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Scientists Have Re-Created The Deadly 1918 Flu Virus. Why?
Forbes ^

Posted on 08/19/2022 8:37:44 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

With all the controversy about gain-of-function research and all the concerns about how dangerous it is, you might think that scientists have stopped doing that kind of work.

Well, no.

In the latest news, a team of scientists in Canada and the U.S. report that they have re-created the 1918 influenza virus and used it to infect macaques. Let’s be clear here: the 1918 flu vanished from the Earth, long ago. It’s simply not a threat, or it least it wasn’t, until someone figured out a way to bring it back.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1918; flu; influenza; spanishflu
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Covid wasn't enough of a threat to sell enough mRNA serums?
1 posted on 08/19/2022 8:37:44 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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They’re playing with fire. I hope the person or person(s) that created it are the first to get it. Idiotic!!


2 posted on 08/19/2022 8:40:55 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The Spanish Flu is still among us. The article is completely wrong.


3 posted on 08/19/2022 8:46:53 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Even so the only purposes I can see for “gain of function” research are bacteriological warfare and selling vaccines.


4 posted on 08/19/2022 8:48:17 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Tench_Coxe
Covid hasn't killed the surplus population fast enough. And the jabs are killing the wrong people -- the idiots who embraced them and tried to shame/force others to do the same are the Democrat base.

And covid won't be a good enough reason to bring back cheat-by-mail-in ballots. But a REAL plague just might do the trick.

5 posted on 08/19/2022 8:48:38 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Tench_Coxe

Why? Because 2024 is coming up fast, and we need to save the Biden regime.


6 posted on 08/19/2022 8:49:19 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Tench_Coxe

This will get out, on purpose but claim it’s an accident.


7 posted on 08/19/2022 8:50:36 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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They’re playing with fire. I hope the person or person(s) that created it are the first to get it. Idiotic!!

More from that eminent SCIENTIST (?) Fauci and his "Gain of Function" obsession?

8 posted on 08/19/2022 8:54:25 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: Jane Long

Ping.


9 posted on 08/19/2022 8:55:34 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Tench_Coxe

10 posted on 08/19/2022 8:55:44 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Fill your lamps!)
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To: ProudDeplorable
From what I read, the 1918 flu was a garden variety flu. It hit at the perfect time, WWI, soldier’s with weakened immune systems, men heavily concentrated in Camps with rudimentary sanitation and limited medical staff. I believe ground zero for the pandemic was traced to an Army encampment in the Midwest. Factor in a society totally unprepared medically or scientifically to deal with even the most mundane version of the flu virus.

I do not believe the 1918 version of the flu virus would be as big a threat today. But then who would have predicted the stupidity of the modern medical profession during COVID?

11 posted on 08/19/2022 8:56:18 AM PDT by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Bill Gates and Klaus Schwabb say the herd must be culled. The serving must be made to conform.


12 posted on 08/19/2022 8:59:07 AM PDT by blackdog (Cooler King Joe, killing a winning nation every day. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

We also have smallpox at Ft. Meade.


13 posted on 08/19/2022 8:59:15 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Erik Latranyi

Influenza A, but a different strain.


14 posted on 08/19/2022 8:59:46 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Tench_Coxe

We know why.


15 posted on 08/19/2022 8:59:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ( We need to “build back better” on the bones and ashes of those forcing us to “Build Back Better.")
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To: HandBasketHell

They will have brought us another 7mil IA’s by the time this term ends...on the one hand they are bringing back feudalism but on the other another version of Hitler in culling the herd. DARK TIMES indeed.


16 posted on 08/19/2022 9:00:10 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: OldGoatCPO

It was the exact opposite of a normal strain. The young and old didn’t die.
Healthy men died from their immune system overreaction.
It’s called a cytokine storm.


17 posted on 08/19/2022 9:01:33 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ProudDeplorable

Truth: if it can be done and somebody has the motivation to do it, it will be done. Guaranteed.

Some things aren’t possible today but will be tomorrow. All things that can happen will happen.

Considering that we’ve not put a lid on government power during a ‘pandemic’, not established metrics for such powers being enabled, I’ve no doubt that a deliberate effort is to bioengineer another virus that is worse than COVID.

They want to destroy individual rights and force us to accept a “collective first” mentality, vs. individual rights coming first being in the best interests of the collective.

So there is the motivation and the capability - so it will be done.


18 posted on 08/19/2022 9:01:57 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I use YesScript javascript blocker which works on Forbes’ near full page popup to $ubscribe to be able to read. Most any javascript blocker would probably do the same and allow you to read the article.


19 posted on 08/19/2022 9:02:48 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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To: Tench_Coxe

They have to stop this. It’s a crime.


20 posted on 08/19/2022 9:04:41 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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