[ExI] A virologist speculates on the origin of CV-19

[Stuart LaForge]

Quoting Dylan Distasio:


> Point 3 is particularly damning IMO...

According, it very likely that the virus escaped from virology lab in  
Wuhan as the bat virus that most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 only  
occur naturally in bats from the more southern tropical parts of  
China, Vietnam, etc. The bats would not have occurred in the wild  
anywhere near Wuhan unless they were captured down south and kept in  
captivity as the virology lab is on record as having done.

These two studies make a pretty strong case based on sequence analysis  
that the furin cleavage site resulted from a recombination event that  
occurred in a bat infected with two different coronaviruses: RmYN02,  
and some other, yet unidentified bat virus, possibly RaTG13. While  
such a recombination event resulting from coinfection of a bat could  
have happened in a lab setting especially in a gain-of-function  
experiment, it could have also just as easily happened in the wild.  
What is very unlikely, however, is that the virus was directly  
engineered by gene splicing technology in a lab as such processes  
typically leave short segments of plasmid DNA as a contaminant in the  
finished product.

https://virological.org/t/the-sarbecovirus-origin-of-sars-cov-2-s-furin-cleavage-site/536
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(20)30662-X.pdf

That being said, there is so much politics and disinformation  
surrounding the pandemic that it would not surprise me if the virus  
was purposefully evolved and released by somebody. Not as a bioweapon  
but as a tool for political and social control of the masses. Even if  
such wasn't the case with COVID-19, it has to occur to those  
benefiting the most the current pandemic to purposefully start the  
next one. We might be witnessing the birth of what I call the  
virocracy. Viruses being used as a tool of oppression and control by  
governments.

Stuart LaForge






> We present three lines of evidence to support our contention that
> laboratory manipulation is part of the history of SARS-CoV-2:
>
> i.The  genomic  sequence  of  SARS-CoV-2  is  suspiciously similarto  that
> of  a  bat  coronavirus discovered by military laboratoriesin the Third
> Military Medical University (Chongqing, China) and the Research Institute
> for Medicine of Nanjing Command (Nanjing, China).
>
> ii.The receptor-binding motif (RBM) within the Spike protein of SARS-CoV-2,
> which determines the  host specificity of  the virus,resembles  that  of
> SARS-CoV from the 2003 epidemic  in  a suspicious manner. Genomic evidence
> suggests that the RBM has been genetically manipulated.
>
> iii.SARS-CoV-2 contains a unique furin-cleavage site in its Spike
> protein,which is known to greatly enhance viral infectivity and cell
> tropism. Yet, this cleavage site is completely absent in this particular
> class of corona viruses found in nature.In addition, rare codons associated
> with this additional sequence suggest the strong possibility that this
> furin-cleavage site is not the product of natural  evolution and could have
> been inserted into  the  SARS-CoV-2  genome artificially by techniques
> other than simple serial passage or multi-strain recombination events
> inside co-infected tissue cultures or animals.