The Bit You May Have Missed In The Story Of The Gaetz/Carlson/OAN/Trump Admin Takedown Of A Top Coronavirus Hunter.

Last night  CBS' 60 minutes aired a story about how coronavirus hunter Peter Daszak's highly rated, peer-reviewed US-National Institutes of Health funding was rescinded by the Trump Administration, apparently because Dr. Daszak's research group has the audacity to go to where the viruses actually are.

In my opinion this is a well-researched blockbuster that everyone should take the 13 minutes and twenty-three seconds to watch.

However, one slightly tangential bit that I would like to highlight, mostly because it slays the hysteria dragon dead, is the following from Can-Am epidemiologist Elodie Ghedin who is currently at NYU:

The (Trump) administration has offered no evidence of an accident or genetic engineering (of the SARS-CoV-2 genome). Dr. Elodie Ghedin is studying the genome of the virus in her lab at New York University.

Elodie Ghedin: "People have been saying that's an engineered virus. And it's not. And we know that by looking at the genetic information, looking at the code. And the code tells you a lot.

Human-engineered viruses have common and obvious genetic components, including the virus's overall molecular structure called its backbone."

Elodie Ghedin: "If a virus had been engineered, it would've used the backbones that we know. And there's none of that in that virus. And let's say it was a brand-new backbone. Well, it wouldn't look like what it's looking like, because we can find every piece of that virus. We can find these pieces in other very similar viruses that circulate in the wild. From the genetic information, it's clearly not an engineered virus."

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Look.

This conspiracy story crap, especially crap that has the potential to kill people, has to stop.

And anyone who knowingly trumpets and/or wurlitzers said crap must be dismissed, disdained and descredited, forever, by all responsible collateral media organs everywhere.

Put another way, neither Matt Gaetz nor Tucker Carlson should ever (and I mean forever and ever) be on my TeeVee again.

Unless, of course, it is being done to brand them as the liars and prevaricators that they clearly are.

OK?


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