Was Sars-Cov-2 a Self-Spreading Vaccine?
Was Sars-Cov-2 engineered to be a self spreading vaccine? Don’t laugh. It was to be released in remote bat caves in China after testing on WIV’s BSL4 Lab Bat Colonies to prevent the emergence of a human pathogenic pandemic coronavirus. This sounds like a very good reason for numerous scientists and governments (China and US) to cooperate on such a project.
But oops, maybe it went wrong. Perhaps a lab accident of some sort infecting a worker who then spread it. The vaccine which was engineered in US was being trialed in Chinas Wuhan BSL-4 laboratory. Why China? Because the Horseshoe Bats that harbor Sars-coronaviruses are very difficult to keep alive in a laboratory setting and only Shi Zheng Li had the patents and skill to keep the picky eaters alive.
Why here? This infectious aerosol test requires a BSL4 with a live Chinese batcolony and Wuhan has the only lab on the planet with a live Chinese bat colony.
After the accidental release in October of 2019, both China and the US conspired to cover up the fact. China wanted to cover up the release from their lab. The US wanted to cover up the fact that they engineered the vaccine virus.
At least, this is the very convincing hypothesis presented by Jim Haslam on his substack. Its a 4 part series which is very well sourced and if you take the time to open every link it will take you over a week to get through.
Here is Part I. I suggest you read it and the rest of the 4 Part series before continuing as many excellent video clips and much more detail than my post will cover.
To avoid cluttering the post with repetitive links unless otherwise noted any quote will be from Jims series
When you think about it you will realize a novel virus is actually a natural self spreading vaccine. It infects a population and after its spread the population has herd immunity. Herd immunity does not necessarily mean you cant get infected again, although this is unlikely within a short period, but it does mean that a reinfection will cause fewer symptoms and less serious disease.
Knowing this, vaccinologists and veterinarians have explored the use of self spreading vaccines in animals using live attenuated viruses. This saves them the time of inoculating each bird or animal one by one.
A TED talk about self spreading bat vaccines and TWiV comparing the contagious concept to (accidental) human-to-human transmission with OPV.
In 2019 the NIH funded a study on contagious vaccine transmission.
Vaccine transmission is a relatively new concept with few examples, so the possibility of transmission changing in time has scarcely been entertained. The oral polio vaccine (OPV) is perhaps the best documented case of vaccine transmission [albeit unintended]
The biggest problem is vaccine companies tend not to get too excited about bringing self spreading vaccines to market. Its kind of like JP Morgans take on Teslas idea to make Electricity from the air available to everyone. Not much profit in it for him without a meter to charge the users.
Jims take is there is no crime, just a coverup. There was nothing nefarious, just stupid people failing to consider the risks. I will concede that for the vast majority of those involved in the project this is likely the case. However, JP Morgan allegedly once suggested that for every nefarious project you need 2 reasons, one reason is the good reason that everyone can support, but for your criminal partners you will need to give them a better -maybe not so good - reason which involves money and power, and perhaps an ideological driver (Malthusian, Eugenics, Great Reset, etc)
I suggest that psychopathic elements in the defense and intelligence agencies (and that’s limited to high level members not the rank and file) and a handful of mad scientists and Dark Winter agents in the HHS conspired to hijack this well intentioned self spreading vaccine project and engineered a self spreading vaccine virus for humans and then released it.
As I have mentioned in other posts there was an extraordinary amount of preparation, coordination and expectation of an imminent Pandemic.
However, if the vaccine was intended to infect Chinese Horseshoe Bats, why does Sars-Cov-2 not infect them but does infect Egyptian Fruit Bats housed in Faucis Rocky Mountain Lab (RML)?
SARS2 does not infect Chinese bats but it does infect and transmit in Egyptian Fruitbats (EFB).
US scientists studied bat-to-bat transmission in the “CDC (EFB) breeding colony.”
And if SC2 is a self spreading Vaccine , which I don’t deny since it really was not that pathogenic (the treatment protocols made a relatively benign vaccine virus into something more harmful, especially the elderly), then why would their solution be another Vaccine? A Vaccine to protect against a Vaccine?
Of course, there are many stakeholders in such a Grand Conspiracy. Some of them want to get paid and make a lot of money. Clearly the IM Vaccine is the more nefarious part of OPERATION COVID, and more profitable to the owners than the owners of the self spreading Vaccine Virus (SC2)
The lack of infectivity in horseshoe bats alone makes me wonder if the alleged Lab Accident in Wuhan happened, and was not simply made up or staged to give credibility to the Lab Release hypothesis so as to deflect from purposeful Biological Terrorism with an Engineered Pathogen
Planting false evidence to throw investigators off the track is a common trick of crafty criminsls
After all, they had an insider at the BSL-4 Lab named Dani Anderson who allegedly was involved in this accident.
In 2019 Dani, a world class bat immunologist on NIAID’s payroll, was inside the Wuhan BSL4.
Remember, only a week or so after the accident and lab closure there were the Wuhan Military Games. This was a perfect time for a controlled release of the Vaccine developed at Faucis RML with Egyptian Fruit Bats , which can be infected with SC2, as can humans.
So lets take a closer look at Jims very detailed series
This is a vaccine designed to ‘steer’ bat-like viruses away from human-like viruses. This is a coronavirus designed to be stable and mirror the local strain circulating among the local species of bats.
