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We cave to the Chinese, and this is how they reward us. We're using awkward names (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) and less-specific names (coronavirus) instead of Wuhan

by burfog 7y ago

We cave to the Chinese, and this is how they reward us. We're using awkward names (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) and less-specific names (coronavirus) instead of Wuhan virus. They then spread the idea that the US performed a biological attack on China. It's time to give up on politely dancing around the truth. This is the Wuhan lab virus. The lab is less than a mile from the market that was initially blamed, and has been creating new coronaviruses for at least the past dozen years. Here is China making a virus like this one, even acting on the ACE2 receptor and testing it in human cells, publishing it in early 2008: https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 https://jvi.asm.org/content/82/4/1899 Here they are again, years later, still playing with extremely hazardous coronaviruses that act on the ACE2 receptor in humans: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12711 I guess we should be thankful that they published the research. Maybe?

vb6sp6 7y ago
The only people pushing these theories are people like Rush Limbaugh (who doesn't believe second hand smoke is dangerous) and Tom Cotton (who said about trump wanting to buy greenland "It's obviously the right decision for the United States, and anyone who can't see that is blinded by Trump derangement."). If you want to throw your hat in with these intellectual titans, be my guest. But there is a more scientifically rigorous take if you are interested: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronavirus-get-started-china-wuhan-lab https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronaviru...
- burfog 7y ago
  I'd pick them over the Chinese propaganda Vox is pushing. The propaganda doesn't even disprove that the virus was created in the lab. It emphasizes the mere possibility of the virus being fully natural, it pretends that we could reliably recognize a modified virus, and it engages in argumentum ad hominem. I listed an article from the ASM's Journal of Virology, and another from Nature. Both are well-respected, proving that the lab was indeed making these viruses. It is 100% reasonable, given the location of the outbreak, to assume that something escaped the lab. Other explanations are unreasonable. If there were a sudden outbreak of smallpox next to the CDC lab in Atlanta, we wouldn't just shrug it off as a natural occurrence.

by burfog 7y ago

vb6sp6 7y ago

The only people pushing these theories are people like Rush Limbaugh (who doesn't believe second hand smoke is dangerous) and Tom Cotton (who said about trump wanting to buy greenland "It's obviously the right decision for the United States, and anyone who can't see that is blinded by Trump derangement."). If you want to throw your hat in with these intellectual titans, be my guest. But there is a more scientifically rigorous take if you are interested: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronavirus-get-started-china-wuhan-lab https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronaviru...

burfog 7y ago
I'd pick them over the Chinese propaganda Vox is pushing. The propaganda doesn't even disprove that the virus was created in the lab. It emphasizes the mere possibility of the virus being fully natural, it pretends that we could reliably recognize a modified virus, and it engages in argumentum ad hominem. I listed an article from the ASM's Journal of Virology, and another from Nature. Both are well-respected, proving that the lab was indeed making these viruses. It is 100% reasonable, given the location of the outbreak, to assume that something escaped the lab. Other explanations are unreasonable. If there were a sudden outbreak of smallpox next to the CDC lab in Atlanta, we wouldn't just shrug it off as a natural occurrence.