Tim Pool relays the news about a new Chinese-engineered virus that, in a small sample of eight mice, has a 100% mortality rate. Why on earth would anyone make such a virus?
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
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This is known as "gain-of-function" research (don't know if that was mentioned in the video--I did not watch it), and apparently many scientists consider it very important. It supposedly allows epidemiologists to figure out strategies and countermeasures for real-world viruses. I use those hedging words because it all seems a bit nuts to me. Yeah, I get the academic reasoning, but what happens if that virus gets out? Is it really worth it? Hard to say.
In my opinion, if you're going to do something like this, you should engineer a "back door" into the virus that can be used to neutralize it should it ever escape the lab. Still seems risky, though.
The term "gain of function" has been part of the public parlance for some years now, and when people discovered that Fauci had been collaborating with China on the gain-of-function research that probably led to COVID, it became very hard for the US to point the finger at China and declare that China had started the pandemic. The Chinese response to being accused of starting the pandemic was to point the finger right back at the US, a move I wasn't inclined to believe at first until all of this Fauci nonsense started coming out. Now, I see the US as sharing a large part of the guilt for the pandemic. Who knew that Chinese propaganda would be right every once in a while?
I should also note that this Fauci stuff is old news.
What I found when I searched for "gain of function":
January 27, 2023
April 27, 2022
June 6, 2021
June 2, 2021
Talk about a weapon of mass destruction...
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