Before reading my post below, please read the link to the Marketwatch article here:
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/do...more_headlines
I'll explain why I am writing this post, but before I do, let me just level set my professional background about what the information below.
I retired only two years ago, but I spent my entire career working in Biotech as a professional molecular biologist with a background in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, developing molecular diagnostics and molecular genetics tests. I'm also one of the inventors of PCR, which is the basic technology that underpins all current COVID-19 diagnostic testing.
I'm reading some interesting papers I've found on Net about SARS-CoV-2:
One of them, entitled, "
SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus pose threat for human emergence" has some disturbing content. The reference for this publication is:
Nat. Med. 2015 December; 21(12): 1508–1513.
This is as group of scientists working at Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. UNC Chapel Hill is a known and documented site for bioweapons research.
The abstract of the paper begins...
"In this study, we examine the disease potential for SARS-like CoVs currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations."
This is where it starts to get strange:
"Utilizing the SARS-CoV infectious clone, we
generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse adapted SARS-CoV backbone."
Now...here's where it gets scary:
"The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild type backbone can
efficiently utilize multiple ACE2 receptor orthologs,
replicate efficiently in primary
human airway cells, and
achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV."
So, gang...here's what I find alarming...these guys
purposely engineered this virus.
The original SARS-like Coronavirus that can only infect bats
cannot infect humans because a protein domain on the viral spike protein
cannot bind to the ACE2 receptor on human airway epithelial cells.
Well...these guys at UNC Chapel Hill
engineered one with a Coronavirus spike protein that
CAN bind to human airway epithelial cells.
Now here's the kicker:
"Evaluation of
available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed
poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches
failed to neutralize and protect from CoVs utilizing the novel spike protein."
In other words, our previous SARS based therapies based on monoclonal antibodies and vaccines developed for original SARS coronavirus
failed to protect this new, genetically-engineered, I might add, coronavirus from using the "novel" spike protein. In other words, what we developed as therapies for SARS..don't work.
If that doesn't sound like bioweapons development, I don't know what does..
Now...for the kicker of all kickers: One of the scientists on this publication, a certain Zhengli Shi, woh was working as a post-doc at UNC Chapel Hill. Guess where she actually works? At the "Key Laboratory of
Special Pathogensand Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Wuhan, China
The laboratory that the Marketwatch article references above is the SAME laboratory that Zhengli Shi works at.
Now, before you guys think Stephen has gone off the deep end around possible conspirarcy theories, consider this paragraph at the end of the publication cited above:
"These studies were initiated
prior to the U.S. Government Deliberative Process Research Funding
Pause on
Selected Gain of Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS, and SARS Viruses."
What does
Gain of Function Research on Influenza, MERS and SARS Viruses
mean? It means making pathogenic virues more
contagious, more
pathogenic with a higher
lethality index.
This is
code for Bioweapons engineering, gang. Just as "Enhanced Interrogation" is code.
Think about that....