Gain of Fear
In the last few weeks, we’ve all learned a new phrase from the eerie realm of virology: “gain of function research.” Abbreviated as GOFR, it’s defined as “any field of medical research that alters an organism or disease in a way that increases pathogenesis, transmissibility, or host range (the types of hosts that a microorganism can infect).”
So yeah, just to hear about it, gain of function research sounds dangerous. And yet many experts say that it is a good idea, because that’s how we learn about viruses and how to counter them. One expert who has made this argument is Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID); he’s the man who has, of course, during the Covid-19 pandemic, become a household name.
Fauci hasn’t mentioned gain of function research much in the last year, let alone his association with it, and yet now we are learning more about him and his associations—and it’s all scary.
On May 28, Sharri Markson published a piece in The Australian, recalling a 2012 article by Fauci, in which he acknowledged the risks of gain of function research and yet argued in favor of going ahead anyway. As he wrote nearly a decade ago, “In an unlikely but conceivable turn of events, what if that scientist becomes infected with the virus, which leads to an outbreak and ultimately triggers a pandemic?” And yet, he continued, “the benefits of such experiments and the resulting knowledge outweigh the risks.”
Go ahead and tell me how making the POLIO virus STRONGER helps us beat polio.
Or, how making ANY virus, especially the ones that don’t infect humans anyway, stronger and more virulent helps us learn how to fight that virus.
It’s nothing but doing what the Chinese SAID they wanted to do — make a virus deadly enough to wreak havoc upon another country without attribution.
Gain of function research should be internationally BANNED and treated like a war crime.
What’s next? How can we make mass murderers MORE deadly?? More crazy? More intelligent?
WHY would someone want to make a virus MORE deadly??
We will be at war with China in the next 10 years. No doubt and you know why?? THAT is exactly what the Chinese want…..They are chomping at the bit to humiliate the USA and continue to flex on us.
We didn’t listen to Patton when he warned that, if we don’t destroy Russians while we still could, they will be a huge problem for us.
He was 100% correct.
Now, we should destroy China before they become an international power and are able to project their forces around the globe. Locally they are very strong. But not able to carry on a war across the world. Yet.
God help us all when they get that capability.
They are not in this game to spread love and prosperity.
Just CONQUER. That’s it.
And, they know Biden is a paper tiger and a sissy little bi**h who would never stand up to them.
Their aspirations and our President.
Terrible combination.