Dog's Breakfast Holtz Dissenting Skeptic The Monthly ABC Science Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Louis R Nemzer The WIV received a dedicated gag order from the National Health Commission on Jan 1st, 2020.

From there, there was nothing to expect from it.

everythingism Alpharabius Atomsk's Sanakan Alina Chan Guy Gadboit found that very few of those mutations were not seen in related bat sarbecoviruses. x.com/ban_epp_gofroc…

Anonymous Virologist PhD 🦄 Sparta ħ𝕏 Hans Mahncke I think many people are unaware the Wuhan Institute of Virology sampled SrCVs in Yunnan and Laos ~1500km away from Wuhan. They refuse to share their records. No surprise people suspect they are the source of the outbreak. twitter.com/Ticklicker56/s…

everythingism Alpharabius Atomsk's Sanakan Alina Chan A lab leak explains perfectly why an intermediate host cannot be found and the lack of secondary outbreaks. A lab leak also explains why a novel coronavirus pandemic started in a city with a novel coronavirus lab that had plans to make viruses that had many matching features.

everythingism Alpharabius Atomsk's Sanakan Alina Chan It’s not anomaly hunting, none—ZERO—of the evidence expected in the case of a zoonosis can be found. No infected animals anywhere, no secondary spillovers, no early lineages linked to human cases at the purported origin site. But don’t talk about the lab!

everythingism Alpharabius Atomsk's Sanakan Alina Chan You’ve got it backwards. They first said multiple markets. Then one market. They first said it was a pangolin. When Xiao et al found no pangolins at HSM they switched to raccoon dogs. They are all over the place, story keeps changing. Zoonosis is a classic conspiracy theory.

False. For starters WHO is still calling for data on both the animal trade and Wuhan labs. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Worth remembering that the required conditions for a likely reporting of a new pneumonic infection in Wuhan created their own bias.

For instance, there was zero chance for reporting from the first and second lines of health care (pharmacists, little clinics, small hospitals and

everythingism Stuart Neil You assume a lack of testing of live raccoon dogs at HSM indicates they were infected with SARS-CoV-2 but a lack of testing or auditing of the Wuhan Institute of Virology means they *did not* have SARS-CoV-2.

Bob Garry: '...the question whether or not the market the type of environment were you could have had the intense selective pressure required to generate an optimal furin cleavage site.

Eddie Holmes: 'No way the selection could happen in the market. Too low a density of mammals'

Stu Neil Stuart Neil lobs speculative insults, failing to note the vast contrast between the recent H5N1 outbreak and SARS-CoV-2. Amazingly, H5N1 is readily found in cows, yet not a single animal anywhere in China tested positive for SARS2, a far more contagious virus.

Isabella Eckerle Yes, we can watch this one unfolding in real time. All the likelihood factors that point to a lab for SC2 are absent for H5N1. We seem unable to cope effectively with even this slow-motion crash.

Natasha Loder: 'So how do we know that ConGen Wuhan knew there was a disease outbreak earlier than this?

They wrote about it in an article in April 2020, in State Magazine, written by Russell Westergard, the Deputy Consular Chief in Wuhan. The context is a story about the

I've added a new figure to my blog about how pandemics arise

I think the easiest way for a virus to adapt is to first mutate the polymerase gene (Panel B)⬇️

However, such a virus (or bacterium/archaea) probably has limited longevity because subsequent mutations will land in

'human-specific cleavage sites'

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Despite rewards for effort, many people procrastinate and cease working. This is termed the “effort paradox”: Though effort leads to rewards, it feels highly aversive.
Here, we asked Why? And how can Conscientious humans avoid this problem? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

'[W]e concluded that niacin supplementation appears to alleviate capillary regression in the soleus muscle due to muscle atrophy by activating mitochondrial metabolism (in rats).'
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814/p…

As I'm retired and haven't belonged to any institution for a long time, I'm taking the liberty of publishing this.
Origin of SARS-CoV-2: biopolitics, evolution, virology March 2024 update
researchgate.net/publication/37…
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24372.05760

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2) A SARS2 progenitor spilled over from bats into some unknown intermediate host in Laos/Yunnan that was then kept on a farm in Yunnan in large enough numbers for the virus to change from a gut virus to a lung virus, pick up additional characteristic respiratory mutations

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2) A SARS2 progenitor spilled over from bats into some unknown intermediate host in Laos/Yunnan that was then kept on a farm in Yunnan in large enough numbers for the virus to change from a gut virus to a lung virus, pick up additional characteristic respiratory mutations