Covid

Over the past ten years a new medical phrase has entered the vernacular. It is called gain of function research. It means taking a relatively harmless virus and by changing its DNA turning it into a virus dangerous to humans. The idea is not to wait until natural selection creates such a dangerous bug but to create it in advance and then develop a vaccine to neutralize the bug. A moratorium was placed on this research in 2014 but in 2017 it was rescinded. Later research of this type was carried out at the lab in Wuhan, China. Since the Covid first appeared in Wuhan this has led to stating that the virus came from the lab. This seemed more logical than saying it came from a meat market in Wuhan. This started a conspiracy that the US government was funding the Wuhan research and the virus was accidentally released. This led to a cover up to protect the US government research project. Later the NIH admitted that gain of function was occurring at the Wuhan lab and that NIH was funding the project. The Wuhan lab did not use the proper safety procedures and was thus partially responsible. It would see prudent to find out the origin of the Covid before the next pandemic hits.