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11 thoughts on “New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild

  1. Ha! Good one! You really expect Hoosiers to be able to read and understand this?! They are among the most scientifically illiterate folks in the country. They will all (or mostly) insist that it came from a Chinese bioweapons lab. Because that’s what Fox told them. That’s all that matters.

    1. Science done by the modern left: men can give birth. A fetus (Latin derived “bringing forth of young”, with the “fe–” morpheme sharing its origin with “fe” of “feminine” or “fi” of “offspring”) is not yet a human being. Oh, and to be 100 pounds overweight is perfectly healthy, and it definitely isn’t caused by overeating. It’s not the fatties’ faults.

      It was a Wuhan lab, Mikey. Just be sure, when you come another breathless defense of Tony Mengele Fauci, don’t use big words. I need to be able to understand you and all those massive-brained people writing for the completely reliable Associated Press.

    2. Lauren’s comment is a great example of why we need to re-think our modern public education system.

    3. Ooh, and what’s the Latin for “ignorant posturing and terrified deflection from the truth?”

    4. Well I’m a Hoosier and I understand all of this and just about everyone I know could understand this. The market theory has always been the most logical explanation. We still have many problems with China, not the least of which is an environment that allows this to happen. This could easily happen again and again. We need to draw a very hard line with the Chinese. They are not our friends and won’t be during our lifetimes

  2. All triggered opinions aside… this was always the most likely cause. There are plenty of reasons to have an issue with China, we don’t need a lab conspiracy layered on top. At the end of the day we still have to deal with the issue.

    Its part of a larger problem in terms of how the Chinese people live and do not have a good handle on food standards and regulation. This focus needs to be there because long term the growth of their population could lead to pandemics far more severe than COVID was if they don’t get it together.

    1. Point taken. While there’s probably a great deal of truth to the sub-par sanitary conditions of Chinese wet markets and the cultural fondness for eating critters that, if not properly prepared, absolutely form a health risk…

      …it’s not like we don’t have admissions from NIH and its funding of EcoHealth Alliance for gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, resulting in a novel coronavirus with an “unexpected result” of being highly infectious in mice, derived as a chimera from a known bat coronavirus. The journalistic source for this NIH admission? Science, also cited in the article above. https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-says-grantee-failed-report-experiment-wuhan-created-bat-virus-made-mice-sicker

      So we have origin A and outcome C(OVID), yet somehow we must completely dismiss the notion of causal link B, since the viruses studied in Wuhan were “too evolutionarily distant from SARS-CoV-2”. Okey doke. And if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. They are desperate to exonerate the WIV, EcoHealth alliance, and (clearly part of the spider’s web) the WHO and NIH and Fauci himself.

      Since more and more people are balking at the notion of buying this bridge, it’s time to drum up a new explanation…

    2. Lauren would know all about toxic viral spread – she was invented in a Russian propaganda lab.

  3. Did the research consider the lab person, once contaminated, went to the market and started the spread.? Doesn’t sound like it they mentioned it? Although Charlie, Frankie, and Mikey seem to have all of life figured out.

    1. Kevin, you hit the nail on the head.

      The lab was in the same area as the market. Also, it has been reported that the lab was relocated to that site during roughly the same period as the outbreak. The fact they traced it to the market is not a surprise. What is very odd is the reports of illness among some of the lab personnel, and the removal of select scientists by the Chinese government shortly after the outbreak, during some of the initial investigations.

      If you have not worked and/or traveled in China, you have no idea the about lack of sophistication among many in the population. I once stayed in a very modern luxury hotel in Shanghai, and the info sheet in the room explained, among many other odd instructions, that you should not have an open campfire in the room! Seriously. [I made a copy to show my family]. Not everyone working in their labs are Nobel prize recipients… wouldn’t take much to have an accident.

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