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My imagination has a lot of ideas about what this means. But I also dropped biology in high school and went into computers, so I'm very poorly armed to assess this.

Can someone tell me what the real implications of this are, and what the totally reasonable explanations might be?



> The presence in SARS-CoV-2 of a 19-nucleotide RNA sequence encoding an FCS at amino acid 681 of its spike protein with 100% identity to the reverse complement of a proprietary MSH3 mRNA sequence is highly unusual. Potential explanations for this correlation should be further investigated.


Sure, the implication is that you can be sued for catching COVID, for patent infringement.


No, the implication is that Moderna was involved in gain of function research that led to the creation of SARS-CoV-2 which explains why they happened to conveniently have a vaccine available right from the start. Which, if true, would be one of the greatest scandals in history.


I just tried to read it and got nothing out of it. The whole thing is above my head, lol.




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