[21twelve]

“The unique biological properties that HIV sequences could theoretically impart to another virus are completely missing from 2019-nCoV...”

I hope that is true. Even natural HIV sequences might cause real problems, but from this sentence it seems like the HIV parts that could cause trouble aren’t here?

[catnipman]

“but from this sentence it seems like the HIV parts that could cause trouble aren’t here?”

that’s the way i read it: very small snippets of RNA in the coronavirus match very small snippets in HIV, but it’s just more or less a coincidence because these corona virus snippets match other pieces of other viruses as well, and the author also goes on to later say that the coronavirus has no ability to infect T-cells, which is the hallmark of the HIV virus, and which is the action that makes HIV so deadly because T-cells are the body’s defense against foreign invaders like HIV ...

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but from this sentence it seems like the HIV parts that could cause trouble aren’t here? This is just like a late abortion...

If you define "trouble" as causing AIDS, yes.

If you mean causing a fatal strain of flu that bypasses all the normal flu vaccination targets and latch on to other sites, those are there.

<Tinfoil>

5hit's gonna get real when someone decides that this was deliberately done by a gay researcher in Canada's lab who was upset about the slow progress on AIDS vaccinations, figuring that the genes in a highly contagious flu would force more research in this area. Even if true, he couldn't foresee it being stolen by his dear friend the nice Chinese co-worker, nor that China would use a more virulent version of flu, and certainly that China would be so negligent (or stupid, or just plain evil enough to lose control of it) Still, a lot of people with that lifestyle will become mob targets.

Would China use this to reduce their population? They used the one child policy and forced abortions and sterilizations to enforce it, didn't they?

And there is the issue of African Swine flu. Most of China's main protein source has been wiped out. Face a billion hungry rioters blaming you, or a quarter billion survivors afraid to gather in groups and grateful to you for saving them?

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