Super Omicron -No Problem per Alex Berenson
Many of you are justly outraged over the Super Omicron lab creation by US -Boston Scientists
Not Alex Berenson
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-can-we-please-not-freak-out/comments?utm_source=%2Finbox&utm_medium=reader2
I wont clutter up this post with too many quotes from Alex, but I refute his main points. Feel free to read to read his stack but you cant comment to him unless you fork over cash or credit
It says the Omicron/wild-type Sars-Cov-2 combination the researchers created is more lethal than Omicron.
However, it ALSO says the Omicron/wild type virus is LESS lethal than original wild type.
First off, the fact GOF is allowed to be done on SARS-Cov-2 at this point is alarming in itself.
Second, while Super Omicron (SO) is less lethal than WT its far more lethal than Omicron and its likely just as infectious and transmittable as Omicron.
3 (WT mortality) x 2 (WT transmission) is less than 2 (SO mortality) x 6 (SO transmission).
While I pulled the numbers out of my arse in this example Super Omicron can kill twice as many as WT. We saw the same with regular Omicron vs WT early on. Lower CFR but many more infections so more deaths
Ebola is very lethal but it doesn’t spread very easily. Omicron and Super Omicron spread faster than the harmless Chicken Pox virus back in the pre-vaccination days when parents used to hold Chicken Pox parties to immunize the neighborhood when one of the kids got infected
Further, this work was conducted in a Biosafety Level 3 lab, the second-highest level, used for most viruses that aren’t Ebola/Marburg or smallpox.
A BSL 3 lab is only comforting if you are only concerned with accidental release. Some of us think intentional release is possible. Furthermore, they provide enough information that actors in other lesser labs could duplicate.
Also, Fort Detrick is BSL-4 and was closed in the summer of 2019 by CDC for safety violations
Nor did the researchers provide any evidence that the blended Omicron/wild-type coronavirus is able to defeat antibodies in people who have been infected with and recovered from Omicron.
To argue that a population with VAIDS can trust their immunity because the researchers did not test immune escape to existing antibodies is hilarious.
Super Omicron is unlikely to be all that dangerous to those who are healthy, young and not immunocompromised due to endless COVID jabs. However, they are likely the minority and many of us have friends and family who are in the minority. Forgive me for being pissed off Alex.
Alex, I think you are ready to be welcomed back by NYT but I guess substack pays so much better - $$$$ . Since you now seem to be an asset of the Medical Fascists you deserve to be paid well
He seems Schizophrenic. Maybe he should try some weed.
THC is just one of ~150 cannabinoids in the plant and prohibition led to a genetic bottleneck for High THC chemotypes as cannabis was prosecuted on weight. 20% THC lines were bred that had 100x lower concentration of the alternative cannabinoids. This came at the expense of selection against the other cannabinoids as they all compete for the same precursors.
This is really evident now that the genomic architecture of the cannabinoid synthases have all been charted out.
The 2018 farm bill enabled genome directed breeding and the field has now bread CBD dominant chemotypes, CBG, CBDV, and THCV, so we are just getting these compounds in economical quantities for experimentation in many neuroinflammation based etiologies.
Some of these chemotypes were also bred prior to the with HPLC directed breeding but they are now getting enhanced with triploids and a variety of tools that were harder to industrialize prior to the change on legislation.
There are many interesting compounds for inflammation, IL-6 suppression and SEB/MISC recovery.
Google THC and SEB , you’ll find many papers from Mohammad et al.