobey's paper included a photo Eddie Holmes took on his iPhone in 2014 of animals at a market as evidence. So we are working with uf
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by baja_blast 3y ago
And in fact the two linages only different by 2 bases, something that can occur in a single host, it in no way indicates there were two jumps. All you need is for a virus to be circulating in humans for like a week. As Stanford Biologist Mi
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by baja_blast 3y ago
False! It took MONTHS to find an intermediate host for both SARS and MERS. SARS1 they found infected civet cats with an almost identical virus within a few months: >”Civet cats, a raccoon dog, and a ferret badger in an animal market in G
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by baja_blast 3y ago
But humans infected the white tailed deer, and guess what when humans passed on SARS2 to different species it did not suddenly stop circulating within humans which seems to have been the case with SARS2. For SARS2 we have a single spillover
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by baja_blast 3y ago
But lots of aspects and features of SARS-CoV2 point to it being a natural virus with a human specific furin cleavage site inserted into it. In fact it looks almost exactly what you would expect from the type of experiments outlines in the D
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I say a worse problem than foreigners buying real estate is large private equity groups like Blackstone buying up homes across the country and turning them into rentals.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I don't know, the material is a ceramic made of a powdered lead, copper, sulphur, phosphorus and oxygen heated up together. It's not some advanced meta material which if true it's amazing this was not discovered earlier but l
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> However, my concern is that so many of these political campaigns are billionaire / security state funded efforts to rally the public behind a "blame china" message so that way they can continue military aggression in the
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> "Feb. 25, Holmes sends new data about a virus in a Yunnan bat from March 2019" But the Furin cleavage site is missing from this bat virus which the authors speculated the following after Holmes shared it: In reference to it,
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by baja_blast 3y ago
But there was no new evidence at that time. What there was though, was discussions on how a lab origin's negative impact on research and future funding! You can read more about some of their conversions before and after the paper was p
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Millions have died, I personally have family members that have died due to the pandemic. There is nothing strange or wrong about being passionate about this topic, especially since we have not made any significant changes to ensure this doe
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers are a completely different group than the individuals behind biosaftey now. These scientists publicly support and rally around vaccines and public safety measures. But what they are against is reckless and unne
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by baja_blast 3y ago
The emails and slack messages are indeed authentic. None of the participants involved have ever denied it probably because doing so under oath would put them in legal risk. But luckily for the participants their misconduct has been largely
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Sure, but I see it used all time time as "peer reviewed sources" to debunk a lab origin all the time. The authors themselves on twitter even refer to it as having been peer reviewed.
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by baja_blast 3y ago
And it was published in Nature Medicine without peer review
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by baja_blast 3y ago
As pointed out here: https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-proximal-origins-mu... some of the main reasons why it should be retracted include: 1. The paper was had ghost writers 2. Due to ghostwriting the paper fail
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I watched the documentary on Netflix the narrow passageway that the bodies were found require climbing up an incline before reaching the chute. Also one of the children had a tool placed in it's hand. The idea that small brains can not
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by baja_blast 3y ago
The "biomarkers" bit is disinformation, for a decade we have had technology to allow for seamless edits to viral backbones that leave no trace behind. The only way anyone can tell the difference between a natural and modified viru
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by baja_blast 3y ago
I have never gotten it or at least not to my knowledge. I would sure hope that there is a genetic or even T-Cell immunity that could snuff the virus out before it takes a foothold since it could lead to better vaccines/treatments. IMO
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Don't forget UP! That opening scene is heartbreaking
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by baja_blast 3y ago
One thing about the object flying over the ocean people often ignore was the setting was at black hot, meaning the object was significantly colder than the water below. I have some speculate that it could be a bird but I can't see how
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by baja_blast 3y ago
Warp drives and wormholes do not necessarily break the laws of physics. Sabine Hossenfelder does a good job explaining why the limits imposed by special relativity are not valid arguments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-j
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by baja_blast 3y ago
smartphones are optimized for selfies thus the lens is super flat. Any photo I try to take at a distance looks awful, and moon photos are even worse. You'd be better off taking these pictures with a 1960's film camera with an actu
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by baja_blast 3y ago
But it does not appear to have spilled over at the wet market. The Chinese CDC published a paper stating it was just a super spreader event. Plus the samples were taken way too long after the virus has been spreading. The market just reflec
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by baja_blast 3y ago
> Probably not engineered or lab-adapted. Despite having a novel furin cleavage site in the exact location as stated in a grant proposal, a furin cleavage site that happens to make the virus extremely infectious towards humans all while

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