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2020-02-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
BLUF:
[Harvard to the Big House] Given the above facts, either:
Foto of MG Chen Wei at right.
‐ A coronavirus spontaneously mutated and jumped to humans at a wet market or deep in some random bat cave which just so happened to be 20 miles from China’s only BSL-4 virology lab, a virus with an unusually slippery never-before-seen genome that’s evading zoological classification, and whose spike-protein region which allows it to enter host cells appears most like a bio-engineered commercial product, that somehow managed to infect its first three and roughly one-third of its initial victims despite them not being connected to this market, and then be so fined-tuned to humans that it’s gone on to create the single greatest public health crisis in Chinese history with approaching 100 million citizens locked-down or quarantined ‐ also causing Mongolia to close its border with its largest trading partner for the first time in modern history.

‐ Or, Chinese scientists failed to follow correct sanitation protocols possibly while in a rush during their boisterous holiday season, something that had been anticipated since the opening of the BSL-4 lab and has happened at least four times previously, and accidentally released this bio-engineered Wuhan Strain ‐ likely created by scientists researching immunotherapy regimes against bat coronaviruses, who’ve already demonstrated the ability to perform every step necessary to bio-engineer the Wuhan Strain 2019-nCov ‐ into their population, and now the world. As would be expected, this virus appears to have been bio-engineered at the spike-protein genes which was already done at UNC to make an extraordinarily virulent coronavirus. Chinese efforts to stop the full story about what’s going on are because they want the scales to be even since they’re now facing a severe pandemic and depopulation event. No facts point against this conclusion.

Related: Epoch - US Must Prepare for Thousands of COVID-19 Cases in Coming Weeks, Experts Warn
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 06:12|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 Epoch Times - China’s Top Biowarfare Specialist Helms Efforts to Combat Coronavirus, Army Enters Wuhan to Deliver Supplies.

China’s state-run media reported Feb. 3 that Chinese troops started to assist with deliveries of essential supplies to Wuhan, the coronavirus-stricken city of 9 million in central China’s Hubei Province.

According to China Central Television (CCTV), soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Hubei Garrison in the Central Theater Command deployed to Wuhan on Feb. 2, where their first task was to transport more than 200 metric tons (about 220 tons) of goods to the city’s supermarkets.

The previous day, the People’s Liberation Army Daily reported that Chen Wei, China’s top expert in biological warfare, has been leading the efforts to overcome the deadly, pneumonia-like pathogen for the last nine days.

Chinese authorities confirmed the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) on Dec. 31, 2019, but recently published studies show that the first patient was diagnosed on Dec. 1. So far, the virus has spread to at least 27 countries, while all provinces and regions of China have confirmed cases.

Wuhan is the provincial capital of Hubei. With the virus spreading, all of Hubei and its more than 58 million residents are under quarantine, as well as at least three major cities in coastal Zhejiang Province. The two provinces do not share a common border.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 06:20||   2020-02-13 06:20|| Front Page Top

#2 I've looked for "defensive immunotherapy research" in both Google & Google Scholar - zero results.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-13 06:24||   2020-02-13 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 There is a third possibility:

The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis. National Research Council (US) Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine-131.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 06:40||   2020-02-13 06:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Reference comment #3; Implies an intentional release as a part of a study? Do I understand correctly?
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-02-13 08:16||   2020-02-13 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The General is certainly an, interesting choice, for the position.
Posted by Cesare 2020-02-13 08:24||   2020-02-13 08:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Ref #4: Yes, "intentional" or accidental, or a combination.... (unexpected recurrence in test population(s). Certainly a possibility. Something to be studied.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-13 08:24||   2020-02-13 08:24|| Front Page Top

#7 2019-nCoV targets the ACE2 receptor, which is found in East Asians at roughly five-times the rate of other global populations

Now, I'm perplexed.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-13 09:48||   2020-02-13 09:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Villages with a population of 10,000 are quarantined over coronavirus fears in Vietnam - the first mass isolation outside of China - after six cases are discovered
Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-13 10:07||   2020-02-13 10:07|| Front Page Top

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