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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
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Sep 17, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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@R_H_Ebright comment sums it up nicely

The new viruses--named BANAL-20-52, BANAL-20-103, BANAL 20-236, BANAL 20-116, and BANAL 20-147--all are *less similar* than RaTG13 to SARS-CoV-02.

BANAL indeed.
But maybe not so BANAL after all...

From supplementary files

assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-87196…
quite a long way from Wuhan though, even further than Mojiang ;)
Limestone Karsts of SE Asia
researchgate.net/publication/21…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuang_Di…
DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTER OF KARST IN THE LAO PDR.

researchgate.net/publication/23…
Can someone break the news to Eddie Holmes gently?

"None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike"

"Identification of strains of animal origin with a furin cleavage site may require additional sampling"

researchsquare.com/article/rs-871…
More on Furin Cleavage Site

However, we found no furin site in any of these viruses. Lack of furin cleavage may be explained by by acquisition of the furin cleavage site through passages of the virus in an alternate host"
"Finally, where these intergenomic recombinations arose and the epidemiological link with the first human cases remains to be established"
US DoD and Pasteur Institute were there in Feuang District where the closest bat coronavirus, Banal 20 52, came from, back in 2017, bat sampling....where they sampled several Rhinolophus Malayanus...
pasteur.la/project-carrie…
Bat "contacts" tested in Vientiane Province in 2020

thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…
Laos is the flavour of the day it seems...
PREDICT 2016

All cov sequences generated from frugivorous bats (family Pteropodidae) clustered with other bat βCoVs of lineage D, whereas one coronavirus from Pipistrellus coromandra fell in the lineage C of βCoVs which also includes the MERS-CoV.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Jul 31
1. Havana Syndrome aka AHI aka DEBE

Luckily David Relman managed to share his thoughts:

“Neurological Illness and National Security: Lessons to Be Learned. March 18, 2024"

See:
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and

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2. More recently we learned

"Assessments were deliberately manufactured & used to discredit some of our nation’s bravest & impede access to medical care. As was the case with other high-visibility intel assessments (Covid-19?), it fell far short of analytic integrity standards"
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Jul 29
If you see a snake today..🐍

1. Based on the Parsi calendar conversion and the text of the Persian Mar-Nāmeh (THE BOOK FOR TAKING OMENS FROM SNAKES), seeing a snake today means you should not look at it, otherwise you will soon have a cause to be sorry.
2. Rule 7 cruelly says:

"If you see a snake on the day of Merdad (Amerdid) do not look at it, (or otherwise) you will soon have a cause to be sorry"

According to the Parsees, today is Roj Amardad (also spelled Merdad or Amerdāt).
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By President-Surgeon-Major G. Waters.

"The custom of taking omens from snakes seems to be
very ancient. The people of antiquity associated with the snake various peculiar ideas"
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Jul 28
1. The morning breaks on human backs

Across the centuries & the tracks,
Where bone & muscle give their all,
To answer to the master's call.
And in the pocket, pouch, or hand,
A secret comfort rules the land.
A cheap escape from sweat & pain,
To dull the mind or spike the brain.
2. In London’s fog, the engine roars

And laborers crowd through palace doors,
To drown the shift in burning gin.
While in the slums, for just a penny,
The laudanum drops are shared by many,
To soothe the cough, the cramp, the tear,
And quiet the children crying there.
3. Across the sea, the jungle steams

Where coolies chased their broken dreams.
The shovel bites, the fever burns,
Until the evening sun returns.
Then in the bunkhouse, dark & small,
Sweet smoke rises on the wall;
The opium pipe is lit & blessed,
A pain-free haze, a perfect rest!
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Jul 27
1. Summarizing "Fauci's prequel" is not difficult!

Tony's Diary: The Prequel via @SenRandPaul

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2. @_whitneywebb revealed just about everything

@_whitneywebb 3. Another short summary from 2020

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1. A shout out to all the clever and free apps that we have used for 6 years, without which we would be still in the dark

@threadreaderapp @ProtonMail @archiveis @OpenAlex_org @TheLensOrg @Gemini_Notebook @TranslateYandex @TransIateGoogIe @ResearchGate @ZENODO_ORG @arxiv @github
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@YouTube
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Google Patents
@waybackmachine
Justpasteit
@googledrive
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@grok

Some Journals

@CellPressNews
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@Nature
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@PLOS
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@X

That made a vast difference, helping us coordinate our work through chat groups and share our work and keep the public and journalists and U.S. government organizations and commissions informed of the latest updates.
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1. Ball, Hung, Drawn and Quartered for Truth

Did ye sing, John Ball,
as they pulled you apart?
A poet speaking for us all
from England’s tattered heart.
What a price, John Ball,
for singing to us all.
When hope came as a crime
in simple rhythm and rhyme.
2. He who sings a blackbird’s song
to a starved & battered throng
with a message to stand strong
would never last long.
So we’ll sing to John Ball
for the helpless & hopeless,
the voiceless, forgotten,
buried beneath the mansions
of Lords; misbegotten
mortar, stones & chandeliers
3. the scarlet grave goods
of England’s preening peers.
We’ll sing in simple rhymes
and hope for better times,
when those barons’ grandchildren,
so viscous, reptilian,
are thrown from their seat
in ignominious defeat.
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