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Comments by "Christos P" (@JohnCarterIsMyName) on "Exposing the Latest Dangerous Virus Research in Gov't Labs | Rand Paul | POLITICS | Rubin Report" video.
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Rand Paul is a CLOWN. He is lying to you again.
A particularly hot topic has been "gain-of-function" research, so let's try to define that a bit (update: see here for more). GoF work attempts to modify a biological pathway in a cell line or an organism in order to enhance or broaden the scope of some particular process. In virology, it generally refers to work that would help to understand how a particular virus might be able to mutate in the future under different conditions.
Under present circumstances, it particularly refers to seeing how a pathogen might be able to change in ways that would cause more harm. Viruses are constantly mutating, and GoF work is at attempt to see around the corner and anticipate what might come next - and how likely (or unlikely) that might be to happen in the real world.
That's BSL-4, and those controls apply to any lab that's handling the most dangerous pathogens. There are only a few dozen labs in the world that work at these levels, and very few of those are doing anything like gain-of-function. Some of them, for example, are strictly for diagnostic work.
That link provides the less-than-reassuring news, though, that only about a quarter of those labs receive high scores overall for safety and security. And only a handful of countries categorize experiments like gain-of-function research as a separate thing that needs its own regulatory oversight.
What has to be emphasized immediately is that none of this work was on the pandemic coronavirus itself. Anyone who tells you that the documents show that the WIV is responsible for the current pandemic is at best severely misinformed or (more likely) lying for political gain.
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Rand Paul is a complete IDIOT talking about things he has no idea about.
A particularly hot topic has been "gain-of-function" research, so let's try to define that a bit (update: see here for more). GoF work attempts to modify a biological pathway in a cell line or an organism in order to enhance or broaden the scope of some particular process. In virology, it generally refers to work that would help to understand how a particular virus might be able to mutate in the future under different conditions.
Under present circumstances, it particularly refers to seeing how a pathogen might be able to change in ways that would cause more harm. Viruses are constantly mutating, and GoF work is at attempt to see around the corner and anticipate what might come next - and how likely (or unlikely) that might be to happen in the real world.
That's BSL-4, and those controls apply to any lab that's handling the most dangerous pathogens. There are only a few dozen labs in the world that work at these levels, and very few of those are doing anything like gain-of-function. Some of them, for example, are strictly for diagnostic work.
That link provides the less-than-reassuring news, though, that only about a quarter of those labs receive high scores overall for safety and security. And only a handful of countries categorize experiments like gain-of-function research as a separate thing that needs its own regulatory oversight.
What has to be emphasized immediately is that none of this work was on the pandemic coronavirus itself. Anyone who tells you that the documents show that the WIV is responsible for the current pandemic is at best severely misinformed or (more likely) lying for political gain.
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