Open letter to the Icelandic People.
Why it's possible to unravel the enigma of the COVID-19 Pandemic using the 10th Plague of Egypt and stepping away from the avarice of the present, a letter to the entire Icelandic Government.
The letter below was sent to the entire Icelandic Althing first as a group email in August 2021, and then again - this time individually to each and every member of the Althing in personal emails - in early September.
Never heard anything back, so maybe y’all have some ridiculous internet filters set-up, or maybe what happened in 2008 was a bit of a fluke and your government is actually just as myopic and clueless as the rest of the Western world - good luck looking to morally bankrupt businesses for answers to a plague they started in the first place.
But I guess what do I know, I’m just an ex-con.
Anyways, hope y’all have a nice Icelandic Language Day, and enjoy your pointless vaccinations and the island-wide wave of autoimmune disorders that are going to be haunting the entire planet in the years to come. Sure hope your leadership is better at planning food imports than it is managing this pandemic, since I’m pretty sure y’all aren’t going to get another strike -Dan
Unraveling the enigma of the COVID-19 Pandemic using the 10th Plague of Egypt
Back in April 2020 my father and I first submitted what would become the first peer-reviewed examination of a laboratory origin for the novel coronavirus, finally published in August 2020: “Might SARS-CoV-2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7435492/
We combined my past experience and education as a counterterrorism analyst with the NSA, where I’d interned every summer while attending Harvard and worked for a bit afterwards, with my father’s extensive background in microbiology, genetics, and bioinformatics - to determine that SARS-CoV-2 is likely a de-attenuating live-attenuated vaccine (LAV) - exactly like the virus that caused the enigmatic 1977 H1N1 outbreak.
In case any of that sounds like science-fiction, here's a snippet of my father's résumé:
Dr. Karl Sirotkin is a 40-year PhD in Microbiology and the architect of dbSNP , with nearly 20 years of molecular wet-work experience. He previously taught molecular virology at the University of Tennessee, and worked within the Theoretical Biology Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. At the time of his retirement from government service, Dr. Sirotkin had more years working for GenBank than any other staff member - with his 28 years of service on the world’s premiere DNA sequencing database making him one of the most experienced scientists on the planet when it comes to managing and analyzing genomic sequences.
Our paper focuses on the scientific chain-of-evidence that leads from the enigmatic 1977 H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak (which was also likely a LAV), to the notorious gain-of-function serial passage work done with influenza viruses and ferrets in 2012, all the way to our present situation:
The dual‐use gain‐of‐function research tool of serial passage was first applied to a strain of H1N1 Swine Flu, a variant of the pandemic influenza virus that was genetically modified before it either leaked out of a Soviet lab or was introduced as part of an attenuated vaccine trial in 1977. Although no one has ever taken responsibility for the introduction of this virus, it would become the first known example of a virus created by serial passage leaving a lab, which was later determined due to its inexplicable genetic distance from any known sister strain.
This Soviet strain of serially passaged H1N1 Swine Flu was likely being developed as part of a vaccine program, one of the humane goals of gain‐of‐function research that exist alongside riskier and more troublesome ones, like developing bioweapons. Its emergence ignited the debate between the risks and rewards of dual‐use gain‐of‐function research—causing it to become the poster virus for the dangers this protocol posed.
This debate would largely fade in the decades that followed, until two separate teams used genetic manipulation followed by serial passage between ferrets to create mammal‐transmissible H5N1 Bird Flu strains of influenza virus in 2011 that had the gain‐of‐function of being transmissible by aerosol. The first team was led by Dr. Ron Fouchier and conducted at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, and demonstrated that as few as five mutations prior to serial passage were sufficient to create a modified strain of the H5N1 Bird Flu that could be transmitted by aerosol while remaining highly lethal.
And so as soon as SARS-CoV-2 jumped into mink farms all across Europe and America and began the first and only dual-species pandemic in recorded history - it occurred to me that the species of mink farmed for their fur in the West can in fact interbreed with laboratory ferrets, they’re overlapping species.
