Global Pandemic Event 201

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The following was posted to Linked-In, and sent to me by an old friend. Since he sent it, the page has been zapped from Linked-In, so I'm reposting it here in it's entirelty to immortalize it:

BREAKING NEWS: Protein Spike Attached to Horseshoe Bat Coronavirus Indicates Covid-19 is Man Made
Published on March 13, 2020

Jenna Luche-Thayer


The following compelling information was shared to me by a medical professional. It indicates that COVID-19 is a man made virus. If so, this information is hopeful. Why? Because the scientists who created this virus understand it and their knowledge of the virus can be used to defend us from this pandemic. I thank the dedicated health professional who did this research and shared it with me.

To note: I did a fact check on the main points and they are accurate. I have no PROOF of this theory, only compelling information.

"The first order of battling this virus pandemic is to understand the origin of COVID-19. In its birth, many answers about its behavior can be found. The BIG problem is that the origins of this current virus very likely raise highly embarrassing disclosures for the US and China, which is why I suspect it is being unreported in the media and by our government officials.

We in medicine were always fearful the naturally evolved H5N1 bird flu would be THE pandemic threatening human existence one day due to its alarming mortality rate even among healthy people. All the H5N1 needed was to evolve a highly efficient protein spike on its surface that rapidly attaches to human cells so it could be efficiently spread from human to human.

Not coincidentally, this spike would look very much like  the one that UNC researchers (Baric et al) attached to the horseshoe bat Corona virus in their lab as described in their 2015 article in the journal Nature (see below). If this was to occur in the H5N1 virus, we would have a highly contagious form of H5N1 virus with a 60% mortality rate that would decimate the human species.  

Though there may have been legitimate immunology research reasons for why Ralph Baric’s lab created a novel, highly infectious Corona/SARS hybrid virus for research purposes as published in their 2015 Nature Medicine article, many well respected worldwide research institution heads were quite unsettled by it. (See the commentary written about the 2015 Nature article below).

Subsequently, it seems reasonable to presume that University of North Carolina's (UNC) “method of hybrid virus creation” intellectual property was copied by one of Baric’s Chinese co-authors, researcher Shi Zhengli. Shi Zhengli was referred to in the 2015 Nature article as a leader at the “Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China”. That lab is one of the world’s dozen or so Bio-level 4 research facilities that are approved to handle the world’s most deadly of pathogens. 

Unfortunately, there are two previous documented escapes of the SARS virus from a Beijing lab into the local community [corrected 3.16.2020]. Fortunately the SARS virus that escaped was not a particular good contagion for human to human transmission.

It seems highly logical to assume that Ms. Shi Zhengli’s team likely inserted the same or an extremely similar infectious spike from the lethal SARS virus into the Corona bat virus just as UNC had designed, but perhaps without the appropriate lab protections UNC demonstrated [modified 3.22.2020]. 

Interestingly, the identification of this previously described unnatural infectious spike on the COVID-19 virus samples obtained from early infected humans was confirmed by an Indian biotech lab shortly after the recent outbreak. They stated they performed their analysis through reverse engineering of the COVID-19 DNA. The Indian lab’s e-published findings were roundly condemned and dismissed only by the US and China; and the Indian laboratory was ultimately “forced” to take their research paper off the internet!** 

**See the hyperlink Suppressed Science Indicates Covid-19 Is Man Made to read this article written by scientists from Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Acharya Narendra Dev College and University of Delhi, India.

Subsequently, the same Chinese doctor (Shi Zhengli aka Zhengli-Li Shi) published in Nature once again in January of this year about a “novel” and “never been seen before in humans” virus emerging in the population of Wuhan. Her 2020 Nature article describes a corona virus with a SARS spike on its viral coat, making it infectious to humans.

There is a high likelihood that COVID-19 is a bioengineered “escaped” virus. Who better knows this virus’s behavior than the scientists involved in their development (Baric and Zhengli)? We need transparency now!

To continue to deny the likely possibility that COVID-19 is man-made seems silly when armed with knowledge accessible in the science literature, and by paying attention to the reported details of the outbreak! In particular: 

—The initially infected Wuhan area patients had absolutely no associations with the “wet” animal market. 
—Reportedly, the Chinese do not eat this type of bat or sell them at the market. 
—Additionally, the bat species that carries the non-human COVID version of bat corona virus was in hibernation at the epidemic outbreak.
—Lastly, the Chinese military took over the Wuhan Bio-level 4 lab at the beginning of the outbreak.

What do we know so far? 


—This unexpected pandemic is caused by a bat virus that has a SARS virus spike attached, a spike which specifically binds to the human ACE-2 receptor, a cellular receptor prevalent in human lung tissues, not in bats.

—This is the same spike placed on Baric’s and Zhingli’s creations to greatly enhance human cell infectivity and thus contagiousness..." 


In 2015 scientists were alarmed about the ramifications of the research described by Baric in the 2015 publication in Nature Medicine journal as published below:

"Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate The creation of a chimeric SARS-like virus has scientists discussing the risks of gain-of-function research". By Jef Akst Nov 16, 2015

Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine

The results demonstrate the ability of the SHC014 surface protein to bind and infect human cells, validating concerns that this virus—or other coronaviruses found in bat species—may be capable of making the leap to people without first evolving in an intermediate host, Nature reported. They also reignite a debate about whether that information justifies the risk of such work, known as gain-of-function research. “If the [new] virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, told Nature.

In October 2013, the US government put a stop to all federal funding for gain-of-function studies, with particular concern rising about influenza, SARS, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). “NIH [National Institutes of Health] has funded such studies because they help define the fundamental nature of human-pathogen interactions, enable the assessment of the pandemic potential of emerging infectious agents, and inform public health and preparedness efforts,” NIH Director Francis Collins said in a statement at the time. “These studies, however, also entail biosafety and biosecurity risks, which need to be understood better.”

Baric’s study on the SHC014-chimeric coronavirus began before the moratorium was announced, and the NIH allowed it to proceed during a review process, which eventually led to the conclusion that the work did not fall under the new restrictions, Baric told Nature. But some researchers, like Wain-Hobson, disagree with that decision.

The debate comes down to how informative the results are. “The only impact of this work is the creation, in a lab, of a new, non-natural risk,” Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist and biodefence expert at Rutgers University, told Nature.

But Baric and others argued the study’s importance. “[The results] move this virus from a candidate emerging pathogen to a clear and present danger,” Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance, which samples viruses from animals and people in emerging-diseases hotspots across the globe, told Nature."

Please stay safe and protect yourselves.
Faithfully,
Jenna Luché-Thayer


Jenna Luché-Thayer. 35+ years working globally on the rights of the marginalized. Former Senior Advisor to the United Nations and the US Government. Director, Ad Hoc Committee for Health Equity in ICD11 Borreliosis Codes. Founder, Global Network on Institutional Discrimination, Inc. —Holding institutions accountable for political and scientific solutions. 

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