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Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by ratg13 »

pcrh wrote: post #55

After a quick read of the article, it presents no new data, and is replete with innuendo pointing at the Wuhan lab, rather than any direct evidence. Most importantly, the general reader should know that all labs researching viruses do research on dangerous viruses. After all there is no incentive to research benign viruses. So the fact that the Wuhan lab worked on coronaviruses is not in itself an indication of any i…

>Additionally, the closest relative to SARSCov2 that has been identified (RaTG13)

As of 2022, this is no longer true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaTG13

Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by [deleted] »

th0ma5 wrote: post #88
xcv123 wrote: post #87

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You are spamming this thread. Looks like you are working for the CCP. Don't make it too obvious.

Lol. If the treatment of their own people wasn't bad enough and it took a pandemic conspiracy theory to hate them, then I feel like you need to read more.

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Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by at_compile_time »

th0ma5 wrote: post #58
computerfriend wrote: post #53

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Don't ascribe motive ("cause xenophobic feelings") unless you can back it up.

That's the very point I'm trying to make about this dubious article and all the people posting conspiracy theories here. How can we say they aren't trying to cause xenophobic feelings?

Ah, so when people disagree with you, it's because they're conspiracy theorists and you're ready to make wild assumptions about their motives. How perfectly reasonable of you.

Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by cheaprentalyeti »

th0ma5 wrote: post #67
hayst4ck wrote: post #57

If anyone's in for a long read, despite the hokey sounding name, I found this to be one of the best contemporaneous explorations of Covid in china that I've seen to date: https://project-evidence.github.io/

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Because if we're relying on the people who are funding bioweapons research in hostile countries to tell us how to treat said viruses, under the delusion that they'd learn something useful, it's the kind of thing we need to know about before waking up three years later and finding out (per the Northwestern study) that we could have avoided a lot of deaths by simply following the sort of treatment regimen we used for more common flu varieties and given the patients azithromycin.

Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by th0ma5 »

hayst4ck wrote: post #89
th0ma5 wrote: post #83

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The purpose of that article is not to bring down china. It's not ideologically opposed to china. It was not some conservative agenda article. It's a group of people who want to understand what happened. The article comes from a stance of curiosity. What I linked is very compatible with the HN mindset and not particularly ideological. You clearly have not read it because your comment makes no sense in the context of t…

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Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by wwtdtgotiatl »

Thorentis wrote: post #68
calderwoodra wrote: post #59

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Are you implying the lab shouldn't have existed at all? And/or future coronavirus labs shouldn't exist either?

They're not implying anything. They're nearly making the observation that the supposed reason this lab existed was to research dangeours viruses like covid, and yet the lab itself did nothing to help during the pandemic.

> yet the lab itself did nothing to help during the pandemic.

Which people in this thread are somehow believing as truth instead of the bald-faced propaganda it is.

Do you actually think a virus research lab in the epicentre of an outbreak would not be put to use?

From Wikipedia:

> As the virus spread worldwide, the institute continued its investigation. In February 2020, a team led by Shi Zhengli at the institute were the first to identify, analyze and name the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), upload it to public databases for scientists around the world to understand,[28][29][30] and publish papers in Nature.[31] On 19 February 2020, the lab released a letter on its website describing how they successfully obtained the whole virus genome.[32]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology

Re: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

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Post by alpaca128 »

oneshtein wrote: post #34
th0ma5 wrote: post #31

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Sure, but the article is implying there something new that actually would have some kind of bearing or meaning.

Russians started to clean up evidence, which points to BSL4 lab "Vector". IMHO, this article is a part of their disinformation campaign. The name of their vaccine "Sputnik V" (Follower 5) suggests that there was "Something","Sputnik I", "Sputnik II", "Sputnik III", "Sputnik IV" before "Sputnik V". It's impossible for Russians to produce 5 vaccines in row in such short span of time, just few months, which took billion…

> The name of their vaccine "Sputnik V" (Follower 5) suggests that there was "Something"

No, a regime known for throwing people out of windows if they say one word too much isn't so dumb to hide a hint like that in plain sight.

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