Even highly-pathogenic avian influenzas on commercial farms, as incredibly contagious as they are, don’t jump across continents like this, riding humans across oceans to create outbreaks in commercial farms on other continents. Instead, they remain endemic to the local area where they emerge. And when those highly-pathogenic strains do emerge, we know exactly where they come from: Commercial farms, poultry for some flu strains and swine for others. So if this novel coronavirus managed to spread so prolifically through commercial mink farms all across the West, what possible explanation could there be other than its proximal origin was extremely close to this species of critter?
After MERS had such an obvious affinity for camels, the scientific community agreed this indicated camel farms were the natural reservoir - Why abandon this line of reasoning for our novel coronavirus?
If that doesn’t do it for you, we also published a peer-reviewed addendum that outlines just how molecularly unnatural this sucker’s genome really is when the gain-of-function practice of serial passage is factored in. Since in the context of attenuating a potential vaccine candidate, one protocol serial passage can refer to the process of allowing the natural and expected mutations that diminish a virus’s virulence to occur—although in the unnatural setting of cell cultures or among caged laboratory animals—as a virus becomes acclimated to a new host species’ cells, which will have different receptor-requirements than its original host.
Once this initial adaptation occurs, initially yielding mutations that can either increase pathogenicity in the new host or be deleterious to it, additional “passages” in the form of the virus naturally passing among new hosts (or among their cells in culture on a lab bench) will then slowly lead to a natural attenuation of the virus relative to its old host. This is why passaging can be used to attenuate and weaken a virus in the effort to create vaccine candidates that will elicit immune responses, but less serious infections.
And SARS-CoV-2 is unique in that it is the only human coronavirus in recorded history that violates the Canyon Hypothesis, the molecular signature of a virus’s battle with its host species as it tries to establish itself inside a new host:
Natural zoonosis means passing the challenges naturally posed by the immune system of a new host species; however, cellular serial passage can bypass these processes and create unique phenomena, like SARS-CoV-2's flat and non-sunken surface of its sialic acid-binding domain, which contrasts with the typical canyon observed in every single other ever observed coronavirus.
Although it involves microscopic receptors and proteins, the process of a virus penetrating a cell is in fact a purely physical one that doesn’t involve chemical reactions. Part of accomplishing this penetration appears to be the formation of a physical dent, a canyon, scarring the surface of a virus that appears over time, as it learns to defeat the host immune defenses. Unlike every other coronavirus recorded however, SARS-CoV-2 appears to violate this rule, and it does not have a dented canyon on its surface as a battle-scar from fighting against host immune systems. The only explanation for this is an artificial origin, relatively recent past serial passage through cells in vitro at some point in the recent past, which don’t present the full array of immune defenses as an entire natural host population.
And if you’re unconvinced that all of this in fact does all connect together, here’s what Ron Fouchier, the pioneer of gain-of-function serial passage work with airborne flu strains and ferrets, has to say about that 1977 H1N1 leak:
“That’s what happened in the 70s, people were trying to do live-attenuated vaccines (LAVs) and do human challenge studies and that might be the way the H1 re-emerged in the 70s. Some people say it was a lab accident. I don’t believe that. I think it was actually human challenge studies and live attenuated vaccines (LAVs) that reverted that are the likely candidates of the 1970 reemergence of H1. And we need to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”
This concept, of a LAV returning to virulence has been well-illustrated in recent years by the LAV for polio, known as OPV, developed in the 1950s for the U.S. Military. However unlike the 1977 H1N1 influenza LAV that reverted, or deattenuated, in a matter of months - in OPV's case it took until 2017 for more cases of poliomyelitis to emerge from these deattenuating vaccine-derived viruses than from unchecked wild polio, but tellingly: By 2019 there were 176 cases across the developed world, when the year prior only 33 had emerged.
