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Boffins Closer than Ever to Bringing About Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ IRL
Scientists in Boston have created a strain of Covid that is 80% fatal in mice. And if you’ve met a lot of people from Boston, you wouldn’t blame them.
In the new research , which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron’s spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells. It has always been present but it has become more evolved over time. Omicron has dozens of mutations in its spike protein that made it so infectious. Researchers attached Omicron’s spike protein to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. The researchers looked at how mice fared under the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant
80 percent of mice died from the new man-made Covid strain, while none died from the milder Omicron variant alone, researchers at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories found.
We’re all going to die. So vote accordingly.
Published in Science & Technology
No wonder folks don’t want research labs in their back yards.
Your tax dollars at work. Most dystopian movies make the mistake of not starting with a scene with some bureaucratic grant application.
I just saw this story and posted it in another forum on Ricochet. Dear Lord Jesus – Help Us Please!
Just received an email from Alex Berenson:
Ann – I feel like the next shoe is about to drop,,,,planned 100% to control the population going into the mid-terms.
I think the next conservative administration needs to make “conserving humans” its goal. And to that end, outlaw lab-created viruses. And if caught creating viruses, you are sentenced to expose yourself to the pathogen you just created and placed in a controlled environment so we can watch what happens to you. Yes, your punishment is to become a lab rat. Fitting.
I agree. But it’s also possible that the shoe that drops is panic.
The earlier part, for those interested:
So they’re only mostly dead?
Now do DC.
Seems to me the biggest risk from infectious diseases is poorly-thought-through gain-of-function research.
And Salt. The. Ground.
But we had it done in Wuhan so it wouldn’t affect us here in America.
cf. “poorly-thought-through”
But the virus in “The Stand” was just the beginning, wasn’t it Satanically-enhanced somehow?
Gee, I guess we better all mask up and lock down again.
(I think this whole scenario smells fishy.)
Put on the mask and you won’t smell it (as much).
Not through science but through propaganda.
So all the rats were only 80% dead. That’s a lot better than what I thought they were saying.
No, so it could be done in secret.
I know that!
I thought John Ringo’s Under a Graveyard Sky was just a fun romp in the world of zombie-apocalyptic fiction. With a semi-plausible twist (and a kick-butt heroine). Hmm. Such things seem to become more plausible each year. ):
No, it’s the scientists who think they conduct these experiments without permission or oversight.
To be clear, the quoted line was from Alex Berenson; not me.
I agree with you @susanquinn. And I’d add a few names/agencies to the risk list.
I realized that, Annefy, and I agree with your additional comment.
The virus in The Stand, which escaped from a biolab “base”, was just the beginning of the near end of the world; Satan (or one of his minions, Randall Flagg aka The Walking Dude) played a role once the virus had killed 99.4% of the population.
Or the bureaucrats and politicians who orchestrate cultural changes they want based on the “public health emergency” they’ve created.
Is that from the book version, or just the TV mini-series? I never read the book, but I’ve read in comments about the TV mini-series that the virus by itself wasn’t that deadly; it was somehow enhanced by Evil.
hmm. I’ve read the book several times. I didn’t get that impression.
That’s weird, I’ve heard/read that more than once, but maybe it was in reference to a different story.
Sidebar Question: How many of you had to look up “Boffin.”