What kind of self spreading vaccine? An attenuated (weakened) transmissiblevaccine. It is the double edged sword of a live attenuated vaccine (LAV).
Is this what happened with Delta. Was SC2 returning to virulence with Delta? If so did panicked officials develop a kill switch?
An ‘idea’ that Omicron may be the engineered ‘off-switch’ for a self spreading vaccine design is slightly less ridiculous. As outlined from the DARPA Preemptteam that won the bid (which Baric and Daszak lost).
We are “now moving forward with additional research to establish a reliable and safe method of control on this technology, effectively designing and testing an ‘off-switch’ to impose a ‘lifespan’ on the vaccine within each inoculated animal.”
American deer were possibly used by US scientists to design a kill switch.
North American white tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) have become the onlyrecorded “wildlife reservoir” for SARS2 on the planet
In July 2021, U.S. Department of Agriculture reported on its website that its Plant Health Inspection Service recently completed a study, which showed that antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 were detected in 33 percent of the 481 white-tailed deer serum samples collected from January 2020 through 2021 in Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania states, and among them 67 percent of samples collected in Michigan contained antibodies. This was the first detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife, and the presence of the antibodies confirmed that a large number of white-tailed deer in the United States have already been exposed to the virus.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/stakeholder-info/stakeholder-messages/wildlife-damage-news/deer-sars
This seems rather a very quick jump of a virus from humans to deer in such a short period. There isn’t a lot of human-deer contact and thats an awful lot of deer infected. Could a self -spreading vaccine experiment been conducted on deer before Wuhan? Did they then develop another self spreading vaccine named Omicron to counter the reversion to virulence of the original virus?
Why didn’t they test samples earlier than January 1, 2020? Certainly samples collected earlier in 2020 were collected for other reasons, so they should have samples from 2019. Also, they don’t show how the data changed temporally, for example a small percentage increasing over time to 33%. Or what if 33% were positive starting from January? Food for thought in the absence of more data.
Covid only infects American deer (Odocoileus virginianus) not European (Cervus elaphus red) deer or Asian (Sika) deer.
Recorded spillback from deer to humans including a potential origin of Omicron.
This paper hypothesized ‘white tailed deer’ as the source of Omicron.
Omicron via deer origins has been debated by evolutionary biologist.
Omicron reportedly emerged in South Africa but it was 3 unidentified diplomats from elsewhere.
Omicron was first detected in Johannesburg International Airport because of the country’s sophisticated genetic surveillance.
Omicron exploded everywhere, including USA, in early November.
One deer was found with 76 mutations and another with both Delta and Omicron.
Oh dear (pun intended).
This vaccine is even designed to reinfect its mammalian host (called ‘superinfection’ or ‘boosters’) to overcome any natural immunity.
Why? So that the vaccine can keep spreading and shedding!
Well it seems to be doing a great job of that, although maybe the IM spike vaccines are a necessary co-factor.
Timeline
2004
After 9/11 Fauci outlined a “research agenda” for the billions of biodefense tax dollars that would flow from Congress to NIAID, which started a building spree of biolabs. The $66.5M Rocky Mountain Lab (RML) was the mothership built in rural Hamilton, Montana, where both Emmie and Vincent work in relative obscurity.
Oh my, the idea of Fauci with his own Biological Weapons Lab is terrifying. And here I thought he only dished out money to other labs
In 2006, nearby University of Montana researchers, inserted a furin cleavage site into a bovine (deer) coronavirus, at the exact same location (R667) of SARS2 of 2020! The furin cleavage site was a biological mechanism required for self dissemination of an animal vaccine. And American deer were used by American scientists as a model for self spreading vaccines.
“we introduced a furin recognition site at single basic residues within the putative S1-S2 junctional region. We show that furin cleavage at the modified R667 position generates discrete S1 and S2 subunits and potentiates membrane fusion activity. “
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16519916/
In 2012 Danielle Anderson and her US educated boss Linfa Wang, were recruited into this growing NIAID biodefense network via Duke University. They would both relocate to Duke-Singapore where an animal BSL3 lab was built. That same year SARS became a select agent, because its potential use as a bioweapon, ironically giving Duke’s rivalUNC a monopoly on SARS research.
[Duke is a key partner of DARPA’s Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program. The first step of the Duke/DARPA program involves the discovery of potentially threatening virusesand “develop[ing] methods to support viral propagation, so that virus can be used for downstream studies.”
Duke University is jointly partnered with China’s Wuhan University, which resulted in the opening of the China-based Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in 2018. Notably, China’s Wuhan University includes a multi-lab Institute of Medical Virology that has worked closely with the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases since the 1980s.]
In 2013 a coronavirus 99% similar to a Chinese strain spread to America via imported pig feed, and wiped out 10% of US pork production. Both countries lost young piglets to the same disease called PEDV. That same year coronavirus hunter and collaborator Dr Ralph Baric of UNC traveled to Wuhan to discuss “research strategies and collaborations” with Shi and Peter Daszak of EcoHealth. Fauci’s NIAID started funding this tight Emerging Infectious Disease team for the next decade.
