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Apr 17, 2020 14:40:05   #
JBurgess
 
I would advise anyone with an interest in where the virus originated read this article:https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-shi-zhengli-chinese-virologist-was-silenced-after-she-decoded-coronavirus-strain-december-42878

It dispels some of the conspiracy theories or inaccuracies that are floating around out there (one is mentioned above).

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Apr 17, 2020 16:07:20   #
Diocletian
 
drobvit wrote:
Shi Zhengli, a Chinese research virologist, was working with the original virus. She even stated that they had created a synthetic virus from the original by genetically manipulating the external proteins, which would allow for human contamination. This was done in the P4 section of the Virology Center in Wuhan.
BTW: No bats at the wet market where the CCP stated the SARS-CoV-2 started.


Then how come the virus has been traced to bats by the scientists investigating its DNA?

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Apr 18, 2020 02:22:16   #
paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah
 
twosummers wrote:
I read somewhere that viruses mutate - generally becoming more damaging but less contagious and so they die out. Alternatively (as the OP states) they die off as they have nobody to infect. I don't think we can ever relax until we get both a cure and a vaccine. Thankfully lots of very clever people are caring for the sick and working on a cure or vaccine. We WILL get through this together.


Pelosi said now is a good time to implement some of the things the Democrats want. I wonder what she is up to. By the looks of things it is not good for the country.

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Apr 18, 2020 12:57:20   #
Diocletian
 
paulrph1 wrote:
Pelosi said now is a good time to implement some of the things the Democrats want. I wonder what she is up to. By the looks of things it is not good for the country.


Says someone that would see fffthtrump shoot someone on 45 Ave and think that was OK - Oh wait, you actually heard him say he abused young woman and you thought that was just great! THAT's the kind of president you want.

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Apr 18, 2020 13:09:09   #
paulrph1 Loc: Washington, Utah
 
Diocletian wrote:
Says someone that would see fffthtrump shoot someone on 45 Ave and think that was OK - Oh wait, you actually heard him say he abused young woman and you thought that was just great! THAT's the kind of president you want.


Just someone's absurd idea or is it? But none dare call it conspiracy. No I want someone who works for the country and the Constitution not someone who has an agenda of controlling people.

https://www.gopusa.com/?p=87710?omhide=true

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Apr 18, 2020 21:28:36   #
danbir1 Loc: North Potomac, MD
 
pesfls wrote:
Not trying to incite anything with this scientific info. Just passing it along. Our eldest son has a PhD in biology and is a dna researcher. He told me the following (paraphrased):

Viruses cannot replicate themselves alone. They must successfully enter plant or animal cells in order to do so. He said absent that they are simply inert bits of dna or rna.

Hence the advice to distance ourselves. The more contact the more opportunity it has to replicate. Not what anyone wants to do but now it makes more sense to me. Bummer.
Not trying to incite anything with this scientific... (show quote)


Thank you, but all of these are well known facts, thanks anyway.

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Apr 18, 2020 21:36:44   #
pesfls Loc: Oregon, USA
 
danbir1 wrote:
Thank you, but all of these are well known facts, thanks anyway.


They were not known to me regarding the specifics of how viruses function. Was simply trying to be informative, in case it was useful to anyone, and was trying to pass on what I was told by our son who, is educated in such things.

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Apr 18, 2020 21:51:35   #
danbir1 Loc: North Potomac, MD
 
pesfls wrote:
They were not known to me regarding the specifics of how viruses function. Was simply trying to be informative, in case it was useful to anyone, and was trying to pass on what I was told by our son who, is educated in such things.


That's OK, no harm done, let's all stay safe and sane!!

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Apr 18, 2020 23:35:59   #
pendennis
 
Diocletian wrote:
Then how come the virus has been traced to bats by the scientists investigating its DNA?


The bats in question, from what I've read, are not from the "wet markets" in Wuhan. Evidently the bats are from an area some distance from Wuhan.

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