Chinese scientists are testing a new strain of coronavirus that has a 100% kill rate on mice. Could this new strain be a direct descendant of the deadly virus that wiped out millions of people in the first pandemic of the 20th century? Or is it something else entirely? And if so, what's the worst that could happen to these mice? And why is this research being carried out in China at all? To find out, we speak to senior reporter Brian Enden and National correspondent Nicole Verkindt about what they know and what they don't know about this latest lab leak, and whether it could have a link to the deadly 2020 pandemic that killed over a million people worldwide. To find a list of our sponsors and show-related promo codes, go to gimlet.fm/sponsorships/awakeningwonderings and use the promo code: WakingUpWonders to receive 10% off your first purchase when you enter the invite code: AWAKINGWORDEN at checkout. Waking Up Wonders is a global movement to educate and elevate our consciousness through the power and knowledge of our collective consciousness. Join our network of likeminded likeminded individuals who are waking us up to the truth and educating and uplifting our consciousness by becoming a Friend of the Earth. To learn more about Awakening Wonders, visit awakenings.wakingupwonders.org.org/membership. Today's sponsor: Amazon Prime Day! Subscribe to Awakening Wonders! Subscribe today using our podcast on Audible and receive 20% off of your first month's shipping discount when you place an ad discount of $99.99 or more than $99 a month, plus a free trial when you buy a copy of Awakening Wonders starts by clicking through the ad discount starts in the program. Subscribe in and get 10% discount on your choice of $10 or more! Become a member of the program gets you an ad-free version of the Audible membership starting July 1st, starting July 31st, only 7 days and get 7 days early, get 7 months get $29 a month get $39 a month and get 5 GBR, get 5GBR and get a discount, they get 7GBR, 4GBR gets 4 GBR and 7 GBR gets 3 months get FREE of the ad-only deal, and get access to VIP access, and they get VIP access to all other options, too!
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00:00:55.000We are working now feverishly in laboratories on humanised mouses to ensure that we have a vaccine against you being corrupted and corralled by legacy media.
00:01:03.000We're not doing anything like that but...
00:01:05.000Chinese scientists are right now, apparently, working on new forms of coronavirus that have a 100% kill rate on little, tiny, potentially innocent, mouses.
00:01:13.000Do you think that after events over the last few years, we should look at whether or not gain-of-function research is as effective as is claimed?
00:01:19.000Do you want dual-purpose research continuing where they work on chemical weapons and vaccines simultaneously?
00:01:25.000Are you beginning to wonder if the cure might be worse than the disease and might even cause the disease?
00:01:29.000Are these legitimate questions to ask?
00:03:34.000Again, though, for us, I think the biggest concern is What kind of research are they doing, and is there the possibility of another lab leak?
00:03:46.000Dr. Marty, who you heard from there, from Florida International University, she says she was actually on a special team with United Nations that would go into laboratories around the world and make sure that they're following protocols and not doing anything dangerous.
00:03:58.000And she said based on what she knows with this situation in China, which we don't know a ton about, but Based on the little information that we do have, she says she hopes that one of these teams will go in there and make sure that everything is being done safely.
00:04:12.000If you just have a little mooch about, see if it's safe.
00:04:14.000Because, you know, we did just have a little bit of a pandemic.
00:04:16.000And although the pandemic was pretty beneficial to the most powerful interests in the world, both financially and authoritarian structures that benefit from people being terrified and being out locking them in their homes, it would be good if we didn't have a disease that kills, what was the percentage again?
00:04:36.000Because again, when you hear China and you hear COVID and you hear mice and you hear new testing, it obviously gets a lot of people worried, Nicole.
00:04:44.000all right, Brian Intent, thank you. So there you go, that's the Legacy Media reporting on what
00:04:49.000sounds like a unnecessary experiment with very few beneficial outcomes. Let's get into it.
00:04:55.000Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100% lethal
00:05:00.000in mice despite concerns that such research could spark another pandemic. Scientists in Beijing,
00:05:04.000who are linked to the Chinese military, why are we seeing these connections between the military
00:05:08.000and research into vaccines? I remember when I first heard that stuff, I think from Bobby Kennedy,
00:05:13.000I was like, come on mate, this can't be right.
00:05:15.000But just another one of those conspiracy theories that proves to be true.
00:05:19.000Just another piece of true information that will be regarded as misinformation that reminds you that when people are talking about misinformation, what they're talking about is information that's going to make you not be compliant.
00:05:29.000Scientists in Beijing, who are linked to the Chinese military, cloned a COVID live virus found in pangolins known as GXP2V and used it to infect mice.
00:05:37.000I mean, at this point, what is the upside?
00:05:39.000I mean, I know China's not a democracy, so they shouldn't hold elections on whether or not that should continue.
00:05:43.000But in your country, in our country, when we're spending $145 million on a basically aborted COVID inquiry, don't you think we should publicly and collectively decide whether or not we want this type of research to take place?
00:05:55.000Isn't that the very essence of participatory democracy?
00:05:58.000The mice had been humanized, meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans.
00:06:05.000Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as surprisingly quick.
00:06:14.000It's not, like, supposed to be, like, a bit of a laugh that they're surprised by it.
