OPINION:
COVID-19 changed everything, but this sorry event has yet to play out. The question of where this particular SARS virus came from has been researched for well over a year, and the results are being buried because the implications are just too awful to contemplate politically.
The natural mutagenesis theory holds that the virus came from a bat in a cave 1,000 miles from Wuhan and was then transferred to a mouse, which traveled all the way to the Wuhan wet market and bit an unsuspecting shopper. This is a bit deficient from a probabilistic point of view. However, what is not deficient probabilistically is the likelihood that SARS-2 is just an ordinary product of the gain-enhancing research that was moved from the U.S. to China in 2014. If it was too dangerous in the U.S., why not just move it to a third-world country?
It is indisputable at this point that SARS-2 contains three unusual binding properties in its spike protein, which when taken together are so improbable in a natural setting as to become evolutionarily impossible. The additional factor on top of the binding properties, which supercharge the human inflammatory pathways, is the genetic spike protein mimicry with a singular lab mouse model. In other words, you might get struck by lightening once, but in this case it happened four times on four different days at the same location.
The ability to engineer this virus has been around for 30 years. It is really ordinary biological science.
Anthony Fauci was reporedly funding this research in the U.S. until he moved it to Wuhan, where it went on unabated, without the at-home political consequences. This is yet another not-in-my-backyard example which came home to knock out old people with metabolic-related diseases. That is exactly what this virus was engineered to do.
If you wanted a virus to be deadly to an entire population (which this one is not), it would have been easy. This one was reportedly funded by Dr. Fauci and creates that “new normal” he is always alluding to, paid for by your taxes. If you think it took a psychopathic creep to do this, you are probably right, but you really cannot blame the Chinese anymore. They just wanted to make a buck.
SAMUEL BURKEEN
Reston, Va.
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