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by baja_blast 1215 days ago
> The bird flu could mutate and broadly infect humans killing millions

Yes, but when humans are infected it takes a while for the virus to adapt the mutations needed to efficiently spread human to human. This was the case for SARS/MERS/Bird Flu. But in the lab they can insert FCS that are extremely effective at entering human cells and spreading. So if any of these research studies leaks out of the lab there is no way to contain it. Besides we have been conducting this research for decades and it did not help fight or predict this pandemic and in fact these researchers refuse to even share records/data they have collected. So best case scenario, this research is useless, worst case disastrous!

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The FCS genetic engineering hypothesis is extremely unlikely. The problem is people don’t understand the science and how it works.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119