00:06:18.000I expected them to die in a few weeks or eventually just escape into the streets of Wuhan, but to see them dead on the cage floor like that, I must say, it made us all chuckle.
00:06:26.000You couldn't see because I was wearing a mask.
00:06:27.000Actually, I don't know why I bother with this thing.
00:06:29.000The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes, suggesting the virus, despite being related to COVID, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way.
00:06:38.000It's not like a sequel, is it, where you want it to be, ooh, this one's a little bit better.
00:06:41.000He's got that jeweled glove on this time, Thanos.
00:07:35.000And the answer is, well, maybe they have learned something.
00:07:36.000That's even more terrifying, isn't it?
00:07:38.000Professor Richard E. Bright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com he wholeheartedly agreed with Professor Ballou's assessment.
00:07:45.000He added, the preprint does not specify the biosafety level and the biosafety precautions used for the research.
00:07:51.000I'll tell you now that every time I'm saying Ballou, I'm thinking bear necessities.
00:07:54.000And if I don't say it to you, I'm going to just keep thinking it.
00:08:00.000When he's doing his own scientific research, he only looks for the bare necessities.
00:08:04.000You can hardly say injecting pangolin in a humanised mouse is bare necessities, is it?
00:08:09.000It's like much more prickly pawpaw territory, I'd say.
00:08:15.000The absence of this information raises the concerning possibility that part or all of this research, like the research in Wuhan in 2016 and 2019, that likely caused the COVID-19 pandemic, recklessly was performed without the minimal biosafety containment and practices essential for research with a potential pandemic pathogens.
00:08:31.000According to the study carried out by the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, the virus was discovered in 2017 prior to the COVID outbreak.
00:08:38.000It was discovered in Malaysia in pangolins, scaly mammals that are known harbourers of coronaviruses and were heavily speculated to be the intermediate host that passed COVID from bats to humans.
00:08:50.000I also, when I see them, think they should be in that bar in Star Wars, threatening and solo.
00:08:57.000The researchers cloned the virus and stored multiple copes in the Beijing lab, where it continued to evolve.
00:09:02.000It's unclear when the newly surfaced study was conducted, but the researchers said it was possible the virus had undergone a virulence-enhancing mutation in storage, which made it more deadly.
00:09:11.000For the new research, 8 mice were infected with the virus, 8 were infected with an inactivated virus, and 8 were used as a control group.
00:09:18.000All mice infected with the virus died.
00:09:20.000They succumbed to the infection between 7 and 8 days after being infected.
00:09:23.000Why is there fascination with eight mouses?
00:09:26.000Like, eight mouses, that's how many I think Moderna tested their new boosters on.
00:10:04.000The results suggest the virus infects via the respiratory system and then migrates to
00:10:07.000the brain, unlike COVID, which causes lower lung infections and pneumonia in severe cases.
00:10:12.000However, there have been examples of COVID being found in brain tissue of severely sick patients.
00:10:16.000Severe brain infections during the later stages of infection may be the key cause of death in these mice, the researchers said.
00:10:23.000They concluded, this is the first report showing that a SARS-CoV-2 related pangolin coronavirus can cause 100% mortality in HACE2 mice suggesting a risk for GXP2V to spill over into humans.
00:10:34.000They're saying that as if they've just won a decathlon.
00:10:36.000And this is the first time we've successfully killed every single one of the mouses in this lab.
00:10:41.000Except there was one occasion, wasn't there, where you knocked over the whole damn cage and killed a lot of them.
00:10:48.000Thankfully, the windows were shut that day.
00:10:49.000However, the original strain of COVID also killed 100% in mice in some studies, meaning the new results may not be directly applicable to humans.
00:11:56.000Dr. Christina Park, a molecular biologist from the University of Michigan, said the Chinese study was classic gain-of-function, whether they tell you it is or not.
00:12:23.000One of the Chinese researchers was Dr. Yigang Tong, who trained at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, a Chinese military medical research institute run by the People's Liberation Army.
00:12:32.000He also co-offered a paper in 2023 with Batwoman.
00:12:46.000So these people doing this research worked with the people at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but you're worried that maybe the research here could escape like it did possibly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
00:12:57.000The only thing I will suggest is do make sure there are no wet markets anywhere near that lab in Beijing, because those bastards sell avia.
00:13:04.000Although if Dr. Tong needs a grant, I know Anthony Fauci's got a few quid that he's looking to spend these days.
00:13:23.000government grants, were performing gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses in the months leading up to the COVID outbreak.
00:13:29.000So there you go, if 100% of mouses are dying of this new COVID-like virus, and there's connections between the labs where they're doing it and the Wuhan Institute of Virology that was likely the source and cause of the COVID-19 pandemic, doesn't it suggest that there should be a little bit of public discussion, even some public engagement, as to whether or not gain-of-function research regard?
00:13:48.000Hey, well you say gain-of-function research, we say potato!
00:13:51.000It's clear that what you're doing is creating dangerous viruses in laboratories and they're not being entirely cautious as to whether or not they escape.
00:13:57.000And I'm frankly not in the mood for another pandemic just yet.