“Study finds genetic code in Covid’s spike protein linked to Moderna patent,” reads the headline in the Daily Mail. The story is another in a long chain of revelations linking American researchers and funding to the laboratory in Wuhan, China, that likely created the novel coronavirus.
But wait! some readers will shout. Isn’t the big COVID Origin story right now the new studies strongly pushing the Bat Soup (wet market) origin?
No. Those studies are slapdash — perhaps designed to balance against the continuing scientific revelations pointing to SARS-CoV‑2 as a gain-of-function job funded in part by American taxpayers.
The far more important story tells us that an “international team of researchers” discovered a tell-tale string of genetic code “in SARS-CoV‑2’s unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses.” It’s a key part of the infamous “spiked protein.” The Daily Mail piece by Connor Boyd explains that this “structure has been one of the focal points of debate about the virus’s origin, with some scientists claiming it could not have been acquired naturally.”
The research team claims that “there is a one-in-three-trillion chance Moderna’s sequence randomly appeared through natural evolution.”
And by “Moderna’s sequence” the scientists mean a genetic product that the company patented in its cancer research projects.
This is all still controversial, of course, but it is worth noting that much of past controversy consisted of desperate attempts by the Dr. Fauci/Peter Daszak faction to avoid any responsibility for what may be history’s greatest medical malpractice case.
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