This question was asked early in March. People asserting that COVID was a lab creation were labelled as conspiracy theorists (and of course "MAGAPEDES"). No, the "real" story was that it was a mutation that naturally occurred and may have gone from bat to human. But is it really a conspiracy theory?
In short SARS-Cov2 is a respiratory virus, out of China (mutating significantly in Europe) which features high transmissibility and survives in the air. Nobody disputes that. OK? Good?
Now lets go back to the year 2013. The Ghost, that's the blog you're reading now, posted a piece called "Scientists Create Hybrid Flu That Can Go Airborne" in which I quote the highly esteemed, science journal Nature:
A team of scientists in China has created hybrid viruses by mixing genes from H5N1 and the H1N1 strain behind the 2009 swine flu pandemic, and showed that some of the hybrids can spread through the air between guinea pigs. The results are published in Science1.
Flu hybrids can arise naturally when two viral strains infect the same cell and exchange genes. This process, known as reassortment, produced the strains responsible for at least three past flu pandemics, including the one in 2009.
A hybrid virus that was created by mixing genes from H5N1 and H1N1 that "can spread through the air".
Created in 2013.
My post continued with "concerns raised by scientific community":
They warned there is a danger that the new viral strains created by mixing bird-flu virus with human influenza could escape from the laboratory to cause a global pandemic killing millions of people...."Escape from the laboratory and cause a global pandemic"? You don't say.
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“The record of containment in labs like this is not reassuring. They are taking it upon themselves to create human-to-human transmission of very dangerous viruses. It’s appallingly irresponsible,” he said.
"Create human-to-human transmission of very dangerous viruses"? You don't say.
Oh and by the way:
"It is unclear how the results apply to humans. Guinea pigs have bird-like receptor proteins in their upper airways in addition to mammalian ones, so reassortant viruses might bind in them more easily than they would in humans.
"Receptor proteins in the upper airways..." You don't say.
But hey, Garvey's Ghost is peddling "conspiracy theories".
Oh in case you don't believe this was actually posted. Screen shot as of 5:40 PM today(11-11-2020).
