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What Is the History of Coronavirus?
WebMd ^ | 10/21/23 | Medically Reviewed by Zilpah Sheikh, MD on November 21, 2023 Written by Linda Rath

Posted on 11/21/2024 11:48:51 AM PST by DallasBiff

COVID-19 Origins

There are two hypotheses as to COVID-19's origins: exposure to an infected animal or a laboratory leak. There is not enough evidence to support either argument.

The latest intelligence reports agree that the SARS-CoV-2 is not genetically engineered or developed as a biological weapon. They do say it is possible a version of a coronavirus was being studied with animals in a lab and exposure occurred there. Again, there is not enough evidence for a definitive conclusion.

Because the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in China, there has been a lot of anti-Asian speech and acts around the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Other recent, serious epidemics have begun on other continents -- Ebola virus and Zika virus, among them. Coronavirus is unique in that a certain racial or ethnic group has been blamed and targeted for the disease.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; wuhan
Yeah right Web MD, we all know covid came from wuhan as an intentional lab leak.
1 posted on 11/21/2024 11:48:51 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

The same phony site that maintains that “gender is ‘assigned’ at birth.”


2 posted on 11/21/2024 11:51:20 AM PST by Fungi
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To: DallasBiff

Invented at Chapel Hill NC in gain of function research.
Moved offshore to Red China to stymie US regulators. We funded the effort there.
When Trump was a freight train headed for reelection, and protests were getting out of hand in Wuhan and Hong Kong and threatening to spread across China, it was released as a perfect method to order everyone inside. It was released to great theater, men in hazmat suits walking down streets spraying some white fog everywhere. Videos of people walking along and dropping dead, etc.

In the USA it was a great vehicle to normalize the never before used mRNA shots and to force mail in balloting and steal the 2020 election.

It was never much worse than a normal flu. Nearly all of the deaths were from medical malpractice and ventilators. The end.


3 posted on 11/21/2024 11:58:15 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: DallasBiff

THIS:

COVID Pitch Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEwpWpuIk_E


4 posted on 11/21/2024 12:00:31 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DesertRhino
It was never much worse than a normal flu

You had me going until that statement, because for thousands, it was definitely MORE than just a normal flu bug. Covid-19 destroyed many, many, lives, mine included. So before folks buy off on the "it's just a normal flu" mantra take into consideration people like me whose lives were turned upside down by it.

5 posted on 11/21/2024 12:09:02 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: BenLurkin
LOL! The suit guy should have started out by saying…

Suit Guy: “We have a project to get rid of 65+ people, and to ensure others do not live to 65+ to save the SS Welfare State”

Normal Guy: “Really, what’s the project!”

Suit Guy: “We are creating some killer viruses, and even more killer vaccines to accomplish this goal!”

Normal Guy: “Wow…sounds dangerous. Will I have to take said vaccines? I don’t want to die before 65+!”

Suit Guy: “Of course not! You’re Government. You have an exemption!”
6 posted on 11/21/2024 12:13:40 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: DesertRhino

You are incorrect I know people who had it it was much worse than any influenza


7 posted on 11/21/2024 12:14:40 PM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Nifster

Maybe true but also anecdotal. Plenty of people perhaps had a bad case of the regular seasonal flu and noticed nothing from the China Virus.


8 posted on 11/21/2024 12:42:51 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: DallasBiff
It is important to note that most people who die after influenza actually have pneumonia.

In fact, the line between death by influenza (and common colds) and death by pneumonia has become so blurry that the death certificate statistics have become almost meaningless.

The death certificates for Covid rigidly follow a different reporting method.

Apparently, 0% (zero percent) of the people who die from Covid develop pneumonia.

If Covid is present, 100% (!) of the death certificate fatalities die from Covid.

9 posted on 11/21/2024 1:20:45 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: DallasBiff

THIS ARTICLE IS ALL LIES


10 posted on 11/21/2024 1:43:58 PM PST by oil_dude
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To: DallasBiff

This went off the rails quick.

Supposed hate speech is irrelevant to the question.

“ There is not enough evidence to support either argument.”

There’s plenty of circumstantial evidence it came from the Wuhan virology lab.

First one that that lab has the biggest collection of this type of virus in the world and that is where it started.

The other is that the Chicom government refused to do an investigation that would be able to provide more than circumstantial evidence.


11 posted on 11/21/2024 1:53:27 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Locomotive Breath

Agreed two separate diseases


12 posted on 11/21/2024 2:50:43 PM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: DesertRhino

“We must support Gain of Function research, even at the risk of pandemic...”
—Dr. Anthony Fauci in a 2014 email to colleague Peter Daszak.


13 posted on 11/21/2024 2:53:53 PM PST by Does so (Blue Party + Green Party= the Blue-Green Party of Toxic Cyanobacteria ...🇺🇦...Demo☭rats...)
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To: ducttape45

I had it at the very beginning and it was like the worst flu ever. But it wasn’t some next level thing. The medical response of denying treatment until you are put on a ventilator and given that horrific kidney killing Remdesivir was 100x more lethal than the disease.
For the very weak and elderly, it would be rough, just like a bad flu.
It is simply SARs. The name covid was invented because China was angry about the term SARS2.

Ask yourself this... why did we not find hundreds and thousands dead in their homes? This is the first epidemic that everyone who died had gone to the hospital.

If you stayed at home, you generally made it. If you had a CPAP, you were really good.


14 posted on 11/21/2024 2:54:49 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: Nifster

You are incorrect. I had it at the very beginning, it was maybe 10% worse than my previous worst flu.

It was not some new level disease. And many many people had their mind play games. You watch people dropping dead on the sidewalk in China and spraying white clouds of disinfectant in China, you see the body count every day on TV. Blah blah blah... and when you get sick, it’s something completely new.

Without the hype, it would have been a rather bad flu season.


15 posted on 11/21/2024 2:57:29 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: Does so

“We must support Gain of Function research, “

Gain of function research = BIOWARFARE Research.
That is all it was.


16 posted on 11/21/2024 2:59:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: DesertRhino

So you’re simply going to deny what the disease did to thousands like me? For me and those thousands, IT WAS THE NEXT LEVEL THING. You dismissing it like you are is pretty arrogant. You’re not making many friends with that kind of attitude.


17 posted on 11/21/2024 3:13:19 PM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: DesertRhino

So you didn’t have a harsh version

Good for you


18 posted on 11/21/2024 5:16:13 PM PST by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: ducttape45

I have plenty of friends. It may have been a little worse, but it was and IS a member of the flu family and was a bit worse for some. I said it was the worst flu I have ever had, but it wasn’t some new game changer. It was a SARS flu, upgraded to spread well.

For someone really old or in poor health, it could have been bad. But most of the damage came from preventing people from accessing proper medication and shunting people into ventilators and the poisonous remdesivir.


19 posted on 11/21/2024 7:35:06 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI..)
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To: DesertRhino

I’m through arguing with you.


20 posted on 11/22/2024 5:36:22 AM PST by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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