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US senator plays the fool on Coronavirus: Republican Tom Cotton shows himself up by promoting a discredited conspiracy theory about the new virus
South China Morning Post ^ | 02/10/2020 | Alex Lo

Posted on 02/13/2020 9:31:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/13/2020 9:31:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Consider the source of this story ?

Senator Cotton must be right-on-the-money.


2 posted on 02/13/2020 9:33:19 AM PST by BrexitBen
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South China Morning Post

Incredulity, anyone ?   :-)

3 posted on 02/13/2020 9:33:42 AM PST by tomkat
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This reads like a Chinese propaganda piece.


4 posted on 02/13/2020 9:33:59 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: BrexitBen

That struck me also.


5 posted on 02/13/2020 9:34:53 AM PST by sauropod (If women are upset at TrumpÂ’s naughty words, who bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Grey?)
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To: BrexitBen

When you are over the target.......


6 posted on 02/13/2020 9:36:26 AM PST by billyboy15
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Scientists who have looked at the results have no doubt it is a naturally evolving virus.

Are those the same "scientists" who believe in AGW?

7 posted on 02/13/2020 9:37:58 AM PST by FreeReign ("Please sit down, resume your seats, put your flags away")
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To: SeekAndFind; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
South China Morning Post

To be wildly promoted by CNN and it's ilk, anything to curry favor with their Chinese masters...

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.

8 posted on 02/13/2020 9:38:46 AM PST by null and void (The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Correct me if I am wrong. Isn’t the Chinese origin of this virus the same place that SARS and the Bird Flu started?


9 posted on 02/13/2020 9:39:57 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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somebody at the lab left the virus door open....either by accident or on purpose. Never let a disaster go to waste.


10 posted on 02/13/2020 9:40:42 AM PST by DOC44
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Leaving aside his absurd logic, the Wuhan institute is actually open to qualified outsiders, Americans no less.

IOW... They have a public rest room in the building.

11 posted on 02/13/2020 9:41:44 AM PST by Bitman
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Alex Lo is the paper’s Communist Party mouthpiece. If Xi Jinping made Swedish China’s official language, Lo would be singing the praises of this move in his very next column.


12 posted on 02/13/2020 9:42:44 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Nothing to see here...


13 posted on 02/13/2020 9:43:43 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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"Senator Cotton must be right-on-the-money."

He probably is. When the news first showed up on FR, I pegged it as having been manufactured in a Chinese lab. Cotton is no different than a lot of people who choose not to be naive when it comes to the Chi-Coms.

14 posted on 02/13/2020 9:45:23 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

When you’re catching flak, you’re over the target.


15 posted on 02/13/2020 9:46:25 AM PST by Lying Dog Faced Pony Soldier (If Joe Biden calls me a liar, I must be telling the truth!)
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To: Gene Eric

If you can’t trust the Chinese government, who can you trust?


16 posted on 02/13/2020 9:46:25 AM PST by Lying Dog Faced Pony Soldier (If Joe Biden calls me a liar, I must be telling the truth!)
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Yep. I am not a bug fan of Cotton, but hhe appears to havve done a little truth-tellingg here.


17 posted on 02/13/2020 9:46:42 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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Lest anyone imagine sen cotton is a slouch:

The honorable Sen Cotton:
Attended Harvard undergrad where wrote for the Crimson offering dissenting conservative views

He then gray from Harvard Law

He joined the USArmy, turning down a JAG post opting to be in the infantry after 9/11- because of 9/11

...he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and earned a Ranger Tab, Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and Iraq Campaign Medal.[11][14][15]

He served as congressman then was elected to the senate

His father was a district supervisor in the Arkansas Health Department.


18 posted on 02/13/2020 9:48:10 AM PST by stanne
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To: SeekAndFind

Chi-Com party propaganda.


19 posted on 02/13/2020 9:48:27 AM PST by Tejas Rob
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What prevents a naturally-evolving virus from being experimentally tested and released by a virology institute? Nothing. Just because a virus’s genome may be known, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t being used or released by humans.


20 posted on 02/13/2020 9:48:53 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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