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Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:10 pm to OMLandshark
Between Boston Scientific and their machine gun robot dogs and Boston University and their Megadeth covid creation.... I'm not sure I want to go see fall colors up there this year
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:10 pm to OMLandshark
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They ruined the world with it last time
Nb4 the resident idiots on this board say “you’re overreacting. It wasn’t all that bad”.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:40 pm to Lawyered
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“How was your day honey ?” “Oh today was awesome.. we successfully created a frankenstein covid and created an 80% death rate in mice … everyone was so happy and also secretly worried at the same time..”
Carson Wentz has had a lot free time since Thursday and for the next several weeks….
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:42 pm to OMLandshark
URGENT: CAN WE PLEASE NOT FREAK OUT ABOUT THE CHIMERIC OMICRON EXPERIMENT
Alex Berenson
Oct 17
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In the last 48 hours, people have been screaming about the news that Boston University researchers stuck the Omicron spike into the original Sars-Cov-2 virus -
and PRODUCED A VIRUS WITH AN 80 PERCENT MORTALITY RATE WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE DIE DIE HOW COULD THEY DO THIS -
Stop.
Just stop.
I read the paper.
It says the Omicron/wild-type Sars-Cov-2 combination the researchers created is more lethal than Omicron.
However, it ALSO says the Omicron/wild type virus is LESS lethal than original wild type. Neither of those findings should be a surprise. Omicron is much less dangerous than the original Sars-Cov-2, so blending the two together produces a virus with intermediate lethality.
What’s with the 80 percent mortality rate then?
It’s in mice, people.
And guess what? The wild-type had a 100 PERCENT mortality rate in mice.
Yes, all the mice infected with the original Sars-Cov-2 died.
Which is really bad. If you’re a mouse.
I think we can agree that Sars-Cov-2 does not have a 100 percent mortality rate in humans.
Nor did the researchers provide any evidence that the blended Omicron/wild-type coronavirus is able to defeat antibodies in people who have been infected with and recovered from Omicron. Which is basically all of us. (They did show that both the original Omicron and their variant beats the mRNA vaccines, but that fact is not a surprise either.)
Further, this work was conducted in a Biosafety Level 3 lab, the second-highest level, used for most viruses that aren’t Ebola/Marburg or smallpox. Should the work have been done in a top-level BSL 4 lab, with positive pressure and all the rest? Maybe. But considering we’ve all been exposed to Omicron already, and considering that the infection fatality rate from even the wild-type is more like 0.3 percent - 3 in 1000 - than 30 percent - maybe not.
Would it be a good idea to make this sort of fiddling with Sars-Cov-2 public BEFORE scientists conduct it, so virologists and the rest of us could discuss its risk? Yeah, more disclosure probably makes sense.
But truly, if the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the biggest risk from Sars-Cov-2 is hysteria, not the virus itself.
Try not to fall into the trap.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:42 pm to OMLandshark
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The 20% that survive would largely starve to death taking humanity from 8 billion to around to around say 300 million.
Well 500 million is the goal according to the Georgia Guidestones.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:44 pm to WB Davis
Not sure what’s funny.
I don’t need the daily mail to tell me the us has bio labs and funds bio labs around the world.
This isn’t a secret. But I bet you still think we all got covid because some Chinese dude ate a bat.
I don’t need the daily mail to tell me the us has bio labs and funds bio labs around the world.
This isn’t a secret. But I bet you still think we all got covid because some Chinese dude ate a bat.
This post was edited on 10/17/22 at 4:45 pm
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:47 pm to DonBridges
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But truly, if the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the biggest risk from Sars-Cov-2 is hysteria, not the virus itself.
No shite. Still doesn’t make what they are doing right.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:48 pm to DonBridges
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But truly, if the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that the biggest risk from Sars-Cov-2 is hysteria, not the virus itself.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:50 pm to OMLandshark
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Boston University creates a new Covid strain with an 80% kill rate
Congratulations?
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:51 pm to WB Davis
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In fairness, the Daily Mail does publish some outstanding material.
Who tf cares where it’s coming from.
We just went through a global pandemic and a huge mind frick operation because people fricking around with viruses in a lab let it out.
Some of you are are just too stupid. Get your 3 boosters and don’t forget to take paxlovid. fricking moron.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 4:58 pm to caro81
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considering the source of this "news" it should.
Fox picking up story
Toronto Sun
This post was edited on 10/17/22 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:04 pm to DonBridges
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Try not to fall into the trap.
All that text and not one mention of transmission ability.
If it's 80 oercent fatal with the transmission rate of original Wuhan? Meh. If it's 80 percent fatal with the transmission rate of Omicron? We boned.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:09 pm to OMLandshark
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Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:10 pm to OMLandshark
Nice catch OMLandshark
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:13 pm to NPComb
Fox and other stations can report on it, but the study is available to read yourself. The “80% kill rate” sounds scary until you realize the Wuhan variant kill rate was 100%.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:17 pm to DonBridges
The science continuing to frick with chimeric COVID variants is worthy of action well beyond hysteria.
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:18 pm to OMLandshark
You had me at"Professor Shmuel Shapira"
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:20 pm to OMLandshark
Yeah this won't end badly
Posted on 10/17/22 at 5:53 pm to ThuperThumpin
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From Scientist
Meant to add a “those” on there as in people doing Gain of Function research and medical tyranny. Big difference between that and an engineer.
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