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L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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You could, but why mess a coronavirus, when the world was already partially-prepped because of the previous coronaviruses of SARS and MERS? Why not some form of avian flu? There are far more infectious diseases to meddle with. And there are far more deadly viruses, like ebola.

To even make this conspiracy theory plausible, you kind of have to presume that China couldn't even design an effective bioweapon right from the start ... even if it wanted to.

Covid wreaked tons of damage around the world. But this was nothing compared to what nature could have developed itself in due time.
 

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Quetzalcoatl

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Aug 22, 2007
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You could, but why mess a coronavirus, when the world was already partially-prepped because of the previous coronaviruses of SARS and MERS? Why not some form of avian flu? There are far more infectious diseases to meddle with. And there are far more deadly viruses, like ebola.

To even make this conspiracy theory plausible, you kind of have to presume that China couldn't even design an effective bioweapon right from the start ... even if it wanted to.

Covid wreaked tons of damage around the world. But this was nothing compared to what nature could have developed itself in due time.
Creating a bioweapon that would cause the most possible damage... is that the only possible reason for scientists to create a virus? Maybe some kind of research, or to be better prepared in the case of naturally occurring ones for example.

Or let's say the purpose was to create bioweapons, why create one that's not as lethal/infectious as possible? Maybe they would want something they had some sort of control over i.e. being able to create treatments/vaccines.
 

Seven

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Jun 25, 2003
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You could, but why mess a coronavirus, when the world was already partially-prepped because of the previous coronaviruses of SARS and MERS? Why not some form of avian flu? There are far more infectious diseases to meddle with. And there are far more deadly viruses, like ebola.

To even make this conspiracy theory plausible, you kind of have to presume that China couldn't even design an effective bioweapon right from the start ... even if it wanted to.

Covid wreaked tons of damage around the world. But this was nothing compared to what nature could have developed itself in due time.
Honestly I just don't see how China benefits from all this.

Cui bono is the first question.

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Gian

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Apr 12, 2009
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Global socialism/communism has been achieved so the Chinese got what they wanted.

Had my first shot today of the Pfizer vaccine, so far no side effects after the first 8 hours. Wonder when the symptoms kicks in.
 
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Goodfella

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Nov 11, 2012
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I still don't get how people believe that a Chinese bioweapons lab would come up with a virus that most people would say is "just the flu" and primarily killed the elderly and people with co-morbidities. You may as well accuse a Chinese bio-weapons lab of creating "Sex in the City".
Just to play the devil's advocate. Creating something that is too deadly and too obvious, which spins out of control is not something anyone would do though. Releasing a controlled, not so lethal one can cause a lot of havoc, and it has, if we don't count bodies but overall impact.
 

kao_ray

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Feb 28, 2014
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I still don't get how people believe that a Chinese bioweapons lab would come up with a virus that most people would say is "just the flu" and primarily killed the elderly and people with co-morbidities. You may as well accuse a Chinese bio-weapons lab of creating "Sex in the City".
Lab-leak hypothesis is not that at all. In short it is that the Chinese lab did gain-of-function research on Coronaviruses from bats to prevent a future pandemic. But making viruses more transmissible to humans (this is what gain-of-function do) can lead to a leak by contaminating someone from the research lab and he'll spread it in public. It's basically an incident due to a dangerous research that is made for a noble cause.
 

Siamak

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Aug 13, 2013
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My uncle died a couple days ago from a heart attack, thought to have possible been brought on by Covid. He got a negative test result prior but his son got a positive. No known heart or health problems before. Also, he got his first dose of Astra two weeks ago.

I guess we'll have to wait to see if it was Covid, if we ever find out.
Actually it is possible to test negative but the virus remains dormant for a few days. Only then you will test positive. It’s unlikely but possible.
 

kao_ray

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Feb 28, 2014
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The Wuhan lab theory picking up steam it seems
I'm surprised that people like Fauci and Daszak managed to keep it quiet for so long. So far the evidence points only at a lab leak after gain-of-function experiments. There is no evidence for a natural evolution of this virus. No intermediate animal host has been found so far and the Chinese authorities had all the time in the world to look for it.

One good thing that can come out of this is to stop this gain-of-function non-sense.

 
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