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This essay is inspired by\u00a0<\/em>Dr Mercola\u2019s announcement<\/em><\/a>\u00a0last week that (reading between the lines) his life and his family\u2019s have been threatened if he doesn\u2019t remove from his web site a peer-reviewed study demonstrating the benefits of vitamin D and zinc in prevention of the worst COVID outcomes. In the present Orwellian era, where propaganda and deception are ubiquitous, one of the signposts of truth that I have learned to respect is that the most important truths are the most heavily censored.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This is not what I enjoy writing about, but as I find dark thoughts creeping into my consciousness, perhaps it is better to put them on paper with supporting logic and invite my readers to help me clarify the reasoning and, perhaps, to point a way out of the darkness.<\/p>\n

Already in January, 2020, two ideas about COVID were emerging. One is that there were people and institutions who seemed to have anticipated the event, and were planning for it for a long time. Gates, Fauci, the World Economic Forum, and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine were among the prescient. (I credit the (now deleted) videos of\u00a0Spiro Skouras<\/a>.) Second was the genetic evidence suggesting that COVID had a laboratory origin<\/a>. Funders of the scientific establishment have lost their bid to\u00a0ridicule this idea<\/a>, and it has now\u00a0leaked into the mainstream<\/a>, where it is fused with the classical\u00a0yellow peril<\/a>\u00a0propaganda: \u201cChina did it!\u201d. I\u00a0have cited evidence<\/a> that America is likely equally culpable.<\/p>\n

The confluence of these two themes suggests the dark logic that I take for my topic today: Those who knew in advance, not only that there would be a pandemic but\u00a0that it would be a Coronavirus<\/a>, were actually responsible for engineering this pandemic.<\/p>\n

Immediately, I think: How could people capable of such sociopathic enormities be occupying the\u00a0most powerful circles of the world\u2019s elite<\/a>? And what would be their motivation? I don\u2019t have answers to these questions, and I will leave speculation to others. But there\u2019s one attractive answer that I find less compelling: that it\u2019s a money-maker for the large and\u00a0criminal pharmaceutical industry<\/a>. The new mRNA vaccines are already the most profitable drugs in history, but I think that shutdown of world economies, assassinations of world leaders<\/a>, deep corruption of science, and full-spectrum control of the mainstream narrative imply a larger power base than can plausibly be commanded by the pharma industry.<\/p>\n

Instead, I\u2019ll try to follow the scientific and medical implications of the hypothesis that COVID is a bioweapon.<\/p>\n

The Spike Protein<\/strong><\/p>\n

The spike protein is the part of the virus structure that interfaces with the host cell. SARS 1 and SARS 2 viruses both have spike proteins that bind to a human cell receptor called ACE-2, common in lung cells but also present in other parts of the body. Binding to the cell\u2019s ACE-2 receptor is like the wolf knocking at the door of Little Red Riding Hood\u2019s grandmother. \u201cHello, grandmama. I\u2019m your granddaughter. Please let me in.\u201d The virus is a wolf wearing a red cape and hood, pretends to be an ACE-2 enzyme molecule seeking entrance to the cell.<\/p>\n

In order to enter the cell, the virus must break off from the spike protein and leave it at the doorstep, so to speak. This is an important and difficult step, as it turns out. Unique to the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a trick for making the separation. Just at the edge of the protein is a\u00a0furin cleavage site<\/a>. Furin is an enzyme that snips protein molecules, and it is common in our bodies, with legitimate metabolic uses. A furin cleavage site is a string of 4 particular amino acids that calls to furin, \u201chey \u2014 come over here. I\u2019m a protein that needs snipping.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most compelling evidence for a laboratory origin of COVID is that coronaviruses don\u2019t have furin cleavage sites, and until last year, this trick has never evolved naturally.<\/p>\n

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How we think about natural disease<\/strong><\/p>\n

The classical understanding of a viral or bacterial disease is this: A parasite is an organism that uses the host\u2019s resources for its own reproduction. It is evolved to reproduce efficiently. If it has co-evolved with the host, it may be evolved to spare the host\u2019s health, or even to promote it, because this is the\u00a0optimal long-term strategy<\/a>\u00a0for any predator or parasite. But newly-emerged parasites can do well for awhile even if they disable or kill their hosts, and this is the kind of disease that is most damaging to us. The damage is done because the (young) virus\u2019s strategy is to reproduce rapidly and disperse itself into the environment where it can find new hosts. The virus has no interest in harming the host, and was not evolved to this end, but this is a side-effect of commandeering the body\u2019s resources for its own reproduction.<\/p>\n

How engineered diseases can be different<\/strong><\/p>\n

A bioweapon virus is designed to cause a certain kind of harm.<\/p>\n