Posted on 02/22/2020 7:33:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A team of researchers has hit back at rumors that the coronavirus that emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year was engineered.
In a paper posted on Monday on the scientific online forum Virological, the scientists – who include top epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin from Columbia University; Edward Holmes from the University of Sydney; and Kristian Andersen of Scripps Research – said crucial genetic clues indicate that the coronavirus was not created in a laboratory.
Despite scientists’ repeated efforts at debunking conspiracy theories, rumors about the still-unknown origins of the virus, also known as SARS-CoV-2, have been rife.
Most are based on the idea that the virus emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where researchers have built one of the world’s biggest databases of bat-related viruses. The institute was the first to identify the new coronavirus as directly related to a wild strain found in bats.
The speculation prompted the institute’s lead researcher, Shi Zhengli, to say in a post on the social media platform WeChat: “I swear with my life, [the virus] has nothing to do with the lab.”
But that has not stopped the rumors, including in the United States, where Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, suggested in a Fox News television broadcast on Sunday that the virus could have come from a “biosafety level-4 super laboratory” in China.
The senator later clarified on Twitter he did not say the new coronavirus was an “engineered bioweapon,” but that there were several hypotheses about its origins that needed to be further explored.
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Man made. J7st like Pine Bluff Arkansas where the US keeps their biological and chemical weapons. Something got out once in the form of the McRib.
Seriously, Pine Bluff is where McDonalds market researched and the McRib.
I don’t know what #FakeNews to believe. A week or so ago the MSM reported that “scientists” proved that the coronavirus had to be engineered in a lab.
I know, let’s put several jornolists in a sealed room with it and see what we can prove from that!
From the headline: “Their analysis suggests that the virus evolved in a manner that would have been difficult to reproduce in a lab.”
Umm, well, that’s kinda the purpose of the lab isn’t it?
the deep state had so far been unable to stop trump. the only way to stop trump now appears to be through hitting the blue collar worker in the checkbook via a stock market crash.
the coronavirus can threaten the stock market by threatening the world JIT inventory— first by hitting China, and then the western world.
lombardy is one of the most heavily industrialized locations in western europe.
where is an analogous location in the usa?
Columbia? Communist cesspool
A guy I Harvard already was hemmed up by the FBI over hiding illegal commi funding of his research.
Columbia are commi whores worse than Harvard, will do it for free
If you want the virus to seek a population with via a distinct gene.. yep you do. Easy way to target individuals in a particular region, ethnicity.. The deaths of Asians vs non Asians define this virus. It could develop in the wild, but i think its a periodic cleansing of the aging Chinese.
Think of the origins of bird flu, swine flu, sars....
Trust this scientist.. unless he was the one stating the hymalayas would melt by 2020. The others would never lie for profit.
“If this was a genetically engineered virus, they [researchers] would be taking a virus that we know infects humans and causes disease and using the same genetic structure. But we haven’t seen [these features] before, so they’ve evolved naturally, separately in nature. No one has seen them before so they wouldn’t be genetically engineered that way,”
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Someone needs to explain to me how a portion of the HIV genome got into the virus without engineering. This splice just happens to be the one that incapacitates the hosts immune system, which is a nice lethal enhancement for a bioweapon.
I’ve heard other sources saying the same thing - it doesn’t appear to be structured enough to have been manufactured...of course, so many want it to be a deliberate act that they really won’t listen to anything that might not agree with the meme they have decided on...
China, I think they need to build a big wall around that place..
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Well, an article from Forbes magazine already explains this:
TITLE: No, The Wuhan Coronavirus Was Not Genetically Engineered To Put Pieces Of HIV In It
Source for the function of the splice, please?
What? In the height of flu season, three weeks before the Chinese were set to start traveling to and fro all over the world by the hundreds of thousands, if not millions? At a time when the "globalists"and their evils are the most known to the world and the most vulnerable?
You think that's suspect?
Ya thinking old school.
It's now the "elites" vs everyone else.
They've publicly stated they wish to get the population down to about 10% of what it is now.
Source for the function of the splice, please?
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https://greatgameindia.com/indian-scientists-discover-coronavirus-engineered-with-aids-like-insertions/
How reliable a source is this Great Game India that you refer to?
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