Posted on 09/22/2021 5:33:12 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Wuhan and US scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronavirus particles into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show.
New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles and aerosols containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.
They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work.
Papers, confirmed as genuine by a former member of the Trump administration, show they were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells.
When Covid-19 was first genetically sequenced, scientists were puzzled about how the virus had evolved such a human-specific adaptation at the cleavage site on the spike protein, which is the reason it is so infectious.
The documents were released by Drastic, the web-based investigations team set up by scientists from across the world to look into the origins of Covid-19.
In a statement, Drastic said: “Given that we find in this proposal a discussion of the planned introduction of human-specific cleavage sites, a review by the wider scientific community of the plausibility of artificial insertion is warranted.”
The proposal also included plans to mix high-risk natural coronavirus strains with more infectious but less dangerous varieties.
The bid was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, the US-based organisation, which has worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researching bat coronaviruses.
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Viscount Ridley, who has co-authored a book on the origin of Covid-19, due for release in November, and who has frequently called for a further investigation into what caused the pandemic in the House of Lords, said: “For more than a year I tried repeatedly to ask questions of Peter Daszak with no response.
“Now it turns out he had authored this vital piece of information about virus work in Wuhan but refused to share it with the world. I am furious. So should the world be.
“Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into humanised and ‘batified’ mice, and much, much more.”
A Covid-19 researcher from the World Health Organisation (WHO), who wished to remain anonymous, said it was alarming that the grant proposal included plans to enhance the more deadly disease of Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers).
“The scary part is they were making infectious chimeric Mers viruses,” the source said.
“These viruses have a fatality rate over 30 per cent, which is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than Sars-CoV-2.
“If one of their receptor replacements made Mers spread similarly, while maintaining its lethality, this pandemic would be nearly apocalyptic.”
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Everyone involved in the decision-making process of this on both sides should be hanged.
Also, based on the fatality rate we're seeing with Covid, we may have dodged a bullet.
Not enough horses or jeeps to draw and quarter them?
WhoTF wakes up one day and thinks “I wonder if I can create a horrific disease through bats? Let’s just see what happens…”
Communist mad scientists with zero government restrictions.
There have been horror stories about much less heinous individuals. Victor Von Frankenstein? He meant well, sort of. Dracula? He was hungry.
I just want coffee, food, exercise, sex, and sunshine.
(Not in that order…)
In a saner time, maybe. But now he fits right in with the other billionaires who are scared witless of dying, who want to live on this mortal orb forever, and who are trying to wipe out about 3/4 of humanity in the process.
They're going to learn that God has the last laugh, and life (and the physical universe) will cease to exist, but only when He says so.
2 Peter 3:9-12: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
You just laid out the blueprint for keeping any man. It is as easy as coffee, food, exercise, sex, and sunshine.
It’s really simple.
Trust the science!
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Eric Hoffer would say “belonging” or “anonymity”. Those are real human needs for which people will kill.
I trust science, but not scientists who make a buck off of their science credentials and lord it over everyone, any more than I trust every rabbi or a Catholic trusts every priest. The world is full of a@@holes, and it’s impossible to hold a certificate of non-a@@hole-ity that can be trusted.
“These viruses have a fatality rate over 30 per cent, which is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than Sars-CoV-2.
“If one of their receptor replacements made Mers spread similarly, while maintaining its lethality, this pandemic would be nearly apocalyptic.”
The Yahoo piece didn't link to the underlying report or the actual grant proposals being discussed, but if the above can be verified, it's too big to sweep under the rug. The early references to MERS were the basis of so much early concern about the 'Rona, for the reasons cited. An easily transmissible airborne virus with a 30% CFR is a civilization-ender.
If we had a functioning media, someone would be trying to get to the bottom of this.
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