@DuncanSmithNBA He funded gain of function research, in defiance of Obama, which resulted in the creation of the virus. Then tried to cover it up. Lied to Congress truing to cover it up.
@AhmadRehanKhan I think it changed when people found out he and others went behind Obamaโs back and funded gain of function research at the lab in China that ended up engineering the virus that eventually killed millions of people.
@GlynnErnesto@CptAncapistan I wrote nothing about intent. But I think Baricโs intent was to prove animal coronaviruses were a threat to humans because they could, potentially, in nature, easily jump to humans. And immunization that was more effective than what they had for developed 4 sars cov was important
@GlynnErnesto@CptAncapistan Well, its fuckin X. I aint writing you a book on it. Thereโs plenty of them already published and available. So yeah, its condensed.
@GlynnErnesto@CptAncapistan No, it was just a total coincidence that it happens to originate in the town that also houses the very lab where experiments on adding spikes to bat coronaviruses to see if/how they could jump to humans were being done.
@GlynnErnesto@CptAncapistan to fund the continuation of his research at the WIV.
We know they continued doing so in a lab with lesser security than Baricโs. And lets be honest, in China, not in the USA.
And we know the first cases were reported in the same area as the WIV a few years later.
@GlynnErnesto@CptAncapistan We know Baric took the spike gene from SHC014, modified a SARS virus with it, and introduced it into mice and human airway cells. We know it replicated in the human cells.
He was then shut down by the moratorium. Wrote a paper with the Zheng Shi (WIV) and convinced the NIH