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Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 16, 2020 | Ross Ibbetson

Posted on 02/17/2020 5:21:13 AM PST by C19fan

Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market. A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WHCDC) could have spawned the contagion in Hubei province. 'The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus,' penned by scholars Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claims the WHCDC kept disease-ridden animals in laboratories, including 605 bats. It also mentions that bats - which are linked to coronavirus - once attacked a researcher and 'blood of bat was on his skin.'

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; covid19; disease; virus; wuhan
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There have been stories about 2019-nCoV being created and accidently released from the Level IV facility in Wuhan from Day 1. Maybe China realizes the game is up as researchers outside China pick apart the virus so they allowed this paper to be publishes.
1 posted on 02/17/2020 5:21:13 AM PST by C19fan
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flu


2 posted on 02/17/2020 5:22:56 AM PST by JonPreston
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I had a little bird, it’s name was Enza
I opened up the window and in flew Enza.

That’s the curse of living right between the Level IV Bioweapons lab and the wet fish market.


3 posted on 02/17/2020 5:26:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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PING!

Washington Post told us this is a ‘conspiracy theory’ (meaning, it’s probably true!):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/16/tom-cotton-coronavirus-conspiracy/


4 posted on 02/17/2020 5:28:11 AM PST by TigerClaws
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I hope this is just rumor mongering and there is no basis for it, because we know how to treat bioligical warfare in our defense doctrine. It won’t be pretty.


5 posted on 02/17/2020 5:33:50 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: C19fan

Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market. A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WHCDC) could have spawned the contagion in Hubei province. ‘The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus,’ penned by scholars Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claims the WHCDC kept disease-ridden animals in laboratories, including 605 bats. It also mentions that bats - which are linked to coronavirus - once attacked a researcher and ‘blood of bat was on his skin.’

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The headline is a bit misleading compared to the excerpt.

The origin would still be diseased animals, even if the virus did come from a “government laboratory.”

This is another attempt to scare people.


6 posted on 02/17/2020 5:36:07 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market.

First, I thought the Level IV biohazard lab was some 20 miles north of Wuhan. Would this have been a less secure facility?

And second, it might explain why the Chinese have been so touchy about granting full access to WHO and CDC researchers.

7 posted on 02/17/2020 5:38:02 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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After we have been told this was all conspiracy theory stuff...

More reasons to doubt the Chinese government pronouncements on anything.


8 posted on 02/17/2020 5:40:11 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Was a Chinese state mandated Dec 1 2019 vaccine the precondition and catalyst leading to the Coronavirus deaths in China, and that exposure without having had the vaccine is not so serious?

Consider this perspective: CLEAR EVIDENCE it is NOT a Bioweapon. So What's All This About ACE2 and nCoV-2019 (COVID-2019)?

9 posted on 02/17/2020 5:51:43 AM PST by disclaimer
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“wet fish market”

Isn’t that like stating that water is wet? /s


10 posted on 02/17/2020 5:54:55 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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“Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory?

Of course it did!


11 posted on 02/17/2020 5:56:14 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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There’s a documentary out on China’s one child policy. Babies were killed late term and post birth. Brutal. There’s no level of evil to which they will not stoop if it’s the official party line. This could be a population control method. Get rid of the old and weak.


12 posted on 02/17/2020 5:57:02 AM PST by TigerClaws
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its an other attempt to get a grasp on reality - if you are scared go elsewhere watch tv etc


13 posted on 02/17/2020 6:00:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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or that it was an actual bioweapon tested on some village somewhere else in china killing thousands and while being transported, the truck ran off the road near wusan ... with people stealing the containers ... or not - a theory


14 posted on 02/17/2020 6:04:54 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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And monkeywrench their entire economy in the process?


15 posted on 02/17/2020 6:05:04 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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I read that it was not unusual for low-level workers to steal the lab bats and sell them to the wildlife market. So that’s something to consider.


16 posted on 02/17/2020 6:05:33 AM PST by livius
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or a weapon out of control


17 posted on 02/17/2020 6:05:49 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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It may be that the lab was close to the wet market intentionally in order to collect organisms from the diverse animals sold there. Penicillin was discovered on a cantaloupe in a market.


18 posted on 02/17/2020 6:07:13 AM PST by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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Pay walled.


19 posted on 02/17/2020 6:21:09 AM PST by null and void (By the pricking of my lungs, Something wicked this way comes ...)
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Mmmmmmmmmmmm, Bat Soup...


20 posted on 02/17/2020 6:22:23 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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