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The Origin of the COVID-19 Outbreak in Wuhan
Tablet ^ | APRIL 06, 2020 | KHALED TALAAT

Posted on 04/07/2020 10:42:32 PM PDT by absalom01

... A much less echoed, although less radical, scenario is that the current outbreak is related to a lab accident involving disease transmission experiments intended for peaceful purposes. As mentioned earlier, coronaviruses are generally studied at biosafety level 2 and sometimes 3, including the 2003 SARS-CoV. Coronaviruses are not typically highly hazardous—the dangerous ones are not highly infectious and the highly infectious ones are not deadly. SARS-CoV-2 happens to be an exception, although it is not extremely fatal, as many other viruses are. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; ccpvirus; chicoms; covid19; disease; lab; wuhanvirus
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To: central_va

If enough healthy cells die, the whole organism dies.


21 posted on 04/08/2020 4:42:38 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Democrats aren’t as smart as a virus.


22 posted on 04/08/2020 5:13:22 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: R0CK3T

And this is why we are dying a slow death.


23 posted on 04/08/2020 5:18:00 AM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Time to lock up "Let them eat Yellow Cake" Hillary)
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To: central_va

Mucus.


24 posted on 04/08/2020 5:50:24 AM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: DrGunsforHands

What about the dead tissue from the virus attack? What happens to it? Why no scarring?


25 posted on 04/08/2020 5:59:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: iontheball
It’s a disinformation piece containing generalities. Explain to me how in nature HIV genes got spliced into the RNA of the virus?

The Communist Chinese have played their attack on the West brilliantly. They have brought the greatest, strongest country in the history of the world to its knees in less than a month ... and without firing a shot (or a missile). And there remains widespread disagreement on how long America will stay paralyzed. It's clear they know us better than we know ourselves. 26 posted on 4/4/2020, 10:28:38 AM by glennaro

Earlier last week Tucker Carlson did a segment on the origin of the coronavirus. Carlson, who has been pretty aggressive in his coverage of the virus, pointed out a Chinese research paper (since pulled by the author) which claimed the virus could not have arisen at the Wuhan wet market because the horseshoe bats where the virus arose were not for sale at the market. In fact, the bats are not naturally found anywhere within 900 miles of the market. However, bats were being studied for viruses they carried in two labs including one just a few hundred meters from the market.

The abbreviation for Bat Soup is BS~!

Novel coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95 percent had China responded to the outbreak just three weeks earlier than it did, a March 13 study by the University of Southampton has found.

President Xi Jinping’s: "The Yellow Peril ChiCom Wuhan Pneumonia Novel Coronavirus aka the Red Death/Mass People Killing Virus, Chinobyl#2, The Yellow Peril, CCP virus Made in China!"


26 posted on 04/08/2020 9:03:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (NYers fleeing NY are presumed to be infected. They should be tested/quarantined in any other state!)
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To: absalom01

Why kill so many of one’s own population of serfs and nearly cripple their domestic economy?


27 posted on 04/08/2020 1:42:45 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Crucial

#27. When you have about 1.3-1.5 Billion people to feed, knocking off a few hundred thousand of them is almost irrelevant. Knocking off tens of thousands of people in other countries, esp. those of the West and crippling their economies - PRICELESS.


28 posted on 04/09/2020 12:45:22 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I have a strong suspicion this wasn’t a finished product, that it was an imperfect prototype. It would be so easy as well to send a few volunteers to spread this virus in the United States. It could be almost untraceable that way.


29 posted on 04/09/2020 9:08:01 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: central_va

I think the infected cell “explodes” with lots of copies of the virus inside, releasing them to the host.


30 posted on 04/09/2020 10:52:49 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will. I will.)
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To: absalom01
"Another study published in Nature showed that SARS-CoV-2 exhibits greater similarity to Malayan pangolin coronaviruses in the receptor region, but exhibits greater similarity to RaTG13 in many other segments. The pangolin virus, however, is not the same as the human SARS-CoV 2-virus, but rather only a relative, just like RaTG13. The natural reservoir of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has yet to be identified."

The Pangolin looks like an Armadillo, and has been talked about alot the last couple of days...

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52048195

31 posted on 04/09/2020 6:39:31 PM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: absalom01

This via TaiwanNews: Wuhan patients, crammed alive into body bags and taken to be burned.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3881683


32 posted on 04/10/2020 5:53:08 PM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: Crucial

Not only did Taiwan Health authorities try to notify WHO that there was human-to-human spread in December (I would guess Taiwan has excellent Intel sources in China), Taiwan also announced a travel ban from Wuhan on December 31st! They knew, but We listened to WHO, which should be renamed WET-HO (World Except Taiwan Health Organization).


33 posted on 04/10/2020 6:02:22 PM PDT by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: cookcounty; All

We should listen to Taiwan much more closely in the future if we have any sense.


34 posted on 04/10/2020 7:08:45 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Grampa Dave

I think quarantining China is our only option.


35 posted on 04/10/2020 7:09:37 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: cookcounty

These Commie bastards are going to have to be made to pay.


36 posted on 04/10/2020 9:14:00 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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