@chaski Said 
Good article.
And from the article:
The virus did not come from a lab
...SARS-CoV-2’s genomic molecular structure – think the backbone of the virus – is closest to a coronavirus found in bats. Parts of its structure also resemble a virus found in scaly anteaters...
Someone manufacturing a virus targeting people would have started with one that attacked humans...
etc
In the top 10 dumbest things I've heard about bioweapons. Someone wanting to create a virus to attack humans would, and did, start with a disease prevalent in some other mammal.
This is due to the lesson learned from the 1917 Spanish Flu Pandemic also known as SWINE FLU
It is quite obvious that the simplest way to
BREED (just like creating horse or dog breeds) a virus for human consumption is to start with one that is
already in an animal population. All you need are test subjects, something China has plenty of in their concentration camps.
The advantages are
The disease hasn't been in human population so there is reduced immunity.
The disease is naturally occurring in animals and the plausible deniability that it simply passed between species is available as a cover story.
There is no artificial genetic manipulation necessary, just successive attempts to get a strain that can inhabit a human host. In this way other labs testing the virus will not detect anyone else's work.
Here is a story from
National Review carried forward by Yahoo News about the Border Patrol arresting a Chinese scientist at the Detroit Airport in November of 2018 with samples of SARS and MERS in his briefcase. He said he was on his way to deliver them to a researcher at a US institute.
Mar 28, 2020 @ 02:44:10
be in its own thread?
