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In plain effects are said to occur due to CPEs. Yet, as the Medicine [sic].” This virus was then “passaged

English, this authors plainly state, though each cell line “was in HEK293A cells (Invitrogen, Cat. R705-07)
inoculated at high multiplicity of infection and and purified by CsCl gradient ultracentrifuga-
means they examined 24 h post-infection,” the investigators tion.” Finally, “Viral DNA was phenol extracted
proved, on observed no CPE “in any of the cell lines except for genomic sequencing and cloning.”
In other words, the researchers purchased
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their terms, in Vero cells.” some material (not properly isolated even though
So did this viral material with its “inti-
that this “new mately twisted genes” commandeer the cellular it is called an “isolate”), which they then “pas-
coronavirus” biochemistry and throw wrenches into the cel- saged” through human embryonic kidney cells
is not lular factories, while other viral proteins built (called HEK293A) and “purified” by CsCl
nurseries for making new viruses? Nothing of gradient. This “purification” method separates
infectious the sort! In fact, the shocking thing about these DNA molecules (not viruses) after mixing them

to human findings is that, using their own methods, the vi- with cesium chloride (a heavy metal salt) and
beings. rologists found that solutions claimed to contain ethidium bromide (a mutagen that can affect
SARS-CoV-2—as well as poisons, even in high DNA biological processes like DNA replication
amounts—were not infective to any of the three and transcription). This is the same smoke and
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human tissue cultures they tested. In plain Eng- mirrors we have seen before—not true separa-
lish, this means they proved, on their terms, that tion and isolation but “surrogate” techniques
this “new coronavirus” is not infectious to hu- that use various poisons.
man beings. It is infective only to Vero monkey Another study sent to us, a preprint pub-
kidney cells, and only when you add two potent lished on June 23, 2020, is entitled, “SARS-
drugs (gentamicin and amphotericin)—drugs CoV-2 Structure and Replication Characterized
known to be toxic to the kidneys—to the mix. by in situ Cryo-electron Tomography” (cryo-
Interestingly, the authors don’t mention ET). The authors begin with the creed of the
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this important fact in their conclusions. Only faithful: “β-coronaviruses, including SARS-
virologists who read the whole paper will find CoV-1 and Middle Eastern Respiratory Virus
out that if they want to grow the virus, they (MERS-CoV) are highly contagious pathogens
needn’t bother to use human cell lines. As you that can cause severe lower respiratory infec-
can read yourself, in all three human cell lines, tions. At the end of 2019, SARS-CoV-2 emerged
no CPE (meaning no cell death, no infection) in the city of Wuhan, China, likely through
was observed. Only Vero monkey kidney cells zoonotic transmission via a bat reservoir and a
were adversely affected—and remember, the still unidentified intermediate host that subse-
material injected into the Vero cells contained quently led to a pandemic, accumulating to date
kidney toxins. Basically, the study proved that to over 8 million cases and close to 500,000
the SARS-CoV-2 virus does not infect human deaths worldwide.”
tissue. Meanwhile, we have worldwide lock- The article provides no references for
downs predicated on the idea that something the statement that the SARS virus is “highly
called “coronavirus” is highly infectious and contagious” but does contain a lot of fuzzy
causes disease. electron-microscope photographs of tissues
and cells whose genetic material the authors
SMOKE AND MIRRORS determined using PCR tests—the equivalent
Another study sent to us comes with the fan- of finding moats and turrets in a bunch of Lego
cy title, “A Novel Chimpanzee Adenovirus Vec- pieces. The researchers did not isolate and pu-
tor with Low Human Seroprevalence: Improved rify the virus but instead used “monkey kidney
Systems for Vector Derivation and Comparative derived VeroE6 cells” and “human pulmonary
Immunogenicity.” In the “Viruses and Cells” cell lines.” In other words, they used cell lines
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portion of the methods section, the researchers grown in starved and poisoned cultures.
explain that they used “wild type chimpanzee Later in the paper, the authors state that
adenovirus isolate Y25. . . originally obtained they got different “morphologies” of the virus
from William Hillis, John Hopkins University of depending on which cell line they used. In other
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