Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Scientists Create Deadly MUTANT EBOLA Virus | The Kyle Kulinski Show" video.

THIS IS NOT GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH Because they changed the definition of what is and isn't GoF. REMEMBER the infamous Rand Paul versus Dr. Fauci when Rand Paul read out what Dr. Fauci had written and then Dr. Fauci said (paraphrasing) "That's the old definition." and then waved a letter signed by a bunch of people saying that the research being done funded in Wuhan was NOT GoF. Go and watch the DW short doco on GoF (here on YouTube) titled "Gain-of-Function: Should supercharging viruses be banned?" It mentions the work of Ron Fouchier, a Dutch Scientist, who made the most deadly virus human kind has ever known. YES - what he cooked up is even more dangerous than Ebola. It was a version of Avian Flu that is normally very hard for humans to get but on the very rare occasions it happens over 60% of people die. Without anyone knowing what he was really doing Ron Fouchier made a variant that was highly contagious to human beings. It was his work and the work of others that lead to the moratorium on Gain of Function Research. PRIOR to the Moratorium Gain of Function included 3 types of research. 1) Human lethality as in specifically making a virus or pathogen more deadly to humans. 2) Human to Human transmission as in making it easier for one human to get it from another human. 3) Animal to Human as in making it easier for a virus to go from the natural host to humans. This is the type or work Ron Fouchier was doing with Avain Flu and what they were doing in Wuhan with bat born Corona viruses. When they RE-DEFINED Gain of Function it only included the FIRST and SECOND of those types of Research. So a lot of the work involving animals and/or has nothing to do with TRYING to make it more dangerous to humans is NO LONGER considered to be Gain of Function. The aim of this Ebola research was NOT to make Ebola more dangerous to humans. Its to use it to study how it works and as such is by the NEW definition NOT Gain of Function. ITS A WORD GAME. Its a word game that has allowed many researchers to continue what they were doing and continue to be funded and the WORST OUTCOME is that it has prevented external OVERSIGHT of these research programs. Between the nonsense about a Chinese bio-weapon and a section of the research establishment making sure the concept of a lab leak was never properly investigated or sensibly discussed the discussion on oversight has NOT YET happened. Nobody knew what Ron Fouchier was doing until he told the world how clever he was. Nobody knew what they were really doing in Wuhan and we still don't. Who knew the Chinese were actually doing research with Ebola let alone re-engineering it? I actually believe there is valuable research being done in IDENTIFYING and CATALOGING potential future pandemic pathogens (viruses, bacterium and everything else) BUT its being done WITHOUT oversight to make sure its done safely and that's madness. Sorry to all for the long answer but this is the sort of discussion Kyle and others SHOULD BE HAVING in stead of ranting and raging because that helps NOBODY.
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