Do viruses remain in the Stone Age?
Vaccines have eradicated terrible diseases like smallpox and polio. However, like all other technological advances, they can also have their downsides. Viruses can be fought successfully with modern methods. But conversely, viruses can also benefit from modern methods to spread. The Stone Age has not only ended for humans, but also for viruses. Why would a virus infect people using only the traditional Stone Age methods when new, more modern opportunities are available?
It is clearly documented in many cases that modern virus research and vaccine development could be used by viruses to infect humans. Polio vaccination allowed SV-40, a monkey virus that causes cancer, to colonize humans, and a yellow fever vaccination campaign during World War II led to mass hepatitis B cases in the US Navy. When a mysterious disease of the immune system among homosexuals in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles was noticed in 1981, the first suspicion, for very understandable reasons, fell on an experimental hepatitis B vaccination campaign that was carried out from 1978 to 1980 with 1,083 homosexuals as a voluntary test group. Four different laboratory outbreaks were also documented for SARS.
Nevertheless, in contrast to nuclear energy or genetic engineering, vaccine developers have managed to make problems with this technology taboo by denouncing the identification of possible problems as a general attack on medicine and science as a whole. In the case of AIDS, various theories circulated about a laboratory origin, which could be dismissed as „conspiracy theories“ despite plausible arguments for the theses. Like SARS-CoV-2, HIV originates from an animal virus.
As with Corona, it is unclear how the chimpanzee virus got to New York, where it was first noticed in 1981. In the case of AIDS, the wilderness theory has prevailed, according to which AIDS would have jumped to humans through Central African bush hunters and would then have been spread to the USA via Haiti.
The debate on the origins of the covid pandemic seemed to be going in a similar direction. Although the bat virus appeared in the vicinity of a laboratory in which bat viruses were being researched, the laboratory thesis was considered a „conspiracy theory“. If a laboratory accident had been proven to be the reason for the corona pandemic, not only Chinese researchers but also the scientific establishment in the USA would probably have been criticized, especially since the „gain-of-function“ research in the Chinese „Wuhan Institute for Virology ’ was co-financed and co-designed by the American ‘National Institutes of Health’ via the ‘EcoHealth Alliance’.
Because of this, the laboratory theory has been condemned from the outset as „unscientific,“ while every effort has been made to make transmission by a natural zoonosis seem „scientifically probable.“ Only researchers who followed Fauci’s line were allowed to publish about the origin of Covid-19 in renowned scientific journals. Fauci, who considered himself „the science“, probably wanted to protect science from imminent damage to its image. However, obscuring the truth to preserve the good name of science is still the opposite of science. Unlike the 1980s, however, Twitter is here today, and scientists who didn’t follow the line set by Fauci were able to make their voices heard. Although it will harm certain scientific institutions, if truth prevails, it is a victory for science.