It's all about the spikes: American DARPA may be involved in the COVID-19 pandemic
This person may be the main developer of the coronavirus. Ralph Baric, molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina. Source: theintercept.com
The doctor is almost convinced
It looks like a scandal. Jeffrey Sachs, head of the profile commission investigating the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes coronavirus disease, said that the pathogen could be obtained artificially. And there are two great things here.
The first is the author, to whom the world scientific community has no claims.
Dr. Sachs has long been a recognized authority, though not in biology, but in economics, but everyone listens to his opinion. In the early 2000s, he was included in the list of the most influential people in the world. Sachs even managed to serve the young post-Soviet Russia. For three years since 1991, he worked in Yegor Gaidar's team, coordinating "shock therapy". Sachs somehow did not work out with the Russian reformers, he left, and in 1998 he published an angry remark:
“The main thing that let us down was the colossal gap between the rhetoric of the reformers and their real actions ... And, it seems to me, the Russian leadership surpassed the most fantastic ideas of the Marxists about capitalism: they considered that the business of the state is to serve a narrow circle of capitalists, pumping into their pockets as much money as possible and as soon as possible. This is not shock therapy. This is a malicious, premeditated, well-thought-out action, which has as its goal a large-scale redistribution of wealth in the interests of a narrow circle of people.
The doctor also complained about the ill-considered policy of the United States, when the White House at first failed to fully implement its strategy in Russia, and then supported the rapid advance of NATO to the east.
Jeffrey Sachs is surprisingly loyal to the special operation in Ukraine, calling the irrepressible ambitions of the North Atlantic Alliance the main culprit for what is happening. It is too early to call this scientist our man in the camp of the enemy, but this point of view should be taken into account.
The second remarkable moment in stories Sachs is accusing American biological laboratories of creating and spreading the coronavirus.
Dr. Sachs incriminates not the Chinese from Wuhan, but his compatriots, colleagues in the scientific workshop. It is necessary to have an iron character and irrefutable evidence in order to announce such sensations. And it seems that Sachs has enough facts, albeit indirect ones. The commission, headed by a scientist, was created on the basis of one of the oldest and most authoritative scientific journals, The Lancet.
The British Medical Journal, which turns 200 next year, publishes very frequently about the coronavirus pandemic and how to deal with it. At the same time, all articles pass through a complex sieve of reviews by respected scientists from around the world. For example: on March 10 this year, the magazine published material based on estimates of excess mortality in the world during the pandemic period.
According to official figures, the death toll is approaching 6 million, and according to scientific calculations, the excess deaths in two years averaged more than 18 million - three times more! They write “on average”, since the calculations give an interval of deaths from 17,1 to 19,6 million. Approximately such losses were suffered by humanity during the 24 months of the pandemic.
By the way, in Russia from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2022, excess mortality, according to the authors of the article, amounted to 1,07 million people. More only in the US (up to 1,18 million) and India (4,36 million).
Once upon a time, Russian researchers also published in The Lancet. In particular, last year an article was published by Denis Logunov, the chief developer of the domestic Sputnik V vaccine, which presents a rigorous study of the drug's effectiveness. After that, the West started talking about the “Russian vaccine” in a completely different tone, but was never allowed to enter their markets. The discriminatory policy worked out again in all its glory.
Geoffrey Sachs. Source: cont.ws
As a result, The Lancet commission, headed by Dr. Sachs, is a completely respectable scientific office, the conclusions of which can and should be heeded. Apparently, it is still far from official conclusions, but the head has already spoken about the origin of the coronavirus:
“I chaired the Lancet Covid commission for two years. I'm almost convinced that it came from American biotech laboratories and not from nature. I'll just note that there were two years of intensive study: this is a blunder, in my opinion, of biotechnology, and not a natural distribution.
We don't know for sure, I have to make it absolutely clear, but there's ample evidence that it's worth looking into, and it's not being looked into, either in the US or elsewhere. I think there are reasons: they don’t want to look under the carpet.”
