Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 12:01 last edited by
A senior U.S. intelligence official said Friday that the two scenarios being examined by the intelligence community about the origins of the novel coronavirus – via human contact with infected animals or as the result of a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China – are "both" currently supported by "evidence" that the community is continuing to evaluate.
"Evidence of both scenarios exists," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, given the sensitivity of the matter. The official declined to further characterize the evidence or its credibility, or to say whether either scenario was considered by the intelligence community to be more or less likely. The official did, however, say there was no indication of a "purposeful" release of the virus.
The intelligence official's comments also add at least notional support for remarks made Thursday by President Trump, who said he had seen unspecified evidence supporting the theory that the virus first spread from a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
"at least notional support for the remarks..."
What the hell does that even mean?
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wrote on 2 May 2020, 20:06 last edited by
OK. So, what happened is that an employee of the lab, or a member of his/her family, got into trouble with the CCP. In revenge, the employee cleverly stole a portion of virus goop, put it in a zip-lock bag, then went outside, opened the bag, and walked away.
No one knew the better. But as the virus spread, this person smiled. Revenge is such sweet victory!
It wasn't the government, or the lab. They are fishing in the wrong tree. It was one person, angry, period.
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wrote on 5 May 2020, 12:28 last edited by Mik 5 May 2020, 12:29
Scientists think all sorts of things. It's a pretty diverse group.
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wrote on 14 Sept 2020, 16:39 last edited by
https://www.scribd.com/document/475998860/The-Yan-Report#from_embed
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to over 910,000 deaths
worldwide and unprecedented decimation of the global economy. Despite its tremendous impact, the
origin of SARS-CoV-2 has remained mysterious and controversial. The natural origin theory, although
widely accepted, lacks substantial support. The alternative theory that the virus may have come from a
research laboratory is, however, strictly censored on peer-reviewed scientific journals. Nonetheless,
SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring, zoonotic
virus. In this report, we describe the genomic, structural, medical, and literature evidence, which, when
considered together, strongly contradicts the natural origin theory. The evidence shows that SARS-CoV-
2 should be a laboratory product created by using bat coronaviruses ZC45 and/or ZXC21 as a template
and/or backbone. Building upon the evidence, we further postulate a synthetic route for SARS-CoV-2,
demonstrating that the laboratory-creation of this coronavirus is convenient and can be accomplished in
approximately six months. Our work emphasizes the need for an independent investigation into the
relevant research laboratories. It also argues for a critical look into certain recently published data, which,
albeit problematic, was used to support and claim a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2. From a public health
perspective, these actions are necessary as knowledge of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and of how the virus
entered the human population are of pivotal importance in the fundamental control of the COVID-19
pandemic as well as in preventing similar, future pandemics. -
wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 12:49 last edited by
IOW, Trump may have been right.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 13:11 last edited by
@Jolly said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
IOW, Trump may have been right.
Yeah, that's always my main concern too.
Honestly, if you come out with as many theories as he does, you're bound to hit the target occasionally. It's carpet bullshitting.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 13:17 last edited by
Don't deflect.
If this was man-made, what are we going to do about it?
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 13:24 last edited by
@Jolly said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
Don't deflect.
If this was man-made, what are we going to do about it?
I'm not deflecting, you were the one who brought up Trump. This isn't about Trump - there are actually more important things in the world than that guy.
To answer the question - I don't know what we can do about it, TBH. The main goal should be to ensure it never happens again, but how do you that? If some kind of sanction is applied, it needs to be agreed internationally, but there's not been a whole lot of international co-operation on anything in recent years.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 13:25 last edited by
This thing is so nasty, I have never quite bought that it occurred naturally.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 13:31 last edited by
@Mik said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
This thing is so nasty, I have never quite bought that it occurred naturally.
I'm agnostic. I don't think nastiness is an indicator. Bubonic Plague wasn't manufactured, although there were conspiracy theories about it being caused by the Jews - shocking, I know. More recently, people blamed Spanish flu on the Germans.
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 13:57 last edited by LuFins Dad
The bigger issue is the political correctness preventing the possibility from being discussed and investigated.
Edit... It’s probably 50% political correctness and 50% fear.
The Brad
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wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 14:00 last edited by
"I'm not allowed to tell you that."
By whom? He's the goddamn president. If he would have solid evidence and decides that the public should know about this, surely there would be a legal way to demonstrate that evidence.
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The bigger issue is the political correctness preventing the possibility from being discussed and investigated.
Edit... It’s probably 50% political correctness and 50% fear.
wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 14:01 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
The bigger issue is the political correctness preventing the possibility from being discussed and investigated.
Well, on the one side you've got people being PC, and on the other you've got people making claims with little or no scientific basis. Neither is particularly helpful.
I was only joking
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@Jolly said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
Don't deflect.
If this was man-made, what are we going to do about it?
I'm not deflecting, you were the one who brought up Trump. This isn't about Trump - there are actually more important things in the world than that guy.
