# Ralph Baric

[![image-1643673166782.png](https://dulandrift.formosahut.com/uploads/images/gallery/2022-01/scaled-1680-/image-1643673166782.png)](https://dulandrift.formosahut.com/uploads/images/gallery/2022-01/image-1643673166782.png)If Covid was an engineered virus, it's likely Baric had a hand in it. He is the world's leading expert

<span style="font-weight: 400;">[Science , Jan 11, 2020:](https://www.science.org/content/article/chinese-researchers-reveal-draft-genome-virus-implicated-wuhan-pneumonia-outbreak) *Ralph* </span>*Baric<span style="font-weight: 400;">, a coronavirus researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill .. </span>immediately .. reverse-engineer(ed) a live virus from the sequence ..<span style="font-weight: 400;"> to develop antibody tests and to start experiments in animal models. “If you want to have a strong public health response, you have to do this quickly,” says</span> **Baric, who leads one of the few labs in the world that can re-create coronaviruses just from their sequences***<span style="font-weight: 400;">*. (Bureaucratic hurdles would make it difficult for China to ship the actual virus quickly to other countries, he says.)* (*Science's* brackets)  
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">SARS/MERS/</span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">GoF expert</span>](https://twitter.com/i/status/1453794704412184593)<span style="font-weight: 400;">/activist. Argued in Feb, 2018 that </span>[*<span style="font-weight: 400;">biosafety .. over-reach</span>*](https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fvl-2017-0143) <span style="font-weight: 400;">(GoF regulation) </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">prevents countermeasure development that could limit or prevent future pandemics. (scio-politics)</span>*

<span style="font-weight: 400;">SARS study in 2006 was </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">funded by US military</span>](https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030149)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> (military)</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2015 he </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">collaborated with Shi on GoF</span>](https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - one of the western scientists who helped export GoF technology to China. (Chinese military)</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the first to </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">jump ship</span>](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/covid-lab-leak-hypothesis-just-got-a-big-credibility-boost.html)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> from WIV (May 2021) (rat cunning)</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Helped [develop Remdesivir](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/suspicion-of-wuhan-lab-ensnares-new-york-nonprofit-testing-bat-coronaviruses/2020/05/12/22d0d642-8f3c-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html) (did they think this would be a magic bullet? the antidote?)</span>