This week, Boston University found itself at the centre of scorn over claims its laboratories were engineering a “SARS-CoV-3” virus that would (hypothetically) put humanity one lab-leak away from a renewed Covid pandemic.
In the midst of worldwide relief over SARS-CoV-2’s eventual replacement by the mild, ‘common cold’ Omicron variant, BU’s scientists have created de novo an “Omicron S-bearing virus”, potentially marrying Omicron’s transmissibility with the Wuhan strain’s dangerous pathogenicity.
Boston University leadership should not be shocked by the widespread condemnation of this experiment. It has its own hubris to blame: steamrolling neighbourhood opposition to the urban placement of America’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), through which BU amasses lucrative research grants. As the philosopher Spider-Man has said, “with great power, there must also come great responsibility.”
In this case, BU exhibits power, but avoids responsibility. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is examining whether these experiments should have triggered a federal review as ‘gain of function’ with SARS CoV-2’s gaining new or enhanced abilities, which NIH deems “inherently risky”. Boston University says it “did not have an obligation to disclose this research”, despite having received federal NIAID funding which BU states was only for “tools and platforms” used by the scientists.
“We take our safety and security of how we handle pathogens seriously, and the virus does not leave the laboratory,” noted NEIDL’s Dr. Ronald Corley. Cynics might point out that as recently as 2018, the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) touted that its work “held the secret to preventing epidemics”. NEIDL has (probably) released fewer unintentional pandemics than WIV, so there’s that.
NEIDL can be seen as either a bulwark against – or conversely, a conduit for – bioterrorism. NEIDL houses the Level-3 Biosafety Lab (BSL-3) of this trans-viral graft experiment as well as one of the rare US BSL-4 laboratories, intended for studying the deadliest transmissible diseases, such as Ebola.
Lab-coat scientist researchers are not selected or rewarded for political acumen, nor should they be. Actual wet-lab work often embodies the phrase by which physicians tease anesthesiologists: “99% boredom and 1% panic” – but, without the panic. Instead, researchers have their 1%-portion comprised of the brief, refreshing glory on the occasion of publishing consequential results – the news of which usually stays within a small coterie of PhDs cognisant of the technical ‘twin-speak‘ pertinent to the narrow focus of the experiment performed.
Upending the news cycle, bringing fear and then furor to a Covid-weary populace, and a posse of paparazzi upon itself is not the usual modus operandi of researchers releasing a preprint dryly titled (as they often are): “Role of spike in the pathogenic and antigenic behavior of SARS-CoV-2 BA.12 Omicron“. Boston University’s Mohsan Saeed (et al.) ‘buried the lede‘ by not communicating clearly having formed a SARS-CoV-2 mutant through chimeric graft of Omicron spike onto SARS CoV-2.
The researchers’ insularity is evident in their not predicting that producing novel camouflage for the pandemic’s perpetrator would be sufficient cause for all hell to break loose. Given Dr. Saeed’s interim disappearance from the scene, it is assumed notoriety was not the researchers’ actual intent. His additional lack of communicating the societal need for a rejiggering of COVID-19 spare parts into a new mutant strain is its own problem.
NIAID says that the BU should have communicated in advance the purpose and nature of the study. BU responds that it did not have to because the primary funds were from BU itself. Medical ethicist Dr. Arthur Caplan says, “the entire research community would benefit from better communication.” Perhaps even earlier “better communication” might have obviated the experiment itself.
By focusing so intently within the micro-world, it’s perhaps forgivable virologists lose sense of the macro. Conversely, the general public has earned every right to be twitchy and tetchy over ‘gain of function’ engineered augmentations to SARS-CoV-2 after the many millions of excess deaths following what many suspect was a Wuhan lab leak.
The Daily Mail’s story headlined “‘This is playing with fire – it could spark a lab-generated pandemic’” had this graphic stating the mutant strain has an 80% kill rate.
Sensationalism definitionally entails shocking language at the expense of accuracy. Corrections are therefore in order:
- Yes, this lab is performing a ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ experiment: putting Omicron’s spike protein (head) on ancestral SARS CoV-2’s envelope (body) – but, this is the standard operating procedure for virologists. Chimeric work allows comparisons to be made gauging the relative strength or pathogenicity of individual virion segments.