What was PEDV is now renamed SADS and traced to a virus 98 percent identical to Chinese bats. Baric in his UNC lab work has identified in SADS a “protease” (e.g. furin) as “a key regulator of coronavirus cross-species transmission.” It is ideal for “testing of candidate vaccines” on “domesticated livestock.”
The French, who built the BSL4, were fading from view as the WIV signed a Letter of Support in 2013 with NIAID, for bat sample collection and sharing. That same year UTMB became the training center for WIV technicians and UNC started reverse engineering Chinese pathogens in 2015-16.
[Before becoming CEO of Moderna in 2011 Bancel was CEO of BioMérieux. The billionaire Alain Mérieux was Chairman of BioMérieux and they helped build Wuhan Institute of Virology BSL4 lab]
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1396580941909217284.html
In 2014 MERS from Middle Eastern camels found its way to both the US and China, so Fauci’s Rocky Mountain lab (RML) began development on a camel vaccine for Middle East and Far East camels. Fauci explained that NIAID had developed a human vaccine for almost every outbreak like MERS, but pharmaceutical companies didn’t have a viable market, so the concept was to vaccinate the camels to protect the people.
In 2016 there was renewed interest by Western Universities and Western governments in controversial self spreading vaccines. For example, there was in interest in a transmissible rabies vaccine for bats. It was speculated that self spreading vaccines “could mutate” or “may jump species.”
A 2016-17 SARS like bat virus was blamed for infecting pork farms in China, where food security was national security. What you thought was a drug sniffing dog at the international airport was looking for illegal pork.
in Wuhan….. [a] brand new BSL4 opened in 2017. Like Fauci’s NIAID, CAS had a post SARS biolab building boom and this is the special one built upon the idea of international collaboration. It serves as a training center between the East and the West
In 2016 NIAID filed the infamous ‘070’ mRNA vaccine patent with Moderna. The patent was for the engineered spike protein, which made a good target, for both human and animal vaccines. The mRNA vaccine patent, now used for humans, lists a particular example of a “camel or a bat.”
Disclosed herein are recombinant coronavirus S ectodomain trimers comprising protomers comprising one or more proline substitution(s) that stabilize the S protein trimer in the prefusion conformation. One class of mutation, ….was found to be surprisingly effective for stabilization of coronavirus S protein trimers in the prefusion conformation
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10960070
Located inside the SARS2 spike protein is a Moderna cancer patent, also filed in 2016.
It was discovered in SARS-CoV-2's unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses.
The international team of researchers …..claim there is a one-in-three-trillion chance Moderna's sequence randomly appeared through natural evolution.
Patent
Peter Daszak, a regular advisor to WHO on pathogen prioritization for R&D, Carroll and Joana Mazet – former global director for USAID’s PREDICT – all joined together in 2016 to form the Global Virome Project;
This was a “10-year collaborative scientific initiative to discover unknown zoonotic viral threats and stop future pandemics”. Mazet was also co-director of UC Davis’ One Health program, which recruited Dr. Wacharapluesadee and her team in Thailand to conduct a multi-year research project on bats.
They are joined by Edward Rubin of Metabiota Inc, a recipient of PROPHECY funds at DARPA and, notably, an $18.4 million DTRA contract award for scientific research and consulting work in Ukraine and the Lugar Center in the Republic of Georgia.
GVP attendees in Bellagio in 2016
W. Ian Lipkin-NIH
Jonna Mazet-former Global Director of USAID PREDICT
Ariel Pablos-Mendez USAID
Edward Rubin -Metabiota
Steven Solomon -WHO
Dennis Carrol-USAID
Cara Chrisman -USAID
Peter Daszak -Eco Health Alliance
Keiji Fukuda-WHO
George Gao-CDC China
Michael Kurilla -NIAID, Office of Biodefense Research Resources
Anyways, moving on GVP has recently partnered with the Trinity Challenge .
Founding members of Trinity Challenge
Other members of note
Clinton Health Access Initiative
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health
Palantir
Swiss Re
Tsinghua University
The Vaccine Confidence Project
Its looks to me like the Global Virome Project and Trinity Challenge is a working arm of the WEF , US Govt agencies and BMG foundation (GAVI/WHO)
In May of 2017, the health ministries for the world’s wealthiest twenty (G20) nations assembled for the first time, gathering in Berlin to participate in a Joint Exercise Scenario with an imagined China responding to a contagion dubbed MARS, for “Mountain Associated Respiratory Virus.”185 (Mars is also the Roman god of war.) German governmental institutions collaborated to produce the simulation with the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, the WHO, and the Robert Koch Institution (RKI).
The ministers hailed from the United States, Russia, India, China, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Korea, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, and the European Union.
Tom Price was HHS Secretary at the time before his resignation in September
The exercises’ two moderators also worked closely with the Gates Foundation; David Heymann served simultaneously as chair of the UK’s Centre on Global Health Security and as an epidemiologist with the Gates-funded London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Heymann also sits with Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on the Mérieux Foundation USA Board. BioMérieux is the French company that built the Wuhan lab.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Heymann has chaired the WHO’s Scientific Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards.
The other moderator of the 2017 simulation was Professor Ilona Kickbusch, a member of Gates’s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (Fauci and CDC Director George Gao are members)
Over two days, the global health ministry officials and other “guest countries and international representatives” bore witness to a “timeline of the unfolding pandemic,” known as MARS, a novel respiratory virus, spread from busy markets in a mountainous border region of an unnamed but China-like country—to nations around the globe.
