[Zhang Fei]

The Party is allowing Chinese chat app participants to talk about the possibility that the coronavirus is the product of US bioweapons labs. Sound like the latest effort to deflect from the Party's incompetence (whether in letting a virus loose from its own bioweapons labs, letting US bioweapons enter China, or being unable to contain the spread of the virus), while banking nationalistic fervor for any future military conflict with the US.

[kaehurowing]

What you can’t see is the part that is underground.

[adorno]

My first thought after the coronavirus outbreak was: population control and/or biological warfare.

Somebody was up to no good and lost control of their experiments.

OR........

Did they????

[RummyChick]

We had a china bat /sars virus living in a mouse at Chapel Hill in 2015. It did not kill the mouse at the time of the article

[grey_whiskers]

“There is no evidence that it was a bioweapon, and any claims that it is wilfully spreads misinformation and is incredibly irresponsible,” warns MIT security studies professor Vipin Narang.

The Chair of Chemisty at HARVARD just got nailed for Chinese funding under the table.

Let's look next door at MIT...

[Zhang Fei]

[But Prof Narang doubts the 2019-nCoV virus is an escaped bioweapon: “It would be a terrible bioweapon because of blowback. A good bioweapon, in theory, has high lethality but low, not high, communicability.”]

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This is BS. Chinese political leaders understand nuclear deterrence. They won’t launch a first strike against a nuclear power with the ability to retaliate by burning China’s major cities to the ground. But something like a bioweapon researched in China doesn’t carry the threat of retaliation. There is presumably a reason they placed the bioweapons lab in Wuhan, 650 miles away from Beijing, whereas Fort Detrick, former home of the US bioweapons program until the program was dismantled in the 60’s, was only 50 miles away from DC. Whereas Wuhan is host to an active bioweapons research center.

[plain talk]

Doesn’t sound like much of a bio weapon with a 3% kill rate.

[familyop]

There’s a possible case in Douglas County, KS.

[BrexitBen]

And, 350,000 Chinese exchange students at universities throughout the 50 states.

A prescription for possible disaster.

[familyop]

There are a couple of scary numbers in this piece (13,500 divided by 30,000). Could be an error. Don’t know.

The Coronavirus Has Spooked Stocks. Here’s How Fast It Could Spread, According to 1 Model.
(Cascend model)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/how-fast-coronavirus-could-spread-stocks-china-51580239433?mod=hp_LATEST

[Blurb2350]

Wasn’t there speculation that the technology for creating novel corona viruses was developed and patented in the U.S., then stolen by a visiting Chinese researcher? And now the Chinese bioweapons lab either released it accidentally via their usual slapdash, careless habits, or intentionally as an experiment that got out of hand.

[Secret Agent Man]

Given that SARS was from bats the first go-round, not surprising this one is as well.

[familyop]

Bioweapons development for at least some nations tends towards pathogens that end their missions within relatively short time spans and short distances.

[yldstrk]

Well it took everybody long enough to get there, how dumb are people? My friends and I were talking about this lab last weekend.

[familyop]

Jet with US employees from China diverted to March air base amid coronavirus concerns
https://abc7.com/health/jet-carrying-us-employees-from-china-diverted-to-march-afb-amid-coronavirus-concerns/5887106/

[familyop]

Australia scientists claim first re-creation of coronavirus outside China
1 HOUR AGO
https://www.trtworld.com/life/australia-scientists-claim-first-re-creation-of-coronavirus-outside-china-33308

[familyop]

Australia to quarantine coronavirus evacuees on Christmas Island
10 mins ago
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-australia-christmas-island-quarantine-b034dc20-bc23-47b0-9d52-f4a548f96597.html

[familyop]

Google shuts down Taiwan office due to viral outbreak
Google, Facebook advise their employees to avoid traveling to China

By Ching-Tse Cheng, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2020/01/29 12:26
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3866348

[familyop]

Island quarantine plan as foreigners leave China
https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/world/2020-01-29-island-quarantine-plan-as-foreigners-leave-china/

[Along with evacuation plans of other nations.]

[familyop]

FDA issues stern warning to Purell hand sanitizer maker
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200129/FDA-issues-stern-warning-to-Purell-hand-sanitizer-maker.aspx

The part under “Handwashing still recommended” is most important and should be brought to the attention of staff members in today’s stinky, dirty hospitals.

[familyop]

Coronavirus outbreak could peak in 10 days, says top Chinese health expert
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/coronavirus-outbreak-could-peak-in-10-days-says-top-chinese-health-expert/story-EgjOfFoMz967aCI0M402tL.html

[I would consider taking that message more as a heads-up to the West.]