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'I've seen better seals on my fridge!' Shocking photos from inside Wuhan lab show broken seal on unit which stores 1,500 virus strains - including the bat coronavirus behind the deadly pandemic
dm ^ | 4/18/2020 | glen owen

Posted on 04/18/2020 2:58:08 PM PDT by RummyChick

It is a rare glimpse inside the Chinese laboratory at the centre of mounting inter-national suspicion about the Covid-19 pandemic – and will do nothing to dispel fears that it was caused by a catastrophic leak which has been covered up by Beijing.

Pictures from inside Wuhan’s secretive Institute of Virology show a broken seal on the door of one of the refrigerators used to hold 1,500 different strains of virus – including the bat coronavirus which has jumped to humans with such devastating effect.

The pictures, first released by the state-owned China Daily newspaper in 2018, were published on Twitter last month, before being deleted. One comment attached read: ‘I have seen better seals on my refrigerator in my kitchen.’

The Mail on Sunday revealed a fortnight ago that Ministers now fear that the pandemic could have started as the result of a leak.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: RummyChick

If in fact the picture show the inside of a facility storing hazardous virus samples the lack of an appropriate mask shows exactly the kind of mistake that leads to infection of a lab worker and subsequent escape from containment for the virus.


21 posted on 04/18/2020 3:53:27 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: ocrp1982

“Not to nit-pick but, that is a freezer. Not a fridge.”

Yes and it’s not just a typical home freezer. It’s meant to keep samples at -80 C, not just -20F.


22 posted on 04/18/2020 3:57:45 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (It's no coincidence that the DemocRAT/media complex always sides with America's enemies.)
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To: RummyChick

I want to see gates dance at the end of a rope for his funding of the chinese bioweapon that was loosed on the entire world by the stinking chinee.


23 posted on 04/18/2020 3:58:55 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: RummyChick

Probably kept their bag lunch in the same fridge.


24 posted on 04/18/2020 4:09:56 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Lurker

25 posted on 04/18/2020 4:20:41 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Sirius Lee
Agreed!👍
26 posted on 04/18/2020 4:21:35 PM PDT by apostoli ("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
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To: VeniVidiVici

In school our science teacher told us to close the freezer door over a dollar bill and if you could pull it out with the door closed the seal is bad and is wasting energy.

I went to class the next day and told him our freezer was REALLY bad because I was able to pull out a twenty.

He was not amused.


27 posted on 04/18/2020 4:25:12 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks, Matt. I’m putting that all over Twitter.

L


28 posted on 04/18/2020 4:26:52 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: RummyChick

For the rest of the pictures:

http://english.whiov.cas.cn/ne/201806/t20180604_193863.html


29 posted on 04/18/2020 4:29:44 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: RummyChick

Shouldn’t be that much ice build up on a well sealed unit


30 posted on 04/18/2020 4:31:14 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Jim Noble

Photos from the Wuhan lab website:

http://english.whiov.cas.cn/ne/201806/t20180604_193863.html

Assuming these people are handling virus samples, is this the level of protection they should have? I had thought that you’d want to be in bunny suits.


31 posted on 04/18/2020 4:34:12 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: RummyChick

Knowing what I do about China, if I had to create a scenario, it would be:

On one hand - Chinese lab scientist-cowboys, willing to play God, looking for a jump on research publication, make a name for themselves and get rich, have created quite a few little monsters in their labs. And then on the other hand - low-paid underlings selling lab equipment and even test-animals improperly to make some extra cash, let it out.


32 posted on 04/18/2020 4:41:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Zhang Fei

that is a good find.

so my question would be is all of that be appropriate for their lowest level of stuff. Level 1. We know for sure it wouldn’t be for Level 4.


33 posted on 04/18/2020 4:49:27 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: RummyChick
YyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucK!!!!!!!


34 posted on 04/18/2020 4:59:13 PM PDT by 4Liberty (BERNIE SANDERS: A CRUSTY, ANTI-AMERICAN WEIRDO. - Kurt Schlichter)
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To: RummyChick; Jim Noble

[that is a good find.

so my question would be is all of that be appropriate for their lowest level of stuff. Level 1. We know for sure it wouldn’t be for Level 4.]


I’m getting the feeling that this is Chernobyl redux, in the sense of a half-assed, half-funded, seat-of-the-pants work environment leading to disaster. The difference is that radioactive ash doesn’t travel much - viruses do, through their human hosts.


35 posted on 04/18/2020 5:00:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: wastoute; exDemMom; Vermont Lt; RetiredScientist; RummyChick

Amateur hour at Wuhan lab re protective gear?

http://english.whiov.cas.cn/ne/201806/t20180604_193863.html

It’s possible, of course, that virus samples are stored elsewhere. But the title of the page is “Take a look at the largest virus bank in Asia”.


36 posted on 04/18/2020 5:08:34 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

“”Rockville, MD””

Is that anywhere near or where Fort Detrick is where all the research goes on? Including the ebola years ago and probably still!!!


37 posted on 04/18/2020 5:38:13 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: RummyChick
I'm skeptical of the "accidental release" theory as it does not explain the odd behavior since which suggests a bio-weapon...

The DELIVERY SYSTEM

LINK

The Laptop

LINK

The Lugi

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The ELEVATOR

LINK

Door Handles

LINK

Chinese Checkers

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Air Mail

LINK

“No more for Americans!”

LINK

38 posted on 04/18/2020 6:44:15 PM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Thank You Rush

Fort Detrick Researchers Ominously Prescient in their Analysis of a New & Dangerous Coronavirus

New Coronaviruses Deadly

By 2018, Allison Totura and Sina Bavari, again researchers with Fort Detrick, discussed previous outbreaks involving SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV noting, “These coronaviruses may have the potential to cause devastating pandemics due to unique features in virus biology including rapid viral replication, broad host range, cross-species transmission, person-to-person transmission, person-to-person transmission, and lack of herd immunity in human populations.”

Although these first two outbreaks were contained by “diligent enforcement of public health measures” ominously they pointed to the threat of a “as-yet unknown BatCoV that causes severe disease in humans and makes antiviral therapeutics that broadly target coronaviruses a highly desirable commodity to ensure global public health.”

Instructing us back in 2018

Ms. Totura and Mr. Bavari essentially warned governments back in 2018 to start acting now when they noted that governments’ currently must “produce medical countermeasures that can protect vulnerable populations against known coronaviruses (SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV) but also could be effective against…novel highly pathogenic coronaviruses that may emerge from animal reservoir hosts.”
https://www.trialsitenews.com/fort-detrick-researchers-ominously-prescient-in-their-analysis-of-a-new-dangerous-coronavirus/


39 posted on 04/18/2020 6:49:40 PM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: RasterMaster

Why do you bio weapon guys think molecular virology is so advanced to make the features you believe have been engineered here are possible to create?


40 posted on 04/18/2020 6:58:52 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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