"Gain of Function" and "DNA Editing" - Meet the New Chinese Military Arsenal
President Richard Nixon visited China in 1972 at the direction of the Chamber of Commerce. They wanted access to a market of 862 million people at that time. The visit was not about diplomacy or keeping the USSR in check, as chronicled. It's was all about business.
In exchange for that market access, today, China is the second most powerful country globally. And they want to be first.
China is now so advanced that they are engineering bioweapons in "gain of function" viruses. Additionally, the Chinese are conducting DNA experimentation to produce fearless "super soldiers." Meet the new Chinese military arsenal.
"Gain of Function" Research
If you have not heard the term "gain of function," prepare yourself. We've uncovered that what scientists are doing with this research. It isn't very comforting.
It is very hard to believe anyone would ever use this experimentation as a weapon, but someone already has.
"Gain of function" refers to any modification of a biological agent that confers new or enhanced activity. Typically, researchers mutate or alter genes and examine the impact of these modifications on a particular property or trait of the organism. For example, some investigators can modify influenza viruses in ways that enhance pathogenicity and/or transmissibility in order to better understand the origins and nature of these traits at the molecular level, as well as their pathogenesis in susceptible hosts. Since influenza viruses constantly evolve in nature, these gain-of-function studies may help predict whether these viruses could evolve naturally over time to acquire these new or enhanced traits, and if so, how the viruses might affect hosts and the kinds of medical countermeasures that might be most effective. Some gain-of-function studies may entail biosafety and biosecurity risks that require unique risk assessment and mitigation measures."
https://www.phe.gov/s3/dualuse/Documents/gof-qanda.pdf
In 2002, a team of scientists at the State University of New York at Stony Brook created poliovirus.
This very infectious virus was the cause of many deaths until Dr. Jonas Salk invented a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio.
Most countries outlawed this virus. And only a select few laboratories are permitted to use it for study.
The scientists created poliovirus by downloading and copying the DNA sequence. The artificial creation of a virus raised alarms across the scientific community because, like most viruses, it can escape. The other concern is that rogue states or individuals could use these viruses to kill people.
Any country with a functioning scientific community can create these viruses. See China's Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Factory Farming Leads to "Gain of Function" Experiments
There is a threat of new viruses appearing both from the wild and through our "factory farming" system.
These factory farms produce viruses because of the nature of the process and the farms' size. Not always sanitary and sometimes in deplorable condition, these farms are a breeding ground for viruses.
Most viruses are usually transmitted only between the animals they infect. But, in the case of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, a virus bourn of chickens and pigs mutated to infect humans. Fifty million people died, and this was the incentive for "gain of function" experimentation used today.
Scientists now manipulate animal-borne viruses to infect humans. They do this to find a vaccine for the virus in case the virus mutates to human-to-human infection.
The Argument Against "Gain of Function" Experiments
Quickly stated, "gain of function" experiments are not safe.
In 2014, the University of Maryland experimented with a chicken-based influenza virus (H7N1). The scientists attempted to modify the virus to be airborne in ferrets. Unfortunately, it worked.
If this modified virus could transfer between ferrets, it could transfer between humans.
The problem is that that they did this on a university campus. That campus is close to an airport, the capital, and the middle of a population zone. What if, by accident, they released the virus?
In 2014, the U.S. Government halted all funding on "gain of function" research to conduct a safety review.
From Sciencemag.org:
"But U.S. officials grew uneasy after the publication of new GOF papers and several accidents in U.S. biocontainment labs. In October 2014, they announced an unprecedented "pause" on funding for 21 GOF studies of influenza, MERS, and severe acute respiratory syndrome viruses."
The problem? Three accidents made everyone question how safe our laboratories are.
The findings below are terrifying.
From Sciencemag.org:
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has closed two labs and halted some biological shipments in the wake of several recent incidents in which highly pathogenic microbes were mishandled by federal laboratories. The cases include an accidental shipment of live anthrax; the discovery of forgotten, live smallpox samples; and a newly revealed incident in which a dangerous influenza strain was accidentally shipped from CDC to another lab.
