How many times did virologists say they were not making chimeric SARS viruses more deadly? How many???
Latest preprint shows they made a chimeric SARS-CoV-2 w/ Omicron S gene and ancestral SARS-CoV-2 backbone that showed 80% mortality in humanised mice. pic.twitter.com/KVYGTXPb7E
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) October 17, 2022
Oh, everyone who wasn’t a clueless wanker knew that GoF researchers have been doing this forever. The denial of the obvious only happened when some Trump supporters began talking about the Lab Leak hypothesis for Covid-19. Then every liberal in the world thought they had to declare — for some reason — that GoF research wasn’t real, and if it was real, it wasn’t dangerous, and if it was dangerous, it was held to very high safety standards, and if those safety standards had been violated, nothing bad had really happened, and if something bad had happened, it was over now, and if it wasn’t over now…hey, look at that kitten! Isn’t it cute??? It’s such a cute kitten.
Reflexive partisanship and being on a stupid political team really poisons your mind.