A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
  • acabjones@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    I think a key attribute of this article that makes it notable is that its author is Jeff Sachs. On paper he has the maximum degree of normie credibility–his only disqualification these days is mounting arguments that counter the bourgeois narratives, which is only a disqualifier to the naive. As I read this I realized there are no reasons that have been articulated as to why covid couldn’t have originated in and/or escaped from a lab funded by the U.S.

    • The U.S. gives no shits about treaties banning research of this type
    • It’s absolutely not beyond the U.S. to invest in R&D into biological weapons
    • It’s absolutely not beyond the U.S. to lie about something like this
    • There’s no reason to believe the MSM wouldn’t play ball with a coverup given the coverage of other aspects of covid

    I wonder if the CPC is sitting on any info regarding this topic…

    • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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      8 months ago

      I don’t think there is anything concrete enough that they would that they could actually use. Most likely this will be yet another “US denies this for 30 years and then after everyone has stopped caring quietly admits that they started it deliberately as a form of germ warfare.”

      Then again, they still deny the germ warfare they used in Korea to this day, so maybe not.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    In case anyone missed this from two years go:
    Jeffery Sachs in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), May 2022: A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

    Special concerns surround the presence of an unusual furin cleavage site (FCS) in SARS-CoV-2 that augments the pathogenicity and transmissibility of the virus relative to related viruses like SARS-CoV-1. SARS-CoV-2 is, to date, the only identified member of the subgenus sarbecovirus that contains an FCS, although these are present in other coronaviruses. A portion of the sequence of the spike protein of some of these viruses is illustrated in the alignment shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the unusual nature of the FCS and its apparent insertion in SARS-CoV-2. From the first weeks after the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 became available, researchers have commented on the unexpected presence of the FCS within SARS-CoV-2—the implication being that SARS-CoV-2 might be a product of laboratory manipulation. In a review piece arguing against this possibility, it was asserted that the amino acid sequence of the FCS in SARS-CoV-2 is an unusual, nonstandard sequence for an FCS and that nobody in a laboratory would design such a novel FCS.