Elon Musk, the soon to be second wealthiest man in the world, is attacking Dr. Fauci in the hopes of stoking violence. He is also using a bigoted trope to tie the attack to the LGBTQ community. In this exchange
Technically, Congress funds any such research, with the President then approving that by signing off.
This work of Qlon stacks on the unfounded conspiracy that the US was responsible for weaponizing COVID, not from the disease, rather the vaccines. Here is a sample “paper” that claimed 150K people were killed in the US alone by getting vaccinated, a dubious claim given there is no actual evidence to support that, instead using VAERs self-reports anyone can automate to spam as the basis.
Gain of function refers to the over decade research that was used to develop safer vaccines that use only a tiny fraction of a viruses structure instead of neutralized full virus in order to facilitate an immune response. That tiny particle once injected, is identified by the body’s immune system prepping it for actual infections without causing disease, only the response to it. That means fatigue, a sleight fever, perhaps sweating or runny noses are expected.
That established research and testing is what made it possible to put to market safe and effective vaccines in the shortest time frame ever, changing how we will deal with future viral contagion. It also saved millions of lives in the US without any recorded and proven deaths due to vaccination. When I spoke to an expert live on CSPAN during early 2020, I asked about how long it normally takes to get a vaccine through the entire process. It was lengthy, six years. She noted the US had begun before to create a similar vaccine for other viruses like Ebola; however, by the time they had developed the initial tests the contained outbreaks stopped transmission completely. This time she expected 18 months to two years to bring one to market.
The one good thing Trump actually did as President is cut regulations that wound up bringing the COVID vaccines to market about four months earlier than otherwise would have been. I’ll give him that, along with passing the First Step Act, as his only noteworthy accomplishments that are truly his and were also helpful to the public. Of course he canceled out any goodwill by then weaponizing the public health crisis, cutting supply chains and redirecting PPE/treatments from areas that critically needed them in blue states, sending them mostly to Florida and Texas. Trump is also heavily responsible for scapegoating Asians as the cause of the disease similar to how monkeypox scapegoats the LGBTQ community.
COVID did not come from a lab in China. Nor did it come from a NC lab as Russian propaganda pushing OAN claimed. It was already naturally circulating in Brazil, March 2019 based on raw sewage studies seven months before the Wuhan Military games. The games was the most plausible dispersion point for the pandemic to be naturally occurring, with the disease going lethal and spreading at an accelerating rate several weeks later.
There are some peculiarities though with the virus that makes it unique. It is the first universal contagion able to hop and infect species back and forth. Most viruses when they make such jumps do not lead to secondary infections then begin spreading widely. The reason for that is a structural inability to unlock and enter into just any cell as an invader. Viruses instead are very specific, able to attach, open and enter a narrowly specific set of cellular tissue. Not so with COVID. It literally can take over any human tissue including immune cells, making the infection as bad if not worse than HIV the virus that causes AIDs. COVID is the first known all-cellular invader virus.
More research and data collection must be done on COVID.
I am open to the plausibility that Russia, not China, is responsible for the disease if the evidence proves it so. Why Russia? It was the country that stood the most to gain by demonizing China, weakening Europe and America, while it was setting the stage to invade Ukraine, wipe out its leaders, steal land and resources and install a Putin puppet.
I was highly skeptical of such a possibility up until MonkeyPox emerged that like COVID did not follow the course of how it should, showing up initially in places it shouldn’t be. The disease was always limited to Africa, yet now, during Russia’s war, we have a slow burn of around one-thousand new daily cases spreading through America and additional cases in the EU.
Great research