In essence only draconian clampdowns by neighboring governments and heroic WHO technocrats orchestrating a tightly choreographed centralized global response can save humanity from a chaotic dystopian apocalypse.
2017-CEPI [created ] was basically the US Government, Jeremy Farrar’s Wellcome Trust (Fauci of UK) and Bill Gates. All three were funding self-spreading vaccineresearch. All three were funding research in Wuhan. And all three have helped cover upthe lab leak.
. In 2017 Fauci’s Rocky Mountain Lab (RML BSL4 in Montana) finally setup a live bat colony, but not for the high maintenance Chinese bats.
(Large Egyptian fruit eating) bats are much easier to maintain in captivity. They are typically robust and will eat a variety of fruits that are readily available in the United States.
Chinese labs like the WIV kept wild-caught insect-eating Chinese bats alive for months. This is in essence the only reason Wuhan is part of the story.
In a 2017 TWiV podcast, Vincent Munster said his next project was to “start some bat coronavirus infections” with the new bat colony in the RML lab.
Most of his work is unpublished, cutting-edge, vaccine research. He is a DARPAresearcher. He is Fauci’s aerosol specialist. He has a BSL4 with primates, bats, mink, Chinese camels, and 250,000 deer in his Montana biolab backyard. He does not even need a pubic record R01 grant for research, unlike everyone else in NIAID’s biodefense network
During the RML led kickoff meeting in 2018, on the DARPA funded transmissible bat vaccine research, there was a big milestone at the end.
Work with the (US Universities on) technology transfer infrastructure and personnel, and with the CEPI program (a co-sponsor of Singapore conference) to develop partnerships with vaccine manufacturers (2.5 years).
Develop an inter-institutional agreement to enable the transfer of our discoveries to industry for commercialization (3 years).
In 2018 bats were big news and by 2019, with decreasing cost of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology and increased bat cave sampling, virologists rightly or wrongly (even comically) blamed all these global events on bats
Daszak of EcoHealth in 2018 proposed a transferable vaccine method which is “restricted to a single round of transmission.” It is deployed on the bat fur and spread via licking. This much “safer and more predictable transferable vaccine approach” (i.e. not contagious or airborne) was proposed by Daszak, Linfa, Shi, and Ralph Baric of UNC to DARPA in a bid called Defuse. Again they lost because because DARPA said they “couldn’t afford it.”
Munster was working as the technical lead on a “novel animal vaccine” for a $10M US Military project. Munster’s team beat Daszak’s team for the coveted DARPAPREEMPT project.
The losing DARPA Defuse team would later ‘merge’ with the winning DARPA Preempt team in Fauci’s $82M CREID Network. Fauci’s NIAID budget is twice the size DARPA.
A Montana State University (MSU) based team, using Munster’s method, was 25% cheaper; $10M versus $14M. Munster’s technical approach did not require Daszak’s expensive field equipment, medicine, or tracking for deployment of an animal vaccine in remote locations
This unclassified project was in the public domain, but it involved proprietary information, with a degree of “ambiguity” from reading the press releases. This vaccine was “intended to protect US military service members and the local communities where they operate” in Africa. But this “novel vaccine” was not for US troops, it was for African bats.
Munster was “creating the world’s first prototype of a self-disseminating vaccine designed to induce a high level of (wildlife) herd immunity.”
We are creating the world’s first prototype of a self-disseminating vaccine designed to induce a high level of herd immunity (wildlife population level protection) against Lassa virus (LASV) and Ebola,
Per a USTRK Freedom of Information request, RML has developed a “scalable vectored vaccine” to spread through bat populations “to prevent emergence and spillover” of potential pandemic viruses from bats to human populations.
And “this vaccine tool would effectively protect people from spillover of (bat diseases) without the need for human vaccination or for inoculation of individual animals and with minimal health impact on wildlife hosts.”
RML virologists attended self spreading vaccine conferences and studied live bats.
American deer mice (no relation to American deer) were housed in Fauci’s RMLbiolab, served as a self spreading vaccine model, and efficiently transmitedSARS2.
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/6/1006/htm
UNC had already published a “fascinating” and “unique” fragment of RaTG13 (UGGUCGC) in a 2018 “national security” LAV bat vaccine paper, referencing the “lethal human sequences” of the Mojiang mineshaft.
Evaluation of a recombination-resistant coronavirus as a broadly applicable, rapidly implementable vaccine platform
Here, we show that coronaviruses with completely rewired transcription regulatory networks (TRNs) are effective vaccines against SARS-CoV. The TRN-rewired viruses are attenuated and protect against lethal SARS-CoV challenge. While a 3-nt rewired TRN reverts via second-site mutation upon serial passage, a 7-nt rewired TRN is more stable, suggesting that a more extensively rewired TRN might be essential for avoiding growth selection. In summary, rewiring the TRN is a feasible strategy for limiting reversion in an effective live-attenuated coronavirus vaccine candidate that is potentially portable across the Nidovirales order.