We don't know for sure, I have to make it absolutely clear, but there's ample evidence that it's worth looking into, and it's not being looked into, either in the US or elsewhere. I think there are reasons: they don’t want to look under the carpet.”
No matter how much one would like to believe in the conspiracy version of the origin of the coronavirus, one has to pay more and more attention to the laboratory origin.
A fatal chain of coincidences?
Why is Dr. Sachs almost convinced of the artificial genesis of the coronavirus?
Firstly, because until now, two years later, they cannot find a natural carrier of COVID-19. They say that the forests of half of China have already been searched in vain. It also failed to pull off the reverse trick, that is, to infect mice and pangolins with the human coronavirus. Therefore, all assumptions about a man-made virus cannot be dismissed - skeptics do not have so many counterarguments.
The results of one interesting experiment lead to certain thoughts.
Scientists attempted to infect bat cells with the 2002 coronavirus, which caused a brief but ferocious "SARS" epidemic. And it turned out that Sars-CoV-1 perfectly penetrates into cell cultures, unlike the coronavirus of the 2019 sample.
What can it say? The fact that there is actually a big evolutionary difference between two very similar viruses. Either the modern coronavirus is not naturally occurring at all, or it literally went through “fire, water and copper pipes” to become non-specific to a bat, but specific to humans. And to a number of cats, for example, leopards and tigers.
There are cases of infection of some species of deer. There is always a chance that the researchers are looking in the wrong place, and the small animal, which is also the intermediate host of the coronavirus, is still hiding in the forest thicket. But until this species is determined, no one can refute the words of Jeffrey Sachs.
Institute in Wuhan, China. Source: theintercept.com
The second reason the Ph.D. and economist by profession chose to blame American labs was the unique amino acid sequence on the most important part of the virus's spike protein. It is this sequence that is so insidious that it allows the pathogen to freely enter the cells of the human respiratory tract.
The paradox is that the sequence of eight amino acids in the composition of the spike was found in the cells of the nasopharynx, trachea and lungs in humans. No other respiratory virus can do such a trick. An article with a detailed analysis of this fact was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Then the most exciting begins. There is such a research office in the USA, the EcoHealth Alliance, which lives on grants related to healthcare. They managed to master more than 118 million dollars and even work with Chinese biological laboratories in Wuhan.
In 2018, EcoHealth Alliance employees intended to receive fully open funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Guess what for? Just for the development of a line of bat coronaviruses, in which exactly the same amino acid sequence was located on the spike.
That is, about a year and a half before the pandemic in the United States, the guys from the EcoHealth Alliance tried to assemble a virus that, according to the principle of operation, painfully resembles SARS-CoV-2.
Officially, no money was given for such controversial experiments. But this is official - who will disclose the details of the defense program? After all, this is a real opportunity to satisfy the research itch, as well as try to create weapons miracle virus. DARPA was created for this. This is the first hypothesis.
The second is that the EcoHealth Alliance group has long and illegally created a coronavirus, and they asked the military for money for final registration and legalization. The Intercept magazine openly writes that in a large part of the applications for American grants, the development team has everything ready, and only minor touches are required to the final project.
Among the grant seekers was Ralph Baric, a molecular biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with 20 years of experience specifically with viral spike proteins. This scientist at one time created a clone of the SARS virus and (attention!) patented the method of embedding genetic material without traces of interference.
Also, Barik, together with the Chinese, learned to twist the pathogenicity of bat coronaviruses so that they become infected faster and get sick more severely. What for? Ostensibly to find a more effective drug and vaccine.
As you know, until you catch a thief by the hand, it is very difficult to prove guilt by circumstantial evidence. Especially in such a delicate matter as genetic engineering. Any scientist, if he were guilty three times, would have covered his tracks long ago - there was plenty of time for this.
But questions remain.
The first is the release of a hypothetically laboratory coronavirus "into people" - is it an accident or sabotage? Or Barik's revenge for the rejected grant?
Second, what other biological chimeras are being synthesized in American "death factories"?
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