AmFuzzy

Navy Vet (FMF HM and MedSvsCorps Officer), ex-Virologist, Libertarian-minded, Fitness, Hatha and Power Vinyasa yoga, IT geek, jazz, funk, blues, classic rck

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As someone with a background in clinical virology who worked at USAMRIID in the late 1980s, I agree with you on COVID origins…but the claim about Ebola and Marburg being ‘born of GOF research’ doesn’t hold.”
Marburg virus was first discovered in 1967 during a natural zoonotic outbreak in lab workers handling African green monkeys imported from Uganda. The virus was completely unknown to science before then. In 1967, modern genetic engineering tools didn’t exist (restriction enzymes arrived in 1970; reverse genetics for RNA viruses came much later), and the very concept of today’s high-risk “gain-of-function” experiments to enhance human transmissibility or virulence hadn’t been developed.
You simply can’t perform GOF on a virus that hasn’t been discovered yet, using technology that hadn’t been invented. It was a classic spillover from the natural bat reservoir via monkeys…not a lab-created bioweapon. Post-discovery work (including routine rodent adaptation for animal models at places like USAMRIID) came decades later and had nothing to do with its origin.
The same timeline and scientific logic applies to Ebola (first identified in 1976). Decades of genomic, phylogenetic, and ecological studies confirm both are ancient naturally evolving filoviruses from African bat reservoirs.
Paying attention to long-standing voices is fine, but extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence…which isn’t there for this one on filoviruses.

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@missynorris411 @Milajoy You making assumptions that he is.

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@GavinNewsom He’s literally NOT.

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@BrandiKruse @washdems Pot meet kettle…

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@MeghanMcCain Because you’re lacking in critical thinking skills and blindly believe those in authority roles.

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@TaraBull808 Mental illness

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@samponder You blindly believe what you’re told by those in authority roles. aka - lacking in critical thinking.

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@LangmanVince TRASH

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@MdBreathe I feel sorry for your patients….You obviously don’t keep current or are so biased that you dismissed all reports that you didn’t agree with.

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@brainmelt70 @_BeowulfAgate_ @trackingdonald @rawsalerts Acknowledging a false narrative is just ignorant but the celebration of the assassination of a good person with whom you disagree is evil and lacking in any sense of morality and decency. Learn the difference if possible.

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@realMaalouf The ignorance of these people is staggering.

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@Crowenation4547 @JebraFaushay I wish more liberals were dumb enough to make their true feelings be known. Microsoft’s US employee base would be cut in half if their true feelings were known.

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@larryjones Yes

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@MelissaJeanSays @elonmusk You come across a selection of more extreme on the right but instead of using critical thinking you opt to paint all with the same brush. 🤦🏻‍♂️🙄

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@ianmiles

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@Dogula66 @komonews Because some places allow them to be changed and some places allow it to be noted as X and not denoting actual sex at birth

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@ImmortanZit @komonews No science has defined biological sex all over the world. Not just the west. FFS educate yourself.

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@akafaceUS I’ll personally pay for her ticket back.

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Dude…try using some critical thinking…ChatGPT is already available on any phone…and Yes Apple has agreements with OpenAi but so do many companies other than Google …OpenAi is worth almost a trillion dollars and this is not some simplistic marketing ploy….you need to buy stock in ALCOA.

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@dave24144975 @elonmusk None of them should be out in society. They need psychiatric inpatient treatment. This is not sane human behavior. This is beyond maladjusted.