Comments by "Fred Bloggs" (@fredbloggs5902) on "How the conspiracy theories associated with viruses mutate, just as the viruses themselves do" video.

  1. Incidents of pathogens escaping from labs are well documented. The last ‘Foot and Mouth’ outbreak in the U.K. The last death from Smallpox. In fact they happen so often that an entire Wikipedia page is dedicated to listing them (there have been well over 40).
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  2. It hijacks the hosts cell replication mechanisms to replicate itself. Mutations occur when there’s an error during replication.
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  3. More worryingly the Wuhan lab allegedly was also experimenting with gain of function in MERS, which has a 35% fatality rate. If that had got out we’d be literally knee-deep in bodies.
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  4. We don’t need whistleblowers, scientific papers showing the research being planned and carried out are already freely available to anybody who bothers to look.
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  5. 1) It has mutated to be more contagious (the delta variant). 2) Mutating to be less fatal tends to happen where the bug is extremely fatal to start with, covid has such a low mortality rate that there’s no particular evolutionary advantage to becoming even less.
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  6. Why don’t you tell us?
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  7.  @Charonupthekuiper  YouTube deletes links. A good source is the ‘Peak Prosperity’ channel.
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