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Are you suggesting that .. China is going to engineer a virus and release it in its own population? And then shut the whole country down and pray that it would

Are you suggesting that .. China is going to engineer a virus and release it in its own population? And then shut the whole country down and pray that it would spread fast and worse elsewhere? Let's just say that back in early February nobody even in China thought that other countries are going to be affected. It is a disaster for the CCP at the time that had popular opinion on the internet swing suddenly and violently against the government. Now, seeing how other countries reacted, that suddenly was not the case anymore. And the CCP have no ability to control other countries action.

empath75 7y ago
The theory that it escaped from the lab does not imply that it was engineered -- they could very well have been doing legitimate medical research and made a mistake.
hubadu 7y ago
"China is going to engineer a virus..." Yes, that is part of what they were doing at their labs in Wuhan. That is not a conspiracy theory, they have research papers, conferences, press releases and job offers about this very topic. "release it in its own population?" Could you point out where I wrote that they "released it"? I only suspect it was a potential accidental leak from one of their labs in Wuhan. It happened already twice in the past, including SARS lab leak in Beijing lab for which Chinese CDC officials were punished at the time: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content_344755.htm https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content... Not to mention researchers who warned us years ago about dangers of engineered bat virus leak scenario in an article from Nature Research Journal.
redis_mlc 7y ago
> Let's just say that back in early February nobody even in China thought that other countries are going to be affected. This is ridiculous. If you mean Nov. or early Dec., maybe. But by Jan. corona was nation-wide. Amd Wuhan has an international airport. Mid-Jan. documented widely-known pandemic at latest: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus-ap-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus-... Disney world Shanghai was closed Jan. 24 (Disney should have told the US CDC it was that bad in China.) Known to be contagious? early Dec.
- Aperocky 7y ago
  > Known to be contagious? early Dec. Source?

empath75 7y ago

The theory that it escaped from the lab does not imply that it was engineered -- they could very well have been doing legitimate medical research and made a mistake.

hubadu 7y ago

"China is going to engineer a virus..." Yes, that is part of what they were doing at their labs in Wuhan. That is not a conspiracy theory, they have research papers, conferences, press releases and job offers about this very topic. "release it in its own population?" Could you point out where I wrote that they "released it"? I only suspect it was a potential accidental leak from one of their labs in Wuhan. It happened already twice in the past, including SARS lab leak in Beijing lab for which Chinese CDC officials were punished at the time: https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content_344755.htm https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-07/02/content... Not to mention researchers who warned us years ago about dangers of engineered bat virus leak scenario in an article from Nature Research Journal.

redis_mlc 7y ago

> Let's just say that back in early February nobody even in China thought that other countries are going to be affected. This is ridiculous. If you mean Nov. or early Dec., maybe. But by Jan. corona was nation-wide. Amd Wuhan has an international airport. Mid-Jan. documented widely-known pandemic at latest: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus-ap-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/16/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus-... Disney world Shanghai was closed Jan. 24 (Disney should have told the US CDC it was that bad in China.) Known to be contagious? early Dec.

Aperocky 7y ago
> Known to be contagious? early Dec. Source?