- Yes, this is a brand-new ‘deadly strain’ – but for a particularly and purposefully vulnerable strain of mice, not for humans. The new ‘Frankenstein’ Omicron-spike-and-Wuhan-body chimeric coronavirus caused 80% of hACE-2 lab mice to die – fewer, actually, than had perished from the ancestral Wuhan SARS-CoV-2 itself. For better or worse, these mice have been specifically genetically engineered to have 100% fatality to SARS-CoV-2. If the mice instead replicated human’s very low fatality rate against this virus (less than 0.1% in the non-vulnerable), it would be nigh impossible to make any statistically significant judgements in any experiment unless multi-thousands of mice were included in every phase.
This specific type of work was performed in an appropriate BSL-3 laboratory, and was technically legal even it encompassed ‘gain of function‘ work. There had been a moratorium in the mid-2010s on such potentially dangerous work within the United States, but that was repealed in 2017. The rationale for reversing the moratorium was similar to that of any military’s maintaining and testing weaponry and engaging in wargames: “Researchers deliberately make viruses more dangerous to help prepare better responses to outbreaks that might occur naturally.”
Ostensibly, the moratorium was lifted to keep us safe; however, it was instituted for the very same reason, in 2014, to curtail scientists’ juicing up avian flu.
In 2011, Fouchier and Kawaoka alarmed the world by revealing they had modified the deadly avian H5N1 influenza virus so that it spread between ferrets (animals used for their similarity to humans’ influenza response). Critics worried a souped-up virus could spark a pandemic if it escaped from a lab (accidentally or as bioterror).
The flip-flopping in allowing gain of function research points to the dual needs in relation to such cutting edge science. Even as the moratorium was lifted, there were rules about the flow of information on gain of function experiments. Open communication is a prerequisite to scientific innovation but also can provide ready blueprints for any intrepid bioterrorist. An additional complication is that almost every study in the U.S. receives federal funds, creating a loophole of having to divulge sensitive results through any given FOIA request.
It is uncertain if BU’s newly chimeric COVID-19 mutant could qualify as a bio threat. Personally, I think not. Almost every one of its mutations is less efficacious than the parent. Viruses go through trillions in order to adapt sequentially to changing immune systems amongst the host. That researchers would come up with a highly dangerous one on the first try seems unlikely. In any event, there is vast natural immunity to Omicron and natural and vaccine immunity to ancestral SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19.
So what was the purpose of the BU NEIDL team? Since poor communication seems to be a thread throughout this story, it is perhaps no surprise that this preprint’s abstract section lacks clarity – and features instances of ‘begging the question’.
The recently identified, globally predominant SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (BA.1) is highly transmissible, even in fully vaccinated individuals, and causes attenuated disease compared with other major viral variants recognised to date. The Omicron spike (S) protein, with an unusually large number of mutations, is considered the major driver of these phenotypes. We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 isolate and compared this virus with the naturally circulating Omicron variant. The Omicron S-bearing virus robustly escapes vaccine-induced humoral immunity, mainly due to mutations in the receptor binding motif (RBM), yet unlike naturally occurring Omicron, efficiently replicates in cell lines and primary-like distal lung cells. In K18-hACE2 mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80%. This indicates that while the vaccine escape of Omicron is defined by mutations in S, major determinants of viral pathogenicity reside outside of S.
Let’s translate the abstract into general English:
Omicron is milder – and its spike protein is structurally different enough from the ancestral Wuhan strains that an mRNA vaccine to SARS CoV-2 does nothing to protect mice from Omicron. This is somewhat immaterial because Omicron doesn’t make these mice sick in the first place (basically the same situation as with humans). So, with research funding in hand, what are we going to do? Let’s put an Omicron ‘Halloween mask’ on the dangerous Wuhan strain! How many mice will die? A lot, nearly 80%. That’s sounds really bad, but we forgot to mention (in this abstract) that Wuhan strain without the Omicron-spike mask kills 100% of these mice, which sadly are canaries in a coal mine, engineered to die from SARS-CoV-2. Conclusion: the stuff inside the SARS-CoV-2 envelope is the really bad stuff. With its very own original spike protein it’s more dangerous, but what did we expect? We just made a virus that’s different from a fairly dangerous one and it’s not quite as dangerous.
