[TigerClaws]

First healthcare death in Iran was an otherwise healthy nurse in her 20s.

Sure sounds like a bioweapon but they keep claiming it was all from bat soup. Did read a story about a Chinese scientist who instead of destroying monkeys used in medical testing had made $1 million selling them at markets there. That can't be good.

[TigerClaws]

Iranian nurse that died:

https://mobile.twitter.com/IranMomentum/status/1233390558707666944

[Bell Bouy II]

source ?

[tatown]

The coronavirus has been circulating throughout China and greater Asia for months (at least). If the coronavirus is as infectious as the media proclaims it to be why are only 0.0057% of Chinese infected with it? How about only 0.0039% of South Koreans?

It means one of two things A) the virus is widespread but so mild that hundreds of millions of cases are undetected or B) the virus is actually not infectious at all. Either way we are being lied to and fellow freepers are helping push that lie.

[OKSooner]

Please cite the source of this article.

[Robert DeLong]

And who exactly is making these claims?

[reasonisfaith]

Their next land most important line is:

“Oh yeah—we almost forgot. Vote Trump out!”

[dangus]

I’ve been saying for decades that it is NOT good enough to have millions of medicated HIV patients roaming the Earth, that viruses swap technology by way of the way they hijack true cells’ means of reproduction. And the example I always used was “what happens when the common cold (yes, a coronavirus) learns some tricks from HIV.”

[SaxxonWoods]

“Sure sounds like a bioweapon...”

What is your expertise in bioweapons?

[null and void]

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3052495/coronavirus-far-more-likely-sars-bond-human-cells-scientists-say

When looking at the genome sequence of the new coronavirus, Professor Ruan Jishou and his team at Nankai University in Tianjin found a section of mutated genes that did not exist in Sars, but were similar to those found in HIV and Ebola.

Instead of hooking up to the ACE2 receptor, the novel coronavirus has a cleavage site on the spike. This tricks something called the furin enzyme, on human cells, to cleave the spike at that point — allowing the viral membrane and the human cell’s membrane to join, effectuating the entry of the virus into the cell.

Guess which other viruses actively have their own Furin? Ebola and AIDS.

[Erik Latranyi]

Almost like it was engineered to spread among healthy people...

[null and void]

Not new news...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[traderrob6]

Link?

[nikos1121]

I’m wondering if Trump and Co. know that this came out of one of China’s labs, and therefore was very quick to halt all travel out of China. Maybe China had high hopes of infecting us.

[rexthecat]

What is the source??

[Red Badger]

No Linky....................

[Sequoyah101]

Come on.

More sensationalism and fear mongering.

I don’t believe in anthropogenic global warming or the tooth fairy either.

The chicom response to cv is a bit overwhelming though making it very suspicious.

[alexandria]

‘This virus may use the packing mechanisms of other viruses such as HIV.’

More evidence that this IS NOT something that just “evolved” in the wild or is caused by eating or being around any animal, rodent, bird or insect of any kind.
Also, the way the virus infects people and binds to human cells more readily shows human intervention. Apparently, Sars didn’t kill enough of their populace.

Come to think of it, I haven’t heard a peep from the 1 million-plus protesters in Hong Kong recently.

[allendale]

No doubt this COVID-19 is a virulent pathogen. However it is critically important, although politically incorrect, to define just what population groups are susceptible to infection and have a high mortality once infected. Given the fact that Caucasians and Africans living and working in Wusan the epicenter of COVID-19, did not become infected or die at the same rate of the endemic Chinese, that the region in Italy of the outbreak has a high concentration of Chinese immigrants and guest workers, and that Iran, where the Silk Road transveersed with Chinese caravans and the Mongols conquered, has a population carrying a significant Asian genome, this virus most readily infects and is most lethal to Asians. Hence it is not likely that there will be a general outbreak in the United States but disease can be expected where there are concentrations of Asians. The virus is already here given the large numbers of travelers from Wusan that arrived in multiple points in the US from Dec15-Jan 23.

[Mariner]

Why is this posted without a source link?

This is a big claim to be making without a source.

[1066AD]

I read yesterday that blood type can play a role with type “O” being the most resistant.