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2020-04-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-04-04 09:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#1 Excellent! Great find Richard.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-04 09:48|| 2020-04-04 09:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-04 11:28|| Front Page Top

#3 This might be a reference to this story.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-04-04 14:39|| 2020-04-04 14:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-04 15:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-04 15:46|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 Probably used molecular cloning + in vitro function assays - everyone does nowadays.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 16:09|| 2020-04-04 16:09|| Front Page Top

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