https://www.rt.com/news/541531-sputnik-vaccine-hungary-minister-interview/ " Hungary slams EU for ‘political’ refusal to recognize Russian Covid-19 vaccine 27 Nov, 2021 21:15 / Updated 5 hours ago Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto told RT he’s “frustrated” with Western officials playing politics with Russia’s Sputnik V, the world’s first Covid vaccine. He says they can’t bring themselves to publicly admit it’s “the best.” The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved vaccines by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Janssen, yet Russia’s Sputnik V is still awaiting the agency’s nod despite getting approval in over 70 countries worldwide. For Hungarians vaccinated with Sputnik V, that means they’re frozen out of the EU’s bloc-wide Digital Covid Certificate system, even though Hungary will start locally producing the vaccine next year. “This is a political and ideological issue and I am very frustrated about this,”Szijjarto told RT, describing how under EU regulations, either the EMA or national governments can approve vaccines, as Hungary’s government did with Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm shot. “We don’t understand why [this approval] is not respected by the other member states,” he added. The EU’s cold shoulder for the Sputnik V shot is more a question of politics than efficacy, Szijjarto suggested. “Whenever I talk to Western European colleagues... they always tell me that they know that Russian scientific performance can be spoken about only very highly,” he said. “I tell them ‘Look, it works the best. Of course it works well.” Privately they all say that… when it comes to publicly, they all say differently. <... ctd at the above link ...> "
EXCUSE ME SIR. THIS IS PURELY ABOUT SAVING LIVES. THIS IS MOST DEFINITELY NOT A POLITICAL ISSUE DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY ALLIES VS REBELS
Just a few remarks: I have family in Russia. Russians don't trust their own government, so they don't trust Sputnik too. They know why. Why is Russia not buying Pfizer, Moderna, Astrazeneca...? So we can ask the Russians the same question as they asked us. Russia is only interested in destabilizing Europe and the US. They pay even trolls to do that on all Western media, including Elitetrader. The troll that is doing this here is called Thecoder. Everybody should put him on IGNORE. Or better @Baron can ban him. If live is so good in Russia, he should move there.
@virtusa, it's about racism. Do you find it good that the EU practices racism against Russia and Russian companies like against the maker of the Sputnik V Anti-Covid vaccine?
There is no sign the EU has any racist issues with Russian people, as the indigenous Europeans and Russians are of the same race. Its also very possible that Russian technology has developed a very effective vaccine. But its very understandable that the EU do not trust Putin's government. They have a history of deception, military aggression, political repression, assassinations and corruption which matches any banana republic.
I remember reading a few years back that scientist discovered they could modify a virus, inject it into mice, and it would alter their genome somehow and attach to certain cells, those cells being determined by how the scientists altered the virus. So they did this on mice, targeting cells in their brains that processed light. It was called optogenetics. This: Optogenetics is not the only technique that relies on the use of a modified virus to “infect” cells. As we already know, viruses infect their hosts by introducing their genetic material in the cell nucleus, where the cell is forced to make copies of the virus that otherwise would not be able to reproduce by itself. This is the basis of gene therapy: for a while already, scientists have been taking advantage of this natural process and manipulating it in order to carry out the selective introduction of genes in certain cells. The viruses used for gene transfer are genetically modified so that they will introduce the desired genetic material into the DNA of the host cell while, on the other hand, they will not induce virus copying. Despite being a relatively novel technique, it has already led to the development of genetically modified oncolytic viruses that are showing promising results in the treatment of several diseases including various types of cancer8. In the case of optogenetics, genetically modified viruses have been used to introduce previously modified genes that encode light-sensitive proteins into the surviving, healthy cells from the inner layers of the retina, turning such cells into “replacement light sensors”. When research on this techniques started, it was excellent news for those suffering from any type of blindness in which a few vision cells remain intact. However, the first results obtained were somewhat discouraging as they showed that cells in which such proteins had been introduced this way, still needed the presence of extremely strong light (which might be harmful to the extent of damaging the eye) in order to be able to react to it, thus making the technique useless: despite its very promising theoretical potential, its practical applications had not been completely developed yet. Until now. In order to overcome the limitations described above, the authors of an article9 recently published in PLoS Biology have created a novel engineered protein and they report to have successfully managed to restore the vision of blind mice under normal intensity daylight conditions. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Big deal right? But then there's this: +++++++++++++++++++ Scientists use light to trigger killer instinct in mice Technique called optogenetics used to pinpoint and take control of brain circuits involved in predatory behaviour A mouse demonstrating instinctual predatory behaviour with a cricket. Photograph: Courtesy of Ivan de Araujo It has all the trappings of a classic horror plot: a group of normally timid individuals are transformed by scientists into instinctive killers, programmed to pursue and sink their jaws into almost anything that crosses their path. However, this hair-raising scenario was recently played out in a study of laboratory mice, designed to uncover the brain circuits behind the predatory instinct. The research revealed that one set of neurons triggers the pursuit of prey, while another prompts the animal to clench its jaws and neck muscles to bite and kill. The study relied on the technique optogenetics, in which neurons can be artificially activated using light, effectively allowing scientists to switch the killer instinct on and off at will. When the laser was off in the experiment, the animals behaved normally, but at the flick of a switch they assumed qualities of “walkers” from The Walking Dead. Ivan de Araujo, a psychiatry researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine and lead author said: “We’d turn the laser on and they’d jump on an object, hold it with their paws and intensively bite it as if they were trying to capture and kill it.” In the study, the mice were seen to pursue almost anything in their path, including insects, robot insects and even inanimate objects such as bottle caps and wooden sticks. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ So there's that for any of you conspiracy theorists. And I bet if they can do that to the brains cells that process light, I bet they can also do it to whatever cells process sound. Havana Syndrome anyone? Beats me, but I wouldn't put anything by the Russians or Chinese when it comes to this kind of stuff. Or our own DARPA, etc for that matter. I may be crazy, but I ain't stupid. -vz https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mice-hunters-brain-20170118-story.html