More Covid Conspiracy Theories - Covid Origins, Vaccine Spike Protein in the Heart & Vaccine Mandates for School Children
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Covid Origins
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A new pre-print tries to shed light on the proximal origin of COVID-19. The authors looked at the bat sarbecovirus BANAL-236, which is closely related to SARS-CoV-2, to see if it had potential for spill over into humans. Whilst BANAL-236 does not have the Furin Cleavage Site (FCS) in its spike protein, it replicated efficiently in humanised mice. However, they found no evidence of sarbecovirus antibodies in populations highly exposed to bats, indicating that infections occur rarely, if at all.
Even after serial passaging the virus through mice and human cells there was no appearance of the FCS (the feature that makes SARS-CoV-2 so transmissible and pathogenic) and no change in virulence. From these results the authors conclude that it is unlikely that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic preceded by silent circulation of a virus which then acquired a FCS. This conclusion led them to state, further down in the study:
“Alternatively, human infection might have occurred in the course of experimental virus isolation in the laboratory”.
The study goes even further by subtly discrediting the zoonotic, wet market crossover theory by suggesting that many locals would already have had natural immunity to many bat viruses.
Others, however, ignore the parts mentioned above and conclude that, whilst bat to human infection is unlikely, infection of an intermediate host may have led to the FCS evolution.
Myocarditis
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Another article in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, published on MDPI, looked at intramyocardial inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination. This paper looked at what causes the increased risk of myocardial inflammation after being vaccinated with mRNA-based vaccines.
Whilst only a small study (15 patients), the summary is that they believe myocarditis is being caused by the expression of the vaccine induced spike protein in heart cells. The body’s natural immune response detects the spike proteins in the heart and does what it is trained to do, goes and kills the foreign entities. Therefore, the heart cells are mistakenly destroyed, causing inflammation, which in turn causes myocarditis or other heart problems.
I remember discussing this issue over a year and a half ago now. But no, we were told the mRNA didn’t travel around the body, it stayed around the injection site, where it was supposed to. We were told the spike protein won’t express itself in other critical cells such as the heart or brain. Conspiracy theory we were told, sort yourself out, take a good hard look at yourself in the mirror and repeat the following mantra until you are ready to fit back into society…safe and effective…Safe and Effective…SAFE AND EFFECTIVE.
Phew…safe and effective…whatever was I thinking…safe and effective…I can’t believe I actually read those conspiracy theories (medical studies and results from vaccine trials) let alone express any concerns about them…safe and effective…I can go back to talking about football and the latest music albums now…safe and effective. Oh I’ve got Covid now but it would have been much worse without the vaccine. Thank you Saint Pfizer and Saint Moderna…Amen.
Sorry, I digress. Away from my ranting and rambling and back to the study in question.
The onset of symptoms in the vaccinated patients occurred between 0 and 56 days. To ensure other viruses were not causing myocarditis, tests were undertaken for the most relevant recent viral pathogens, including SARS-CoV-2. Results showed that viral infections were an unlikely cause of myocardial inflammation.
Instead, it was thought an autoimmunological response may be the cause. “thus, vaccine-encoded spike protein seems to reach the heart, where it might trigger an inflammatory response, resulting in the development of myocarditis.” The authors found that CD4+ T lymphocytes were equal or higher than CD8+ T cells indicating autoimmune myocarditis. Therefore, their data “support the idea that vaccine-induced myocardial inflammation is a consequence of excessive CD4+ T-cell infiltration, and thus, a potential driver of autoimmunological myocardial damage.”
Sacred Cows
A couple of days ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decided that trials will not be needed for new COVID-19 vaccines targeting new variants. Instead, data from trials for vaccines targeting Omicron BA.1 will be sufficient. Therefore, the updated boosters, which are due to be ready in August, will not need to be tested, even though they are different to the vaccines tested previously. One small tweak to the vaccines may cause significant problems. Or they may not but we will never know. They may not even work but again we won’t know. But who cares, so long as they are ready for Autumn.
Senior official at the FDA, Dr. Peter Marks said he expects the immune response to the BA 4/5 booster shot to be similar to that seen with BA 1. ‘Expects’ and ‘similar’ don’t sound very reassuring. "We're very comfortable doing this, because it will help us get ahead of things," Marks said. Good good, as long as everyone can keep to schedule, who need trials.
Just in time for new mandates. The State of Washington has just issued a directive making COVID vaccination a permanent condition of employment for state executive and small cabinet agencies (including boosters).
And worst of all, New York City Mayor, Eric Adams strongly suggested that COVID-19 vaccination will be mandatory for school children. (From 19:10 in video below).
Mr Adams said “we are meeting and discussing to come up with the best way to do it”. Don’t worry though, they want to do it in a way “that is thoughtful and that is not going to decrease the number of children that are in schools”. His team wants to “notify parents as early as possible, so that they can be prepared, within the next few weeks we’ll know exactly how we are going to move”.
They can spin it all they want - NO ONE is going to continue with this nonsense !!
Bothers me that "humanized mice" is just a normal thing now.
"Yeah, we modified a virus and ran it through humanized mice and blah blah"
Just normal. Nothing to be concerned with.