Relax ladsâŚonly a 1 in 800 chance of a serious adverse reaction, according to Pfizer and moderna. And donât worry about young gellas developing myocarditisâŚit can be sort of treated, and thereâs a good chance the serious effects wonât be felt for years
they can hide in their bedroom on their own, with a mask on
No different from any other year so
Heâs a fuckin ballbag,I hope heâs a wum because if he isnât heâs one of the most depressing cunts to ever lace up a pair of shoes
Heâs the best wum on TFK by a country mile.
he has Poster of the Year sown up
Ah ffs
We are going to be listening to this painful shite from the usual gimps crying for lockdowns and restrictions every 3 or 4 months when a wave of flu hits for the next few years.
Listen now cunt. Put on a mask, fuck off into your bedroom for the next 3 months and lock the door behind you if you donât want to go to a pub or get a bus
The journals comment section is very concerned
âŚâdefectiveâ. interesting- does this mean they were more or less likely to kill people?
It was well highlighted here the corruption that was was taking plave tlat the time. Remember when that plane load of PPE arrived from china to massive fan fare on rte, a plane load of shite
Ah shur lookit etc. Mistakes were made, twas a very difficult situation
Cant point fingers as leo said
So long as youâre not a shop worker or a courier
Or a guard, nurse, doctor or happen to work for Larry Goodman
Gene therapy and cell engineering specialist Dr Alina Chan has doggedly pursued an investigation into the origins of the pandemic
BySarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR27 December 2022 ⢠7:00am
We asked The Telegraphâs experts to name their 2023 âone to watchâ. Hereâs who, and what, weâll be talking about in the year ahead. Scroll down to browse the whole series.
If you havenât heard of the whistleblowing scientist Dr Alina Chan, then you almost certainly will in 2023.
The gene therapy and cell engineering specialist at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard was one of the first experts to question whether Covid leaked from a lab in Wuhan, and has doggedly pursued an investigation into the origins of the pandemic.
In the coming year, it is possible that evidence will finally emerge proving that experiments to soup-up coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) led to the accidental release of Covid. âRight now itâs not safe for people who know about the origin of the pandemic to come forward,â she told MPs at a session of the Science and Technology Select Committee in 2021. âBut we live in an era where there is so much information being stored that it will eventually come out.â
Dr Chan was born in Canada but grew up in Singapore, returning to Canada to attend the University of British Columbia for both her undergraduate degree and her doctorate.
She first suspected a leak in March 2020 after realising nobody had found any infected animals at the Wuhan market where China claims the pandemic began. At that time it was impossible to get most scientists to even consider a non-natural origin, with many suggesting that it was racist to even ask the question. Dr Chan wrote an analysis arguing it was strange that the virus was already âpre-adaptedâ to humans, and suggested it could have evolved in experiments in humanised mice infected with bat viruses. In 2021 she co-authored Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19alongside science writer Matt Ridley, a book The Wall Street Journal called âperhaps the most comprehensive case for the lab-leak theory currently availableâ.
But ever since she first spoke out in 2020, Dr Chan has been met with harsh critical reaction â not just from other scientists, but Chinese state media too. Her stance has not made her popular and she has been branded a ârace traitorâ because of her part-Chinese heritage, with one Chinese news outlet calling her behaviour âfilthyâ. At one time she was even considering changing her name because the abuse got so bad. Although she fully accepts that an animal spillover is possible, she points out that despite years of looking, no culprit has been found. WIV also mysteriously removed a database of viruses shortly before the pandemic began.
Since then hackers have dug up evidence showing that researchers at WIV were indeed collecting bats and carrying out gain-of-function experiments that could have created Covid. And they were doing so at alarming biosecurity levels.
âYou find these scientists who said in early 2018, âIâm going to put horns on horses,â and at the end of 2019 a unicorn turns up in Wuhan city,â Dr Chan told MPs.
âItâs important to give the benefit of the doubt,â she recently wrote on Twitter. âHowever if a suspect wipes their phone record and online search history, deep cleans their apartments, discards their gun collection and wonât tell you where they were at the time of the crime, I think itâs reasonable to ask questions.â
If evidence that supports the lab-leak theory does indeed emerge next year, Dr Chan could go down in history as one of the scientists who uncovered the deadliest scandal of recent times.
Dr Cillian de Gascun was on Morning Ireland
RTE getting the band back together
Is it still racist to suggest it was made in China?
Weâve kept the receipts.