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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
"I Found The Source of the Coronavirus"
2020-04-04
From Laowhy86 on Youtube - "After 2 weeks of painstaking searching, I refute the claim that the Coronavirus started outside of China."

Thought this was going to be some anti-US or anti-Israel skreed since I found the link on ZH, but the research this young man did is pretty good. Didn't follow the standard 'journalistic drive-by' route and actually dug in and derived his conclusions from lesser known public Chinese internet sites that only the locals might use (before the CCP scrubbed them, naturally). It helps that he lived in China for ten years and is fluent in the language.
Posted by:Mullah Richard

#6  #5 Probably used molecular cloning + in vitro function assays - everyone does nowadays.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-04 16:09  

#5  Such changes can evolve, but it takes time. Lots of humans sick with the intermediate forms.

At 3:45 the video states that villagers in the area where the bats were collected were already found to be infected.

If they collected virus samples from already infected humans they could have selectively bred virus strains in suitable human cell cultures. Just mutation and selection, no direct traces of engineering.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-04-04 15:46  

#4  #3 It's certainly gene-engineered. The virus jumped from bats to humans and the spike protein immediately/spontaneously* changed from adapted to binding to bat cell to adapted to binding to human cells?

*Such changes can evolve, but it takes time. Lots of humans sick with the intermediate forms.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-04 15:03  

#3  This might be a reference to this story.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2020-04-04 14:39  

#2  Indeed. The Chinese Government should just admit the virus originated in China?

I am not going to hold my breath.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-04-04 11:28  

#1  Excellent! Great find Richard.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-04-04 09:48  

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