Thus restated, it becomes difficult to ascertain the genuine need for doing this experiment (whose results seem obvious, predictable and axiomatic). Einstein favored Gedankenexperimente (‘thought experiments’) using conceptual rather than actual experiments in creating the theory of relativity. There’s nothing like the ‘real thing’, but I’m imagining 99% of virologists could have foreseen a conclusion similar to this without having done any of the study. Moreover, most would not have seen a real point in doing this study in the first place. Of course, getting paid and churning research grants can help provide motivation.
Even without the researchers’ having read my own article “Is it Time to Accept That Omicron is not COVID-19?” in The Daily Sceptic, September 25, 2022 – they should still have had enough information to know Omicron (despite its Greek letter) is not a SARS CoV-2 variant nor lineal genomic or genetic descendent. Such information was easily available January 2022. With this in mind, the highlighted portions make little sense and the purpose of the study even less.
One virologist offered these criticisms of the preprint’s study (in confidence):
- Why put Omicron S on a virus that is no longer circulating? I’m not sure what scientific question they are trying to answer.
- The grants that are cited for the work were meant to study innate immunity. They claim they want to study the role of spike protein in phenotype but they are not using the proper controls.
- It would have made more sense to have reversed the experiment, i.e., put the Wuhan spike on the Omicron envelope.
- Also, site-directed mutagenesis (creating specific, targeted changes) would have been a more useful technique, given that there are so many mutations in Omicron’s spike protein compared to earlier variants.
- The authors’ conclusion, “These findings indicate that the S protein is not the primary determinant of Omicron’s pathogenicity in K18-hACE2 mice,” should say that “S protein was not a primary determinant of Wuhan pathogenicity”.
- They actually [downwardly] attenuate the Wuhan strain by putting the Omicron-S onto that virus, yet try to sell it as if they had made the virus more lethal.
- Overall, they seem to really be studying Wuhan pathogenicity in the context of Omicron spike.
All products and methods of technology (e.g. nuclear power, mining, fossil fuels) are variously considered ‘double-edged swords’. So too it is with these studies. There are potential benefits and potential risks. In this particular case, were the risks worth it? Was the study appropriately directed and was the information gleaned worth the global consternation? The answer to both is ‘no’.
“It’s not like they made this monster virus, that’s a complete misinterpretation,” states infectious disease specialist Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes. “Researchers compared the ancestral version, Omicron, and a combined version of the two to research what piece of the virus dictates how sick a person will get. What we see in animal models does not translate directly to what we will see in humans. The labs are extraordinarily careful in how they do these experiments. There are strict protocols in place to make sure that nothing produced in the lab is released into the environment.”
My assessment is that this is more ‘tempest in a teapot’ than monster – although Dr. Frankenstein’s methods and ethical issues find resonance here. That there is a federal investigation into this case is interesting for the side reason that it seems an admission against its own interest, namely to the possibility that virology laboratories can potentially leak mutant strains. Who would’ve thought? For so long, it was all but forbidden to consider such a possibility for China’s WIV, even though ancillary evidence is nearly conclusive it occurred.
Dr. Randall Bock is a primary care physician near Boston, Massachusetts, and the author of Overturning Zika. Read his blog and follow him on Twitter.
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Great, that’s going to reduce my matches from 0 to zero.
Lol.
Crazy. Just more division.
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
In the anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-lockdown community I spend time with, the ones getting action are the unvaxed. Amongst (apologies) CIS women, the advice is to love and let go of the vaccinated because they’ve shown a remarkable level compliance and lack of inquiry that won’t make for a healthy, fertile, reliable or strong partner. And ED resulting from vascular damage from the Covid vaccine is a real issue too.
