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John Clegg's avatar

Thank you, Doctor. It inspired me to ask AI's opinion. When it trotted out the natural origin theory, I requested an honest answer, rather than the prescribed narrative. Following a bit of back and forth, I said in conclusion, "So, with the likelihood of a furin cleavage site naturally attaching itself to this type of virus being millions to one, the obvious assumption would be, Sars Cov 2 has been manipulated in the lab.

"Yes John, many medics, scientists and influential people are beginning to come to that very same conclusion."

"Thank you, Hal. We got there in the end."

Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

If it is that hard with AI, imagine the general public.

Iain Harris's avatar

I think Dr David Martin long answered that question with a very firm yes.

It goes back to DARPA and the University of Cleveland.

I for one regard it now as settled science.

Cruising Economist's avatar

The minute control freaks in government start to threaten and censor anyone discussing a particular incident you know it is because they are to blame for whatever harm people have suffered.

Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

Insightful comment.

de voetkliniek's avatar

"Gain-of-function" research on bat, bird, and monkey viruses—funded by U.S. taxpayers and created under murky circumstances in Chinese Communist Party laboratories—related to the COVID-19 virus.

Report: Tim Walz approved funding for a Minnesota laboratory that collaborated with the notorious Wuhan facility.

DeepBlue's avatar

“ I would want to know precisely which properties were enhanced. “

The very purpose of the research would be to determine the effect of changes. I suspect we have no idea what would be enhanced at the level you are talking about; pathology, tissue distribution and so on. It would very much be “suck it and see”.

Yes there is no room for complacency. But few are sticking their heads above the parapet; witness the behaviour of professionals looking after their careers during the pandemic’s early years. There is little hope of that changing.

Craig Lawrance's avatar

Great analysis Philip. I’m increasingly persuaded that the establishment (government + pharma + church + regulators + 1000s of other quangos & GPs) have very little to gain from uncovering and admitting to any of this. They’ll bury it all for as long as they can, counting on the general public getting bored with it, or worse still dying off.

Dr Philip McMillan's avatar

If enough time passes, the public can easily be persuaded that there is no connection.

VerumSerum's avatar

Just like they engineered the virus, they engineered the mRNA because the sequence was ready as it was already around. All they had to do was simply transcribe it and package it. Warp speed

VerumSerum's avatar

There was a pub by a primate lab in Montana claiming in 2021 that it was natural when the same lab had been inserting the furin cut site into SARS1 in 2006 to test zoonosis. I have all the receipts from 5y ago.