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The Godfather Part II: Covid Edition Starring Xi Jinping as Michael Corleone and MAGA as Senator Geary Xi Corleone sits in a stately office in his home overlooking a lake. Senator MAGA sits opposite him. The mood is tense. Senator: “I don’t like your kind of people. I don’t like to see you come out to my clean country and foul it up with your pandemics. I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you handled the crisis. You’re gonna have to answer for Covid; you’re gonna have to pay.” Xi: “I’ll give you my answer now: I’ll pay nothing. In fact, you will … Continue reading →
National Institutes of Health (NIH) to do gain-of-function research. Describing the lab experiments, Swan said: “Two or three years ago they were doing what were called gainer function tests, they were fiddling with the genetic structure of coronavirus to see what would make into a pandemic virus.”
Gain-of-function research is a risky area of study that makes viruses even more contagious.
“There’s an indication that virologists in the institute got sick in November [2019] with an illness,” Swan said. “So there are increasing signs that the institute of virology may well be the source.”
The WIV is a biosafety level 4 laboratory, which is the highest level biocontainment certification, but U.S. Embassy officials issued two diplomatic cables warning about inadequate safety at the lab after a visit in 2018. According to the