Posted on 03/24/2021 7:37:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 03/24/2021 8:04:42 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when reports describing a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, caught his eye. It was early January 2020, and Petrovsky, an immunologist, was at his vacation getaway in Keystone, Colorado, which is where he goes most years with his family to flee the searingly hot summers at home in South Australia.
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My first hint the virus was lab produced - - reports in late December and early January that some towns around Wuhan had torn up their roads so people fleeing Wuhan would not go through their villages.
That’s a red flag.
In totalitarian hellholes important information is always sent ‘word of mouth’... to trusted family members to other trusted family members - to trusted in-laws to their trusted family members... and on and on and on... And when the information is life or death it moves quickly and accurately.
Someone at the lab told a family member there had been a breech... Then the government stepped in to stir the pot AND take control.. that move is still strange to me. Fake road blocks were set up with government paid protesters... that one’s a mystery.
Anyhow it was obvious it wasn’t a case of someone has the flu...
-——in the absence of conclusive evidence, the message on origins should be “We don’t know.——
That is the pay dirt sentence, the truth of the matter.
Obviously yes. It’s not even close.
Chinese government already admitted cases were circulating before the wet market and it wasn’t the origin.
January 29, 2020 - reply 27 - post to FR:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3811895/posts?page=27#27
2019-nCoV did not arise from a simple mutation in an existing corona virus.
Almost half of the RNA in 2019-nCoV has NO genetic linkage to any other corona virus. This includes the middle region where half of the genomic spike encoding a multifunction protein responsible for virus entry into host cells has no linkage to any other corona virus.
Unlike other corona viruses that infect the mucosal membranes of the nasal passages, 2019-nCoV infects the simple squamous epithelium in the lungs.
The data suggest that 2019-nCoV is a manmade combination of a corona virus from bats (which causes cold and flu symptoms) with a blood borne pneumonia virus from a mammal other than humans (which causes the bloody pneumonia that kills the host). The corona virus provides the pathway for the lethal pneumonia virus to enter a human host.
Sources:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.920249v1
Full-genome evolutionary analysis of the novel corona virus (2019-nCoV) rejects the hypothesis of emergence as a result of a recent recombination event
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding Twitter Account
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1221997385146040321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
There are articles from as early as 2015 in Nature that Wuhan Institute of Virology was creating COVID chimeras and doing gain of function experiments. When the U.S. made such research illegal, the majority of the research and the funding was then directed to Wuhan. You can read a half-dozen articles in Nature about COVID research going on at the Wuhan lab.
January 29, 2020 - post to FR - article from DailyMail.co.uk:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3811892/posts
The coronavirus vigilantes: Chinese villagers dig up roads and arm themselves with spears to prevent Wuhan residents from escaping into their communities
“Villages around the epicentre of China’s coronavirus outbreak are flocking to prevent residents from the largely quarantined Hubei Province from fleeing into their land, it has emerged.
Videos and pictures circulating on social media purport to show frightened locals living near the border of Hubei resorting to various methods - including destroying roads and using weapon-wielding guards - in a desperate bid to stop people escaping from the other side.
Six villages in the province of Hebei, which does not adjoin virus-ravaged Hubei, even started to build brick walls to barricade themselves and stop outsiders, a report revealed yesterday.”
I understand that and agree. However, I still think wet markets should be ended if there are not strict food safety measures in place.
We have dodged many bullets. These markets remain the most likely accidental vector of a pandemic for humanity. They are not regulated or monitored.
Thirty years ago I would not care, but in a world where people travel from one end of the globe to the other within a day via air travel the risks have never been greater that a person infected because of “bat soup” could potentially infect dozens via air travel who end up in dozens of locations.
It is very real. It was real in the early 90’s when I was a grad student and it is no better today. In fact, I am surprised we have not had a wet market pandemic in the past few decades. It is just a different world. Open borders, easy international travel, and populations with no immunity or awareness of pathogens that have been around for centuries in some of these places.
Yeah, I have been in those wet markets in Mainland China, they’re gross. Also the street food vendors in the night markets sell all sorts of gross things like scorpions and centipedes on a stick (scorpions are alive, their stingers have been removed). But frankly we have them here in the U.S. too, we have them here in our local Chinatown and also Filipino communities. I am only assuming that our State Department of Health keeps closer supervision on them than they do in China.
It’s partly cultural, concepts of hygiene are pretty lacking in Mainland China. In distinction, when I am in Korea and Japan, I have no concern buying things from street food vendors, because they have good hygiene cultures. I’ve never gotten sick from any food I’ve bought in Japan or Korea.
Back when borders were relatively firm and international travel was rare (extremely rare in comparison to today) it was less of a threat.
Today, we live in a world where a coronavirus or other pathogen from one bad animal in one wet market could potentially kill tens of millions or more throughout the world. This must be one of the lessons learned from this pandemic.
Different regions in the world have some immunity to such pandemics that might mask it long enough to get a foothold. One example of this is the current pandemic, which has had an outsized impact on ethnic groups the furthest from the center of the pandemic. It is fair to say based on data analysis that Asian cultures and populations had some protections against this pandemic likely from more exposure to similar viruses and lower BMI’s.
Africa has some very really scary ones as well. The same things occur in the plant world. The oak blight in Ohio for example might decimate the oak trees in the mid-west but have little impact on those in the south as a hypothetical.
Anyone who doesn’t think that this was a planned bioweapon is a complete idiot. Unfortunately, when unspeakable evil stares people in the face, most of them refuse to see it, because it’s just too upsetting to them.
Yeah, when I think where I have traveled to without ever really thinking about diseases, it’s kind of spooky. I did get the recommended vaccines against some things (not common vaccines so you have to go to a special pharmacy here that inoculates against the more exotic diseases) but in hindsight I think I have been lucky.
The only place where I had a real problem was northern Vietnam. I started developing skin rashes and infections right after I got off the plane. A couple got pretty gruesome. And then they started going away when we got to Cambodia. I actually attributed it to something in the Vietnamese water or air pollution. Hanoi has horrible air pollution, at first you think it’s fog but you realize after a day when it’s still there it’s smog.
I saw my first “wet market” in the tiny Chinese village of Shuifu, Yunnan in the fall of 1976. A local villager was selling butchered meat which was sting in the dirt and covered with flies. My interpreter told me to take a photograph of their shiny new Komatsu bulldozer instead of the guy selling meat
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SARS-CoV-2 bound more tightly to their human cell receptor, a protein called ACE2, than target receptors on any other species evaluated. In other words, SARS-CoV-2 was surprisingly well adapted to its human prey, which is unusual for a newly emerging pathogen.>>>>>>
For me that’s the smoking gun right there.
The Red Chinese are waging bio warfare on us.And Fauci doesn’t even know? Why? He knows everything else, apparently.
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