Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Centrist Pundits Pushing Right-Wing's New Red Scare" video.

@nolongerblocked6210 I agree with that point exactly. Oversight has been the problem and it goes back further than COVID-19. Sorry for the long answer. You probably know some of this already. There's a really good short doco on Gain of Function by the German DW network posted 23 Jul 2021 here on YT. In it they highlight why there was the moratorium. They talk about how in 2011 a Dutch researcher announced they had made the worlds most deadly virus in their lab. The researcher was Ron Fouchier and he made a version of avian flu (bird flu) that's not normally contagious to humans but the few people who do get it have less than 40% chance of survival. Its more lethal than Ebola. He whipped up a version that's highly contagious to humans and NOBODY knew he was doing it until he made his announcement. Ron Fouchier tried to publish all his work and explain to the world how smart he was. Imagine some of the Doomsday cultists we have being fully informed on how to make a doomsday virus. Luckily the Dutch government shut him down and prevented his work being published. It was that sort of thing that caused the moratorium. THE SCARY THING happened after the moratorium. GOF used to be 3 areas of research. 1 - making viruses and other pathogens more lethal to humans 2- making viruses and other pathogens more contagious BETWEEN humans 3 - making viruses and other pathogens contagious TO humans from the natural environment. They dropped that 3rd are from the definition. It helped get the funding of a lot of programs back. Remember when Dr. Fauci had that stoush with Rand Paul and Rand Paul said (paraphrasing) "According to your definition that you wrote these NIH programs in Wuhan were Gain of Function" and Dr. Fauci replied "Your wrong that's the old definition." What Rand Paul should have done next is ask 2 questions. 1) When and Why did you change the definition? 2) What do you call these programs now? Those 2 questions would have exposed everything and instead Rand Paul was too stupid, too arrogant and so wrapped up in the politics he forgot there was truth right there for him to expose. The group Drastix uncovered a lot of the research papers that were published by the Wuhan lab and it details what they were doing and it was that 3rd type of research and it was done without supervision.
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Actually we know the original host of the virus - its a bat from Laos. And yes they had at least one of those bats in Wuhan. The record of it was found in a copy of the data base that foreign researchers still had. And there are researchers with incredible understanding of how viruses move from the natural environment to humans. That's been part of the problem. That sort of research has risks and the pathogen research establishment has been divided for over a decade on supervision and oversight. Back in 2011 a Dutch researcher announced he had made the worlds deadliest virus in his lab. It was a version of bird flu that's not normally contagious to humans but when it is its the worst thing - killing over 60% its more lethal than Ebola. He wanted to tell the whole world how he did it but the Dutch government shut that down before someone stupid got a hold of it. That's why there was a moratorium. Well before Wuhan there were people doing very high risk things without any oversight and the general public was oblivious to it.
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