The TRN conserved sequence (CS) motifs utilized in the CRG3 and CRG7 backgrounds, CCGGAU and UGGUCGC, respectively, are both unique sequence motifs when compared with all known CoV genome TRN sequences, greatly reducing and likely eliminating the possibility of recombination with unmodified genomes at the canonical TRS loci. Our previous work demonstrated that introducing mismatched TRSs was lethal for RNA recombinant virus replication13.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0175-7
China National Global Virome Initiative, part of the China Virome Project was launched Feb 2018 at the Prince Mahidol Annual Conference in Bangkok). It is the Chinese implementation of the international Global Virome Project
From another source
U.S. and Chinese scientists got together from January 8-10, 2019. They met in Harbin, China, at an institute that houses a BSL-4 lab, the kind where researchers wear special pressurized moon suits and research deadly viruses and other pathogens.
In 2018, the year before the Harbin, China workshop, some of the same attendees applied to the U.S. Department of Defense’s secret DARPA program, asking for $14 million to study bat viruses. Their pitch was to put bat viruses into “humanized” mice, watch them get really sick, and then make a vaccine to fight coronavirus. This group of international collaborators, instead of giving a covid vaccine to humans, proposed to spray their vaccine on bats in China’s Wuhan lab and in Chinese caves, to vaccinate and inoculate the bats. (DARPA turned them down and did not fund their proposal, as I detailed in depth here.)
Some scientists have speculated that the 2018 DARPA pitch went forward anyway with other funding. Some think NIH, specifically Dr. Anthony Fauci’s shop, funded the idea (in whole or part) through NIH or perhaps the idea was funded through another DOD agency, or USAID. Some speculate the Chinese funded it. We don’t know and nobody is saying, but people have noted the secrecy surrounding this work.
As shown in this photo, many U.S.-funded bat virus researchers also attended a meeting in Wuhan in October 2018, called, “The 8th International Symposium in Emerging Viral Diseases.”
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/pdfs/ICEID2018.pdf
On the first day of a 2019 China workshop, there was a session titled “Understanding and Engineering Viral Pathogens with Pandemic Potential”, during which Dr. Baric gave his talk.
Notes were released by Texas in response to the tenacious USRTK.orgFOIA requests.
While short, these notes about the meeting are specific, and Dr. Baric’s three-paragraph summary contains some key phrases that may offer insight into what he was researching or thought others were.
One detail worth additional scrutiny, is where the notes say Dr. Baric spoke about “passaging in mice” (what could have been “gain-of-function” research) and “reminded the audience of the law of unintended consequences and the possibility of surprise.”
Baric’s mice have, what he called, a “humanized” immune system, developed using parts from second-trimester human fetal lungs and human fetal kidneys and thymuses.
[Shi Zheng Li and WIV allegedly don’t have these patented mice, but how do we know?
In 2008 The Thousand Talents Program (TTP) was established by the central government of China to recognize and recruit leading international experts in scientific research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. The program has three categories:
Innovative 1000 Talents plan (Long term / Short term) – for Chinese scholars below 55 years of age
Foreign 1000 Talents plan (Long term / Short term) – for foreigners only below 55 years of age
Young scholar 1000 Talents plan or Overseas Young Talents Project of China- for those below 40 years of age
TTP is alleged to facilitate economic espionage and theft of intellectual property to be used by China’s military-civil sectors which like the US is interlocked
As of Dec, 2019 more than 16,000 researchers/scientists have returned to China after studying/employment. More than 4,500 left the United States for China in 2017 - nearly double the number who left in 2010.]
In 2018, Baric pitched to DARPA, along with his Wuhan colleague Shi Zhengli, that he would inject bat viruses with pandemic potential into his “humanized” mice to see if the viruses stuck to the human fetal lung chunks inside the mouse’s back, and caused infection.
During his 2019 talk in China, Dr. Baric discussed, "Studies to alter pathogen properties of viruses" such as "building chimeric viruses with altered structures for the receptor" & "adding the spike protein from a mouse coronavirus to a bat coronavirus, which can produce a strain that is more virulent in mice."
In early 2019 US virologists traveled to a Chinese veterinary research center. A meetingtook place between the two largest pork and poultry producers in the world on “combating infectious diseases and further enhancing cooperation between China and USA” (i.e. CAS and NAS).
Can we “predict” and intervene to prevent virus transfers? A ‘cleavage site’ has been identified for avian disease emergence in a new species.
Can we use “deliberate design” to create novel animal vaccines? Yes, but there may be “unintended consequences.”
Emmie’s Dutch husband and co-author Vincent Munster was also present in Singapore but he almost never presents.
By December 2019, the Wuhan pneumonia rumors were growing in the tight virology community. Emmie and Vincent’s Phd advisor in Holland, Ron Fouchier, claimed to know of “an outbreak of an unknown disease in Wuhan” by the “first week of December,” during a Dutch national holiday.
Also by mid-December many US professors knew of a Wuhan outbreak. Most of us would not learn of a city named Wuhan until late January.
[How about this for a coincidence
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several months before the coronavirus pandemic began, the Trump administration eliminated a key American public health position in Beijing intended to help detect disease outbreaks in China, Reuters has learned.
The American disease expert, a medical epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency, left her post in July, according to four sources with knowledge of the issue. The first cases of the new coronavirus may have emerged as early as November,
Zhu and the other sources said the American expert, Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases.
