Where is Ralph?
Dr Bryce Nichols of Rutgers University called Congress looking for answers. He asked the bipartisan “Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic” if they interviewed Dr Ralph Baric of UNC? The answer was no, since his name is not on their website. The same Congressional committee interviewed a long list of virologists involved in the famous Fauci Gate emails:
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/19/covid-origin-nih-emails/
Dr Kristian Andersen of Scripps in San Diego told Fauci on Jan 31, 2020 that SARS2 “looks engineered.”
Dr Bob Garry of Tulane in New Orleans basically said SARS2 was engineered on Feb 1, 2020, during a Mardi Gras ball.
Dr Mike Farzan of Scripps basically said SARS2 was engineered.
Dr Ian Lipkin of Columbia claimed to know about SARS2 by Dec 15, 2019. On Feb 11th, he said “we have a nightmare of circumstantial evidence to assess.”
Dr Peter Daszak of EcoHealth gave closed door testimony in Nov 2023, but the Congressional committee never released a transcript of the interview.
Dr Tony Fauci gave two days of closed door testimony. The full testimony was never released, but he ‘did not recall’ over 100 times.
Dr Ralph Baric of UNC has been never been called to testify. I strongly believe we will never hear from him, since he is ‘too big to fail.’
The Congressional committee was a political sideshow trying to score cheap points, not find the true origins of SARS-CoV-2. “If congressional Democrats had shown up at this (Daszak) hearing, it would have been like Dracula confronting the cross,” one longtime China hawk Hill staffer said.
Baric’s last (official) comments?
Baric gave an odd statement to Congress on Feb 2022, via an “email from Kelly Dockham of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill to Minority Committee staff transmitting responses from Dr. Ralph Baric.”
Similarly, in an email response to minority committee staff, coronavirus expert Dr. Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill stated the presence of the furin cleavage site did not necessarily indicate an intermediate animal host: “Consequently, some bat sarbecoviruses shouldn’t require an intermediate host, while other strains might have this requirement. There is no rule,” said Baric.
In response to a minority committee staff question on whether the presence of the furin cleavage site in SARS CoV2 makes it very unlikely that SARS CoV2 jumped directly from a bat to a human being, Dr. Baric wrote: “No, the furin cleavage site does not necessarily restrict or promote cross species movement...”
SARS2 is the only ‘sarbecovirus’ with a furin cleavage site, but Baric proposed to insert a furin cleavage site in 2018. And Baric probably knows an intermediary species doesn’t exist. The bat vaccine jumped directly from the Chinese bats, into Dani’s lungs, in the Wuhan BSL4. Baric told the US government officials during the Red Dawn emails in Feb 2020, that “at this moment the most likely origins are bats, and I note that it is a mistake to assume that an intermediate host is needed.”
Baric’s last (public) comments?
Baric went radio silent after his DARPA Defuse proposal leaked in September 2021. His first and only public comment was on April 2023.
When contacted and asked if gain-of-function has ever worked, Baric, before quickly ending the telephone call, said “Yeah, I don’t think I want to participate in this discussion, but there are examples – look harder,” said Baric.
Baric’s last (private) comments?
Dr Hideki Kakeya confronted Baric during a Japanese conference in September 2023. He asked “according to Linfa Wang, it was your idea to insert a furin cleavage site into SARS related viruses in the DEFUSE proposal. What kind of sequence were you planning to insert in the project? Baric just explained the role of FCS in detail and did not answer my question.”
“After the session I mentioned that the furin cleavage site of the Wuhan strain worked as a nuclear localization signal and he said that the paper on it was a shit. I also asked him whether he has the data of the missing (Wuhan database) and he answered, ‘No’ and left.”
Baric’s last comments before DARPA Defuse leaked?
In a July 2021 interview, Baric was forced to defend his research after Rand Paul brought up his name, during a Congressional hearing with Fauci.
