Left-wing mag reports more details of the constantly-denied "gain-of-function research" funded by Fauci

[This was first posted on October 26, 2021]

The question of whether the NIH funded risky gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China was officially 'answered' last week after the agency claimed that one of their partners -- EcoHealth Alliance, failed to report that they had 'accidentally' created a chimeric coronavirus that was able to infect humanized mice.

In an obvious ass-covering letter from NIH "principal deputy director" Lawrence Tabak to Rep. James Comer (R-KY) last Wednesday, Tabak admitted that the NIH funded what he cleverly called a "limited experiment" to determine whether "spike proteins from naturally occurring bat coronaviruses circulating in China were capable of binding to the human ACE2 receptor in a mouse model."

That, fellow 'Mercans, is the textbook definition of "gain of function research."

And what was the result of this so-called "limited experiment," eh?  According to Tabak, "humanized" mice infected with the modified bat virus "became sicker" than those exposed to the original, unmodified version of the same bat coronavirus.

If you're not conversant with biological research, "humanized" mice are mice that have had their genetic code changed by researchers to make some of their cells virtually identical to human cells.  And "became sicker" means the modified virus was more deadly to humans.

If either of those things creep you out, you're just a "deplorable Science Denier."  So there.

Tabak's letter claims EcoHealth CEO Peter Daszak failed to report this cataclysmic finding to the NIH.

Except according to the fiercely pro-Democrat mag Vanity Fair, EcoHealth did report this finding to the NIH as soon as they learned from their Chinese partners that it happened, supposedly in April of 2018.  EcoHealth issued a statement saying "These data were reported as soon as we were made aware, in our year four report in April 2018."

So someone is lying: either EcoHealth or Fauci...or both.

If Eco did report this earthshaking news in 2018, Fauci is either lying, or incompetent for not knowing.  If Eco did NOT report the finding, Fauci and the NIH are off the hook.

Seems to me Tabak's letter was obviously an effort to clear Fauci and the NIH of any culpability in the creation of the virus.

But wait, there's more:  Vanity Fair cites a leaked grant proposal in which Daszak sought funding from DARPA (the U.S. government) for "the kind of research that could accidentally have led to the [covid] pandemic."

>>    [A] disclosure last month made clear that EcoHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was aiming to do the kind of research that could accidentally have led to the pandemic. On September 20, a group of internet sleuths released a leaked $14 million grant proposal that EcoHealth Alliance had submitted in 2018 to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

    It proposed partnering with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and constructing SARS-related bat coronaviruses into which they would insert “human-specific cleavage sites” as a way to “evaluate growth potential” of the pathogens.

DARPA rejected the proposal, concerned that it was too risky.

According to the article, the leaked documents struck a number of scientists and researchers as significant because the genetic code of the Covid-19 virus differs from all other bat coronaviruses in that it contains an extra gene for a 'furin cleavage site' which increases the ability of the virus to enter human cells, making it more infectious to humans--exactly the feature EcoHealth proposed modifying in the leaked proposal.

The odds of a gene for a "furin cleavage site" suddenly appearing in exactly the right place in the genetic sequence of a bat coronavirus to make that (non-threatening) bat coronavirus more infectious to humans, by "natural mutation," are trillions to one.

On Sunday, Fauci appeared on ABC News with trusted Democrat shill George Stephanopoulos, where he used word-games to claim that the NIH's contract with Daszak didn't say it was *specifically* FOR Gain of Function research as such.

Of course now we also know that the NIH shielded one of Daszak's grants from review under said framework.

We also now know that Indian researchers did a complete genetic sequence of Covid-19 and found not just one but FOUR "HIV-like" genes inserted into the original bat coronavirus to create SARS-CoV-2.

I read that paper on January 31st of 2020--just one day after the first confirmed U.S. case of the dread virus.  So to say we only know this "now" is totally misleading: if you knew where to look you would have known this a day after I did.  But surely you saw this in one of the dozens of articles about it in the Mainstream Media, right?

No?  Gosh, that's...odd.  Cuz the genetic sequence utterly demolished the "random mutation" Narrative.  So you'd think that with such a crucial piece of research destroying the "random mutation" Narrative, surely the Mainstream Media would have run lots of stories on it, right?  Maybe you just didn't happen to see any of 'em, eh?  Yeh, dat's it.

No, dat's not it.  The Mainstream Media never said a single word about the Indian paper.  Real mystery, that.

Cuz according to the pro-Fauci, pro-China propagandists the four genes--which were clearly, obviously inserted--just "happened," like, y'know, *totally* by accident.  Just random mutations, citizen, no more unusual than drawing four straight-flushes in a row in Vegas, or winning your state lottery four times in a single year.  Nothing to see here, citizen.

Hey, everyone knows someone who's won the lottery four times in a year.  Totally normal, eh?

And if you were wondering:  Yes, they DO think we're all stupid.