As an American CDC employee, they said, Quick was in an ideal position to be the eyes and ears on the ground for the United States and other countries on the coronavirus outbreak, and might have alerted them to the growing threat weeks earlier.
No other foreign disease experts were embedded to lead the program after Quick left in July, according to the sources. Zhu said an embedded expert can often get word of outbreaks early, after forming close relationships with Chinese counterparts.
Zhu and the other sources said Quick could have provided real-time information to U.S. and other officials around the world during the first weeks of the outbreak, when they said the Chinese government tamped down on the release of information and provided erroneous assessments.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-cdc-exclusiv-idUSKBN21910S
[Remove your only eyes so you can plausibly deny knowledge of what was going on in China and not react until the cat (virus) was out of the bag (China)?]
Linfa, Dani, and Shi presented their papers [in Singapore on December 9th 2019] with fellow Dutch team member Emmie de Wit. She claimed Nipah is scarier than Ebola, but both diseases are so lethal they kill the host before it can spread, unlike SARS2. NIAID only listed avian influenzas and bat coronaviruses, both from Asia, as having pandemicpotential.
Emmie’s colleague, and Daszak’s former NIAID Program Officer in China, Dr. Eun-Chung Park, gave a presentation on “The Progress and Challenges in Vaccine Development.” She ended it with a question for the Singapore audience:
Should a bat vaccine be considered to control Nipah transmission? Bats constitute the reservoir, not only of Nipah but also other viruses causing disease in humans. Preventing viral shedding from bats could prevent human disease.
Fauci’s NIAID planted the seed in Singapore about vaccinating the animal reservoir: bats. This was both the beginning, and the end, of a terrible idea to test a bat vaccine on live bats in Wuhan, that was probably already spreading in humans at this Singapore conference.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Baric, along with an international team of scientists from Wuhan and the U.S., asked Uncle Sam for $14 million to study bat viruses.
Not just any bat viruses.
The team was going to mix together a special chimeric stew of “SARS-like” viruses, some modified from bat viruses pulled from Chinese caves (WIV-1, WIV-16, and SCH014), and some modified from Chinese SARS1 patients, and make a chimera bat coronavirus, or two.
They told DARPA they were going to add a specific furin cleavage site to the viruses (something that helps them more easily infect human cells), then they were going to inject them into “humanized mice,” mice that Dr. Baric was developing in his lab.
Dr. Baric’s mouse, which he would publish about the following year in Nature, had what he called a “humanized” immune system, developed using parts from second-trimester human fetal lungs and human fetal kidneys and thymuses. He and his colleagues planned to inject bat viruses with pandemic potential into his mice to see if the viruses stuck to the human fetal lung chunks inside the mouse’s back, and caused infection.
DARPA turned down their 2018 grant application, with DARPA Program Manager Dr. James Gimlett writing, among other things, their proposal left out an assessment of “potential risks of Gain of Function (GoF) research and DURC.” (DURC stands for dual use research of concern, basically when scientific research can be used, or misused, as a dangerous threat or weapon.)
Many wonder if the rejected proposed study went forward with other funding and also question why the researchers involved kept their proposed project secret, even after a bat virus-related pandemic emerged in 2019.
Some scientists note that some of the work in the DARPA pitch may have already begun before the team applied for the grant. Evidently, that’s often how it’s done, you test a bit before you pitch.
[Yes, Dr Malone and Dr Huff said the same. RO1 grants are quite competitive with only 20% of applications getting funded. You normally need to show some preliminary results meaning you start the project first. Besides, for those thinking this was a Chinese project does anyone think China does not have 14 million in their petty cash draw?]
2019-PREDICT PROGRAM ENDED
2019-December
NIH and Moderna have researched coronaviruses, like MERS, for several years, and signed a contract this past December that stated "mRNA coronavirus vaccine candidates [are] developed and jointly owned" by the two parties. The contract was not specific to the novel coronavirus, and it was signed before the new virus had been sequenced.
NIH said in a statement that its scientists created the "stabilized coronavirus spike proteins for the development of vaccines against coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2," and the government consequently has "sought patents to preserve the government's rights to these inventions."
Further, NIH "has adopted a non-exclusive licensing approach for these patent rights in order to allow multiple vaccine developers" to make a vaccine.
NIH added that "federal employees listed as inventors on these patent applications assigned their rights to the U.S. government. Accordingly, should the [United States Patent and Trademark Office] and other national patent authorities grant the patents, the U.S. government will hold ownership interest in the patents."
https://www.axios.com/2020/06/25/moderna-nih-coronavirus-vaccine-ownership-agreements
2020-August , The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, today announced that it has awarded 11 grants with a total first-year value of approximately $17 million to establish the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases (CREID). The global network will involve multidisciplinary investigations into how and where viruses and other pathogens emerge from wildlife and spillover to cause disease in people. NIAID intends to provide approximately $82 million over five years to support the network.
“The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic serves as a potent reminder of the devastation that can be wrought when a new virus infects humans for the first time,” said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci. “The CREID network will enable early warnings of emerging diseases wherever they occur, which will be critical to rapid responses. The knowledge gained through this research will increase our preparedness for future outbreaks.”
Each Center in the network will involve collaborations with peer institutions in the United States and 28 other countries
Yes, it’s like (USAID) Predict, but it wasn’t the cancellation of Predict that inspired it.”
