The P&R Plague Thread (Covid-19)

[Moiraine]

6 hours ago, teachercd said:

And there are still crazies defending them.  

 

 

Defending who?

[DevoHusker]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-how-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/?

 

Things that make you go "hmmmm?" for $500 Alex. 

[teachercd]

50 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-how-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/?

 

Things that make you go "hmmmm?" for $500 Alex. 

Hmmmm, interesting.

 

Wonder how this will play out.

[RedDenver]

1 hour ago, DevoHusker said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-how-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/?

 

Things that make you go "hmmmm?" for $500 Alex. 

That article has a rather dubious timeline since the vast majority of it is articles by reporters and not scientific papers or evidence uncovered by reporters. There's been a call by prominent scientists for a more thorough investigation, which is interesting for sure.

 

Of note is that it took 15 years for scientists to find the bats that original SARS came from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01541-z

[Archy1221]

1 hour ago, RedDenver said:

That article has a rather dubious timeline since the vast majority of it is articles by reporters and not scientific papers or evidence uncovered by reporters. There's been a call by prominent scientists for a more thorough investigation, which is interesting for sure.

 

Of note is that it took 15 years for scientists to find the bats that original SARS came from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01541-z

The author also didn’t seem to include all of his own immediate dismissal of the WIV origin theory.  Kessler has been pretty much a journalistic clown as of late. 

[Moiraine]

I kinda wonder why they don’t move the lab closer to the source given what they’re researching. 

[Archy1221]

 

[Archy1221]

https://spectator.us/topic/media-u-turn-lab-leak-coronavirus-theory/

[teachercd]

Half the US population has been vaxxed.  

[teachercd]

11 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

 

No one is shocked by this, it might make a few people feel embarrassed and just draw a new line in the sand but that is about it.  

[Archy1221]

45 minutes ago, teachercd said:

No one is shocked by this, it might make a few people feel embarrassed and just draw a new line in the sand but that is about it.  

Hopefully a little bit of media introspection and embarrassment will get them off their behinds so they start putting maybe 1/10 the effort into this story as they do many other less important stories. 

[Archy1221]

Hmm.  Why stop an investigation you don’t yet know the answers to?  Very well may have led to nothing, but it is a very plausible theory given conventional scientific wisdom at the beginning of the pandemic and WSJ’s current reporting on the origins of the pandemic 

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/25/politics/biden-shut-down-trump-effort-coronavirus-chinese-lab/index.html

[teachercd]

42 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Hopefully a little bit of media introspection and embarrassment will get them off their behinds so they start putting maybe 1/10 the effort into this story as they do many other less important stories. 

I mean, I don't think it was created as a bio-weapon, like some people do, but I think it is also very safe to say that China f#&%ed this up, big time.

[Archy1221]

16 minutes ago, teachercd said:

I mean, I don't think it was created as a bio-weapon, like some people do, but I think it is also very safe to say that China f#&%ed this up, big time.

Agree, it wouldn’t shock me that is was just an accident during research and those infected at the lab started the community transmission.  It’s definitely possible they were doing gain of function research at the time though.  

[Decoy73]

39 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Agree, it wouldn’t shock me that is was just an accident during research and those infected at the lab started the community transmission.  It’s definitely possible they were doing gain of function research at the time though.  

Until proven otherwise, I’d say China bears responsibility for this whole thing.  Never trust China, Russia or North Korea. There’s others too, but those are my top three.