I suppose that these healthy, family-centred sorts were unlikely to find themselves brokenly swiping left on Tinder, preferring to hook up at events and meet-ups, and form what appears to be real and lasting bonds. So it’s a sort of self-selecting group. But I find it rather sad that one of the few ways for ordinary singles to meet up has been taken and corrupted.
The news coming from the sperm and egg banks doesn’t appear to be too good either. Which I suppose means we’re going to see fewer men able to father their own children, and women able to conscience and carry theirs. In an apocalyptic world I imagine that means that the gene pool will keep shrinking until only a few of us remain as the mothers and fathers of humanity, with all the mind-boggling genetic mutations that brings.
Tragic.
Don’t worry, the Prime Minister is willing to become the father of many more offspring.
What do you ‘become’ I think he’s created quite enough chaos in the gene pool already
But with proper breeding techniques…and a ratio say of ten females to each male..I would guess that they could then work their way back to the present gross national product within…twenty years…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9ihKq34Ozc&ab_channel=prestoagitato2prestoagitato2
Dr Strangelove.
You don’t have to use the word cis here. People know their males from their females.
I had an Aunt called Cis was that some sort of early salute to woke?
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-06-opinion-children-vaccinated-covid-.html
Children must be sacrificed on Globalist’s Pyre to create the herd.
That’s a great find. Children must be subjected to having the spike created inside their cells and spread through their bodies in a way it would not in natural infection – for cash. For “economic recovery”.
We won’t know if it works till they’re gone.
That is a really interesting article if you look at the words Matt Hancock used to justify injecting British Children they were almost exactly the same as those used in this article
Darwinism via apps. Selectively breed for credulous.
I’m not “in the market” as it were, but if I were then I would welcome this. Don’t want to date a vaccine fascist thanks. Actually saves time and hassle.
I’m not in the market either but I’d certainly give any vaccinated twats a wide berth.
I wonder how many of us got that play on words?
There’s nothing to stop people from saying they are vaccinated when they are not! Haha!
True but would you want to date a vaccine fascist?
No I wouldn’t, but that isn’t my point!
Not at the moment. However, I guess it’s only a matter of time before the user has to prove it via a digital id (vaccine passport).
“Not at the moment.” Not ever, thanks.
I think Manjushri was referring to the need for proof of vaccination rather than the desire to interbreed with a sheeple!
I expect so, yes!
Which reminds me of the old joke, What do you get if you cross a kangaroo with a sheep? A woolly jumper. {Golden oldie – just like me!}
Vaccination is a matter of private medical record, one cannot be compelled to divulge information that is private.
Not for long, we all need to opt out of the NHS sharing our confidential medical records with the likes of Google and other global corporations before 30th June:
https://medconfidential.org/2021/
Will they also request details of a match’s STD status?
Why don’t they also test for AIDS at the border?
and vitamin D levels…
It’s great that the injected ones are being identified so they can be segrated away from the un-injected.
The un-injected need to avoid the injected ones until the extent of spike protein shedding/transmission has been quantified.
Stay safe and follow the science – do not have sex with the vaccinated, stay away from them.
“The un-injected need to avoid the injected ones until the extent of spike protein shedding/transmission has been quantified.” Maybe, but I would also want to avoid anyone who was bothered by dating someone who was not jabbed.
Wow – this is absolutely crazy.
Good way to start depopulating, by having those who can’t think for themselves turn on those who can, just as with China’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ where the whole country went nutty and they had teachers removed from their posts and made to clean out pig sties – only this time the mob, prompted by the ‘Covid Marshalls’ can drag the ‘unclean, unvaccinated anti-vaxxers’ off to extermination camps.
I find it downright frightening as to what’s happening – and there are still those who believe this is about ‘a virus’.
Having flown from Heathrow in January, let me tell you the fear and panic, and the way they sneer at you at the ‘Covid test stations’ as they know they are just ripping you off, and they know you know it, is just awful.
This situation with Portugal is just the UK Government yanking on the chains of the people, a disgusting display of how much power they have, the power to make so many people nervous, crushing their will to resist.
I strongly agree with your last paragraph – it does look suspiciously like the govt ‘punishing’ people who had the cheek to disregard the advice not to travel abroad, and playing at being gods on Mount Olympus laughing at the chaos they can so easily bring about.
