He said the monkeypox virus mutates very slowly and that the last known precursor to this variant is so different that it could not have happened naturally, adding that there just wasn’t enough time for natural evolution to create the variant spreading right now.
Same is true for SARS-CoV-2: the virus mutates very slowly and only distant precursors are known. Both point to a lab origin: making it mutating slowly makes sure that the experiment doesn't get out of control, and it provides a sitting duck for vaccines. SARS-CoV-2 mutates so slowly that the Omicron variant could not have happened naturally (they tried a story with an immune suppressed patient carrying the virus for over a year).
As often as Gates has mentioned smallpox and the upcoming "pandemics"; plus the vial of smallpox they found in pennsylvannia (I believe) a while back makes me wonder if this "monkepox" is actually a smallpox variant of some sort.
Good catch
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