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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1377378)	10/19/2022 12:32:05 AM
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Amazing that seemingly intelligent person like your self can post ad infinitum regarding confirmation bias and yet exhibit it in spades.... Phizer says it didn't even test to see if the vax stops transmission... news.com.au Be a shame if this went viral pic.twitter.com/DBUzUCVkZZ — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 18, 2022

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1377378)	10/19/2022 12:56:30 AM
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Fauci On COVID School Shutdowns: 'I Had Nothing To Do With It' by Tyler Durden Tuesday, Oct 18, 2022 - 04:20 PM Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Since announcing in August he would be departing his post at the White House, Dr. Anthony Fauci said he had “nothing to do” with COVID-related school lockdowns and the reported accompanied loss in learning among public school students. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies during a Senate hearing in Washington on Sept. 14, 2022. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Fauci denied that he was responsible for pushing the public consensus that schools should be shut down due to the spread of the virus. Across the United States, numerous public and private schools were forced to shut down and use virtual learning—which many experts and studies say led to a dramatic drop in basic skills. ABC News host Jonathan Karl asked: “Was it a mistake in so many states, in so many localities, to see schools closed as long as they were?” “I don’t want to use the word ‘mistake’ John because if I do it gets taken out of the context that you’re asking me the question on,” Fauci said in response. “Could there be too high a price?” Karl clarified, likely referencing the plummeting academic performance, social isolation, and mental health crisis that school closures fueled. “What we should realize, and have realized, [is] that there will be deleterious collateral consequences when you do something like that,” added Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984. “The idea that this virus doesn’t afflict children is not so. We’ve already lost close to 1,500 kids so far.” A study that inflated the number of COVID-19 deaths among children was corrected in July. Fauci’s agency has no authority to force the shutting down of schools, businesses, or other entities, although Republicans and other critics have said that during his frequent interviews starting in early 2020, Fauci recommended widespread lockdowns. Those closures and stay-at-home orders were issued either by states, counties, or municipalities as the federal government—namely the Centers for Disease Control and Prediction—mainly issued recommendations. Fauci also often made dire claims about the trajectory of the pandemic—even making a grim prediction this week that new variants of the virus would resurge this fall and winter. Later in the ABC interview, Fauci claimed that he repeatedly called on schools to stay open as long as possible, although he did not provide evidence or an example for that claim. "Was it a mistake...to see schools closed as long as they were?" FAUCI: "I had nothing to do with it!" pic.twitter.com/azgKnyd1VT — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 16, 2022 “No one plays that clip. They always come back and say ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do [with it]. I mean, let’s get down to the facts,” he stated. Fauci does it again. Claims he had NOTHING to do with the shutdowns. Do we have to play this compilation again? Apparently so. pic.twitter.com/73L2pDpABS — Justin Hart (@justin_hart) October 16, 2022 StatementsIn May 2020, when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told him that data shows that children aren’t at serious risk of severe COVID-19 complications, Fauci said that “I think we better be careful that we’re not cavalier, in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects.” In other public settings and during interviews, Fauci also continuously warned about lifting restrictions for schools, which likely helped fuel extensions or more lockdowns of schools. In March 2020, Fauci said he would favor a nationwide lockdown and said the “worst is ahead” for COVID-19. Fauci in late 2020 expressed support for keeping schools open but wanted many businesses shut down. During one instance in December of that year, Fauci said he wants to “close the bars and keep the schools open.” “The default position should be to try, as best as possible within reason, to keep the children in school or to get them back to school,” Fauci said. “If you look at the data, the spread among children and from children is not really very big at all, not like one would have suspected,” he added.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1377378)	10/19/2022 12:59:43 AM
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EXCLUSIVE: 'This is playing with fire - it could spark a lab-generated pandemic': Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid strain with an 80% kill rate Researchers added Omicron's spike protein to the original Wuhan Covid strainOmicron's spike is highly mutated which made it the most infectious variant everEight in 10 mice infected with the lab-created strain died at Boston University labBy Caitlin Tilley, Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com and Mansur Shaheen Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:02 EDT, 17 October 2022 \| Updated: 05:00 EDT, 18 October 2022 Boston University scientists were today condemned for 'playing with fire' after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory. DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study. The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic. Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: 'This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire.' Gain of function research - when viruses are purposefully manipulated to be more infectious or deadly - is thought to be at the center of Covid's origin. A Chinese laboratory located just miles from the first cluster of cases carried out similar research on bat coronaviruses. But the practice has been largely restricted in the US since 2017. Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that: 'The research is a clear example of gain of function research. He added: 'If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened.' 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 Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories is one of 13 biosafety level 4 labs in the US The most dangerous type of research can be carried out in these labs, involving highly infectious viruses such as Covid and Ebola In biosafety 4 labs, researchers do all experiments in a ‘biosafety cabinet’ — an enclosed, ventilated workspace for handling materials contaminated with pathogens Full-body, air-supplied pressure suits are worn and workers must change their clothing before entering and shower before leaving 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 Dr Richard Ebright (left), a Rutgers University chemist, said that this research could spark the next lab-created pandemic. Professor Shmuel Shapira (right), a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said that this type of research should be banned as it is playing with fire. 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 in the virus but has become more evolved over time. Omicron has dozens of mutations on its spike protein that made it so infectious. Researchers attached Omicron's spike to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic. The researchers looked at how mice fared against the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant. When a similar group of rodents were exposed to the standard Omicron strain, however, they all survived and only experienced 'mild' symptoms. Writing in the paper, they said: ‘In...mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent.’ The researchers said it signaled that while the spike protein is responsible for infectivity, changes to other parts of its structure determine its deadliness.