Great! It will give the more intelligent single people, hoping to meeting someone special and wanting to start a family in the future, the opportunity to avoid:
I think it’s a fantastic idea. The badge for the vaccinated could take the form of a sheep. Or a donut.
That really made me laugh. Thank you.
Me too!
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
People are not more likely to date the vaxxed.
Zombies are more likely to date the vaxxed.
A useful filter so that our folk can find fellow human beings and live happily ever after. Or live, at least.
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
I would suggest adding a ‘Vaccine Macht Frei’ badge, but, of course, even 100% vaccination will clearly Macht Nicht Frei.
nicht frei machen 🙂
To date the likes of Matt Hancock? No thanks!
Chances he has had the real jab are about zero.
Hancock is really is a demented sinister C*nt!!
The Beta males are welcome to the women this ‘feature’ will attract to them lol
This smacks of desperation. Maybe there are more sentient young people than we thought, who can swipe past the vaccinated.
Just had a flyer through my letterbox from P & O Cruises. They announce on the front page their ‘Covid-19 Vaccine Policy’. The small print at the end of the flyer makes it quite clear that sailings will for ‘vaccinated guests only’ . ‘Failure to produce evidence of this will result in denial of boarding.’ Didn’t want to go on a cruise anyway but will airlines be next to join the vaccine club? I wouldn’t bet against it!
They won’t be calling into any ports in Florida, then. Gov DeSantis has specifically banned cruise ships requiring this in his realm.
Good for him, wish some of our politicians had the cojones that he does!
Fine by me, I want my blood and DNA to stay pure human. Now I know who to avoid.
Ha! My non-bastardised sperm is getting more valuable by the day.
I’m adding to a jar in the fridge everyday
Jar? That’s quite a boast!!
Unvaxxed studs always available, reasonable rates, muzzleoids need not apply.
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
Well – many, many moons ago (and before the internet was a major player), I did have a spell of using ‘distance’ dating.
One of the things you quickly learned was the tricky art in writing a profile of how to exclude totally incompatible responses. It was all about brief, subliminal signals regarding ‘interests’ etc.
It seems to me that this is a modern opportunity that is a bit of a short-cut. Turn it around, and you’ve immediately eliminated a whole host of morons who are worried about vaccination. What’s not to like?
Hancockwomble’s support for this atrocity is the worst condemnation it could have had.
Nothing is too illiberal for him, he is a murderous plum.
Another reason to get the jab
The list of reasons do not and will never include ‘for the benefit of your health’.
Hang on, these wankers (titter ye not) never leave the house anyway
Remote sex, the new normal??
like in those dystopian films
If they’ve got a few quid and don’t look too shabby then I’m not too fussed if they’ve had the jab
I’m not planning to shun everyone who has been vaccinated, but right now the idea of starting a relationship with someone who was not a sceptic seems like a bad idea.
that didn’t go down too well so I’ll try and be a little more sensitive…
As long as they don’t look like they’ve been hit by a bus and they don’t mind me going out on the piss with my mates – then I don’t mind if they’ve had the jab – its all about give and take
Indeed it is all about give and take and maybe your approach is better than mine. I would just find life really hard if my Mrs was not a sceptic.
Problem is that soon you won’t be allowed to go on the piss with your mates unless you have all been injected with the Frankenstein poison.
Fantastic! When does the apartheid start?
Reminds me of a story. Some friends used to go out to a restaurant together. Then the nonsense started, so they started having meals at one of their homes instead. I’m sure the same can be done with boozing. In fact, isn’t that pretty much what happened when the ludicrous smoking ban came in?
Well, bring it on! I’m actually thinking that two tier society wouldn’t be that bad. At least I can easily find my tribe!
I last used a dating app in 1876.
We had to disclose out Syphilis status back in those days
Managed to infect 80% of the House of Lords
Easy peasy …. squeezy.
Where Uncle Matt is going the sex mainly takes place in the Shower Block
Not so much dating as on demand
If in the future people only wish to have sex with the jabbed then necrophilia may be the only option
Oh thats ok then, I can carry on with my favourite things…most unattached people of my age are smashed up anyway..
