The Omicron Hypothesis

The Omicron Hypothesis is a series of articles at Rounding the Earth that broke off from The Vaccine Wars, and includes elements of the following:

• At least one bioengineered SARS-coronavirus was circulating well before cases were noted in the vicinity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in late 2019.
• Omicron is mostly likely a cousin, not a decendant/variant of SARS-CoV-2.

The author, Mathew Crawford takes these hypotheses as explorations worthy of consideration and exploration, not as established fact. But that is to say that the complete story of SARS-CoV-2 and the pandemic is not yet agreed upon as established fact.

• Part 1
  • Hypothesis 2: Omicron was genetically engineered—most likely by somebody in the same working group who engineered an mRNA vaccine to (supposedly) stop SARS-CoV-2.
  • The SARS-CoV phylogenetic tree places omicron variants on a different evolutionary branch than all other SARS-CoV-2 variants.
  • Published Proximal Origins Hypotheses:
    • Origins H1: Omicron spread cryptically, undetected by insufficient surveillance methods. (We will talk about why those methods might have been insufficient.)
    • Origins H2: Omicron could have evolved in an immunocompromised host, chronically infected by weeks or months.
    • Origins H3: Omicron could have developed in non-human hosts, then reintroduced to a human who spread it to 24 million people in like 5 weeks.

• The Earlier Lab Leak Hypothesis
• Part 1
  • Hypothesis 1: Omicron has been circulating widely for at least several months.