Gain of Function v. Directed Evolution

Artificial (directed) selection was the basis for Darwin's discovery of natural selection. He noticed the many examples in which people had used selective breeding to pass beneficial characters to the next generation to improve stocks of plants and animals, and he concluded that changes in natural populations over time were caused by similar selective pressures, but from the environment.

There is clearly a need for improved methods to efficiently target a medication to a specific site in the body. This is not a crisis, and I don't know who is claiming it is.
The Pfizer exec clearly stated his suspicions Covid (the virus) was manufactured via directed evolution.

Manufactured Crisis… meet Cash Cow
Inventions can sometimes create markets that did not previously exist if the product is useful, like cell phones, microwaves, TVs.

Directed breeding gave us things like bananas. And will continue to create new and useful things.
We’re talking about creating biological weapons that could wipe out millions of people… not bananas.
 
You didn't answer the question.

Do you still believe the virus jumped from a bat to human all by itself?
I think it is not unreasonable, but it may be more likely that there was an intermediary species.

Viruses can and do jump between species, and there are plenty of examples.
 
Hige topic....but in this case clearly for evil purposes and population reduction. Thankfully the lab grown C19 didn't kill as many...initially...as expected.
No evidence that C19 was created in a lab for the purpose of killing people.
Why would it make sense that Chinese scientists would release a dangerous virus in a large Chinese town?
 
The Pfizer exec clearly stated his suspicions Covid (the virus) was manufactured via directed evolution.

Manufactured Crisis… meet Cash Cow

We’re talking about creating biological weapons that could wipe out millions of people… not bananas.
Suspicions are not evidence.

And seriously, if someone wanted to create biological weapons to kill millions, why would they start with a cold virus? How does that make sense?
 
Suspicions are not evidence.

And seriously, if someone wanted to create biological weapons to kill millions, why would they start with a cold virus? How does that make sense?
Makes sense if they did not want any alarms raised.
 
Suspicions are not evidence.
Didn’t say it was, but it’s pretty obvious. Did you even listen to what the guy said? He literally said there’s no way that virus just came out of nowhere.

And look! YouTube deleted the video. That right there is pretty damning evidence.
And seriously, if someone wanted to create biological weapons to kill millions, why would they start with a cold virus? How does that make sense?
Oh, they have much worse in their stockpile. You can be sure of that!

But really all they have to do is make people BELIEVE they going to die… then they can step in as the saviors of humanity and introduce their product.

But they’re going to want to milk that cash cow for everything it’s got.

So, what happens if we catch on to their scheme? Who’s to stop them from creating or using the threat of a killer virus against us or perhaps use it as leverage against politicians and world leaders or just to force people to take their product or die?

Obey
 
I think it is not unreasonable, but it may be more likely that there was an intermediary species.

Viruses can and do jump between species, and there are plenty of examples.
Sheeze vibise....let me ask it a different way....do you still think the virus wasn't created in a lab?
 
No evidence that C19 was created in a lab for the purpose of killing people.
Why would it make sense that Chinese scientists would release a dangerous virus in a large Chinese town?
Have you never had a discussion on these forums to talk about population reduction? The inscription of the blown up Georgia Guidestone?
 
UPDATE:

Pfizer RESPONDS:​



It should be noted that this carefully worded statement does not deny that Jordon Triston Walker works for Pfizer. Nor does it deny that he is the director of scientific and operational initiatives, which is directly salient to the statements made in the video. It does not directly address the content of the video.

It does not deny the possibility that Pfizer employees may have discussed the intentional mutation of viruses to sell future vaccines. It does not rule out Pfizer subcontractors experimenting to explore such a possibility.

The Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planner says in the video:

“One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses.”

Pfizer’s statement did not respond directly to Project Veritas. Nor did it threaten a lawsuit, which could lead to discovery.
 
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We’re talking about creating biological weapons that could wipe out millions of people… not bananas.
Covid is not anything near a biological weapon, the death rate is far too small. Anthrax has a death rate about 80%, so if you are looking for a bioweapon, then start with something like Anthrax, or maybe Ebola, not Covid.
 
Didn’t say it was, but it’s pretty obvious. Did you even listen to what the guy said? He literally said there’s no way that virus just came out of nowhere.

And look! YouTube deleted the video. That right there is pretty damning evidence.

Oh, they have much worse in their stockpile. You can be sure of that!

But really all they have to do is make people BELIEVE they going to die… then they can step in as the saviors of humanity and introduce their product.

But they’re going to want to milk that cash cow for everything it’s got.

So, what happens if we catch on to their scheme? Who’s to stop them from creating or using the threat of a killer virus against us or perhaps use it as leverage against politicians and world leaders or just to force people to take their product or die?

Obey
It is false to say that covid-19 could not have a natural origin. Viruses are constantly evolving, and in fact can evolve more quickly than cell-based lifeforms because the polymerases they use to replicate their genomes have a high error rate, so a large number of mutant variants are generated that can serve as substrates for natural selection. In fact, after a human is infected with HIV, the infecting virus quickly produces swarms of "quasi-species" with sequence and functional differences - in a single infected person.

What is true is that there are multiple examples of trans-species transmissions of viruses resulting in previously unseen infectious diseases in humans or other animals. In fact, covid-19 is at least the third such jump involving coronaviruses, MERS and SARS being the other two. Other examples include Ebola, HIV, Zika and swine and avian flu. This can and does happen which is why a natural origin for covid-19 is entirely possible if not probable.

The rest of your post is over-the-top conspiracy theory.
 
UPDATE:

Pfizer RESPONDS:​



It should be noted that this carefully worded statement does not deny that Jordon Triston Walker works for Pfizer. Nor does it deny that he is the director of scientific and operational initiatives, which is directly salient to the statements made in the video. It does not directly address the content of the video.

It does not deny the possibility that Pfizer employees may have discussed the intentional mutation of viruses to sell future vaccines. It does not rule out Pfizer subcontractors experimenting to explore such a possibility.

The Pfizer Director of Research and Development, Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planner says in the video:

“One of the things we’re exploring is like, why don’t we just mutate it [COVID] ourselves so we could create — preemptively develop new vaccines, right? So, we have to do that. If we’re gonna do that though, there’s a risk of like, as you could imagine — no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating f**king viruses.”

Pfizer’s statement did not respond directly to Project Veritas. Nor did it threaten a lawsuit, which could lead to discovery.
In order to understand how a virus infects a cell and how it interacts with the host immune system, scientists take it apart to determine what sites are responsible for infectivity and pathogenicity. This commonly involves mutating specific sites in the viral genome to identify the sites critical for function. There is nothing sinister in this, but conspiracy-prone nonscientists wrongly seem to think such mutational analysis must have some evil purpose.
 
In order to understand how a virus infects a cell and how it interacts with the host immune system, scientists take it apart to determine what sites are responsible for infectivity and pathogenicity. This commonly involves mutating specific sites in the viral genome to identify the sites critical for function. There is nothing sinister in this, but conspiracy-prone nonscientists wrongly seem to think such mutational analysis must have some evil purpose.
There was much more to it than that....Walker explained the reason why, the cash cow.
 
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