Abstract An evidence-based norm collectively established and reinforced through the work of generations of virologists is that laboratory modifications of self-spreading viruses are genetically too unstable to be used safely and predictably outside contained facilities. That norm now seems to be challenged. A range of transformational self-spreading applications have been put forward in recent years. In agriculture, for example, self-spreading viruses have been proposed as insecticides, or as vectors to modify planted crops. In health care, self-spreading viruses have been promoted as vaccines (1, 2). Yet, glossed over by these proposals is that the self-spreading dynamics of a virus repeatedly passing from host-to-host (passaging) give it substantial potential to alter its biological properties once released into the environment (see the box). We explore the consequences of this apparent norm erosion in the context of recent proposals to develop self-spreading genetically modified viruses, in wildlife management and in self-spreading vaccines.
Dr. Byram W. Bridle, PhD is banned from the University of Guelph campus for being COVID unvaccinated in spite of his being naturally immune. That would make a lot more sense to him if he were not an immunologist.
The University seems to be attempting to force him to resign:
…the current administrative designation, where I am neither able to work at the University nor permitted to pursue work elsewhere, was not a development I had anticipated. The University may be hoping this pressure will lead me to resign “voluntarily,” which would remove grounds for my lawsuit: if I resign prior to being terminated by the University, I have no legal claim of harm.
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, published in the early 20th century, describes a fictional case of late 19th century radiation glow. It follows Verloc, used by a new First Secretary in the embassy of a foreign country as an agent provocateur.
The Day Shall Come, “A Comedy Based On a Hundred True Stories”, directed by Christopher Morris follows a hapless preacher and his small troupe as they receive near fatal doses of radiation from the glowing ones.
And by the way, this comment of his about the biggest fire being in the ovaries seems to imply that he was lying when he said that he omitted the other organs (with much bigger “fires”) to somehow underline the ovaries.
The current scientific uncertainties demand that the administration of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children, adolescents, and young adults of child-bearing age be paused until proper scientific studies that focus on the safety and pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of the vaccines and the vaccine-encoded spike protein can be conducted.
Geert Vanden Bossche posits that a mass vaccination regime targeting very specific viral structures during an ongoing pandemic amounts to a global gain of function experiment. Further, that the resulting variants could be able to affect the vaccinated even more than the unvaccinated as the infection may elicit an immune memory response that is ineffective and that can interfere with the working of the general non-memory immune system, the system that may be protecting the young.
DarkHorse Podcast with Geert Vanden Bossche & Bret Weinstein
ZDoggMD mixes some rebuttal with some rather immature ad hominem:
Why This Guy Is Dead Wrong About COVID Vaccines | Bossche Debunked
Edward Nirenberg gets more into the nitty gritty in: Addressing Geert Vanden Bossche’s Claims. Most relevant to any possible virus evolution is the question of to what extent the vaccines are “leaky”. Relevant to safety is if they compromise natural immunity.
Dr. Izzy Gerstenbluth discusses mass vaccination during a pandemic with his colleague, Dr. Ashley Duits:
COVID Science Talks: Mass vaccination during a pandemic | 13-04-2021
Bret and Heather discuss the Facebook shenanigans:
Facebook ‘warns’ us against Geert Vanden Bossch podcast (from Livestream #77)
“I WOULD PROBABLY PREFER TO HAVE NATURAL IMMUNITY” — DR BYRAM BRIDLE (VIRAL IMMUNOLOGIST)
Global Paradigm Shift with Michelle Malcolm :: 09 June 2021 — Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccines, thinks that Vanden Bossche is correct about the theory but that the response during a pandemic in humans cannot be the same as is taken in the case of cattle (at 45 minutes).
This is a text book case of a man made vaccine escape program. Great for Booster revenue. Poor for trust in public health officials that have politicized these obsolete and somewhat useless vaccines.
It is nearly certain that the Reptilians are not in fact from the star system of Alpha Draconis, but of terrestrial origin. One theory is that they are a higher caste of Zombie, where the zombification process has left a residual lizard brain. Another is that they are a next evolutionary stage of the ancestral population, and that they have just found it convenient to make use of the Zombie hoards in order to supplant it.
This one is a little confusing because while it is often used to refer to an impossible restoration of some sort by the military, it could also refer to any irreversible choice, such as the one made in the early hours of November fourth.
“Things to Come” was, in the end, quite optimistic. The actual shape of things to come seems to leave not much room for optimism. Movies, fact and fiction, have covered much that is related to what we can expect.
The historical Zombie eruptions have involved a less brain dead variety than the current, but that is no guarantee that they were more deadly.
Twitter disallows many statements, as does Facebook. Youtube removes videos and whole channels. Amazon removes books. Where there is not simple deletion of information there can be guiding notes attached to historical and seemingly neutral scientific information.
One interesting possibility is that this is explained as a stage of the zombification process, where the brain begins to liquefy and barriers between the associative and analytical lobes start to break down. If it were only so simple.
“Herd Immunity” went through a fairly radical shift in meaning, at least for a while.
These cases provide us with an ideal opportunity to address just what authority nonlegislative officials have to set election rules, and to do so well before the next election cycle. The refusal to do so is inexplicable.
One wonders what this Court waits for. We failed to settle this dispute before the election, and thus provide clear rules. Now we again fail to provide clear rules for future elections. The decision to leave election law hidden beneath a shroud of doubt is baffling. By doing nothing, we invite further confusion and erosion of voter confidence. Our fellow citizens deserve better and expect more of us. I respectfully dissent.
Thomas provides some cover for the Court’s dereliction of duty by prefacing his analysis with an assertion unsupported except perhaps relative to some narrow claim:
That decision to rewrite the rules seems to have affected too few ballots to change the outcome of any federal election.
The Duran suggests that the court not taking the cases and leaving these issues undecided will cause trouble in the future, but that argument presupposes that the goal should be to provide clear rules under which a democracy can operate. It seems more likely that confirming that the courts are closed to election challenges will cause the least trouble under the form of governance that actually exists.
