Claim: was a mutant SARS-Cov2-measles strain released in 2019 in Samoa?
This seems like an outrageous claim. What is the evidence?
The Samoan Measles Outbreak
Arkmedic has just published another fascinating exposé, this time about the measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019, “The Killing Fields of Samoa”, in which the good Doctor asks some very pertinent questions about the origin of the measles virus, which had an unheard of death rate of 1 in 67 (the usual death rate of measles is less than 1 in a thousand).
Arkmedic points out that the pattern of the WHO/government response to this outbreak now seems very familiar:
1. A viral outbreak suspiciously appears
2. Repurposed and safe drugs (including vitamins) are denied as adjunctive treatment to people who would likely benefit from them at zero risk
3. The vaccine people come along to pretend to save the day (and likely make the situation worse because vaccinating the population during an outbreak is usually a really bad idea)
4. Social media nudge units move into action to denigrate anybody suggesting anything other than what BigPharma and BigGovt suggest as the solution, then many more people die than should have.
In Samoa in 2018 two infants died after measles vaccination, causing vaccine hesitancy among parents on the small island nation.
The WHO moved into Samoa in force, and they began a coercion campaign, after the new measles strain was already spreading in the community, to force everyone to get vaccinated.
These images come from Del Bigtree’s Highwire episode on this topic, from December 2019, a video that has proven quite prescient in retrospect with regard to our governments’ responses to the Covid epidemic.
They put red flags outside the houses of the people in Samoa who refused the measles vaccination, and social media was mobilised to insult and demean those who expressed doubts about the vaccination.
People who expressed the thought that the government should be encouraging the usage of vitamin A and proper nutrition were hounded and insulted in social media, despite the fact that since the late 1990s it has been known that vitamin A deficiency is a major cause of death from measles.
In the 2017 UN report, Dietary patterns of households in Samoa, it explicitly says that the lower third in income in Samoa had a lower intake of Vitamin A and protein.
Since 2001 WHO has recommended two days of vitamin A for children in areas where there is a measles epidemic, and yet apparently this was not done; instead, new measles vaccines were doled out. This is highly reminiscent of the banning of the discussion of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and vitamins D and C during the coronavirus period.
Arkmedic did a search for the genome of the Samoan measles virus. Although there are four genomes of the measles virus from American Samoa in the NIH’s genome library, there are none from Samoa, which is a different island.
Indeed, there are some very strange missing pieces of information, in fact, some big questions. And at the centre of all of this is a scientist.
Ralph Baric.
Ralph Baric, gain of function researcher.
Ralph Baric looks like a friendly bloke, the sort of bloke you could easily have a drink with in a tavern or a bar, an open and easy-going American, a humble sort of down to earth guy.
Maybe not.
Ralph Baric is a scientist working at the University of North Carolina Department of Epidemiology.
Baric is also one of the scientists heavily implicated in the gain of function research that was most probable source of the original SARS-Cov2; a leak from the laboratory in Wuhan.
The best source for the best information about the lab leak theory, by the way, is in microbiologist Alina Chan’s book with Matt Ridley, VIRAL the search for the origins of Covid-19. , in which they chronicle the lax quarantine practices at Wuhan, and the actual origin of the first cases in the residential district of the Wuhan lab. They make an extremely good case for the virus being man-made, and more recent evidence (such as the existence of a patented Moderna sequence in the middle of the virus’ RNA genome) make it seem very likely it was man-made.
Baric was the lead author of the 2015 paper from the Wuhan lab, A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence, which recounts how the clever scientists, including Wuhan’s bat-lady, Zhengli-Li Shi, managed to create some wonderfully new chimeric coronaviruses with new spike proteins designed to more easily infect human airways. (A chimera is a human-made creature formed by the combination of two existing creatures, and is the word they use in this literature for genetic abominations they have made by joining two existing things together)
Baric was also the creator, apparently, of the cleverly constructed transgenic mice, which they use in almost all these experiments, with the human ACE2 receptors, quite an achievement in 2013, as recounted in his study A decade after SARS: strategies for controlling emerging coronaviruses, where they were also using genome construction technology to recreate known bat coronaviruses from scratch.
What Arkmedic discovered in the NIH’s GenBank is this little genomic gem; he characterises it compellingly as proof that psychopaths are compelled to boast:
What is this? A combined Measles virus/SARS2 coronavirus, engineered by the illustrious Mr Ralph Baric and his collaborators; the paper describing the vaccine they created from this abomination was published in December 2020 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33257540/ .
They made it using Illumina whole genome sequencing. You too can do this, just go to illumina.com
Arkmedic points out that the time-line between creation of chimeric viruses and the publishing of them, particularly when it involves genetically altered chimeric mice, makes it likely that much of the work for this vaccine and the creation of the combined measles/coronavirus variant would have been done in late 2019.