The same scientists, from the same US Universities, using the same “novel animal vaccine,” worked together within the CREID Network. Leading up to 2020, the CREID network published papers with Shi and crawled around Asian bat caves, while Dani tested bat vaccines in Wuhan. In early 2020 the same CREID group covered up the lableak origins.
Listed in Fauci’s CREID Network are Dani and Linfa’s Duke, Baric’s UNC’s and Daszak’s EcoHealth. The “tight Emerging Infectious Disease” team in Wuhan was listed alongside the transmissible vaccine group of Munster’s RML and UC Davis. Shi’s WIV published (via UC Davis) a “Synergistic China–US” ecology paper with an “eerie timing of a publication” on February 5th 2020.
Fauci probably deleted the WIV from CREID and added Scripps Institute and Tulane after their virologists told him SARS2 “looks engineered” on Jan 31 2020.
Duke-NUS of Singapore is listed as a CREID subcontractor in the State Department FOIA
Basically Fauci’s $82M CREID Network (EcoHealth, WIV, Duke & UNC) equals funding the $14M Defuse grant (UC Davis & WIV, RML & WIV, Scripps & Tulane)
Now for Shi Zheng Li and RaTG13. Jim makes the case the Bat Lady is just an innocent bystander and her releasing RaTG13 some 2 years after it was fully sequenced was somewhat heroic as it exposed that Sars-Cov-2 had a FCS.
I am not so sure about that but he makes a good case the engineering was probably done in the US. Again, read his series for his take.
I am pretty sure Virologists did not need Shi’s RaTG13 sequence to detect the FCS in Sars-Cov-2 published sequences, even if guys like Baric would pretend not to notice for a time.
What RaTG13 sequences did do, is provide a better case for the Natural Origin argument. Keep in mind Natural Origin hypothesis does not rule out WIV Lab Release, so this does not help Shi too much. In fact, it makes a stronger case for lab release from her or Dani’s Wuhan labs
Also, as a Chinese citizen Shi is not a free woman. She has a boss. The PLA was put in charge of handling Wuhans COVID response according to Matt Pottinger who was Trumps assistant National Security Adviser
When asked why the U.S. health officials or U.S. intelligence did not know about the outbreak sooner, he said that the U.S. was too reliant on China's CDC. However, he said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) put the PLA in charge of handling the outbreak in Wuhan.
The former security advisor claimed that China's CDC was left in the dark and that even the center's director "did not know this thing was circulating until the last day of December." He concluded that the Chinese CDC had been left out of the loop as the PLA tried to "cover this thing up, to try to contain it until it was too late."
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4133486
So no doubt any release had to be authorized by either the PLA or CPC or she would be punished. There is no evidence of the latter happening.
Why was it authorized? Maybe because Chinas top leadership was involved in OPERATION COVID, perhaps not in an operational level outside China, but they would have been in the loop and given the OK for the operation to proceed, and selling the Natural Origin hypothesis regardless of if it implicated Chinas own laboratories was essential for the Operation to proceed to its most important phase, inoculating billions with the real Biological Weapon.
Why was this the most important part of the Operation? Because China like the Western Elites are all on board in the UN/WEF Sustainable Development program known as Agenda 2030. One important element is Net Carbon Zero. This is only possible with significant depopulation, starting first with a cull of the elderly. China like much of the developed world is facing a massive increase in its elderly population relative to the younger population and will be a burden on society and consume vast resources. This is unsustainable.
They are also Transhumanists who believe todays humans are expendable as Future Humans will be much more valuable than today’s Neanderthals with their plans for accelerated evolution and technological enhancement. There is also a belief that there already has been an evolutionary jump with a minority of humans who have made it with the rest being Left Behind. Hence the quest for DNA Harvesting tied to Digital ID, so they can target the worthy deserving to be spared and the useless “rats” (as Yuval Noah Hariri calls us) who are to be left behind
But I Digress. Back to it then.
So why would China allow their people to be the first guinea pigs with the first release in Wuhan? Maybe they trialed this self-spreading vaccine on some of their own first, maybe using prisoners, and confirmed it was a relatively benign (attenuated) virus except in elderly who could be saved if treated appropriately. The damage would come with the response (lockdowns) and mistreatment protocols that China could control within its own borders
Anyways, thats my theory. No evidence they did so but they could have.
So not only do we have the 2020 Published RaTG13 but also 2019 Pangolin Sequences to support Natural Origins of the engineered Vaccine-Virus which was released in or around October 2019 in Wuhan and a couple of more that got published after SC2.
The question must be asked, could these sequences be fictitious, at least in part and published to support the Natural Origin hypothesis. Remember, by the time both were published the sequence of the engineered virus/vaccine were known or decided on.
RaTG13 was alleged to have been fully sequenced in 2018 but the only sequences uploaded to GISAID were partial sequences. According to Shi all of the sample was used up so there is no way to verify the sequence. The full sequence was only published in 2020
Pangolin
A pangolin coronavirus isolated in 2019 under study at the WIV and elsewhere appears to have an RBD of its spike protein is very close to SARS-CoV-2 (97.4% amino acid homology) where the rest of this pangolin coronavirus has less homology (85-92%) (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2169-0).
