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LTC Larry Sellin, 'How CV-19 Was Made
2020-05-21
[WION] There is ongoing censorship, even in the scientific literature, to restrict publication of information contrary to the accepted narrative that COVID-19 is naturally-occurring.

What follows is not an analysis of motivations or an indictment meant to assign blame, but a history of scientific investigation that eventually led to COVID-19.

A recent news article published in the scientific journal Nature noted, that while it is important to find the origin of COVID-19 to prevent reinfection, it has been difficult pinpointing the source.

"It is quite possible we won’t find it. In fact, it would be exceptionally lucky if we land on something," said Lucy van Dorp, a geneticist from University College London.

It may indeed be impossible to identify a natural source, if COVID-19 was the product of bioengineering.

Although there are hundreds of scientific publications on coronavirus, a few relevant to the present discussion will be highlighted.

Coronavirus research did not begin with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS, SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1) epidemic of 2002-2004, but it was certainly accelerated by it.

Additional impetus for studying coronaviruses arose after the 2012 outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS or MERS-CoV).

Much of the scientific inquiry related to those two diseases has centered on a particular component of coronaviruses called the spike glycoprotein, which carries the ability for the virus to attach itself to a human cell and gain entry.

Obviously, understanding and interfering with the processes initiated by the spike glycoprotein could have prophylactic or therapeutic value.

Most of that research effort focused on the cascade of events regulated by the protein part of the spike glycoprotein, or S-protein, which has two sections, S1, primarily responsible for binding to the human cell and S2, driving fusion with the cell membrane and entry.

The S1 section contains a sequence of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, called the receptor binding domain (RBD), which defines the coronavirus’ ability to bind to specific receptors, whether they be human or animal.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  @ #4 - Never happen. AAFES would want its cut.
Posted by: Clem   2020-05-21 23:27  

#6  Occam's razor. It was first detected in Wuhan, so thats the place to look. There is a zoological virus lab there, so thats a reasonable place to start.

Given that its probably not lucrative working for Xinnie the Pooh, I bet some exotic bats found their way to the local "special" market on the side by the lower hired help. Do that often enough and eventually the virus will hit the lottery with a mutation that lets it jump, and the right host to spread it.

Doesn't need to be engineered - mother nature is pretty damned clever, especially around stupid humans who tempt fate.
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566   2020-05-21 23:07  

#5   a farmer's market in the parking lot at Ft. Detrick

Sure, but how many viruses jump from zucchini to honey to humans?
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-05-21 14:35  

#4  There never was a farmer's market in the parking lot at Ft. Detrick, was there?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-05-21 11:31  

#3  If you hear hoof beats, think horses - not zebras.
I suppose a virus can jump from bats to pangolins to ... to humans. But in the neighborhood of China major virology & molecular biology research institute?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-05-21 11:14  

#2  So why the AIDS component?
Posted by: gorb   2020-05-21 11:00  

#1  The fact that no natural source of COVID-19 has been identified, that scientific evidence exists suggesting bioengineering and the clear ability to do so, all demand an expanded investigation as to its origin.

I don't expect 'investigative' answers anytime soon.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-05-21 08:53  

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