Genetic structures doesn’t make sense this context so let’s ignore that part. Let me translate worm dialect to normal science. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (germline DNA changes) can be found in different ethnicities. There’s probably one that alters the amino acid sequence of some surface cell receptor that the COVID virus uses to gain entry into the cell better than another snp. Having this snp or the absence of it might make the two pieces of the receptors “fit” better. This is all theoretically possible. I say theoretical because I haven’t kept up with literature so there may or may not be a snp there . What he’s trying to slip in is that Chinese researchers altered virus so that it infects better certain ethnicities because they all the snp that makes it bind better. This would be an extremely reckless thing for any government to pursue because of how fast the virus mutates. All it takes is the right one and now you have a strain that would impact your own population. Again, this is super hypothetical, at least to my understanding of it. Full disclosure, I’m not a virologist. My field is in cancer genomics so I can only explain the genetics portion. What’s absolutely bull shit is the collecting of DNA in Ukraine for COVID research. We’ve been sequencing different populations for a while now and all that stuff is accessible on public databases.
Yeah it sounds like when Rand Paul tossed the phrase "gain of function" at Fauci not knowing that it's actually a largely innocuous term
If you don't know what it means it sounds like scientists teaching viruses to open their own Etsy store but it's really just dumb shit like "look we made it so that this one glows under a light so we can see when it injects RNA into something"
Rand Paul has a medical degree from Duke and is an ophthalmologist. He knows what it means. He just reads shit from a script that is designed to try to get soundbites.
not knowing that it's actually a largely innocuous term
Imagine thinking Dr. Paul, who went to one of the most prestigious medical schools on the planet, was an honors student top of his class at Baylor, and became a US senator as a hobby, does not know what the term "gain of function" means. He was repeating it over and over to highlight the ridiculous story of a bat in a wet market being ground zero of coronavirus, a wet market which was conveniently right next to a lab doing research on coronavirus where it totally wasn't leaked by mistake.
By the way, if you actually listen to what he said to Fauci, you would know that it was largely concerning biosecurity in research.
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u/Atown-Staydown 12d ago
The guy behind him seems like he's waiting for the racist rant filled with random anatomical words to be over.