WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
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Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#2This lab story is given way too much attention and this is so because it is a convenient story to spin for many governments, Trump's first and foremost but not only.
All the credible experts say that this virus is natural and that it may have jumped to humans years ago, and also that people in the relevant rural areas of China have antibodies for similar virii. And then there's also SARS, MERS, Ebola, etc.
There is a reason experts have been raising the alert for years about this: what has happened was inevitable.
But of course laying the blame at the feet of an "hostile" government can buy you political mileage, not least during an election year or when you're coming under criticism.
Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#3This lab story is given way too much attention and this is so because it is a convenient story to spin for many governments, Trump's first and foremost but not only. All the credible experts say that this virus is natural and that it may have jumped to humans years ago, and also that people in the relevant rural areas of China have antibodies for similar virii. And then there's also SARS, MERS, Ebola, etc. There is a…
"Antibodies for similar virii" have almost every person on the Earth, who ever had a cold. No, if you are claiming that they have antibodies for precisely Covid-19, please give us the links. You are the first I heard this from.
Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#4Here, in Central Asia (hence my name), we have growing concern with poor handling of the situation by WHO. For example, the WHO inspector for Tajikistan kept saying that everything is all right down there, for the whole month of April, but every other country in the region knew they have cases, and suddenly, it turned out the have indeed. They also are engaging in covering up the situation in Turkmenistan. Although they have cases down there, the inspector says that there is no at all.
Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#5This lab story is given way too much attention and this is so because it is a convenient story to spin for many governments, Trump's first and foremost but not only. All the credible experts say that this virus is natural and that it may have jumped to humans years ago, and also that people in the relevant rural areas of China have antibodies for similar virii. And then there's also SARS, MERS, Ebola, etc. There is a…
"Antibodies for similar virii" have almost every person on the Earth, who ever had a cold. No, if you are claiming that they have antibodies for precisely Covid-19, please give us the links. You are the first I heard this from.
It's about SARS-related virii.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/
Basically a percentage of the people who live in areas close to large populations of bats in Southern China have antibodies for SARS/Covid-like bat viruses, suggesting natural, ongoing contacts.
That's probably how SARS, MERS, Covid-19 all started.
Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Antibodies for similar virii" have almost every person on the Earth, who ever had a cold. No, if you are claiming that they have antibodies for precisely Covid-19, please give us the links. You are the first I heard this from.
It's about SARS-related virii. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/ Basically a percentage of the people who live in areas close to large populations of bats in Southern China have antibodies for SARS/Covid-like bat viruses, suggesting natural, ongoing contacts. That's probably how SARS, MERS, Covid-19 all started.
Unless they have antibodies for Covid-19 you point is moot.
Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's about SARS-related virii. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/ Basically a percentage of the people who live in areas close to large populations of bats in Southern China have antibodies for SARS/Covid-like bat viruses, suggesting natural, ongoing contacts. That's probably how SARS, MERS, Covid-19 all started.
Unless they have antibodies for Covid-19 you point is moot.
Not at all.
My point is these are processes that are happening as we speak and have been happening for decades, if not forever, and that, specifically, SARS/MERS-like virii seem to be out there and interacting with humans "in the wild".
That's why I think that arguing about this lab is irrelevant and just a political 'weapon'.
Re: WHO says it has no evidence to support 'speculative' Covid-19 lab theory
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unless they have antibodies for Covid-19 you point is moot.
Not at all. My point is these are processes that are happening as we speak and have been happening for decades, if not forever, and that, specifically, SARS/MERS-like virii seem to be out there and interacting with humans "in the wild". That's why I think that arguing about this lab is irrelevant and just a political 'weapon'.
No one argues that it is impossible for the virus to emerge from the natural causes. It is equally possible that emerged from the lab, there might be a variety of reasons for that, say similar to pilot-suicides: a disgruntled employee took it out of lab or something. There is nothing political in such a hypothesis; quite opposite, to accuse people who consider it probable of some political motivation is political by itself (based upon hatred of Trump for example).