Dante80 posted:

So, did the dirty communists manage to lose/dump a bioweapon in a fish market, or are they a priori lying about the origin too, to save face and crack down on the exotic animal food merchants in one fell swoop?

Asking for Alex J a friend

Dante80 posted:

So, did the dirty communists manage to lose/dump a bioweapon in a fish market, or are they a priori lying about the origin too, to save face and crack down on the exotic animal food merchants in one fell swoop?

Asking for Alex J a friend

Prester Jane posted:

They weren't engineering it to be super deadly, just super infectious.

redleader posted:

millions dead from red-chinavirus-19

Prester Jane posted:

Ordinarily I would dismiss the idea that the UN would ever publicly admit that China just oopsied and accidentally released some kind of biological agent, but I actually expect that to happen in this case. You know why?

Now mind you the UN is completely crave and it would never dare criticize a country with his powerful in economy or as large and Military as China. But the thing is, China doesn't have an economy anymore. And I really mean that, China's economy no longer exists, because all its manufacturing equipment is covered in a deadly plague and until we figure out a way to deal with that there's nothing that can be done.

And in about three months, China's military isn't going to exist either. Because according to reports from the ground, all the police and members of the military who are being sent into Wuhan/ Hubei are getting infected. So without an economy to support it or Amendment, China's military will effectively cease to exist.

And once that happens China will have nothing to offer to anyone except hundreds of millions of needy refugees who are desperately fleeing for the nearest border (and probably being machine gunned while trying to cross it).

Prester Jane posted:

In the Lancet study of the the initial cluster of 40 cases- 14 of them had no connection whatsoever to the fish market, including patient zero.

paul_soccer12 posted:

Prester Jane posted:

Cutting through the bullshit false narratives that a group of Authoritarians are putting out is very much in my wheelhouse.

Hurricanes aren't, and I learned my lesson from that experience.

Prester Jane posted:

I never argued or implied that the 77 H1N1 release was a bioweapon or anything like that, it was a fuckup caused by an ineffective bureaucracy.

If all you want is something super infectious we can accomplish that goal with our current level of scientific knowledge. I'm not saying that whatever they were doing they were necessarily done with it or that they had a goal beyond "make it really infectious", but they manipulated this thing to be hyper infectious and oh boy howdy they fuckin succeeded.

So much so that they lost control of it.

Prester Jane posted:

Yeah, the term "bioweapon" is probably a misnomer in this case. It's more likely it was something they were screwing around with that got loose.

Accidental release of an "experimental organism" doesn't really sound much better though.

Prester Jane posted:

Cutting through the bullshit false narratives that a group of Authoritarians are putting out is very much in my wheelhouse.

Hurricanes aren't, and I learned my lesson from that experience.

Dante80 posted:

This does not mean what you think it is.

27 (66%) patients had direct exposure to Huanan seafood market (figure 1B). Market exposure was similar between the patients with ICU care (nine [69%]) and those with non-ICU care (18 [64%]). The symptom onset date of the first patient identified was Dec 1, 2019. None of his family members developed fever or any respiratory symptoms. No epidemiological link was found between the first patient and later cases. The first fatal case, who had continuous exposure to the market, was admitted to hospital because of a 7-day history of fever, cough, and dyspnoea. 5 days after illness onset, his wife, a 53-year-old woman who had no known history of exposure to the market, also presented with pneumonia and was hospitalised in the isolation ward.

redleader posted:

this thread is loving insane

Prester Jane posted:

Yeah, the term "bioweapon" is probably a misnomer in this case. It's more likely it was something they were screwing around with that got loose.

Accidental release of an "experimental organism" doesn't really sound much better though.

Farm Frenzy posted:

redleader posted:

this thread is loving insane

Charles 2 of Spain posted:

Disinfect thread, quarantine OP

Bohemian Nights posted:

has the WHO discussed whether or not the virus is transmittable thhrough posting??

Bohemian Nights posted:

has the WHO discussed whether or not the virus is transmittable thhrough posting??

Varinn posted:

breaking: my sources in china have sacrificed their lives to bring me this picture from hubei province, the disease has evolved at an alarming rate

Lote posted:

Singapore has 8 new cases. A new high for number in a day. I don’t think heat, humidity, and sunshine inactivate the virus cause the forecast for this week is highs of upper 80s, partially cloudy and super humid.

Also a taxi driver in Japan and a doctor in Japan just got diagnosed and they don’t know how they got it.

Ogantai posted:

https://twitter.com/bnodesk/status/1227923142896738304?s=21

Minrad posted:

If the insane totalitarian ccp could not quarantine it, sa mods have absolutely no loving chance