Boston University researchers develop COVID strain with 80% kill rate in lab mice

[ColonelAngus]

Boston University makes new Covid strain with 80 percent kill rate

Researchers extracted Omicron’s spike protein, which binds to and invades human cells, and attached those to the original virus that emerged in Wuhan.

thepostmillennial.com

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.

 

[insolent imp]

Boston University makes new Covid strain with 80 percent kill rate

Researchers extracted Omicron’s spike protein, which binds to and invades human cells, and attached those to the original virus that emerged in Wuhan.

thepostmillennial.com

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.

and it begins again.

 

[JGalt]

Boston University makes new Covid strain with 80 percent kill rate

Researchers extracted Omicron’s spike protein, which binds to and invades human cells, and attached those to the original virus that emerged in Wuhan.

thepostmillennial.com

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.

Probably a "Back at you" virus we could infect China with, for giving us the original COVID. All funded by the US government, no doubt.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Boston University makes new Covid strain with 80 percent kill rate

Researchers extracted Omicron’s spike protein, which binds to and invades human cells, and attached those to the original virus that emerged in Wuhan.

thepostmillennial.com

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Esdraelon]

Probably a "Back at you" virus we could infect China with, for giving us the original COVID. All funded by the US government, no doubt.

Yeah, but unleashing something like that would screw over the whole planet. There is no way to limit it to national borders, all it would take is a single individual who is a carrier to land here. While I kind of understand the logic behind gain of function studies, I think we're better off just waiting for the next jump and dealing with it then. The chances of a 1918-type virus are real but they're also EXTREMELY low.
If we keep effing around with these things, one WILL ESCAPE. Millions will die from sheer stupidity.

 

[insolent imp]

What could possibly go wrong?
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I remember NBC training in the military. there is some nasty shit out there.

 

[insolent imp]

Yeah, but unleashing something like that would screw over the whole planet. There is no way to limit it to national borders, all it would take is a single individual who is a carrier to land here. While I kind of understand the logic behind gain of function studies, I think we're better off just waiting for the next jump and dealing with it then. The chances of a 1918-type virus are real but they're also EXTREMELY low.
If we keep effing around with these things, one WILL ESCAPE. Millions will die from sheer stupidity.

we've been fucking with the wrong things for decades. humans never learn.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Yeah, but unleashing something like that would screw over the whole planet. There is no way to limit it to national borders, all it would take is a single individual who is a carrier to land here. While I kind of understand the logic behind gain of function studies, I think we're better off just waiting for the next jump and dealing with it then. The chances of a 1918-type virus are real but they're also EXTREMELY low.
If we keep effing around with these things, one WILL ESCAPE. Millions will die from sheer stupidity.

Does anyone think Democrats care if they start another pandemic if it keeps them in power?

 

[1srelluc]

Well at least they weren't using beagles.

 

[Cougarbear]

I remember NBC training in the military. there is some nasty shit out there.

NBC is a nasty broadcasting organization backed by the communists in our government. I didn't know they were in the germ warfare business too...

 

[insolent imp]

Does anyone think Democrats care if they start another pandemic if it keeps them in power?

when you reach a certain level D or R by your name doesn't mean squat.

 

[insolent imp]

NBC is a nasty broadcasting organization backed by the communists in our government. I didn't know they were in the germ warfare business too...

weak

 

[Cougarbear]

weak

Yes, NBC is a weak division of the Democrat Party.

 

[Baron]

Ten years ago so-called conspiracy theorists exactly predicted SCAMdemic CONvid-1984, the 'vaccine', boosters, lockdowns, social distancing and medical tyranny. It had been exactly fulfilled now. But the most terrible prediction was after gullible fooled sheeple get 'vaccinated' it loses own immune system completely. Thereafter comes the True Virus which kills all 'vaccinated'. It looks like the showtime begins.

The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognized to date1–7. The Omicron spike (S) protein, with an unusually large number of mutations, is considered the major driver of these phenotypes3,8. We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor-binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80%. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of S.

Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.1 Omicron

The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognized to date[1][1]–[7][2]. The Omicron spike (S) protein, with an unusually...

www.biorxiv.org

 

[Darkwind]

Just in time for the elections.

 

[theHawk]

Boston University makes new Covid strain with 80 percent kill rate

Researchers extracted Omicron’s spike protein, which binds to and invades human cells, and attached those to the original virus that emerged in Wuhan.

thepostmillennial.com

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

Havent we determined a downside?

Watch this be the next pandemic.

That’s why it’s called the plandemic.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Naturally immune people have nothing to worry about.

Thus the importance of herd immunity.

Buuuuuut they are still gonna wanna pump that death serum into people...and of course the dim bulbs will allow them to.

 

[Darkwind]

 

[theHawk]

Probably a "Back at you" virus we could infect China with, for giving us the original COVID. All funded by the US government, no doubt.

No, it’s a virus to kill off Americans. That’s their real enemy. They worked with China for version 1 of this virus.

 

[insolent imp]

No, it’s a virus to kill off Americans. That’s their real enemy. They worked with China for version 1 of this virus.

I think it went beyond Americans.