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The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the Pandemic (COVID)
The Atlantic ^

Posted on 03/16/2023 3:43:46 PM PDT by janetjanet998

This week, an international team of virologists, genomicists, and evolutionary biologists may have finally found crucial data to help fill that knowledge gap. A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the market shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the virus at the end of 2019.

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Could have been Raccoon Dogs now huh? Oh and This data was just found in the samples

also this doesn't really prove it came from a Raccoon Dog just that it doesn't rule it out and is an important step...

also I had a feeling he was involved

"The new analysis, led by Kristian Andersen,"

1 posted on 03/16/2023 3:43:46 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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Was it batboy?!!!


2 posted on 03/16/2023 3:46:55 PM PDT by mylife (Big Donald J Trump socks psychology on the jaw...)
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To: janetjanet998

The Atlantic? Seriously?


3 posted on 03/16/2023 3:48:30 PM PDT by silent majority rising
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Never drop the con.


4 posted on 03/16/2023 3:48:36 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: janetjanet998

Bullcrap. Total cover story lie, from communist China and the US Government, immediately after they get cornered.
It was created at UNC Chapel Hill, where bot virus was altered with receptors from humanized mice. The program was moved to red China to hide it.
Then when China was under threat from spreading protests from Wuhan and Hong Kong and from Trump’s impending reelection, it was deliberately released.


5 posted on 03/16/2023 3:50:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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lol

these MORONS are now simply playing with words!

of COURSE the virus had natural origins!!!!!!!!!!!

NO ONE thinks they created Covid from NOTHING!!!!!

The wuhan lab took a NATURALLY OCCURING but relatively benign virus, and WEAPONIZED it in their lab!!!!!!!! after which they accidentally released it, killing MILLIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Again... NO ONE is saying they created a virus from scratch, in fact no virus or living thing has EVER been created from scratch to my knowledge! they ALWAYS start with an existing naturally occurring virus!

The left are either IDIOTS, or they believe we are!


6 posted on 03/16/2023 3:50:48 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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Well seems fairly obvious to me. Immediately do a comprehensive trap and sample of the wild population of raccoon dogs. If the virus is in the population and it shows genetic markers that it was there longer than 3 years then I guess it’s a cinch.

The alternative that it was a small group of animals that just happen to have it then and are now gone is preposterous.

I also wonder if the CCP could have planted evidence as a red herring.


7 posted on 03/16/2023 3:50:51 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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This could just as easily mean that Raccoon Dogs were infected by Humans at the Market.


8 posted on 03/16/2023 3:51:17 PM PDT by algore
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The strongest evidence still is only about ‘a chance in hell’, but we will keep this dead horse alive as long as there are idiots that will believe it. (my opinion)


9 posted on 03/16/2023 3:51:35 PM PDT by dirtymac ( Now Is The Time For All Good Men To ComeTo The Aid Of Their Country! NOW) )
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+1


10 posted on 03/16/2023 3:52:03 PM PDT by dforest (All of America has derailed.)
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Cracks me up that they think anyone except The Party is going to listen to them. A little sad actually.


11 posted on 03/16/2023 3:52:29 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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They need to quit picking on the pangolins.


12 posted on 03/16/2023 3:52:58 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? đŸ˜•)
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To: algore

I wondered about that as well.


13 posted on 03/16/2023 3:53:05 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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Could have been Trump.

That’s about as rational as this.

No humans who contracted the disease could be linked to
the wet market. I guess dogs and cats was the best they
could come up with.

Boy is someone desperate to cover Fauci’s ass.


14 posted on 03/16/2023 3:53:12 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: janetjanet998

Chinese-funded research, I’m sure.


15 posted on 03/16/2023 3:53:38 PM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: silent majority rising

...yeah, Fauci the fox.


16 posted on 03/16/2023 3:54:21 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of BS)
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To: janetjanet998

Anderson’s research is HIGHLY independent and has the most reputable funding source: $8.9 million grant by NIAID. Yeah, I completely trust that. /s (sarcasm tag provided for the slow people)


17 posted on 03/16/2023 3:54:52 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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The mysterious 'furin cleavage' sequence on the SARS-2 genome is an argument in favor of the virus not being natural.

Unless the raccoon dog virus includes that sequence then the lab origin theory is still strong.

18 posted on 03/16/2023 3:55:41 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: DesertRhino

The ‘Bat Soup Boogaloo’ goes On.
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Masks seem to be Resurging...
Stupid is still in style.


19 posted on 03/16/2023 3:56:26 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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How many centuries have the Chinese been eating everything in sight? This screed wants to give cover to those who let this shit out and those who should never have been tinkering with this shit in this manner in the first place, IMO.


20 posted on 03/16/2023 3:56:52 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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