Since 2014 and right up to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, articles were being published in various US scientific journals calling at..

In July 2019, as Ft. Detrick was in shutdown due to several serious biosafety breaches uncovered by the CDC, 2 assisted living facilities at an hour's drive from Ft. Detrick on the interstate linking it to Ralph Baric's university were hit by an unknown respiratory virus.

  • OgdenTO [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    How close is the sequenced sars-cov-2 covid-19 virus to the ones sequenced in Baric's published studies?

    That is, are the spike protein encoding segments and the unusual other protein activating segments of the dna similar?

    This information is not mentioned here but seems like the logical first step into making real links between Baric's work and the outbreak.

    • GalacticFederation [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I’d love to be able to answer that...

      Right now I’m working on reviewing all of this and will try to do a re-write because I’m not a fan of the author’s gloss

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I feel that this is important, but regardless of any actual links to the outbreak it is interesting that there has been absolutely 0 mention of this lab in the media.

        Particularly because

        1. there had been a lot of noise made of the Wuhan lab as studying the bat viruses (which doesn't even modify the viruses, as far as I can tell, let alone study human transmissible varieties)

        2. this lab is a scientific collaborator with the Wuhan lab and has been involved in research on the same viruses that are implicated in the Wuhan lab leak theory

        3. this lab purportedly researches vaccines - one would think that this would be something to be proud of as vaccine research across the globe has been talked about nonstop for 18 months.

      • OgdenTO [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Baric, the scientist, published a dna modification of a coronavirus to make it more infectious to humans. if his strategies were used to make the pandemic sars-cov-2 virus, it would make sense that it would be similar to his published methods, which are unique because they don't appear to occur in nature.

        This similarity would be visible in the sequenced dna comparison.

        • star_wraith [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Right I was just making the jokey joke funny emoji because I don't understand your scientist words (I actually do follow a lot of that though, thanks for the info)

  • black_mold_futures [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    insufficiently-regulated and -inspected US biolabs

    Thanks Obama

    The smoking-gun emails

    yeah this is dumb hackfraud journalism

  • MazovianThought [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Somebody wanna copy paste this? I'm not visiting Russian Facebook just like I'm not visiting actual Facebook.

    • GalacticFederation [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Here’s some juicy sources:

      https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html

      https://abcnews.go.com/US/respiratory-outbreak-investigated-retirement-community-54-residents-fall/story?id=64275865