To answer the question - I don't know what we can do about it, TBH. The main goal should be to ensure it never happens again, but how do you that? If some kind of sanction is applied, it needs to be agreed internationally, but there's not been a whole lot of international co-operation on anything in recent years.
wrote on 15 Sept 2020, 14:29 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
@Jolly said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
Don't deflect.
If this was man-made, what are we going to do about it?
I'm not deflecting, you were the one who brought up Trump. This isn't about Trump - there are actually more important things in the world than that guy.
To answer the question - I don't know what we can do about it, TBH. The main goal should be to ensure it never happens again, but how do you that? If some kind of sanction is applied, it needs to be agreed internationally, but there's not been a whole lot of international co-operation on anything in recent years.
Dang right it's about Trump, at least partially. Follow the thread.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
The bigger issue is the political correctness preventing the possibility from being discussed and investigated.
Well, on the one side you've got people being PC, and on the other you've got people making claims with little or no scientific basis. Neither is particularly helpful.
wrote on 16 Sept 2020, 12:02 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
claims with little or no scientific basis.
Twitter has suspended her account:
It was not immediately clear what justification Twitter had to suspend the scientist who, to the best of our knowledge, had just 4 tweets as of Tuesday morning none of which violated any stated Twitter policies, with the only relevant tweet being a link to her scientific paper co-written with three other Chinese scientists...
If Yan was wrong, why not just let other scientists respond in the open to the all too valid arguments presented in Dr. Yan's paper? Isn't that what "science" is all about? Why just shut her up?
Because if we have already crossed the tipping point when anyone who proposes an "inconvenient" explanation for an established "truth" has to be immediately censored, then there is little that can be done to salvage the disintegration of a society that once held freedom of speech as paramount.
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Listen, whether right or wrong, how ANYONE can trust this guy as a source of truth is beyond me. For years now he has a clearly documented history of lying and making up shit on the spot, that even 3rd graders could see. Heck, even as clearly/recently as "I always knew this would be a pandemic" when a month or two prior it was "This will not be a pandemic".
wrote on 16 Sept 2020, 12:08 last edited by@89th said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
Listen, whether right or wrong, how ANYONE can trust this guy as a source of truth is beyond me. For years now he has a clearly documented history of lying and making up shit on the spot, that even 3rd graders could see. Heck, even as clearly/recently as "I always knew this would be a pandemic" when a month or two prior it was "This will not be a pandemic".
Bull shit. Every damn bit of what you wrote is pure bull shit.
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Twitter says the authors are from a Steve Bannon org.
Is that true?
Could just be a setup to shake some more money out of the pockets of true believers.
wrote on 16 Sept 2020, 12:13 last edited by George K@jon-nyc said in Coronavirus from Wuhan Lab:
Twitter says the authors are from a Steve Bannon org.
Good recap here:
other virologists disagree and say the paper makes false claims about a number of basic facts. “Basically, it's all circumstantial and some of it is entirely fictional,” Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, told The Daily Beast of the study.
The paper leads with a claim that the coronavirus' genes are "suspiciously similar to that of a bat coronavirus discovered by military laboratories" in China—an assertion Rasmussen says shouldn’t be surprising because “they are related SARS-like coronaviruses.”
The study’s authors made a similar claim about a portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein—which viruses use to breach and infect cells—and wrote that it’s similar to the original SARS virus in a “suspicious manner” and suggests genetic manipulation. “SARS-CoV also used ACE2 as a cellular receptor, as do other SARS-like bat coronaviruses,” Rasmussen says. “It is not suspicious and is in fact expected that the receptor binding domains that bind the same protein would be similar.”
Rasmussen also said that the paper misrepresented basic facts about another part of coronavirus spike proteins known as furin cleavage sites. The authors claim that SARS-CoV-2’s cleavage site is “unique” and unseen elsewhere in nature. But according to Rasmussen, “Furin cleavage sites occur naturally in many other beta-CoVs, including MERS-CoV and other SARS-like bat coronaviruses.”
Regarding Bannon (from the same site:
The study is the work of the Rule of Law Society and the Rule of Law Foundation, sister nonprofit organizations that Bannon was instrumental in creating. According to documents posted on the Society’s website last year, he served as that group’s chair. The Bannon connection was first spotted by Kevin Bird, a Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, and shared by Carl Bergstrom, a biology professor at the University of Washington, who called the study “bizarre and unfounded.”
A search of Google Scholar and the Rule of Law Society and Rule of Law Foundation websites indicates that the organizations have not previously published scientific or medical research, and it’s unclear whether the paper received any peer review. It was posted on Monday on the website Zenodo, a publicly available repository of scientific and academic research to which anyone can upload their work.
Both of the nonprofits behind the study were formed in conjunction with exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, with whom Bannon has collaborated on a number of advocacy efforts targeting the Chinese government and business endeavors that have drawn the scrutiny of federal law enforcement officials.
And the report that her account was suspended was from Zero Hedge, so there's that, LOL.
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wrote on 16 Sept 2020, 12:51 last edited by
So, basically, the report is political bullshit wrapped up in a lot of convincing sounding techno-babble?
I was only joking
