The scientist who designed the furin-cleavage-site work in DEFUSE sat for a Senate transcribed interview — and confirmed the architecture we were told was a conspiracy theory, while describing a burie
I still don’t understand why BARIC is not being held accountable?
Ralph BARIC was making Covid infectious to human lung tissue at the university of North Carolina long before the pandemic. (funded through Fauci) And he was collaborating with the Wuhan scientist Shi Zhengli.
University of North Carolina - BARIC’s work (starting in the early 2000s and continuing through the 2010s) included experiments that tested or increased the ability of bat coronaviruses to infect human cells.
What he was doing
At the University of North Carolina, Baric’s lab:
* studied bat coronaviruses with potential to spill over into humans
* built recombinant/chimeric coronaviruses
* tested whether spike proteins from bat viruses could:
* bind to the human ACE2 receptor
* infect human airway or lung cells in lab systems
Baric and Shi Zhengli:
Around 2013 (confirmed collaboration period begins)
* By 2013, Baric and Shi were already publishing together on SARS-like bat coronaviruses.
* A key 2013 Nature paper identified bat coronaviruses capable of binding human ACE2 receptors, which became the foundation for later collaboration..
More good stuff. Once again, if you are following this saga you will want to go back and read the article by Nicolas Wade in the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists published, I believe, in 2020. Wade lays out who the players were and what they were up to. There had been a debate going on for some time in this small community of scientists and bureaucrats over whether doing this gain of function research was worth the risk. Fauci had published an op-ed in WaPo arguing that we needed to do it. Ultimately under the Obama administration a moratorium was placed on this because of the danger. Wade also described how much training the bat lady received from Baric’s team. One possibility is that the bat lady decided to pursue this on her own and was ultimately responsible for the pandemic. A one woman wrecking ball. At one point the bat lady had disappeared. Don’t know if she ever resurfaced.
I still don’t understand why BARIC is not being held accountable?
Ralph BARIC was making Covid infectious to human lung tissue at the university of North Carolina long before the pandemic. (funded through Fauci) And he was collaborating with the Wuhan scientist Shi Zhengli.
University of North Carolina - BARIC’s work (starting in the early 2000s and continuing through the 2010s) included experiments that tested or increased the ability of bat coronaviruses to infect human cells.
What he was doing
At the University of North Carolina, Baric’s lab:
* studied bat coronaviruses with potential to spill over into humans
* built recombinant/chimeric coronaviruses
* tested whether spike proteins from bat viruses could:
* bind to the human ACE2 receptor
* infect human airway or lung cells in lab systems
Baric and Shi Zhengli:
Around 2013 (confirmed collaboration period begins)
* By 2013, Baric and Shi were already publishing together on SARS-like bat coronaviruses.
* A key 2013 Nature paper identified bat coronaviruses capable of binding human ACE2 receptors, which became the foundation for later collaboration..
". . .their contents reinforce the same gap between what these scientists said in public and in private."
Set aside everything else, and this still remains. Why would anyone do this unless they didn't really believe what they were saying in public?
More good stuff. Once again, if you are following this saga you will want to go back and read the article by Nicolas Wade in the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists published, I believe, in 2020. Wade lays out who the players were and what they were up to. There had been a debate going on for some time in this small community of scientists and bureaucrats over whether doing this gain of function research was worth the risk. Fauci had published an op-ed in WaPo arguing that we needed to do it. Ultimately under the Obama administration a moratorium was placed on this because of the danger. Wade also described how much training the bat lady received from Baric’s team. One possibility is that the bat lady decided to pursue this on her own and was ultimately responsible for the pandemic. A one woman wrecking ball. At one point the bat lady had disappeared. Don’t know if she ever resurfaced.