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Is The Coronavirus A Bioweapon?
Epoch Times ^ | 7 Feb 2020 | Steven W. Mosher

Posted on 02/09/2020 10:41:46 PM PST by datura

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To: piasa

You make a valid point.

But I argue that just incapacitating some targets would not be very effective. It appears that many, if not most infected people do not suffer serious symptoms. A much more effective bioweapon would cause massive incapacitation and death. Not the case here so far.

And it would be extremely reckless for the bioengineers to create a weapon before creating a protection for their own population...


41 posted on 02/10/2020 2:22:57 AM PST by Synthesist
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To: ronnie raygun
Me thinks the globalists see their utopian dream maybe coming to an end, time for a global crisis where they will be there to save us all

Agenda21 was supposed to be achieved in just over ten months from now.

42 posted on 02/10/2020 2:37:19 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: datura

If it’s a bio weapon then with a death rate of around 2% it’s not a very effective one.


43 posted on 02/10/2020 2:48:18 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: datura

Why would the Chinese create a weapon that only kills Chinese?


44 posted on 02/10/2020 2:52:09 AM PST by Husker24
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To: datura
Is The Coronavirus A Bioweapon?

Does it bother anyone else that they're sending (possibly) infected folks to our military bases?

45 posted on 02/10/2020 3:12:34 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Perhaps you are thinking of "Sixth Column" - a 1941 novel by Robert Heinlein.

The concept of an ethnic-specific bioweapon have been around for a long time.

46 posted on 02/10/2020 3:22:05 AM PST by flamberge (The wheels keep turning)
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To: fr_freak
Why in the world would the Chinese design a virus to kill only Asians?

Perhaps because that is what they had for their experimental subjects.

More likely, this virus was a research experiment with some "minor modifications" to target specific lab animals as a proof-of-concept. I would believe it is unlikely to be a finished bioweapon.

And then there was an "oops" in the lab.

"Now you know it works. Any questions?" (Stephen King, The Stand)

47 posted on 02/10/2020 3:35:04 AM PST by flamberge (The wheels keep turning)
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To: Husker24
Why would the Chinese create a weapon that only kills Chinese?

It seems to be mostly killing the elderly, sick and other immunocompromised people.

Draw a Venn diagram of productive people, burdensome people and victims of this Coronavirus. Which intersect?

48 posted on 02/10/2020 3:51:57 AM PST by Malsua
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To: Malsua

We only know the victim’s demographics from what the chicoms tell us.

The doctor that died over there this week was 31yrs old. Healthy.

The 35yr old patient in Washington state would have been a victim already or still in ICU if he hadn’t gotten the experimental drug. He was also a healthy non smoker.

This bug causes a ‘cytokine storm’, like the Spanish Flu did. It will kill healthy young people as well. With a quickness.


49 posted on 02/10/2020 3:59:02 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: BenLurkin
I trust him to be straight with the American people if and when a determination is made.

Trump is honest. It's his trademark, which drives the LIBERALS crazy

My concern would be the honesty of the "investigation" and the facts presented to Trump.

There are still plenty of "deep-staters" at work in the Washington swamp.

50 posted on 02/10/2020 4:23:22 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

Every government agency is loaded with TDS.


51 posted on 02/10/2020 4:25:23 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: datura

The article is built on conjecture and supposition, not evidence. Notably, the outbreak began at a large and unsanitary food market in Wuhan, not among workers at the bioweapon lab implicated in the article. Supposedly, pangolins sold at the food market are suspected to have been the intermediate vector for the virus, with bats as its natural reservoir.


52 posted on 02/10/2020 4:36:27 AM PST by Rockingham
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To: Vendome

The kill rate is 17%.

Extremely easy to catch.

If 100 million got it here in the U. S., that’s 17 million dead.

Nothing to worry about ...


53 posted on 02/10/2020 4:36:30 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Vendome

What? Are you trying to be a cheap Hunter Thompson knockoff with your writings? Better hook up the shotgun now.


54 posted on 02/10/2020 5:18:41 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Widget Jr; synthesis; piasa

This virus has been genome sequenced & determined to NOT be synthetic or man made.
Could it have accidently escaped a lab - yes. Lab accidents happen more frequently than one might think.


55 posted on 02/10/2020 5:20:01 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Ho Lee Fuk!


56 posted on 02/10/2020 5:21:22 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: datura

Bioweapon?

I thought THAT from the start


57 posted on 02/10/2020 5:31:51 AM PST by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

I’m not a biological warfare specialist, but a couple of my friends are and they maintain that the coronavirus is behaving very much like a bio-engineered weapon.


58 posted on 02/10/2020 5:37:33 AM PST by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Synthesist
I seriously doubt it. *If* so, it would be one of the least effective bioweapons ever developed.

I read (doesn't make it true) that the virus seems to affect Asian males more strongly than Asian females or those of other races, because of the relative distribution of a certain type of cell in the lung. If so, one could conceive of it as a differential vaccine gone bad, rather than an active attack weapon.

To me, that's still a second or third order conspiracy theory at present. I wonder if we'll ever get the whole story.

59 posted on 02/10/2020 5:39:42 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

China does have a rather well known gender imbalance due to past one child policies and Chinese cultural preference for sons.


60 posted on 02/10/2020 5:44:44 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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