I mean seriously, why does it fall to me to educate virologists? 😂 Fact: CoVs *love* to recombine and can pick up all sorts of RNAs during template switching events. CoVs are positive stranded but use a negative template strand for replication. VSV are negative stranded, so
it seems quite possible to me that a CoV RdRp could pick up a negative VSV-SARS2 strand during template switching. Especially given that the VSV-SARS2 spike gene is identical to WT SARS2 save for immunoevading mutations, so
if the template switch happens during spike gene synthesis, the VSV-SARS2 strand will fit right in.
Here the authors have found SARS2 recombining with host mRNAs:

virological.org/t/putative-hos…

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12 Nov
So what do we know on the topic of "Pfizer falsified vaccine trial data"? The only evidence for this comes from @thackerpd piece in @bmj_latest: an action item to discuss "e-diary issue/falsifying data, etc." and a note that one staffer was "verbally counseled for changing data":
The Pfizer trial started screening patients on July 27, 2020 (see attached). So what eDiary data could have been falsified in "early August 2020"? Height/weight/BP? It is not even clear if the staffer counseled for changing data was counseled in connection with the Pfizer trial.
Also, the whistleblower who inspired the BMJ article, Brook Jackson, started her ~2-week stint at Ventavia in September, as the emails she released indicate, i.e. ~1 month after the purported counseling of employee over changed data.
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31 Oct
🧵 WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN DRASTIC

Ok, we need to set the record straight about how the DRASTIC schism happened. And no, it’s not because of the Radical R, although many of us did want to change it once we realized Billy originally used it for his RAGE University years ago:
Needless to say, most DRASTIC members want nothing to do with such radical anarchist messaging which we never signed up to endorse:
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28 Oct
Here's the complete footage of my debate with @stkirsch and his supporters. Yes, it's really 3.5 hours long (sorry). Hey, it's only an hour on 3.5x as @ZDoggMD likes to watch stuff 😂

So, from what I heard, here are the key points of Steve's position:

1) the lone spike in vaccines is toxic and is killing people
[this has, of course, been debunked many times over]

2) it's not just the mRNA vaccines, it's all Covid vaccines that are equally deadly because of (1)

3) VAERS is grossly underreporting potential deaths
4) Almost all *reported* VAERS deaths truly are caused by vaccines and CDC is lying when saying otherwise; and all underreported VAERS deaths are also caused by vaccines (hence Steve's 150K killed Americans number)
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2 Oct
Ok, just to show that I am not biased against zoonosis, here is a much more plausible NATURAL way the FCS could have arisen in SARS2 than what virologists could muster so far — via recombination with host mRNA. Namely, pangolin mRNA. In fact, I found a 14-nt match to PRRA insert
in the GIABR pangolin dataset. Yes, that’s the same dataset that contains the SARS2 RBM and was the source for the MP789 pangolin CoV. I was checking it for the PRRA insert and found 3 reads in lung08 run (SRX6893154) that match a 14-nt stretch that fully covers the PRRA insert:
The first read actually mapped to a COMPLEMENT (minus strand) of pangolin mRNA, which is perfect for coronaviral RdRp recombination, as the CoV template strand is a minus strand.
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10 Sep
Sorry @yaneerbaryam but that’s actually a myth — that if you don’t finish the full term of your prescribed antibiotic, “your body” can somehow produce a novel antibiotic-resistant strain of bacteria.
If the bacterial strain you are infected with does not already have a mechanism to pump out or circumvent the antibiotic you are using, it won’t be able to produce mutations to invent one in the few days that you’re actively killing it with the drug.
And given that bacterial replication cycle takes mere hours, just a few days of antibiotics should pretty much wipe out the entire population in your body. Unless it is resistant already, of course.
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29 Aug
Longevity researchers know that many amphibian species have pretty long lifespans: various kinds of frogs live for 20+ years. But this guy is a longevity champion! Meet European Proteus (or olm), whose average lifespan is 69 years and is estimated to live to 100+.
What is even more surprising is that it is not some kind of a giant, like, for example, the Japanese salamander (pictured), weighing in at 20 kg, living up to 50 years. No, the little dude in the previous tweet weighs only 150 grams.
By the way, continuing with the theme of miniature centenarians: it has long been known that giant turtles can live for a very long time — up to 200 years, if not more.
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