The Post-Partisan Emporium

Report: Potentially Lethal New Super Strain Of COVID Created In London Lab Renowned Molecular Biologist describes development as “insanity”   A potentially deadly new strain of COVID has been created in a University lab in London, according to a report. The Daily Mail reports  that researchers at Imperial College London have hybridised the original Wuhan strain of the disease with both the Omicron or Delta variants separately. The College is yet to reveal how effective the strain they have created is, and has denied that the work constitutes gain of function, the process now widely believed to have been responsible for the original strain in Wuhan. Molecular biology expert Dr. Richard Ebright warned that the new mutant strain, which was injected into hamsters in London, “is insanity, both in terms of the redundancy and waste,” and that it has zero “foreseeable practical applications.” At least four labs on two continents now have constructed non-natural, lab-generated vir...

EcoHealth Alliance and the Extended Viral Phenotype SARS rearranged large parts of our scientific establishment for its own advantage. eugyppius Viruses are simple replicators. They consist of only a few proteins, and their sole purpose is to multiply themselves. This simplicity has often deceived us. The last eighteen months have been a lesson in their complex, unpredictable, often clearly strategic behaviour. They are selected to interact with our habits, our cultures and our societies in ways that advantage their replication. Like all replicators, they have what Richard Dawkins would call an extended phenotype – a broader pattern of effects on their environment well beyond their specific interactions with host cells. The extended phenotype of MDV, the alphaherpesvirus behind Marek’s Disease, encompasses not only the illness it causes in chickens, but the very vaccines we have developed against it. Through the brute force of its replication, MDV called these vaccines into being. In m...