Was Covid-19 Engineered?

[Heisenberg]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Yes, it does, and it's a humdinger of a fib.

Are you sticking to that theory?

[cyril evans awaydays]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

They knew of COVID-19 years before last November. Read my Plandemic thread at the Politics forum in an hour or so to understand why.

Bloody hell Org.....Do you really want people to do that?

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Not according to this.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-not-human-made-lab-genetic-analysis-nature

It was clear “almost overnight” that the virus wasn’t human-made, Andersen says. Anyone hoping to create a virus would need to work with already known viruses and engineer them to have desired properties.

But the SARS-CoV-2 virus has components that differ from those of previously known viruses, so they had to come from an unknown virus or viruses in nature. “Genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone,” Andersen and colleagues write in the study.

“This is not a virus somebody would have conceived of and cobbled together. It has too many distinct features, some of which are counterintuitive,” Garry says. “You wouldn’t do this if you were trying to make a more deadly virus.”

Anderson also said that it didn’t seem as though the Seafood Market wasn’t the only origin.
Not that it contradicts what he has gone on to say, but it does puzzle me.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally#

Kristian Andersen, an evolutionary biologist at the Scripps Research Institute who has analyzed sequences of 2019-nCoV to try to clarify its origin, says the 1 December timing of the first confirmed case was “an interesting tidbit” in The Lancet paper. “The scenario of somebody being infected outside the market and then later bringing it to the market is one of the three scenarios we have considered that is still consistent with the data,” he says. “It’s entirely plausible given our current data and knowledge.” The other two scenarios are that the origin was a group of infected animals or a single animal that came into that marketplace.

Andersen posted his analysis of 27 available genomes of 2019-nCoV on 25 January on a virology research website. It suggests they had a “most recent common ancestor”—meaning a common source—as early as 1 October 2019.

Bin Cao of Capital Medical University, the corresponding author of The Lancet article and a pulmonary specialist, wrote in an email to ScienceInsider that he and his co-authors “appreciate the criticism” from Lucey.

“Now It seems clear that [the] seafood market is not the only origin of the virus,” he wrote. “But to be honest, we still do not know where the virus came from now.”

[Croesy Blue]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Organ has an interesting theory on this - http://www.ccmb.co.uk/showthread.php?443863-Plandemic

[CCFCC3PO]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Not according to this.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coronavirus-covid-19-not-human-made-lab-genetic-analysis-nature

It was clear “almost overnight” that the virus wasn’t human-made, Andersen says. Anyone hoping to create a virus would need to work with already known viruses and engineer them to have desired properties.

But the SARS-CoV-2 virus has components that differ from those of previously known viruses, so they had to come from an unknown virus or viruses in nature. “Genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone,” Andersen and colleagues write in the study.

“This is not a virus somebody would have conceived of and cobbled together. It has too many distinct features, some of which are counterintuitive,” Garry says. “You wouldn’t do this if you were trying to make a more deadly virus.”

Great post.

[ToTaL ITK]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

This.

Although, it's difficult to know whether or not China engineered the virus or not, it's hard to see what would be in it for them if they did. Their economy was slowing down before this started. Now it's in decline.

It's rumoured that china bought up loys of PPE gear back in Jan/feb from around the world and are now happily selling it back to us.

[City123]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

It's rumoured that china bought up loys of PPE gear back in Jan/feb from around the world and are now happily selling it back to us.

Wonder if that might have something to do with the pandemic they experienced in January and February?

[Rjk]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Wonder if that might have something to do with the pandemic they experienced in January and February?

[The Lone Gunman]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Organ has an interesting theory on this

He's had a complete mare of the night variety.

[dml1954]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Maybe I should have left Trump and the WHO out of the post as it will derail the real question I was thinking about.

Which is essentially was...what are the chances that the Covid-19 virus was engineered in China?

A theory could be that they were developing biological weapons as have other countries have or possibly were looking at potential Bat CV vaccines and the security measures were to lax and it escaped.

Develop a biological weapon that mainly kills old, vulnerable people and in the vast majority of people hardly any symptoms ?? Also killing their own population appears rather counterproductive. Its all conspiracy theories and supposition.

[Croesy Blue]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

He's had a complete mare of the night variety.

The lad has had an absolute coronavirus of a day

[cyril evans awaydays]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

He's had a complete mare of the night variety.

URL be the judge of that I guess!

[Croesy Blue]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

They knew of COVID-19 years before last November. Read my Plandemic thread at the Politics forum in an hour or so to understand why.

The fact he was ****ing advertising it too

[jon1959]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

It's rumoured that china bought up loys of PPE gear back in Jan/feb from around the world and are now happily selling it back to us.

The EU donated a lot of PPE and other equipment to China in January. In March the Chinese donated it back!

[xsnaggle]

Re: Was Covid-19 Engineered?

Develop a biological weapon that mainly kills old, vulnerable people and in the vast majority of people hardly any symptoms ?? Also killing their own population appears rather counterproductive. Its all conspiracy theories and supposition.

That didn't appear to bother Pol Pot or Mao or stalin or Hitler