Coronavirus Facts and Fiction - January - May 2020 [Closed]

Let’s get off the racism topic before someone starts a dumpster fire, please.

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The virus wasn’t created by the illuminati to sell pharmaceuticals, that’s just silly. Take off the tinfoil hat and come into the sunshine. Not everything is a conspiracy, zoonotic viruses have always been a threat to people. Sometimes bad things happen without shadowy groups of men pulling the strings.

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This is getting too close for my liking! (I am in Northern Nevada)

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That virus could Easily be biowarfare. Hardly a silly thought to think this is being done purposely for profit.

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Latest (via Zerohedge 2/2):

  • There are currently 17,205 confirmed cases worldwide according to the latest data out of China's CDC, and 362 global fatalities
    
  • Two confirmed cases have been reported in San Benito County in Northern California
    
  • (including the first death outside of China, reported in the Philippines).
    
  • China’s central bank will pump 150 billion yuan ($21.7 billion) into markets, and has banned short selling on Monday to prevent a sell-off.
    
  • First death outside China recorded in the Philippines
    
  • 24 countries reporting cases
    
  • Philippines, New Zealand join list of countries several restricting travelers from China
    
  • 36 French citizens evacuated from Wuhan show coronavirus symptoms.
    
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Viruses were a thing long before people were around to think of weaponizing them.

Zero credible evidence it’s biowarfare.

Was the Spanish Flu a conspiracy too? Diseases happen. We have a lot of people crowded together, next to a lot of animals, also crowded together, and we can fly across the world in a day. Diseases will happen and they will spread.

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Did you look at the link Loki posted about the 4 inserts that are also in HIV?

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So some similarities? Maybes? Anything definitive? Why would someone wishing to do maximum harm use HIV? Why not H1N1? That shit infected 2 billion people.

Why would China infect it’s own people? Are we saying China’s enemies did this? If it’s so dangerous and can spread everwhere, why would any nation risk it’s own people? Or was it done by private organizations to sell medical supplies as suggested by another gentlemen? It just doesn’t seem to hold water. Or the virology lab in Wuhan let it escape. Then there’s the guys saying it’s for population control by shadowy groups. IDK. Everything’s a conspiracy.

Lizard people did it.

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What are these lizard people you speak of? You think they let out coronavirus? I’m intrigued

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Wizard people. Sorcerers and the like.

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So no… you didn’t read the scientific article that was posted.

I’m not saying it’s Biological weapons for sure but you can’t rule it out as a possibility. Just like I can’t rule out that it occurred naturally. :v:

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I did read it. Nowhere did it claim this was the work of a man-made virus. It just says there’s a lot of striking similarities to the amino acid residue signatures of HIV, whatever that means. So, what, scientists in China spliced together HIV and the Flu…for what reason exactly?

Everything’s technically a possibility. It could have been lizard people. You can’t rule out it wasn’t.

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This is dangerous misinformation.

The report is claiming that four HIV inserts would not be found in the virus naturally. Alluding to possible human interference. Leaving the door wide open for speculation of a weaponized virus. Hardly a silly thought is all I’m saying.

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You should read the comments from other scientists on the paper before accepting this as gospel.

There’s even one from the authors saying they’re withdrawing the study for revision to avoid misinterpretation.

scroll down, past the abstract.

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I think its because they are probably being threatened with being shut down, if they don’t change it. Thats what powerful governments do.

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Why does it have to be a conspiracy? It seems like there was plenty of legitimate criticism, which is exactly why other scientists peer review studies.

OK, let’s say it was China’s fault. China is our #1 geopolitical rival. If the US government could blame this on China, doesn’t it stand to reason they would? Who exactly would pressure them? The Chinese government is pressuring Indian scientists now?

And now all the individual dozen scientists involved in the study are all going to keep quiet about this pressure?

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I wasn’t saying the report is conclusive. I just pointed it out as one of many possibilities. One of which that isn’t silly. The scientists who wrote the report didn’t think it was silly I’m sure. Nor would they want to discredit themselves to their peers by posting findings they thought were fake. .

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IDK man if there was serious, credible evidence that the virus was man made somehow, don’t you think it would be much much bigger news? It’d be the #1 headline.

And yes, I stand by my statement that the notion of an organization creating a deadly AIDS/Flu virus to sell pharmaceuticals is pretty damn silly.

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Your trust in government and big pharma is admirable. I have less faith in humans clearly :rofl: what ever this virus is from, natural or not I’m sure it will be gone soon and someone’s gonna make bank $.

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