Certainly if the enigmatic 1977 mini-pandemic was caused by a deattenuating LAV that reverted all the way back to virulence, there’s no reason the exact same thing couldn’t have happened at the Wuhan Military Games where the 250k extra volunteers they brought in and the inevitable poor sanitation from temporary toilets would’ve inevitably accelerated the process, and with the PLA engaged in gain-of-function work on coronaviruses since at least 2015.
And as the recent FOIA disclosures just revealed, the WIV was in fact making viral chimeras, which are exactly what is needed to make a LAV – For instance, creating a LAV for Yellow Fever was impossible until they created the perfect bespoke Yellow Fever chimera from multiple strains, exactly like they were doing with coronavirus strains at the WIV.
The idea of using live-attenuated viruses to inoculate against disease is thought to date back many hundreds of years to sites in Asia where simple contact with cowpox was used to inoculate against smallpox just like Edward Jenner popularized in the late 1700s. However while researching further into the ongoing pandemic, it came to me that perhaps the ancient Israelites’ Passover Seder was in fact the first example of a LAV, meant to protect against the swarm of viruses that would’ve been incubating within herds of wintering sheep before they were pulled out for shearing each spring - something Moses was likely to have observed as a shepherd.
Hopefully since you folks are reportedly willing to reroute highways around elf neighborhoods, and since most of that part of the story of Exodus has been previously explained with science (a red tide leading to ecosystem collapse) most of you are still reading. The entire theory is explained at the link below:
So perhaps beginning to understand that an echo of the Tenth Plague of Egypt being loose again will mean people will start to understand just how serious our present situation is, and the burden it places on us modern humans to re-engage our intuition - to uncover the wisdom our ancestors preserved for us in their teachings as humanity wraps its collective head around how much needs to fundamentally change because of what scientific hubris has unleashed on humanity.
Plus the good news for Iceland is that you likely have a huge advantage over most of the world, since apparently well over three-quarters of your heat is geothermal, which means volcanic vents, which means lots of readily available sulfuric gases. These gases might stink, but they also have potent antiviral and antibacterial properties, which is likely why oracles and shrines have so often been associated with volcanic vents, and also meaning that defeating the pandemic might be as simple as re-routing enough volcanic gases from the geothermal vents being harnessed for heat anyways into your public spaces, in a controlled and monitored manner, to diffuse disease transmission.
Iceland already has a bit of a vibe as a magical island with the auroras and volcanoes and Viking legacy and all of that, I'm sure tourism folks can run with the idea of marketing Iceland as the last completely safe and healthy oracle on earth, where all of the public spaces are protected by the volcanic magic of the old gods. Or something like that, wasn't like half of Game of Thrones filmed there anyway? You guys can run with it.
My father and I had to go all the way across the pond to BioEssays to get a peer-reviewed journal to bite on our original paper since no publication in America was interested at all throughout 2020. And although the mainstream media is willfully pretending like we don’t exist, the serious academic world has engaged with our ideas, and along with a few other teams who have published seminal peer reviewed literature about the genesis of this pandemic we were contacted by the editors of Environmental Letters about submitting to their special issue on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
So although that paper isn’t the one I’m planning to adopt, a much longer whitepaper which explains the phenomenon behind it, quasispecies mutant swarms, will be adapted and submitted at some point:
Shortly after it went up, David Asher - previously the head of the State Department’s investigation into the origins of the pandemic - contacted my father and I and led us to believe that the U.S. Government was seriously looking into all of our ideas. It seemed like this was long overdue, since the National Security Council has aware of our work since January 2020, however the events that have transpired since then have made it increasingly apparent that my current government has neither the intention or the institutional capacity to come to terms with its own obvious involvement in the creation of this plague, and will only continue to deny, obfuscate, and make counter accusations to obscure the truth.
And so from a word to a word I’ve been led to these words, and I’m hoping that your island will again be able to demonstrate that unlike the rest of the Western world it’s not a bought-off plutocracy serving the whims of eldritch billionaires who have no interests outside their own.
I’d be thrilled to answer any questions, thanks so much for your time and consideration, and no matter how the next months unfold I’ll be cheering as loud as I can for you folks -Dan Sirotkin