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Boris Johnson's government reportedly believes the coronavirus may have accidentally leaked from a Chinese laboratory
Business Insider via Yahoo ^ | 4/6/2020 | A. Payne

Posted on 04/06/2020 7:53:39 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

The UK government reportedly believes the coronavirus outbreak may have started in a Chinese laboratory.

Most experts believe the outbreak began when animals passed COVID-19 onto humans in China.

However, some scientists believe an accidental leak is a plausible alternative theory.

UK officials are not ruling out the possibility that a laboratory close to Wuhan accidentally leaked the virus.

A UK Parliament committee on Monday accused the Chinese government of spreading "disinformation" about the origins of the virus.

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that there is that laboratory in Wuhan," one UK government official told the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

(Excerpt) Read more at us.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: biolab; bioweapon; coronavirus; covid19; wuhan
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To: TangledUpInBlue
They did this as an ACT OF WAR . I think that the chicoms are in with the camelrapingragheadterrorscum IMO.

We as Country need to stop buying anything from the chicoms. All they do is steal and copy everything they send back to the United States of America 🇺🇸 We can build whatever it is better here anyway, I’ll pay more for whatever I want or need.

21 posted on 04/06/2020 8:14:45 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

That’s a lie!

It wasn’t an accident!


22 posted on 04/06/2020 8:19:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I agree with you. It was either an accidental leak of a bio-weapon and they don’t want to look like idiots and admit that they’re working on bioweapons, or...

It was an intentional leak to quell the Hong Kong protests and it spread way further than they expected. Also, they look like idiots and want to save face.

I work with many Chinese immigrants now living here full time. 3 of them told me they believed they leaked it deliberately to quell Hong Kong and also expected it would kill their own elderly but they didn’t care. That was a “side benefit” and a cost of doing business.. They believe this with all their heart.


23 posted on 04/06/2020 8:19:59 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: SeekAndFind

I read the National Review timeline. It’s very well put together with links to support everything they said.


24 posted on 04/06/2020 8:22:00 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Trump in one of his early pressers:

“They know it’s origin. And so do we.”


25 posted on 04/06/2020 8:22:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I find it hard to believe that China would release it deliberately, because it cannot be controlled and attacks indiscriminately.

China has suffered big-time in all this, with many of their own people killed, including valuable scientists and medical personnel.

I don’t think it’s even possible to create a disease that attacks or ignores only certain races


26 posted on 04/06/2020 8:22:44 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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To: Helicondelta

Yes, and I think it’s been pretty well determined that bats were in the wet market. But that’s irrelevant if an employee of the lab, knowingly or not, took the virus from the lab TO the market.


27 posted on 04/06/2020 8:23:16 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: canuck_conservative

H1N1 originated in the US


28 posted on 04/06/2020 8:24:05 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: ClearCase_guy
I almost think nukes are the only way to tell a nation “stop with the biowarfare”.

A slight problem with that. THEY also have nukes. We start lobbing those at them, and guess what? A few American cities and all the people in them get turned into so much radioactive ash.

If indeed the CCP was behind it and it WAS a deliberate strike against us, I'm all for a response. But, WHAT should the response be? Nuclear war ain't a great option, and it could devolve into a furball that involves other nations who also have nukes.

I certainly don't have an answer, and I'm pretty sure the White House knows their options are limited....unless they're willing to sacrifice American soldiers and/or citizens. And I do NOT think President Trump wants that.

29 posted on 04/06/2020 8:26:18 AM PDT by hoagy62 (DTCM&OTTH)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Except that China is also feeling the pain of the global economic collapse that they then would have caused. That’s the big factor that doesn’t really make sense..

What’s their motive? Revenge for the tariffs? I can’t get there.


30 posted on 04/06/2020 8:27:58 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Labyrinthos

bttt


31 posted on 04/06/2020 8:29:07 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

And, I would guess when the dust settles, China is going to pay a large price for a lot longer time than the duration of this episode.


32 posted on 04/06/2020 8:29:48 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Accidents happen.
What happened after the accident WAS DELIBERATE!
They won’t even admit that the CCP is responsible for not containing “their accident” or even warning the rest of the world of what truely happened.


33 posted on 04/06/2020 8:30:36 AM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: TangledUpInBlue

chicom Laboratory leak - bump for later....


34 posted on 04/06/2020 8:30:50 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: elpadre
If it was leaked, I would question the words, “accidental leak.”

It's entirely possible that the original leak was accidental - and equally possible that once China realized how big a hit they were about to take economically, they took steps to make sure they didn't go down alone.

35 posted on 04/06/2020 8:34:44 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Duh.


36 posted on 04/06/2020 8:35:08 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: TangledUpInBlue
What’s their motive? Revenge for the tariffs? I can’t get there.

It's all weird. I don't think anyone can see a clear path.

I would mildly suggest that the Globalists include China. And the Globalists are losing in the US and in the EU. In large part, because President Trump has stood up and said, "The emperor has no clothes".

The Globalists/Deep State people have been trying to destroy Trump in many different ways. None of it works. It looks like he will get a second term, which must scare the Globalists to death. If they were desperate (I say they are) perhaps they would be willing to release a biowarfare agent and then force the trashing of the US economy. Maybe then Trump won't be re-elected. Hey, it's worth a shot, and time is running out.

The Global Elite can hide out in their compounds and survive. If many people die in China and the EU, what does it matter? They just want to save the NWO.

37 posted on 04/06/2020 8:36:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
It's come out over the last 24-48 hours, that this virus attacks the heme protein: both causing anemia and therefore hypoxia, but also releasing iron into the body.

Each of these has a cascade of downstream effects.

Tell me what naturally occurring coronavirus attacks heme? I've never heard of one.

They apparently have sequenced the virus, all 30,000 nucleic acids; and have characterized many of the proteins produced by this virus, and their functions.

Have they found the sequence of nucleotides which codes for the protein which attacks heme, yet?

Does it bear a relation to the genetic sequence for any other microorganisms which attack heme?

38 posted on 04/06/2020 8:37:07 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: vetvetdoug

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787

Them younguns get up to the most interesting stuff lately...

CRISPR.


39 posted on 04/06/2020 8:38:50 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: grey_whiskers

Try this:

https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/11938173


40 posted on 04/06/2020 8:41:02 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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