Yes, this. For some reason this isn't getting out there. Omicron's closest cousin is from March 2020. The other variants are so different that spontaneous evolution is impossible. Given those 2 facts, it mean Omicron was created.
How? Well, if it was a natural evolutionary step in March, it is so contagious it would have been everywhere by April 2020. If it was a natural evolutionary step in recent months, it would have similarity to currently circulating variants. Since both are false, it means it was created and kept in a lab until recently.
See the Dark Horse podcast for a scientific review of the data. And yes, some (not all) of each variant has been gene sequenced and isolated by researchers. In some major centers they have been using more expensive tests to survey sewage and that helps them identify the dominant variant (Omicron has been taking over wherever it goes). This often gets confused with the cheap and fast tests used by most public health groups that do not isolate, have poor accuracy, and are not variant specific.
This board should be asking why, and who. China may want to override vaccines to help prolong the pandemic. Good guys may want to use it to spread natural immunity and to extinguish more harmful variants. Either way the implications are huge.
Yes, this. For some reason this isn't getting out there. Omicron's closest cousin is from March 2020. The other variants are so different that spontaneous evolution is impossible. Given those 2 facts, it mean Omicron was created.
How? Well, if it was a natural evolutionary step in March, it is so contagious it would have been everywhere by April 2020. If it was a natural evolutionary step in recent months, it would have similarity to currently circulating variants. Since both are false, it means it was created and kept in a lab until recently.
See the Dark Horse podcast for a scientific review of the data. And yes, some (not all) of each variant has been gene sequenced and isolated by researchers. In some major centers they have been using more expensive tests to survey sewage and that helps them identify the dominant variant (Omicron has been taking over wherever it goes). This often gets confused with the cheap and fast tests used by most public health groups that do not isolate, have poor accuracy, and are not variant specific.
This board should be asking why, and who. China may want to override vaccines to help prolong the pandemic. Good guys may want to use it to spread natural immunity and to extinguish more harmful variants. Either way the implications are huge.