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davek
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But but but...China....
No not at all, but given how wrong they've been on this and their track record of declaring "no evidence" of something in regards to it, then I'm more likely to take a racism class from Luis Suarez than take that bunch seriously again on COVID-19.
It doesn't mean I'm dismissing all experts, as that would be stupid. I'd simply be looking to listen to epidemiologists not associated with that trainwreck of an organisation that have a clear bias influencing all they do.
roydo
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Hundreds. Every hotel, the hospitality, every pub, cafe, shop. The town is packed for a week with hundreds of thousands of race goers.
The vast majority dont go for one day. Its the week.
But it was China. It just wasn't an actual lab in China - instead it was a petri dish they facilitated in terms of the wet markets.
Montagnier certainly is no stranger to controversy.
Nobel winning scientist who co-discovered HIV claims novel Coronavirus was made in Wuhan's lab
Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier maintains that novel coronavirus had elements of HIV, and such modifications can only be made in a labwww.ibtimes.sg
Luc Montagnier - Wikipedia
So do you think the WHO and the CCP are currently operating with 100% transparency then ?
davek
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There's no rhyme or reason to it then.
larrygobfiend
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China’s not gonna shag you, mate
Local stable owners near me went to Cheltenham and brought it back. That’s according to my neighbour anyways. Obviously Chinese whispers is rife at the minute like.
No pun intended
What if he wears a nice dress with matching shoes?
roydo
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Indeed. Maybe there will be a spike next week, in Cheltenham, dunno. But its clear that all we, the public, can do is try our best not to catch it. If we follow the advice, then even to me, its obvious the infection will flatten then fall.
Christ only knows what next mind.
I think the WHO is vast organisation that covers a great number of areas of vital importance that extend a long way beyond just dealing with China, and that while reforms and personnel changes may be needed you haven't the first clue about them.
The CCP are a propaganda heavy organisation so I doubt it but I really don't know all that much about their situation, I do know Trump felt they were acting with complete transparency just two months ago
Shevin Keedy
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I suppose snooker will be fine, if it comes to it they could just film it like they do with the darts and have them both compete on separate tables.
If I understand Prof Homes statement correctly he explicitly rules that out because of the evolutionary change.
"The closest known relative of SARS-CoV-2 is a bat virus named RaTG13, which was kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. There is some unfounded speculation that this virus was the origin of SARS-CoV-2. However:
(i) RaTG13 was sampled from a different province of China (Yunnan) to where COVID-19 first appeared; and
(ii) the level of genome sequence divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is equivalent to an average of 50 years (and at least 20 years) of evolutionary change.
"Hence, SARS-CoV-2 was not derived from RaTG13.”
Obviously I’m open to the idea it escaped from a lab rather than a wet market if there is data to back it up but that doesn’t seem to be what the scientists with expertise in the field are saying. Perhaps things will change as the more investigation that the prof suggests is done “However, a greater sampling of animal species in nature, including bats from Hubei province, is needed to resolve the exact origins of SARS-CoV-2."
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