Horseshit.
Leak a virus into the public domain then profit from the manufacture and sale of a vaccine for it?
The common cold is a coronovirus. Lot’s of people looking for a cure/vaccine. If you find one, you would become wealthy.
That would explain why the patent holder is named Albert Wesker
So I doubt there is some nefarious element at work here. Only natural as coronaviruses have been around for quite sometime now.
Human coronaviruses are common throughout the world. Seven different coronaviruses, that scientists know of, can infect people and make them sick. Some human coronaviruses were identified many years ago and some have been identified recently. Human coronaviruses commonly cause mild to moderate illness in people worldwide. Two newer human coronaviruses, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV, have been known to frequently cause severe illness.
So this is just a new version being discovered, and is exactly why they would be naturally working on something that may be able to combat them.
Since the Chinese seem to eat anything, it is not unusual that most of these start in China.
My first rule of China, never believe press releases from the politburo.
It has occurred to me that at some point the super wealthy will decide that there are too many people and will look for ways to reduce the population by introducing diseases that will kill many but not them.
In the modern age of American patenting you don’t actually have do it to patent it. You just have to come up with a rough outline of how it could probably be done. Fuel for patent trolls, write down all those ideas we have while drunk, patent them, sue for prior art when somebody actually DOES it. So it really doesn’t mean anything. The patent holder MIGHT have modified a coronavirus. Or they might just said “I bet you could”.
Hmmmm...can’t sell the (patented, costly) without the disease.
Yeh a company funded by Bill and Melissa Gates.
A similar “coincidence” is that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) outbreak in the deer population was discovered in Wisconsin only a short distance from the CWD research facilities at Madison.
“We are being told that the coronavirus outbreak which is currently escalating at an exponential rate probably started with a snake.”
China hasn’t told the truth for over a couple of 100 years. The current virus had to be engineered as it is the only one of the SARS viruses that promotes upper and lower respiratory infection. This is something brand new in that line of illness.
As for supplying and trading, in November 1995, referring to Iran’s chemical weapons program, Bruce Reidel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asia, testifies, “In the chemical arena, we have seen some evidence that China has provided some assistance or Chinese firms have provided some assistance, both in terms of the infrastructure for building chemical plants and some precursors for developing agents. I would point out here that the Chinese chemical industry is very rapidly growing at this time and not all facets of it may be under the fullest scrutiny of the Chinese government.”
The Chinese have been shipping two chemicals, thiodiglycol and thionyl chloride, both used to make mustard gas, to Iran since 1993. Furthermore it was discovered in 1996 that China’s chemical export controls were not operating effectively enough to ensure compliance with China’s CWC obligation not to assist anyone in any way to acquire chemical weapons. And they were supplying Syria, also, same problem.
You won’t hear about this on the 11 o’clock news as the first of the American supplying of weapons to Iraq was commenced during the Carter administration. One of the ugliest we shipped to them was VX nerve gas.
In fiscal years 1993 and 1994, the executive branch (and Congress) signed-off on a staggering $100 billion of government and industry-negotiated arms deals to include bio/chem. Moreover, the administration actively assisted industry by subsidizing marketing activities, lobbying foreign officials to “buy American,” and financing several billions of dollars of sales. And one of our major competitors was China.
So we’ve been in the game for a few generations. We’re more well rounded but China specialized in chem/bio. And they are the biggest suppliers with Germany, Russia, France, and us on their heals. It’s a very competitive market/
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