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2020-02-01 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Artifacts of HIV-1 discovered by India in Corona Virus
[Twitter-Wretchard]
WOW! It's beginning to look like a product of a bio-weapons-lab

See this related article:


We are currently witnessing a major epidemic caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The evolution of 2019-nCoV remains elusive. We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses.

Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests ...

that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.

We shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's interesting.
Posted by 3dc 2020-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
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#1 Yeah, and I have Neanderthal DNA.
When you only have concrete for building blocks, you use concrete blocks.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-01 01:16||   2020-02-01 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Bingo!
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-02-01 02:23||   2020-02-01 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 From snakes, with the greatest of ease,
To the bat on his flying trapeze,
Whence, in only three links
It descends to the... [winks]
Such a naturally agile disease!
Posted by Sheba Stalin6601 2020-02-01 06:25||   2020-02-01 06:25|| Front Page Top

#4 ^😂
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-02-01 06:45||   2020-02-01 06:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Debunked. Used extremely short sequences that will match many viruses just by chance.
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-01 08:17||   2020-02-01 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm surprised the Indian study didn't find the disease an artifact of ancient Rakshasa DNA in the Orientals.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-01 09:26||   2020-02-01 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 😀 for ZF at #3 !
Posted by Dron66046 2020-02-01 09:28||   2020-02-01 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Further evidence to support the claim this man made and the Chinese have been doing biological weapons development in Wuhan and this is an unintentional release?
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2020-02-01 10:01||   2020-02-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Colonel Surgei Skripel to the white courtesy phone please. Colonel Skripel.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-01 10:06||   2020-02-01 10:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Gr(o)m, I missed your comment yesterday until today.

The thing is, it's not an either/or type of situation.

The virus could be a naturally transmitted one from bats and the Authorities (both in here and China) are incompetent to stop it.

OR

The virus could be a genetically engineered bioweapon AND the Authorities both in China and in the West are contemptuously lacking in the competence to deal with it.

There's simply bonus contempt for the think-they're-as-smart-as-medieval-mandarins people who built a weapon they couldn't manage.

As they say over at Ace's, Embrace The Healing Power of 'And'.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-01 11:50||   2020-02-01 11:50|| Front Page Top

#11 If there is .001 chance it could be a bio-accident, it needs looking into.

I wonder if there is any sniffling and sneezing in those Chinese - Mooslim re-education camps.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-01 11:55||   2020-02-01 11:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Did they sequence the "beer"?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-01 11:56||   2020-02-01 11:56|| Front Page Top

#13 If there is .001 chance it could be a bio-accident, it needs looking into.

Even if someone were investigating, think the results would become public?
Maybe the UN would condemn the practice.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-01 12:19||   2020-02-01 12:19|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 BP - totally off topic, but CONGRATULATIONS on achieving BREXIT! :-D
Posted by Barbara 2020-02-01 12:57||   2020-02-01 12:57|| Front Page Top

#15 #11 viruses don't jump from bats to humans
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2020-02-01 13:09||   2020-02-01 13:09|| Front Page Top

#16 a) As I said, either way, Winnie the Flu is stupid.

b) There's rabies, which is allegedly responsible for 7/10 human rabies cases in the US.

c) Which would also be a scary engineered-bioweapon scenario.

d) Which would also provide incentive for a bioweapons lab to 'practice' on making bat viruses more transmissible with humans.

The point I wasn't trying to make wasn't about the viruses. It's about the mandarinate-over-there, which is only smart compared to the mandarins-over-here, not the actual ancient mandarins.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-01 14:01||   2020-02-01 14:01|| Front Page Top

#17 It's about the mandarinate-over-there, which is only smart compared to the mandarins-over-here

The first rule of survival in totalitarian system "remember, the kill the bearers of bad news.".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-01 14:55||   2020-02-01 14:55|| Front Page Top

#18 ^the ---> they
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-01 14:57||   2020-02-01 14:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Also, keep in mind that this could all be an Underpants Gnome sort of plan.

"Step 1. Produce virus that's out of a John Ringo novel."
[...]
"Step 3: Profit!"

I get the feeling that totalitarian societies are big on Underpants Gnome sort of plans.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-01 15:30||   2020-02-01 15:30|| Front Page Top

#20 ...er.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-01 18:44||   2020-02-01 18:44|| Front Page Top

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