I don't know, if the Seattle AAAS science congress results have been posted already.
The Munich Merkur (german news outlet) yesterday: US-scientist (genetics-researcher) Trevor Bedford, as part of an international group of researchers claims, the virus isn't artificially made.
According to Bedford, the genetic analysis has proven beyond any doubt that the new corona virus is not only related to the SARS virus, but that the two also have the same strain. Almost 20 to 70 years ago, the two types would have developed apart. According to Bedford, this means that the virus
can not be produced in the laboratory.
The researcher also gives new figures on the infected: In his opinion, regardless of the official figures, one must assume that 200,000 people are currently infected with the corona virus.
source:
Das Coronavirus fordert in China über 2400 Todesopfer. 77.000 Menschen haben sich mit SARS-CoV-2 infiziert. Nun fand der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi drastische Worte für die Krise.
www.merkur.de
relevant snippet (in German):
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Well it hasn't really proven it's not artificial per say, but it's definitely proven IF it's artificial it was made by a god damned lunatic. So here's the explanation:
What this analysis proves is that this virus wasn't made through inserts. In genetic engineering we got generally 2 types of modifications, random and not random. Should be obvious enough what that means. For non-random you just know the genes, see what you wanna put in or take out, and use something like a zinc finger or recombinating sequence or whatever else to modify it, then see if the result was correct. Typically combining this with sellective breeding or other "classical biotech" methods to get the final result. This is the right way to do most things if possible.
But then there's the random way, which just involves adding a bunch of mutations through chemical mutagens, ionizing radiation and basically whatever you got and then using said "classic biotech" methods to sellect the ones you like. This is what was done a lot during the 20th century, and indeed "organic farms" sure love the results if these "totally not GMOs"... I'm not kidding here. Wanna guess why I hate greenpeace and the organic farming industry so much? Fucking hypocrites all of them.
Anyway. Outside of that this IS still used for good things. More often than not pest control. Ever heard of GMO mosquitoes? Yeah, well here's how they make them: the theory is simple, whenever you got an insect plague you really wanna end, you use random mutations to create a version of said plague whose metabolism is broken in such a way that their eggs won't mature outside the lab, typically because they can't synthezice a specific molecule they need to grow. You then sellect this mutation and breed a lot of the little bastards, then take the males and free them en masse over the area where the pest is. Then these males impregnate the wild females who lay eggs that can't hatch in the while, and therefore stop mating with the wild mosquitoes and laying eggs that can. Repeat until the population is appropriately low, under strict supervision (and indeed keep said suppervision for some time after even though it has never been proven anything can really go wrong with this protocol just because, well, autism is preferrable to actually getting said proof.)
Now. Doing these kind of mutations to viri would be incredibly moronic. Because we typically only use it to BREAK DNA not FIX it, I mean not only is it unsafe and hard to control, it's also inneficient as fuck. Furthermore the "hard to control" thing goes doubly so for viri. As we talked about previously viri are targeted by the capside's proteins. If you fuck with that randomly you're making it much harder to identify it's a major security issue.
So I feel pretty confident that this wasn't made... Outside of China. But china has a lab that thinks it can contain this being led by a LIBERAL ARTS STUDENT whose biggest accomplishment was having sex with a university director 14 years older than her. Said lab as discussed previously has also experienced incredible security breaches like the scientists eating the eggs they used on a study. Do you really think they aren't stupid enough to give it a try? It's more likely they were only studying it, but, well... the chance isn't 0 either.
Could this simply be a naturally-developed virus that was being studied and was isolated in this lab, but it leaked out anyway through incompetence? I am not a viral expert so I have no idea how new strains of viruses come into being. Are they all mutations of viruses we know to exist now? Can new viruses only come into being through bio-engineering?
Could they have been studying a coronavirus that affected only some animals and while doing testing, it mutated on its own and became infectious to humans? What was the origin of SARS and is it just a coincidence than 2 new coronaviruses have leaked out of China, this new one having its epicenter near a bioengineering labratory?
New mutations happen all the time, indeed if a virus can reinfect it's because it mutates and the inmune system stops recognizing it. As for coronaviri leaking out of china, well, CV are native to china, mutate as fast as the flu and are about as virulent if not more. Really once they made the jump to humans the chinese should've realized it was going to become their seasonal pneumonia viri like the flu is for the west. They didn't though, and didn't take measures to protect for wave 2, hence Corona-chan's bizarre adventure starts.
I've always suspected some low level tard working at the Wuhan lab snatching critters destined for the incinerator and instead selling them or some sloppy maintenance issue releasing infectious waste into the area. Here the Chinese have an obsession with food, especially weird and exotic food but it's mostly those born and raised in mainland China. I have rarely, if ever, heard Chinese from Taiwan or Singapore going on about eating strange critters (maybe they do, behind my back).
I have relatives that live in Asia and the Japanese have their own weird food fetishes, like fugu, which is expensive poisonous puffer fish. It's a status symbol thing to eat and then brag how you didn't die (I also heard that if you get a super tiny, tiny dose of the poison it gives you a buzz but I don't care to find out if that's true). There's always a few dumbass japs that die from eating fugu every year even though it's illegal to prepare the poisonous parts for consumption. The US has it's own weird food connoisseurs who eat raccoons, squirrels, possums, snakes, gators and whatnot but it's looked down upon, as in it's a low class hillbilly kind of thing. I don't get it, there's enough great meat/fish that doesn't kill you available. like wild salmon or longhorn beef. Squab is delicious, no need to grab them from the windowsill since markets here have the ones raised for eating.
Gators aren't that bad. Ruleof thumb: if it isn't a critter, nor a pet (or from a species typically considered pets), isn't a carrier, isn't a bug, isn't endangered and IS bred in a farm under proper protocols it's fine. So basically don't be like China.
This is quite incredible.
PDF | The 2019-nCoV has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in human including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
web.archive.org
Paper out of a Chinese institute, or am I reading that wrong? They are basically saying it’s from the lab near the market. Interesting that it’s from within China - I assume that CCP has control over such publications? So CCP has allowed this to be published...
I don't know if the CCP can avoid leaks 100%, so it might've slipped through the back door. If it has these scientists got some steel balls and a target painted on their back.