D8 was the strain of measles that emerged in Samoa, apparently; the exact genome is not known but the family it belonged to is. Arkmedic did a search for the measles strain they used for the vaccine derived from the measles/coronavirus chimera; it was very close to D8, much closer to D8 in fact than the strain they claim they used in the study; in other words, he says it is very likely that the measles strain in the measles/coronavirus chimera came from the unpublished Samoan measles strain.
The publication is marked Dec 2020 but it was submitted in July 2020 and included mice studies, which usually take months. It’s therefore very possible - and entirely in keeping with Baric’s MO - that this construct was made before December 2019.
Now, that strain is supposed to be an inactive strain A measles. The only problem is that, when we run a BLAST on this strain (or on the Chimera) we get a pretty good match to a D8 strain measles - apart from multiple SNPs (which can be induced in a lab by additives such as APOBEC protein or molnupiravir). In other words, it is quite possible that this “vaccine strain” was the novel strain of measles affecting Samoa. Of course, I’m happy to be proven wrong if anyone has the genomic sequence of the Samoa strain to prove it (they don’t).
NO CASES OR DEATHS FROM COVID IN SAMOA UNTIL OMICRON.
Alright; they did have extreme travel bans in place until January 2022, when there was an outbreak among medical workers. But this doesn’t explain the lack of transmission and deaths in the first few months of 2022, which could certainly be indicative of a natural immunity.
Arkmedic claims they had virtually no cases and no deaths until April because they had already been exposed to a chimeric Measles-SARS-Cov2 strain of the coronavirus.
This is Arkmedic’s summary:
1. An unusually virulent measles outbreak occurs in 3 neighbouring Pacific islands after delivery of a vaccine from UNICEF
2. On one of the islands, the death rate of the outbreak is unusually high (and of the order of magnitude of the first COVID wave)
3. The outbreak is used to test the compliance of the population for lockdowns and forced vaccinations. There is very little resistance.
4. Around the time of this outbreak, Ralph Baric - implicated in the origin of SARS-Cov-2 - is involved in the construction4 of an unusual measles-coronavirus chimera in which the measles component is homologous to strain D8 measles (the strain declared in Samoa).
5. When Samoa gets its first official wave of COVID infections there are no deaths suggesting a prior immunity5.
But is it true?
What we have here is circumstantial evidence. We’re looking at a situation where things don’t add up, and there are a number of glaring holes in the official line, and the facts are like a silhouette, outlining a particular truth: this measles outbreak was used in the media all over the world to encourage vaccination and discourage anti-vaccination rhetoric - and it was a very bad outbreak, for 1 in 67 infected Samoans died. So where is the sequence of the genome? You would think there would be an entry for every major town in Samoa in the database, like there is for American Samoa.
But there isn’t.
The facts that we have outline a different truth from the official line. I don’t think Arkmedic has proven his suspicions. But what he gives us is a bunch of questions to which we don’t have answers.
And let’s face it, even when you don’t consider the pathetically servile, sycophantic WHO investigation of the Wuhan lab leak theory in China and their promotion of the mRNA vaccines and lockdowns and masking, WHO are highly suspect in the light of the Kenyan tetanus vaccine sterilisation scandal, which I fact checked here, and for which there is even more evidence pointing to crimes against humanity than the Samoan case.
And the WHO are right at the centre of this Samoan story.
And we have just lived through 2 years of this: the disgusting ban on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, the lies from the government, the gaslighting, the coercion, and the disgusting persecution of the unvaccinated in the media and by government figures and in social media, and the even more grievous lies from Big Pharma companies about the efficacy of the vaccines, and the erosion of our freedoms.
I think we deserve answers to these questions:
Where is the missing Samoan D8 genome?
Why is the chimeric measles/coronavirus closer to D8 than it is to the claimed source of the measles genome?
What really went on in Samoa in 2019?
As I’ve said before, this is not proof that this is fishy; it’s more like saying, well, there’s a strong smell of fish here anyway, regardless of whether or not it’s that fish.
REFERENCES
Arkmedic
https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/the-killing-fields-of-samoa
More information about the Samoan outbreak.
The Vaccine Reaction https://thevaccinereaction.org/2019/11/samoas-measles-outbreak-and-response/#_edn15
Malnutrition in Samoa, and Measles and Malnutrition.
Michaels A. Malnutrition in Samoa. The Borgen Project.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Dietary patterns of households in Samoa. FAO.org 2017.
Belamarich PR. Measles and Malnutrition. Pediatrics in Review February 1998; 19(2) 70-71.
GenBank the chimeric Measles Sars virus.
Watch out for the link, too, as when I clicked on the link in Arkmedic’s article my browser was redirected to a different page in NIH at least twice, until I actually copied the GenBank number ready to paste it in, when the page miraculously appeared on the third or fourth try; in other words, check that it’s actually MW090971 that comes up if you want to check this out.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MW090971
Fantastic work, again, Arkmedic.