New Research: Omicron Was Not Likely an Escape Variant

The Omicron Hypothesis, Part 6

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Earlier this month, a preprint (Atsushi and Takayuki, 2023) dropped that relates to an article series that I started researching in December 2021 and started publishing in January 2022 that I called The Omicron Hypothesis. More specifically, I was keeping track of numerous hypotheses in order to help people understand the number of open questions we [should] have about the Omicron "variant" of SARS-CoV-2. But my primary hypothesis was that Omicron does not appear to be a descendent of the Wuhan strain (with or without vaccine-induced selection pressure).

I wasn't the first person to gravitate toward this belief (one that I'm not 100% certain about…but past certain enough to call a belief). I probably wasn't the second, third, or twentieth for that matter.

But as I observed the emergence of information, I did my best to bring together the evidence, and examine the various implications with respect to the bigger picture.

I had gathered a great deal more evidence for the hypothesis than I ever wrote about. I thought I'd go a dozen articles on it. Some of that info came from chats with people who have an understanding of genetic engineering, statistical genetics, and biowarfare programs. However, my attention was diverted when Robert Malone asked me onto the DMED investigation team. Given his strange behavior, and what many of us have since learned about his past history (including a program that pushed forth remdesivir) I honestly now wonder if he was intentionally diverting or distracting me with a project on which I would spend over a thousand pro bono hours being gaslighted from numerous directions. But I can only move forward.

Now, let's talk about the recent preprint (which isn't likely to change in substance before publication). Here is the abstract, all emphasis mine:

Over the past three years, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has repeatedly experienced pandemics, generating various mutated variants ranging from Alpha to Omicron. In this study, we aimed to clarify the evolutionary processes leading to the formation of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, focusing on Omicron variants with many amino acid mutations in the spike protein among SARS-CoV-2 isolates. To determine the order in which the mutations leading to the formation of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, we compared the sequences of 129 Omicron BA.1-related isolates, 141 BA.1.1-related isolates, and 122 BA.2-related isolates, and tried to dissolve the evolutionary processes of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants, including the order of mutations leading to the formation of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants and the occurrence of homologous recombination. As a result, we concluded that the formations of a part of Omicron isolates BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2 were not the products of genome evolution as is commonly observed in nature, such as the accumulation of mutations and homologous recombinations. Furthermore, the study of 35 recombinant isolates of Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, confirmed that Omicron variants were already present in 2020. The analysis we have shown here is that the Omicron variants are formed by an entirely new mechanism that cannot be explained by previous biology, and knowing the way how the SARS-CoV-2 variants were formed prompts a reconsideration of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

The paper goes on to describe Omicron-associated sequences already present in 2020 in Puerto Rico. One of my open hypothesis branches was that Omicron was already present as an ordinary part of the human coronavirus ecosystem—something you might have also heard from JJ Couey and possibly a few others.

On another note, I was a member of a small chat group of note at the time Omicron emerged. It was organized by Bret Weinstein that included [Bret's wife] Heather Heying, Chris Martenson, JJ Couey, Joomi Kim, Alexandros Marinos, Dr. Rollergator (anonymous statistician) and a few others. I felt the evidence compelling enough to host a zoom meeting to discuss it. Chris did not attend. As others gathered, Dr. Rollergator began berating me because I called my collection of thoughts a "theory" casually one time, as opposed to the hundred or so times I referred to hypotheses. Bret and Heather then entered and began immediately, if subtly piling on that point despite not hearing the conversation that led to it. But I guess we can call it a theory now as all the evidence that has emerged points toward what was my hypothesis. And we should also acknowledge that nobody should have taken Geert VandenBossche's application of his model of "escape variants" to the level of theory (with respect to Omicron) since there was never any effort (that I've seen) made to show that Omicron fit his model.

Chris went on to promote the notion that Omicron might be a white hat release to end the pandemic, with no evidence at all. Because it was a fun notion?

That meeting ended without me discussing any of the additional details [that I've never had the 40 spare hours on my priority list to write about] I'd gathered as Bret came and stated that he hoped I wouldn't be bitter if he didn't "support" my hypothesis. That was fairly confusing to me as I wasn't interested in politicking for conclusion, but in discussion of the evidence.

Only one person in the meeting reached out for continued discussion, which was JJ Couey. One of the litany of hypotheses that I proposed was that Omicron was already in the background CoV population, which was something JJ already suspected [about perhaps all the variants] before we got to know each other (which Bret also didn't seem interested in ever entertaining in discussion). I soon after left that chat group because it felt more like a signal pressure system ("pat you on the head for saying the one thing, ice you out in conversation if you say the wrong thing") than a place to have open science discussions. A few months later, JJ left for similar reasons. Ironically or not, over a year later, Bret and Heather had a discussion on their Darkhorse Podcast walking through much of the evidence surrounding Omicron that I'd tried to bring to their attention. They did not however mention my attempts to talk through it with them at the time, and they still don't know a lot of the details.

They also still misunderstand the idea of "the swarm", which is not a composite of all the various human coronaviruses moving around populations. A viral swarm is a single one of those coronavirus variants present as a tight statistical spread (following a principle referred to as "survival of the flattest") of genetic sequences that are highly related (nothing like 39 amino acid mutations in the S protein). In virus theory, multiple swarms may coexist in the population and in a single person (called a coinfection), and they can be passed on together or individually for a number of reasons (differences in individual immunity, time of infection/infectiousness, etc.).

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Why The Omicron Hypothesis is Important

There are many reasons why The Omicron Hypothesis (TOH) (my simplifying name for the group of hypotheses) is important. Ultimately, in order to understand what is really going on in a complex event, you have to define models, then check to see if observed data fits those models. Of course, you also need to check on the epistemological processes by which those data are derived. Evidence surrounding Omicron gives us the opportunity to learn a lot about the models and methods for collecting data. Here is a list of important related topics better illuminated in light of TOH:

• Whether or not SARS-CoV-2 is genetically engineered.

• What can we conclude if SARS-CoV-2 is genetically engineered?

• Whether or not COVID-19 is the result of a lab leak of SARS-CoV-2.

• Whether or not the bulk of what is categorized as COVID-19 mortality is the result of SARS-CoV-2.

• Whether or not SARS-CoV-2 variants are part of a bioweapons program.

• Whether or not the PCR testing stories are valid in the ways we are told.

• Whether or not there are multiple sources of illness during the plandemonium.

• Who are the most competent voices during the plandemonium?

• Who are the most honest voices among the assumed expert class?

I plan to write an additional article with respect to this list of bullet points (time permitting), but I'd like to now lay out what I consider a realistic hypothesis that fits with other information we have seen, such as 2019 SARS-CoV-2 positive samples from sewers or blood in various nations such as Brazil and Portugal: the fact that these samples seem localized without mass global spread is consistent with Couey's infectious clone hypothesis as well as the history of naval biowarfare testing. That naval base in Key West, Florida that was one of the pneumonia hot spots a few decades ago when Congress discussed possible biowarfare tests taking place is not terribly far from Puerto Rico. And a remote island would be a great place to study the release of an infectious clone prior to larger scale deployment.

I'm not saying that's how it happened. I still don't know. But it's worth keeping in mind as we all continue to gather information about how the plandemonium was engineered.