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The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here's how we know
Fox News ^ | March 24 2020 | LiveScience

Posted on 03/24/2020 5:58:31 AM PDT by knighthawk

As the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 spreads across the globe, with cases surpassing 284,000 worldwide today (March 20), misinformation is spreading almost as fast.

One persistent myth is that this virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was made by scientists and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.

A new analysis of SARS-CoV-2 may finally put that latter idea to bed. A group of researchers compared the genome of this novel coronavirus with the seven other coronaviruses known to infect humans: SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2, which can cause severe disease; along with HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E, which typically cause just mild symptoms, the researchers wrote March 17 in the journal Nature Medicine.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; chinavirusorigin; chinesevirus; coronavirus; debunked; deepstate; fakenews; weaponized
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1 posted on 03/24/2020 5:58:31 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

All i know is that chapel hill put a sars bat virus into a mouse


2 posted on 03/24/2020 6:01:44 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: knighthawk

Fakenews


3 posted on 03/24/2020 6:03:31 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: knighthawk

I never believed it “escaped”. Pretty sure some money changed hands somewhere.


4 posted on 03/24/2020 6:03:47 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: RummyChick

Smallpox was weaponized centuries ago.

No lab required.

Thanks to this insanity, if the ChiComs hadn’t figured that out before, they have now.


5 posted on 03/24/2020 6:04:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: knighthawk

Experts explain Livescience employs no scientists.


6 posted on 03/24/2020 6:05:01 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: knighthawk
More utter lies from our compromised left wing media liars .
No one believes the bat soup crap.
A bioweapon escaped from Wuhan labs the most notoriously reckless lab in the world .
The Chinese have BANNED any investigation .

So the Chinese owned western media is on defensive for their owners .

7 posted on 03/24/2020 6:06:32 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Global)
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To: knighthawk; All
Fake premise.

Forbes is conflating "Escaped from a lab" and "made in a lab".

There is a very high probablility the Wuhan Flu escaped from the lab in Wuhan.

There is a very high probability the Wuhan Flu originally was carried in bats.

The two premises are complimentary.

8 posted on 03/24/2020 6:06:44 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: knighthawk

Whether it escaped or not we still have to deal with it.


9 posted on 03/24/2020 6:06:46 AM PDT by xp38
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To: knighthawk

If I were going to create a bioweapon, I would make sure it wasn’t traced. There was a researcher at that lab who saw the results of splicing sars and coronavirus and how dangerous it was and noticed that the coronavirus in horseshoe bats was 96.2% similar.

Why not inject horseshoe bat coronavirus into an intermediate animal needed to then transmit to humans. One can accomplish mutating the virus for humans naturally and have plausible deniability?


10 posted on 03/24/2020 6:06:47 AM PDT by Crucial
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To: RummyChick

You read that article?

it’s scientifically quite convincing.

Not everything is a conspiracy and the facts laid out make sense.


11 posted on 03/24/2020 6:07:10 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists my curseoint fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: knighthawk

Sounds like somebody is attempting to baffle the public with complicated BS. I’m not buying it. Rather I’ll continue to believe this virus was manufactured by China until somebody can explain it to me in common sense English.


12 posted on 03/24/2020 6:07:12 AM PDT by Liberal Anti Venom (In a free society, the last refuge of a moron is tyranny. ~Jeremy Egerer~)
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To: knighthawk

The scientists who did this study were Chinese ?


13 posted on 03/24/2020 6:07:57 AM PDT by max americana (Fired ONE libtard at work at every election since 2008 because I enjoy them crying)
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To: knighthawk

“Could have”

Anyway...


14 posted on 03/24/2020 6:08:21 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: knighthawk

if FOX “news” is pushing this BS,
know that Romney and Soros also invested in
MAKING the viral atrocity.


15 posted on 03/24/2020 6:08:39 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: dp0622

“Could have”

it’s scientifically quite convincing.

No, it’s not.


16 posted on 03/24/2020 6:09:27 AM PDT by chris37 (Coronavirus wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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To: MrEdd

I am no scientist but it seems to me the chapel hill successful experiment evidence puts a nail in the coffin of this story.


17 posted on 03/24/2020 6:09:36 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: MrEdd
Bingo .

A bunch of nonsense and gibberish
pushed by the Fox leftist news plants .

The Chinese let some ugly bioweapon out .
You can smell the desperation from the China loving media .

18 posted on 03/24/2020 6:09:57 AM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Global)
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To: dp0622

I read it. And i am the one that has been talking about chapel hill here for months


19 posted on 03/24/2020 6:10:48 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: knighthawk
hmm so I did something i rarely do and read the article.

That didn't seem like lead pipe cinch evidence to me. If anything it indicated that the chinese bioweapons researchers worked with what they had on hand and locally - if it is indeed a bio engineered weapon.

20 posted on 03/24/2020 6:10:53 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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