I’d have said “great April fools” if it wasn’t June already. Seriously, what do they think dating adults are? Infants?? This is truly desperate, and hopefully a sign that the experimental gene therapy rollout isn’t going down as well as they’d hoped with younger adults.
This is very interesting because I was kicked off 2 dating apps within the space of a week quite recently, and still can’t say for certain why. I had been on them quite a while so knew the rules of the game so to speak.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are now 77th catfishing on dating apps – just waiting for people like me to spout some anti-lockdown rhetoric then reporting it to get us kicked off the app.
Also, on a new app yesterday, there was a girl who, from her profile, was clearly on our side of the argument. I sent her a supportive message and she responded by saying her account was being suspended. It was just her expressing her opinions in an intelligent way for fuck’s sake! There was absolutely nothing unlawful about what she was saying!
obviously people must already advertise their aids status on dating apps
Get a vaccine and get laid.
…to rest, 6 feet under
Mid 40’s M, WLTM 30-35yo Blonde F. I like sports, theatre and photography. People say I look a little bit like a young Tom Hanks, but I can tend to the serious and sensible rather than the goofy. Self sufficient, so a lifestyle commensurate with the partner of a top senior exececutive type not out of the question for the right type of “Miss Lucky” who plays their cards right, LOLZ!! Athletic build, medium height, GSOH and several million spike proteins currently attacking cell mitochondria. No “mask exempt” please, I like to stay safe!
Hancock strikes me a totally creepy individual – a very bad advert for the vaccinated ..
I’ve no need to join a dating app (currently at least). However when and if I do I shall ensure I join one where this nonsense is no part of it. I’d have a strong preference for anyone who is unclean and risky. Thanks very much Matty. You chatty Ratty.
How romantic. Mutual shedding.
Thanks to everyone replying on this post. I’ve laughed so much tonight reading it that I’m sure of a good nights sleep.
And I “herd” that Plenty of Fish is going to be regarded as Plenty of Sheep 😉
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
I take it this means there is zero chance of this nonsense ending on June 21st or any time soon – otherwise, why would they bother? Will they be able to show hugging preferences too?
I’m thinking to change my profile : “have I got a protein spike for you!”
Have you had a glance at these sites? The amount of women wearing masks in the profiles is insane. And many of those still run the image through those filters that give you big hentai eyes.
Whatever happened to the rebelling generation? This “I’ve been vaxxed” mentality in facebook etc. is akin to sewing your swimming badges on your towel- a pathetic attempt for approval.
The gene pool may well be enhanced by being able to recognise these sad characters in advance.
And the mean age of those people using dating Apps is….?
If I was ‘in the market’, I wouldn’t want to be cosying up to a ‘dirty’, vaccine infested partner. So thank you, dating app b*stards!
Unlike seemingly most of this thread I don’t have any issue taking the vaccine for medical or scientific reasons. I’m not about to go putting a sticker on my dating profile like some kind of servile dog looking for a treat from its owner. Have some self respect people and stop making yourself a tool of government power.
What next for these people in tech land? Swipe past the Jew, the Muslim, the Catholic.
Swipe past the H.I.V sufferer, swipe past the person with a genetic disease.
Isn’t it reassuring that the Tech boys under the benevolent supervision of Matt Hancock are forging ahead with discrimination and “othering”, soon he will be able to claim he has created the perfect race, and we can all raise our arms straight in salute
“partnership with the Government”
That phrase sends shivers up my spine!
The best part of Matt Hancock dribbled down his mother’s leg.
Crazy. Just more division.
I’m trying this free dating site for unvaxxed:
https://kissandwakeup.co.uk/wp-login.php?action=register
If you want to date someone who’s thick then look for the vaccinated…
Great idea … and to make us feel even safer in the virtual dating world let’s issue badges that declare that I’ve had my penicillin course and am not carrying a sexually transmissible disease ..possibly more relevant on a dating app.
This is an excellent idea. I can now bypass those who have had the jab, avoid getting infected by those who are viral shedding and just concentrate on meeting natural, untainted partners.