[kinghorse]

Man made plague. How nice. Especially nice for the luddite Islamics who want the whole world flash frozen circa the 6th century.

We cannot buy a break. USA posted healthy economic growth in the 1st qtr. China is going to take us down along with everyone else. So much of our current share value is predicated on cheap chinese labor and willing chinese consumers. Not good.

[cgk]

"Man made plague"...

I keep thinking that, also. I'm sure we'll never know for sure.

[RussianConservative]

200 dead people is hardly a plague makes.

[j_williamsii]

The findings in the Netherlands don't support the belief that the virus is man-made:

"But, the virus nonetheless is 'something that is new to science,' university microbiologist Malik Peiris said before the WHO findings were announced.

Asked about the possibility that the virus was man-made, Peiris said there was no chance of that.

'That whole genome is essentially new,' he said. 'Nature has been the terrorist throwing up this virus.'"

[The Pheonix]

All these years that we, Mankind, has been using anti-biotics on poultry, pigs, etc, and these anti-biotics has created "anti-biotics-resistant" viruses. You see, some farm workers might have administered the wrong dosages of anti-biotics either thru ignorance, carelessness or negligence.This SARS is the VIRUS-WORLD fighting back. AS another example, a poultry-farm in Holland is reporting 3 cases of bird-flu virus with one death

[Cicero5]

buy gold

[Servant of the Nine]

Man made plague.

There is zero evidence for that.
If you wish to believe it as a matter of religious conviction, be my guest.

This is a Coronavirus. They mutate constantly, that is why we have never been able to develop a vaccine for the common cold. This one is more lethal than any in memory, but given the hundreds of new varients that appear every year, it was inevitable.

There has never been any indication that any nation was incompetent enough to use a Coronavirus as the precursor of a bioweapon, precisely because it mutates wildly.
There is no way you can hope to vaccinate and protect your own troops and population.

So9