[Steely Tom]

Not sure of excerpting rules for Forbes.

This story has a bearing on a story I posted Sunday night; apparently the underlying paper has been retracted.

Here's a link to the original, which was moved to chat:

Scientists Confirm Coronavirus Man-Made…Contains ‘pShuttle-SN’ Sequence Proving Laboratory Origin.

[CondorFlight]

The jury is still out. Another suggestion is that the virus derives from an attempt by China to create a vaccine, which accidentally had the negative result of reducing immunity to some viruses; hence the outbreak.

Not certain we’ll ever know.

[BobL]

Damn, if HIV was involved, our government would be forced to take this a bit more seriously than simple temperature checks for those returning from China.

[Boogieman]

So we can stop freaking out about “airborne AIDS”? Or should we continue freaking out just in case?

[winoneforthegipper]

Moderately Strong Confirmation of a Laboratory Origin of 2019-nCoV

https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2020/02/02/moderately-strong-confirmation-of-a-laboratory-origin-of-2019-ncov/

This dude’s the real deal. Perhaps not weaponized but not naturally likely either.

[Black Agnes]

Underlying paper retracted.

But not refuted.

[Steely Tom]

All of you were right for calling the story I posted the other night not credible.

[bigbob]

Thanks, didn’t know Forbes was now the PR agency for the CCP.

[WKUHilltopper]

Sure, I believe everything the MSM vomits out. They violated the public trust and public contract and will never recover from it. Lying subversive bastards.

[Revel]

Forbes is one of those MSM publications that is always going to report whatever they are told to report. They take orders.

[Mr. Jeeves]

No, None of These Columnists Have Any Idea What They Are Talking About - But They Are All Panicked About the Potential Effect on US Markets.

[Widget Jr]

#33 from the that thread:

"This was covered extensively in a thread yesterday. The author of the article is not a virologist but rather a computer nerd with a specialty in bio-science. The reason the article was withdrawn is that real virologists were critical of it. The publisher is not a peer reviewed site, but rather a pre-publishing site used to check for duplicate plagiarism in papers before submission by comparison with already published papers.

"A Freepers son who is in the field wrote a criticism that pointed out it’s not unusual to get false duplicate strands like what is being reported."

#38:

"I was just commenting the same thing. He is working on a theory, he is not stating it is fact.

"He should keep his theory close to himself. They are talking about him across a lot of forum/sites now. This could ruin his career."

[Diogenesis]

much more likely:

FORBES was involved with Soros and Gates to make
this population killer. ..or.. got a payoff.

[familyop]

True that the coronavirus is *not* HIV. It’s a bad situation, though. Stock up on food, soap and paper items now, so the trucks can roll sooner and replenish stores before epidemic arrival.

[bkopto]

I don’t trust either the Chinese or the Indians. The Indians have an axe to grind against the Chinese. The Chinese are chronic liars.

However, I would tend to believe this US biowarfare expert, who thinks this 2019 virus was engineered to be a weapon:

https://www.zerohedge.com/health/creator-bioweapons-act-says-coronavirus-biological-warfare-weapon

[Lopeover]

The virus was weaponized, no matter how much pressure the global community puts on scientists. Man with ncoronavirus in Thailand was put on HIV viral meds and came through. Although they don’t know it he will stay healthy or if he & others like him, will become a modern day “typhoid Mary.”

[null and void]

Nahhh, just a remarkable coinky-dink, nothing to see here, move along...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[sauropod]

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