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2020-09-13 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Rogue' Chinese Virologist Claims She Has "Evidence" COVID-19 Was Created In A Lab

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Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 If there is any credible evidence produced, it would be huge. Something like provable sequences of RNA, that sort of thing.

But given its ZeroHedge, unless this is info from a reliable third party, its likely horse shit like most of their stuff.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-13 01:19|| 2020-09-13 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 We don't need evidence.
(a) Every evolutionary biologist knows that a bat virus doesn't acquire a set of mutations that make it adapted to infecting humans in one go.
(b) Nobody wants to fight China.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-13 04:54|| 2020-09-13 04:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Ex-head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove says coronavirus 'is man-made' and was 'released by accident' - after seeing 'important' scientific report

He cited an 'important' report from Professor Angus Dalgleish of St George's Hospital, University of London and Norwegian virologist Birger Sorensen which claims the virus was manufactured in a laboratory.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-09-13 05:29|| 2020-09-13 05:29|| Front Page Top

Ref #2: (a) Every evolutionary biologist knows that a bat virus doesn't acquire a set of mutations that make it adapted to infecting humans in one go. (b) Nobody wants to fight China.

"It's nothing personal, it's just business."

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-13 06:16|| 2020-09-13 06:16|| Front Page Top

#5 @ #1 - I hardly think ITV network is a tool or subsidiary of ZeroHedge.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 10:13|| 2020-09-13 10:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Didn't think this was still in doubt. Even the Chinese have admitted that the wet market theory is wrong.

Posted by Iblis 2020-09-13 13:40|| 2020-09-13 13:40|| Front Page Top

#7 (g)romoron, wrong. Itss a single strand RNA virus, the kind that mutates most rapidly, and there are already a slew of mutation subtypes out there. And it is faily routine for virus to develop cross species infection ability, its called a "zoonotic" virus, there's a whole field of study about these. Of 1,415 pathogens known to infect humans, 61% were zoonotic (Taylor LH, Latham SM, Woolhouse ME (2001). "Risk factors for human disease emergence". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 356 (1411): 983–89. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.088). Many of these are secondary zoonosis - that is the virus gets to humans by an animal host to start with, while not being deadly to the animal host. Those are called "vectors" - like mosquitos with West Nile. Live animal markets are known to be high risk areas for this form of transmission.

Distinctive features of RNA virus (like COVID and its corona virus base) replication include high mutation rates, high yields, and short replication times. As a consequence, RNA viruses replicate as complex and dynamic mutant swarms. (Domingo E, Holland JJ. RNA virus mutations and fitness for survival. Annu Rev Microbiol. 1997;51:151-178. doi:10.1146/annurev.micro.51.1.151)

And this is all old knowledge. So Science says you're wrong and an idiot to make your assertions.

Any "evolutionary virologist" would pound that into your apparently impenetrable skull.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-13 17:44|| 2020-09-13 17:44|| Front Page Top

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