Checking it out now. Thanks.
Besides playing fast and loose with the word "isolate" the word "sequence" is thrown out as a big, in your face, "so there."
A year of my PhD was spent in bioinformatics -- the use of computer algorithms and heuristics to compose a sequence from fragments and segments mined from gene databases. Every SARS-CoV-2 sequence in every paper I have read that claims to have derived it from an "isolated" virus is in fact a composition of RNA fragments taken from a toxic cell culture, and database queries based on the writer's assumptions. Such as, 80% similar to SARS-CoV-1 (which is a mythical composition, as well).
So, not only is there is no isolated virus; there is no sequence of SARS-CoV-2 that corresponds to reality. I'm pretty sure that can be said of every virus, but I haven't done the research on that.
I'm not at the point of saying that viruses don't exist (though I am close). But... nobody can point to a SARS-CoV-2 virus, nor can they know that it causes COVID. And not knowing what it looks like either physically or genetically means that they can't test for it, and certainly can't vaccinate against it.
Checking it out now. Thanks.
Besides playing fast and loose with the word "isolate" the word "sequence" is thrown out as a big, in your face, "so there."
A year of my PhD was spent in bioinformatics -- the use of computer algorithms and heuristics to compose a sequence from segments mined from gene databases. Every SARS-CoV-2 sequence in every paper I have read that claims to have derived it from an "isolated" virus is in fact a composition of RNA fragments taken from a toxic cell culture, and database queries based on the writer's assumptions. Such as, 80% similar to SARS-CoV-1 (which is a mythical composition, as well).
So, not only is there is no isolated virus; there is no sequence of SARS-CoV-2 that corresponds to reality. I'm pretty sure that can be said of every virus, but I haven't done the research on that.
I'm not at the point of saying that viruses don't exist (though I am close). But... nobody can point to a SARS-CoV-2 virus, nor can they know that it causes COVID. And not knowing what it looks like either physically or genetically means that they can't test for it, and certainly can't vaccinate against it.