The two cases involving CDC mistakes reveal "totally unacceptable behavior" by staff, said CDC chief Thomas Frieden at a press conference today at CDC headquarters in Atlanta. He announced several actions that CDC is taking to step up safety and security, including a moratorium on shipping highly risky pathogens. "I'm disappointed by what happened, and frankly, I'm angry about it," he added."
Covid-19 Is A Chinese Biological Weapon
We present Dr. Li-Meng Yan.
In her own words, she was a virologist who worked in the WHO Reference Lab at The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Yan worked at this location for over five years. She states that her colleagues were the top coronavirus experts in the world.
In fear of her life, she escaped extradition to China from Hong Kong and claimed asylum here in the U.S.
For disseminating Covid-19 information, the Chinese threatened her life. In her video, Dr. Yan declares Covid-19 is a bioweapon developed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology to do what it did, kill people.
Until recently, big tech, mainstream media, and most Washington DC politicians have censored Dr. Yan. That has all changed with recent revelations that the designed virus was most likely from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Until recently, YouTube did not show censored videos like this.
The video also features Gordon Chang. He points out that if the Covid-19 was not a biological weapon, China's President Xi Jinping turned it into one by spreading it.
Xi lied to the world for five weeks in declaring the virus was not contagious when he knew that it was. Additionally, he pressured other countries to accept Chinese travelers while he was locking down his own country.
The Chinese destroyed Hong Kong's democracy. They are currently plotting to invade Taiwan. They are conducting a Uighur genocide, and now they are breeding "super soldiers." Do you believe they're above manipulating and releasing a "gain of function virus?" Of course not.
If you are not familiar with the term "gain of function," and the potential problems, you will soon be.
As Dr. Fauci flip-flops on mask-wearing and vaccines, as head of the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he has also changed opinions of the safety of the U.S. and European-based labs.
We have many more questions than how the pandemic started.
We demand to know why the U.S. Government was financing the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Was Dr. Fauci involved? Were the grants used to assure that the lab didn't have an accidental release? Or, are were we purposely funding China's biological weapon development?
China's Genetically Edited Babies
The genesis of this post came from a conversation I had a few years ago. I met a human biology doctoral student from a prominent university. At that time, the media was covering the story of the Chinese manipulating DNA in babies.
When I asked her about the story, her demeanor changed almost immediately. It went from casual to very concerned when speaking about the subject.
Reportedly, the Chinese doctors were editing embryo DNA. Their excuse was to protect babies from the Aids virus the fathers may have contracted.
From The Washington Post:
"The experiment was first reported by MIT Technology Review and the Associated Press. According to a description of the project posted online, He created embryos from couples with an HIV-infected father. The use of the technology immediately raised questions from ethicists since there are other ways to prevent HIV transmission to a fetus, and many think that the first applications of gene editing should be reserved for diseases that are deadly with no treatment options. In a video released on YouTube, He said that only a single gene had been changed, but gene editing is known to introduce unintended genetic effects that could raise concerns — either for the children themselves or the human gene pool if the children grow up to pass on their genes".
The Ph.D. student I spoke with said the gene manipulation was to edit "fear" out of DNA in future Chinese soldiers.
She implied that this is what the Chinese were trying to achieve. She also stated that her community was very concerned about the ethical violations. More likely, the lack of ethics by the PLA (People's Liberation Army). The organization most likely behind the research.
From Wired:
"Super-soldiers might just be a twinkle in authoritarians' eyes for now, but they're one reason the former U.S. spy chief, James Clapper, called out gene editing as a potential weapon of mass destruction in his 2016 national safety threat report. The intelligence assessment specifically pointed out the possibility of using the technology to edit the DNA of human embryos."
Doctors Punished?
The Chinese government claims they punished the doctors that edited the DNA. Of course, in usual Chinese fashion, it was all done behind closed doors. As with almost all the "information" generated by the Chinese government, you can assume this is a lie as well.
From Sciencemag.org:
"The court heard the case in private to protect the personal privacy of the individuals involved, Xinhua said. The report says physical and documentary evidence and witness and expert testimony were presented to the court, but it gave no details".
Chinese doctors are bold enough to conduct DNA editing experiments. Why then would they not experiment with "gain of function" viruses? Of course, they would, and they have. It is called Covid-19.
While we, as a country, are dealing with a faltering economy, return to normalcy, and any number of other issues, who is holding China to account?
Frankie S.