(Small points. If it had been a bioweapon there would have been a vaccine before it was released. If it was an accidental release, cases would have shown up in Maryland before China. Last,look at the history of influenzas jumping from animal hosts to people. )
(Small points. If it had been a bioweapon there would have been a vaccine before it was released. If it was an accidental release, cases would have shown up in Maryland before China. Last,look at the history of influenzas jumping from animal hosts to people. )
Whilst it’s highly unlikely it was a bioweapon and more likely it was zoonotic you can’t simply dismiss the idea by saying there would be a vaccine before it was released. Firstly you don’t know there wasn’t a vaccine and secondly many bioweapons have no vaccine or remedy.
A bioweapon developed by a terrorist group where disruption and death were the purpose?
I agree with you.
One developed by China or the United States? Then I don't see them doing that without an vaccine in development as well.
I'm also suspicious that they would use a corona virus for their project which seems to mutate if the wind shifts at the same time a leaf falls but that's conjecture.
Now could it have been accidental?
As you said, not likely but not completely disproven.
But then given where it starts, that makes it a Chinese accident.
Now remember, Trump has pulled the CDC monitoring teams in 2017. So it's not a joint effort.
And an American accident would not be in an incoming hub. The first cases would start popping up in Maryland, Georgia, somewhere we have our labs.
It's comforting I think to people that this is human error because it means humans can fix it. Zoonotic diseases have been around since we have been around and all we can do is monitor and have precautions in place.
There was some discussion about how C19 got into the US. If I recall correctly , Wuhan is a central office for Chinas global chicken export (an eye proportion of global consumption BTW) and that there is a US office in New York from which delegates flew in and out of regularly.
If I were in the business of creating a bioweapon I wouldn’t be choosing a corona viruses with any ability to mutate - otherwise what good what a vaccine be. Further to that - if you’re creating a bioweapon at huge risk and considerable expense it wouldn’t be such a virus - much more likely a nerve agent with a very short half-life in open air.
In my opinion Capitalism and incessant growth lead to corona virus - digging up unsuitable land and swamps for rapacious building projects and felling ancient woodland with its bat populations, for example, is the mostly likely way C19 got int o humans - and the propensity for some Asian people eating rare animals in China for various medical and status reasons.
The exceptionalism of western thinking was severely dented by the fact the virus didn’t care who it infected in the world. And all the analysis fails to discuss this.
The British government was woefully unprepared and dare I say it , seemingly unconcerned about the virus. The Conservatives made several appealing decisions in the years before and during the epidemic and then threw money at it which was deftly vacuumed up by their cohorts. The hole in public funds left by the “missing money” will kill far more people than the virus did.
Baloney.
Are you sure Covid didn't screw up your brain.
(Small points. If it had been a bioweapon there would have been a vaccine before it was released. If it was an accidental release, cases would have shown up in Maryland before China. Last,look at the history of influenzas jumping from animal hosts to people. )
Whilst it’s highly unlikely it was a bioweapon and more likely it was zoonotic you can’t simply dismiss the idea by saying there would be a vaccine before it was released. Firstly you don’t know there wasn’t a vaccine and secondly many bioweapons have no vaccine or remedy.
Here's my thinking.
A bioweapon developed by a terrorist group where disruption and death were the purpose?
I agree with you.
One developed by China or the United States? Then I don't see them doing that without an vaccine in development as well.
I'm also suspicious that they would use a corona virus for their project which seems to mutate if the wind shifts at the same time a leaf falls but that's conjecture.
Now could it have been accidental?
As you said, not likely but not completely disproven.
But then given where it starts, that makes it a Chinese accident.
Now remember, Trump has pulled the CDC monitoring teams in 2017. So it's not a joint effort.
And an American accident would not be in an incoming hub. The first cases would start popping up in Maryland, Georgia, somewhere we have our labs.
It's comforting I think to people that this is human error because it means humans can fix it. Zoonotic diseases have been around since we have been around and all we can do is monitor and have precautions in place.
There was some discussion about how C19 got into the US. If I recall correctly , Wuhan is a central office for Chinas global chicken export (an eye proportion of global consumption BTW) and that there is a US office in New York from which delegates flew in and out of regularly.
If I were in the business of creating a bioweapon I wouldn’t be choosing a corona viruses with any ability to mutate - otherwise what good what a vaccine be. Further to that - if you’re creating a bioweapon at huge risk and considerable expense it wouldn’t be such a virus - much more likely a nerve agent with a very short half-life in open air.
In my opinion Capitalism and incessant growth lead to corona virus - digging up unsuitable land and swamps for rapacious building projects and felling ancient woodland with its bat populations, for example, is the mostly likely way C19 got int o humans - and the propensity for some Asian people eating rare animals in China for various medical and status reasons.
The exceptionalism of western thinking was severely dented by the fact the virus didn’t care who it infected in the world. And all the analysis fails to discuss this.
The British government was woefully unprepared and dare I say it , seemingly unconcerned about the virus. The Conservatives made several appealing decisions in the years before and during the epidemic and then threw money at it which was deftly vacuumed up by their cohorts. The hole in public funds left by the “missing money” will kill far more people than the virus did.