There is no spoon.

What is very frustrating is reading the medical papers on this. In years past, when you wanted to publish, you had to describe the complete process you used. All the way down to the specific manufacturer and model numbers of lab equipment that was used to perform the tasks.

This is so other researchers could understand the exact conditions in order to reproduce the results. However, when it comes to Covid, all these best practices appear to have been suspended. I specifically searched and read the peer reviewed science from the Chinese Sinovac researchers. This is supposedly the vaccine that uses conventional dead virus rather than mRNA. Surely, in order to do this, they must have isolated the virus.

All the paper says on this subject is that they gathered samples from 32 different patients around the globe (they list the numbers from each country) and then magically they have a viral plaque. ZERO discussion in the published, peer reviewed literature of HOW they got the viral plaque. How was it grown? What was the substrate? These are basic questions any undergraduate would have to answer in a first year course. And highly paid researchers don't know this is important?

Has anyone EVER isolated this virus, and if not, how did they actually create the Sinovac vaccine?

How can the editors of these scientific publications even be allowing these papers to be published? How can anyone trust the science when the science is so awful? I've seen Science Fair experiments by 11 year olds that were more convincing.