In the interview, Baric admitted the Chinese could not copy his “obscure” method. “We never provided the chimeric virus sequence, clones, or viruses to researchers at the WIV; and Dr. Shi, or members of her research team, never worked in our laboratory at UNC,” said Baric just two months before DARPA Defuse leaked.
What did Baric know?
Professor Steve Massey asked a two-year old question with amazing detail. UNC studied the SAR2 furin cleavage site (RRAR) in 2018. The study was in a UNC lung department next door to Baric’s coronavirus lab. Baric famously missed the same furin cleavage site during a 2020 Congressional staff presentation. He also explained (in graphic detail) the slow death to SARS2, since you “drown” as your lungs filled up “like water balloons.” He knew this because the “federal government spends millions of dollars” to research your human lungs, at UNC’s lung department, next door to his biodefense lab.
Fauci’s coverup?
On Friday night, Jan 31, 2020, Fauci fired off a demanding email to his #1 NIAID lieutenant. This email was two hours after Kristian (#1 above) told Fauci that SARS2 “looks engineered.” Fauci told Hugh Auchincloss that “you will have tasks today that must be done.” Fauci attached the 2015 Nature paper by Baric (but Shi only shared bat samples per Baric’s last interview).
“Today” was actually Sat Feb 1st, which was the morning of the coverup teleconference. The secret phone call was previously reported by USA Today and the Intercept, but Fauci testified that he wanted to know “the nature of work he was funding” in Wuhan before getting on that phone call. Fauci “did not recall” who flagged that 2015 Nature paper, but it was Kristian (#1 above) who sent it to Fauci.
But what were those “tasks” that must be done? A NIAID edit in 2021, to a Wuhan grant from 2019, was outlined last week by an anonymous account. Here is a NIAID list of publications deleted from year 4 of the R01 EcoHealth report.
Host and viral traits predict zoonotic spillover from mammals
Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China
NIAID scrubbed all the China SARS related publications and replaced with irrelevant MERS and Australian research.
Dual Use Research of Concern
A prominent lab leak scientist, Dr Jesse Bloom of HHMI, published a Lassa gain-of-function (type) paper. But “to reduce information hazards, we ensured our study was designed to provide benefits, not (provide) arguably hazardous info on possible adaptations of GPC to human receptors,” said Bloom.
Lab leak vs climate change? Were both manmade?
In a shrinking list of trusted authorities, scientists remain close to the top. The government, the church, the media and even the Post Office might all have had their scandals but, outside climate-denying, antivax circles, “the science” was still sacrosanct. Then along came Covid and raised the scientific establishment to the status of government, judge and jury.
A climate scientists, Michael Mann, won a defamation case against a blogger and reporter.
In a column posted in 2012 on the CEI website, Simberg had referred to Mann as “the Jerry Sandusky of climate science,” comparing him to a former Penn State University football coach who was arrested for sexually abusing young boys. Simberg said Mann had “molested and tortured data” on climate change.
What it means for scientists?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00396-y
A British virologist then warned his lab leak opponents of a potential defamation lawsuit. A Northeastern University professor chimed in with an American answer.
“Instead, the lawsuit revolved around whether the reckless comparison of an individual (Mann) to a convicted criminal (Sandusky) was protected speech. The (Washington D.C.) jury decided it was not.”
Defamation suits are usually hard to win, but the First Amendment still stands, because Yes, You Can Yell 'Fire' in a Crowded Theater!
Pfizer is funding Baric to insert the deadly Furin Cleavage Site into Dengue Virus on American soil.
https://geoffpain.substack.com/p/directed-evolution-gain-of-function
Arrest Walensky, Birx, Fauci, Daszak and all DOD, CIA, CDC, NIH, WHO, FDA and big pharma and big tech. executives involved.
Fraud and homicide are not included in the total immunity from legal liability agreement under the PREP Act for the big Pharma criminals!
RICO laws apply now! The DOJ better wake the Fk Up and get busy!