I have to agree with Kurt. There is patent evidence supplied by Dr. David Martin that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was created in Ralph Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill and then transferred to the WIV. I no longer believe anything official coming from any of our government agencies with regard to this virus or any others. Dr. Ryan Cole has said very early in 2020 when he looked at the genetic sequence that this virus was engineered. Whether it was intentionally released is another matter. I'm more likely to go with Victor Davis Hanson's suggestion that once the virus was out, the CCP used it to its advantage.
Michael, you do not need to rely on assessments from the IC or politicians - just read the papers coming out of UNC and Wuhan. Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli were absolutely working on gain of function viral engineering (e.g. 2015 A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence:
тАЬтАж we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b
viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate
efficiently in primary human airway cellsтАжтАЭ
This is dual use technology, which arguably helps develop vaccines against possible future threats (while simultaneously providing a deadly bio weapon). There is no way bat coronaviruses spontaneously create a furin cleavage site with human codons. Also, several research teams have identified HIV inserts in the spike protein (eg 2020 Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag from Prashant et al), which is gain of function that Zhengli worked on as early as 2008.
I have to agree with Kurt. There is patent evidence supplied by Dr. David Martin that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was created in Ralph Baric's lab at UNC Chapel Hill and then transferred to the WIV. I no longer believe anything official coming from any of our government agencies with regard to this virus or any others. Dr. Ryan Cole has said very early in 2020 when he looked at the genetic sequence that this virus was engineered. Whether it was intentionally released is another matter. I'm more likely to go with Victor Davis Hanson's suggestion that once the virus was out, the CCP used it to its advantage.
You find the American Intelligence Community to be a reliable source?
Michael, you do not need to rely on assessments from the IC or politicians - just read the papers coming out of UNC and Wuhan. Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli were absolutely working on gain of function viral engineering (e.g. 2015 A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence:
тАЬтАж we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b
viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate
efficiently in primary human airway cellsтАжтАЭ
This is dual use technology, which arguably helps develop vaccines against possible future threats (while simultaneously providing a deadly bio weapon). There is no way bat coronaviruses spontaneously create a furin cleavage site with human codons. Also, several research teams have identified HIV inserts in the spike protein (eg 2020 Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag from Prashant et al), which is gain of function that Zhengli worked on as early as 2008.