💥💥 Situation Update, Dec. 7th – DNI John Ratcliffe, the bogus science of PCR testing and China’s GMO super soldiers
✅ I cover the bogus science behind PCR testing, explaining from a lab science point of view why no PCR instrument can “quantify” anything,
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After covering PCR tests, today’s update then goes into detail about Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe, pointing out that he will be issuing a report on foreign interference
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The office of military commissions has cleared its calendar for December:
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US military STOCKPILED Pfizer’s mRNA vaccineBEFORE it was approved by theFDA
Confirmed Insurrection Act is ready to be invoked. Confirmed US troops will be deployed as needed.
Trump Team Begins Forensic Examination of
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President Donald Trump’s legal team began a forensic analysis of Dominion voting machines in Michigan after a judge on Friday permitted the examination...
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Law enforcement officials served a search warrant at the home of a Fountain Hills man (Elliott Kerwin) and seized computers, hard drives and other
👉 Lin Wood Plans Supreme Court Petition After Court Rejects Georgia Appeal – The Epoch Times
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“The stakes are high as the case deals with a disputed
✅ John Ratcliffe, DNI
👉 A background in cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and cyber terrorism: from the official
✅ Ratcliffe’s bombshell article in the WSJ, calling out China as humanity’s worst enemy – https://t.co/7vX5VFFiRv
https://t.co/DmDemiwBu2
The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest
✅ DNI John Ratcliffe States He Has Produced Thousands of
“There was an abuse of power and of legal authorities, and it’s not a question about whether those things took place — they did. I mean, there’s an FBI lawyer who
✅ Ratcliffe names 5G and genetically modified super soldiers as growing threats against America, engineered by China
“I am hoping now that the election is over, now that people have voted, and if there
Ratcliffe told Fox News that China intends “to dominate economically,
“All of the threat streams that we have, from all aspects, militarily, economically, supply chain issues, foreign investment, technologically, cyber issues,
When asked whether the United States was in an offensive or defensive position
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Feels like the next thing we're going to need is a ranking system for how concerning "variants of concern\u201d actually are.
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A lot of constellations of mutations are concerning, but people are lumping together variants with vastly different levels of evidence that we need to worry.
You can't just look at a sequence and say, "Aha! A mutation in spike. This must be more transmissible or can evade antibody neutralization." Sure, we can use computational models to try and predict the functional consequence of a given mutation, but models are often wrong.
The virus acquires mutations randomly every time it replicates. Many mutations don't change the virus at all. Others may change it in a way that have no consequences for human transmission or disease. But you can't tell just looking at sequence alone.
In order to determine the functional impact of a mutation, you need to actually do experiments. You can look at some effects in cell culture, but to address questions relating to transmission or disease, you have to use animal models.
The reason people were concerned initially about B.1.1.7 is because of epidemiological evidence showing that it rapidly became dominant in one area. More rapidly that could be explained unless it had some kind of advantage that allowed it to outcompete other circulating variants.