Posted on 03/14/2020 10:17:54 AM PDT by raptor22
First of all, Wuhan is a place and not a race, and to identify the coronavirus by its place of origin, like naming the Ebola Virus for a river in Zaire, is not racist or xenophobic — it's merely accurate. There is no racism or xenophobia in labeling an infection "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever" or calling something "Lyme Disease" after a nearby town in Connecticut. What calling this latest virus the Wuhan Virus is is a reminder of the multiple contagions China has spawned and released on an unsuspecting world. Nor is connecting some very big, ugly, and obvious dots just another conspiracy theory to be dismissed out of hand. From the beginning China has been less than forthcoming about this virus and resisted sharing critical data and access to WHO and CDC specialists. And have we forgotten Dr. Li Wenliang, the 33-year-old ophthalmologist based in Wuhan, the epicenter of the contagion, who tried to tell the world that China was hiding something malevolent, only to be silenced and imprisoned by Chinese authorities for allegedly fabricating lies about the disease's deadly potential?
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The only question is how. Sabotage or sloppiness?
Good article. Thanks for posting.
And what exactly is the rationale for creating a biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) lab? I can see the need to treat and cure a drug resistant disease but not develop one.
Or was brought out of a lab on purpose. Let’s investigate and keep all possibilities open.
China is an enemy but we just haven’t realized it fully yet.
The 1977 H1N1 human influenza pandemic
Due to lab mishandling, a strain of the H1N1 influenza managed to escape from a Chinese facility that was likely trying to create a vaccine for the disease. The virus spread globally and had an infection rate of 20% to 70% among those exposed. Luckily, the strain of the virus caused only mild disease and few fatalities.
6 Various SARS outbreaks - 4 of which happened in China
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was a global epidemic in 2003 that caused 8,000 infections and 774 deaths across 29 countries.
Since the original epidemic, there have been six escapes of the virus from laboratories — four in Beijing, and an additional one each in Singapore and Taiwan.
In all cases, the virus escaped due to negligence and human error. Fortunately, none of those escapes led to a renewed outbreak.
2020 - The Wuhan Corona Virus
Escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China and was covered up by the Chinese government, who even went so far as to imprison and later infect the doctor who blew the whistle. This is currently spreading around the world killing thousands, so far...
What you said. The heavy handed response by the chicoms is a huge “tell”. They knew exactly what this was. Sadly our own government is dancing around the truth. This wasn’t bat soup.
People are still blithely unaware and thinking that this is all a panic and won't have a big impact.
Normalcy bias.
The Chinese were welding people into their apartments, rounding them up off the streets and killing off dissidents with this thing.
It isn't over in Italy either, we've only slowed it down.
It will hit the homeless on the West Coast in the USA shortly and we'll have an inkling of what we are facing.
The only question is how. Sabotage or sloppiness?
I think it was developed in Wuhan and taken to Iran in the diplomatic pouch to be used as a weapon, and something went terribly wrong.
If the virus were weaponized, wouldn't you expect its lethality rate to be much higher? I would expect close to 100% lethal to those in poor health already and 30-40% lethal to the healthy adult population, the true target of a weaponized virus.
The rest of the world should demand reparations. Don’t the ChiComs own trillions in foreign government debt, including an estimated $1.1 trillion in U.S. debt? Maybe we start there.
I’m recalling “Newman” losing that modified Barbasol can, and am now thinking a similar theft occurred at Wuhan, but another unforeseen accident happened in the wet market, loosing the virus among the people and the critters.
This writer is An idiot conspiracy nut who loves to dream up stuff without a scintilla of evidence,
The Chinese have a long record of bad sanitation involving allowing live animals in food processing areas leading to cross contamination of disease. It’s happened repeatedly before and has nothing to do with their labs.
“The Chinese have a long record of bad sanitation involving allowing live animals in food processing areas leading to cross contamination of disease.”
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, formerly in the military, said quite a while ago that this virus did not come from an animal market and that it was essentially a bio-weapon. He is on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. How and where it was developed is another question.
“ China is an enemy but we just haven’t realized it fully yet.”
Oh I think that has dawned on about everyone who isn’t a Chinese bought politician (there are many), one of their minions or one of their sycophants.
Oh yeah, and that Apple guy, the a-hole.
Well if it is a bio weapon then China didn’t do itself any favors now did they?
How about all the other proven viruses that China got from animals?
Cotton is listening to the same idiots that couldn’t tell us about 9/11 before it happened, that told everyone that trump was a Russian asset, an organization that was run by the likes of brennan and comey.
Only a moron would believe anything from the US intelligence cabal.
And unlike cotton I have 25 years military experience.
Bttt.
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IMHO I would expect easy transmission , and a debilitating effect is what you need to handicap opposition troops.
In developing a weaponized virus for warfare you would need to have a vaccine for the virus, and treatments for your troops and key people first, before unleashing the virus.
My take is the Chinese were working on weaponizing this virus; but somehow it got loose before they had a vaccine or treatment for it.
That might explain the worlds over-reaction to this flu virus. Some countries, like ours sense that, and are afraid of the unknown consequences. -Tom
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