[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.

[familyop]

For personal considerations, remember our social environment (see my tagline).

People are Googling ‘Corona beer virus’, seem to think novel coronavirus is related to lager
https://mothership.sg/2020/01/corona-beer-virus/

[familyop]

I was bitten on the hand by a little brown bat while spelunking as a teen. I tried grabbing one from the ceiling. The teeth felt like needles and went right through my glove and into my hand.

13:32, 29-Jan-2020
Bats: the Pandora’s box you do not want to open
Li Yunqi
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-01-29/Bats-the-Pandora-s-box-you-do-not-want-to-open-NAEr7rhZ4c/index.html

[familyop]

Report: White House Considering Temporary Ban on All U.S.-China Flights Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
Tom McKay
23 minutes ago
https://gizmodo.com/report-white-house-considering-temporary-ban-on-all-fl-1841319561

Monkey kidneys and old-school science: Inside Melbourne's coronavirus breakthrough
By Liam Mannix
January 29, 2020 — 4.51pm
https://www.smh.com.au/national/monkey-kidneys-and-old-school-science-inside-melbourne-s-coronavirus-breakthrough-20200129-p53vuy.html

[familyop]

Wuhan seafood market may not be only source of novel coronavirus: expert
Xinhua
http://en.people.cn/n3/2020/0129/c90000-9652392.html

[PIF]

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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Dear Prof, the Wusan Institute of Virology tried to make a good military-grade bio-weapon, but failed. Because it failed their trials, it was carelessly discarded. One worker got some on their sleave and after work began their second job as a cook in the local wet market - the rest is history.

[HollyB]

Crazy how they have 2 labs in Wuhan. Yet, are sending the patient’s virus tests to Beijing to be processed.