https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038
The highlight of the article, describes the work done by Dr Shi, in conjuction with UNC, which was essentially trying every possible way to make the bat virus be able to attack human cells. It took them 6-7 years of intense research. All in the name of "being able to predict and be prepared when a natural pandemic occurs", which clearly was a failure from what we have seen.
What this means, in non-technical language, is that Dr. Shi set out to create novel coronaviruses with the highest possible infectivity for human cells. Her plan was to take genes that coded for spike proteins possessing a variety of measured affinities for human cells, ranging from high to low. She would insert these spike genes one by one into the backbone of a number of viral genomes (“reverse genetics” and “infectious clone technology”), creating a series of chimeric viruses. These chimeric viruses would then be tested for their ability to attack human cell cultures (“in vitro”) and humanized mice (“in vivo”). And this information would help predict the likelihood of “spillover,” the jump of a coronavirus from bats to people.
After reading this article, I have no doubt these people knew exactly what they were doing. So many scientists turned a blind eye, and failed to call out when they needed to. Honestly, makes you lose faith in humanity.
I agree that PCR tests use generic sequences and the virus has never been isolated as such, but I dont think that means the virus does not exist.
I think the reason no one bothered to isolate the virus is because they all know exactly what the virus is, the furin site etc. Infact a better question would be "How do you know so much about the spike protein and the furin site etc, if you have never isolated the virus"
I agree that the virus may indeed exist (there are alternate explanations for the COVID condition of varying levels of evidence, e.g., 5G), and it's not worth arguing over. The fact that it has never been isolated is key.
However, my dive into this particular rabbit hole is making me question the consensus that viruses and bacteria are the cause of any diseases at all.
This reminds me of the rabbit hole that says there is no such thing as nuclear weapons, just that every reference to a nuclear weapon refers to a blackmail material.
But whatever we the truth we need a new generation of scientists who can start re-researching everything from scratch with a critical eye.