@4d4m Said 
Actually viruses do work like other living things; they evolve the same way. However, they reproduce, and therefore evolve, at a more rapid pace. Their environment is their host, so they evolve to exploit their host for energy. That is why many diseases are species specific. The odds of them being able to cross species and become infectious low. This can be said of any adaptation. The Swine Flu or Spanish Flu of 1917 was an example of a Flu being able to cross from a pig to a human.
The odds being low has less meaning for a rapidly producing and abundant virus strain with many individual virus cells.
@4d4m Said
cross species transmission
note the section on predicting and preventing cross species transmission
and Using genetic markers
according to this wiki on
spillover zoonosis almost 2/3 of human viruses originated in other animals. Some of these occurrences have no result, some have limited infectious ability in humans that get them, like rabies, others adapt to the new host environment and become contagious within the human population
@4d4m Said
Therefore, to breed a virus strain from an animal strain one simply needs to keep injecting human subjects with the animal strain they wish to use. If the subject gets sick, swab their saliva, put it in a petri dish and breed another batch. Keep injecting until one is transmitted from a subject to a non injected subject. Each injection has thousands of individual virus cells, somewhere in there is the right mutation. The ability of scientists to use genetic markers and visually identify them with research equipment would shorten the time necessary for success in this effort
@4d4m Said
Could this have been done, yes. Was it done is a question. The different articles I've read have different spins and professionals and scientists weighing in.
Not too many seem to be paying attention to the scientists that actually worked in the lab in Wuhan. Factually there has been concerted effort to shut them up.
The Beijing sponsored South China University of Technology doesn’t think the virus originated at the Wuhan fish market. This
Investment Watch article details the claims. In their paper ‘The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus,’ penned by scholars Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claims the WHCDC kept disease-ridden animals in laboratories, including 605 bats.
We also know scientists from the lab in Wuhan China say the virus was being held in their facility. According to this
2017 Nature article, which has had a disclaimer recently added, the lab in Wuhan was holding the SARS virus for study.
Then there's the "whistleblower" scientist Li Wenliang who died of the coronavirus. His story in
The Guardian
The Chinese scientists are saying it did come from the lab. the question is if it was released intentionally or not.
@4d4m Said
As an aside, I have noticed the profile pic next to my posts is showing up as Ali G (or Tino) for some reason. Hopefully this can be fixed, not sure how that happened.
There is a future career for you in the writing of Conspiracy Theory Zombie Apocalypse movies... and/or books.
Apr 01, 2020 @ 04:35:46
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