I believe it.
Perhaps what is going on with this virus will be a teaching moment in preparation for when something really nasty comes up.
Isn’t it great to have people from a country where snakes and bats are considered food for humans globe-trotting in this digital economy?
This’ll make a great pandemic movie. Assuming there’s anyone left to watch it. :D
You just hope Xi catches it as karma.
Office workers covered under a plastic sheet ( like Visqueen) at work in their cubicles. This is beyond crazy.
https://twitter.com/smilenio2/status/1220364039253037056
https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701
Coronavirus
Jul 23, 2015 - THE PIRBRIGHT INSTITUTE
The present invention provides a live, attenuated coronavirus comprising a variant replicase gene encoding polyproteins comprising a mutation in one or more of non-structural protein(s) (nsp)-10, nsp-14, nsp-15 or nsp-16. The coronavirus may be used as a vaccine for treating and/or preventing a disease, such as infectious bronchitis, in a subject.
https://www.pirbright.ac.uk/partnerships/our-major-stakeholders
The Pirbright Institute is a publicly funded private company. We have a diverse range of major stakeholders, and receive strategic funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) which is part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Our major stakeholders are:
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council (MRC) and other research funding agencies
International funding and disease control agencies, such as OIE, WHO, the European Commission, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Industrial producers of veterinary vaccines and antivirals
Farmers and livestock keepers
...spread to ten countries, including the US where a patient is reportedly being treated by a robot.
We must fear something.