RaTG13
RaTG13 has a lot less homology in the RBD with SARS-CoV-2, yet is more than 96% identical to SARS-CoV-2 over the entire virus (https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30262-2.pdf).
Recombination to make SARS-CoV-2 from an ancestor of these two viruses would be an extremely rare one-time event. Is there a natural explanation for this?
After amino acid 604 of the spike protein of RaTG13, there is no difference between the spike of RaTG13 and SARS-CoV-2, yet other coronaviruses have multiple differences in this area (https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(20)30262-2.pdf).
The only difference between these two viruses is in the PRRA furin cleavage site, and there are novel nucleotide changes apparently inserted into SARS-CoV-2 that allow insertion of this furin cleavage site into RaTG13 (https://medium.com/@yurideigin/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-through-the-lens-of-gain-of-function-research-f96dd7413748).
The above was discovered in 2018 at Barics UNC so he would have known about it
TRS
In 2018, experiments with a novel recombinant SARS coronavirus substituted the typical TRS transcription leader and body sequences with a novel sequence (UGGUCGC) in an attempt to further reduce recombination in animal models as a live vaccine candidate (https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0175-7#Sec7).
This TRS leader sequence, supposedly novel, is found starting at nucleotide 1465 in SARS-CoV-2 and could result, if utilized, in a novel viral RNA transcript that deletes part of the nsp2 protein of the ORF 1ab polyprotein. It is also found at nucleotide 1446 in RaTG13, one of the viruses found in the Yunnan cave in 2013, which has been proposed as a precursor to SARS-CoV-2. It is found in that area in no other coronavirus. This novel TRS sequence is also found in the 3’ ends of viral spike RNA transcripts of SARS-CoV.
Why was this not mentioned in the 2018 paper describing the novel TRS sequence recombinant viruses? Is there an explanation for this?
Were the TRS sequences responsible for the slow rate of mutations (along with Lockdowns) until Delta, helping to keep the Pandemic going until a Vaccine was developed?
UNC had already published a “fascinating” and “unique” fragment of RaTG13 (UGGUCGC) in a 2018 “national security” LAV bat vaccine paper,
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0175-7
SHC015-MA15
A recombinant SARS-like coronavirus (SHC015-MA15) containing a human SARS Urbani spike protein sequence inserted into a mouse adapted SARS-like coronavirus was found to develop increased pathogenicity during infection of aged but not young mice compared to the parent MA15 strain in a 2015 publication (https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985).
The RNA sequence of this recombinant manipulated coronavirus was not deposited in Genbank until May 2020, five years later (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0924-2). This is highly unusual behavior. Is there an explanation for this?
https://web.archive.org/web/20201005103456/https://heraclitusoncovid19.com/origin-of-covid-19/
Zhou et al. (2020) originally claimed in their paper, which was received on 20 January 2020 before publication on 3 February 2020, that they had identified the closest matching relative to SARS-COV-2 from the RdRp of BatCov 4991 (later renamed RaTG13) which was an unpublished sequence from the WIV database:
"... a short region of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) from a bat coronavirus (BatCov RaTG13)—which was previously detected in Rhinolophus Affinis from Yunnan province—showed high sequence identity to 2019-nCoV. We carried out full- length sequencing on this RNA sample"(Zhou et al., 2020a)
Surprisingly, Shi's 2020 paper (Zhou et al., 2020a) did not cite her own paper that described the original discovery of RaTG13.
….researchers in Wuhan (Chen et al, 2020) did cite it in their paper received on 27th January 2020:
“Phylogenetic analysis indicates that 2019-nCoV is close to coronaviruses (CoVs) circulating in Rhinolophus (Horseshoe bats), such as 98.7% nucleotide identity to partial RdRp gene of bat coronavirus strain BtCoV/4991 (GenBank KP876546, 370 nt sequence of RdRp and lack of other genome sequence)”
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So maybe the 2019/2020 sequences are real, or maybe they have been altered to support the Natural Origins theory, but there is still enough evidence to support the Engineered Vaccine Virus hypothesis.
Even if you support the Engineered Vaccine Virus hypothesis, one then needs to decide on Accidental Lab Release or Intentional Release. There seems to be enough expectation, preparation, coordination in advance of the release to at least consider the latter. Intentional Release of a Pathogenic Virus is a Massive Crime.
With any Crime one looks at Means, Motive, Opportunity. Who gains? Did they have the means and opportunity to pull this off? I think they did.
You decide
But its too complex to pull off you say. Too many moving parts. That depends on Who is pulling it off. Some Organizations and Networks excel at pulling off complex operations
As for who was in on it and who was just a useful idiot, thats harder to say. But if a real investigation was done, its not too hard to get one of the criminals to spill the beans in the hope of saving himself. I don’t hold out hope of this happening though. Those guilty would just as soon blow the world to smithereens than let that happen, and they have the means to do so.
like your writing style better than mine. glad you get it: less about what I wrote and more important to read the links, which takes awhile.
the best one on self spreading vaccines:
http://web.evolbio.mpg.de/HEVIMAs/
I’ve speed read this and only skimmed ( previously) Jim Haslam’s work. I think you put forward an important case but it’s too complex and time consuming for most to read. If either of you could put this into a video format I think it would get more traction. It’s hard to understand the overall picture when you are so detailed here.