Post B2YR6b8r543DPqtBFA by sam_harris@gigaohm.bio
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(DIR) Post #B2VrsHQlgSmHW7mjbc by entropyrider@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-21T12:45:56.264817Z
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I hate DC, but I stay here because my wife loves her job in DC. At any rate, I try to make the best of it by attending events like this one:Yesterday I attended a Heritage Foundation event with this panel and took some notes. Here are some things I jotted down:Redfield claimed the COVID test was one of the greatest "successes" of the countermeasures. He also claimed at one point that the US was losing as much as 3000-5000 a day from COVID, and that the bird flu would be "much worse" if the virus is enabled via evolution or GOF to transfer from mammal-to-mammal. He was against mandating the COVID vaccine and said it should have only been used on the "most vulnerable".Alina Chan referred several times to the (likely fraudulent) DARPA proposal, and how the lab leak hypothesis was "suppressed" because it posed a "threat to virology". She also expressed concerns over "dangerous" GOF research on MERS that was published in Cell.Richard Ebright railed against GOF and how it needed more oversight. I also noted that his left hand was shaking frequently every time he gestured. Is this vaccine injury?To my surprise, Mary Holland was in the audience and asked a question about the "pathogen exchange program" (never heard of it).At any rate, I managed to stay for the luncheon and asked Dr. Redfield (very carefully) how an RNA virus managed to make its way around the world ...given how SARS-1 was over in a matter of weeks. His answer was similar to the answer I got from Harvey Riesch; that the virus has features that made it extremely contagious (near the level of measles). I wanted to follow up, but there was a line of other people wanting to ask questions so I had to be considerate of them.I do not buy into this explanation for COVID getting around the world because it does not explain its persistence year after year. At any rate, Redfield seemed affable, at ease, and very approachable, so I am inclined to believe that he was answering my question in good faith and really believes everything he says.I left the luncheon early because my two hour limit on the parking meter ran out and I had to drive quickly to MD to teach my class. As I left I saw Mary Holland taking with Alina Chan, but I was not close enough to know what they were discussing...
(DIR) Post #B2YR21tUBobSwEWPUu by prisondoc@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-22T13:12:51.950574Z
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Explain this:
(DIR) Post #B2YR5M9vIi9YernRia by jonginsf@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-21T21:52:09.421915Z
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richard ebright, microbiologist & pandemic film critic extraordinaire https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/contagion-2011#templates
(DIR) Post #B2YR6b8r543DPqtBFA by sam_harris@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-21T13:24:08.165456Z
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Think the question for Redfield should've been how does a tightly engineered precision made GoF 'virus' maintain perfect fidelity when transferring between host to host - in this case billions of transfers without making a single slip up. Prefect replication simply isn't possible. It's exactly why RNA is so different to DNA.
(DIR) Post #B2YR6cd1YNmG1i0muG by entropyrider@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-21T15:00:16.582708Z
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I agree. This would have been partially addressed by asking how it was possible for the virus to be recognizable year-after-year. He did say something about how pseudouridine "stabilized the vaccine" but I do not know what this has to do with the virus and I was pressed for time to ask for clarification due to the line of other people waiting to talk to him. Too bad I did not have time to linger at the luncheon to follow up!At any rate, I did gain a new follower on my substack by starting a conversation with an attendee and telling him they overlooked the third hypothesis/scenario: That there was no novel virus that circled the globe.This attendee was a retired federal worker with a biology background...and I was very lucky he was willing to hear out my biological arguments and not dismiss me as a lunatic ;-)
(DIR) Post #B2YR6dWgDSISoK3Eem by cement_angel@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-21T18:20:36.338185Z
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At least you are getting some people to listen and I appreciate you sharing your approach. I've only had luck with close family members, and it has been a long, slow process. The more I talk to my extended family the more 'lunacy' they see in me.
(DIR) Post #B2cWdpwmKhUrIDkULI by Irving@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-24T02:03:10.702884Z
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(DIR) Post #B2cWdrbEBnRkPxgJ1s by entropyrider@gigaohm.bio
2026-01-24T19:22:38.022169Z
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This is an inside joke for Americans: Richard Ebright strongly resembles the famous American film critic Roger Ebert.