Posted on 03/18/2020 2:39:51 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel said Wednesday that the COVID-19 coronavirus “is a bat virus, not a China virus.”...He also argued that “China certainly feels that” referring to the virus as the “Chinese virus” amounts to “scapegoating.”“This is a virus that came from the territory of China but came from bats,” he continued. “This is a bat virus, not a China virus.”
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LOL. Trump has them arguing that it’s “not a China Virus.” Every time they say it, millions of people hear “China Virus.”
I think the virus was studied in labs after it made the species jump. This is the same species jump that occurred in the notorious Wuhan Wet Market.
Moon bat virus.
Sorry NBC, but you got to call a spade a spade.
WU FLU
WUHAN PLAGUE
CHINA SYNDROME
CHINA PLAGUE
CHINK DISEASE
MAO’S MORBIDITY
JINPING PLAGUE
ZEDONG’S DEATH
XI’S DISEASE
Please feel free to add any others you can think of.
And the bats came from the caves in ........
(fill in the blanks).
“C’MON, Man!”, says Joe.
You mean that highly trained and experienced virologist Richard Engel? Or, just the journalism degree Richard Engel who doesn’t know the first thing about this virus?
Where was the China bat from? (Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?)
Richard Engel needs a good tar and feathering.
Right! And NOBODY is blaming Jack Nicholson for, “One Flu over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
NICE find!
CCP Virus
Nah, Ebola is the Monkey virus, doncha know!
.. . do THAT enough and she’ll use a BAT on you .. .
Not Pangolins?
Chinese Bat Soup.
WARNING — stomach churning
Richard Engel is Bat Shit Crazy.
I remember this jerk from the Clinton years.
He is a pustule on the butt of humanity.
Coronavirus research
In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus, finding that China’s horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.[6]
Continuing this work over a period of years, *researchers from the Institute sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China*, isolating over 300 bat coronavirus sequences.[7]
In 2015, the Institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa. *A team from the Institute engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.*[8][9]
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak
In December 2019, cases of pneumonia associated with an unknown coronavirus were reported to health authorities in Wuhan. *The Institute checked its coronavirus collection and found the new virus was 96 percent identical to a sample its researchers had taken from horseshoe bats in southwest China.*[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology#Coronavirus_research
‘Is a Bat Virus, Not a China Virus’
Chiroptophobe!
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