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>could you be more clear what you mean by natural, and what alternatives you think are being excluded Natural = produced by nature We know for a fact that cor
by kjaftaedi 5y ago
>could you be more clear what you mean by natural, and what alternatives you think are being excluded
Natural = produced by nature
We know for a fact that coronaviruses were being engineered in unsafe BSL2 lab conditions literally blocks away from the epicenter of the outbreak.
With China's refusal to cooperate, they are asking you to believe that this is all merely coincidence.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...
- simonh 5y agoAll known viruses were originally produced by nature. Engineered viruses are natural viruses that were modified artificially, but they still had a natural origin. We don't have the technology to create a virus entirely from scratch, we can only modify existing viruses in fairly limited ways. Surely you know this, right? If we can find that original natural source strain of virus, we should be able to compare it to Cov-19 and determine the likely path of development. This has been done many times before for other viruses, such as SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, etc.
- kjaftaedi 5y agoNobody is suggesting that the virus was created from scratch. Of course the viruses have a natural origin, where do you think the original samples come from? I don't know where you are interpreting your stance from, and I am sorry if I am being unclear, english is not my first language.. but just because viruses are being engineered in a lab does not mean they build them molecule by molecule, but they do transfer genes between existing viruses.
- simonh 5y agoOk, so we're describing the same thing. Cool. It's all good, misunderstandings happen.