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It's the answer I give when I'm writing two articles on a short deadline. The databases are spiked. Of course they are going to tell you it's "SARS-CoV-2." The question we are asking is: where is the original? Where is the actual virus against which you can compare and say: this is the master copy? It does not exist. And this is the problem. A very serious one at that.

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and Lanka is correct; the metagenomics programs are assembling garbage and calling it a "coronavirus." but when you read the story of how the Ren team assembled 402123, the actual first sequence published, you will see what a heap of corporate garbage this all is.

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