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I have always been here
Here we are -- again. What I remember so well is this: "The F.B.I., and the C.I.A. favor an escape from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, although with only low certainty. The Department of Energy leans with low confidence to the virus escaping from a different lab in Wuhan. Other agencies lean toward a natural origin."
Yes, Here we are -- again.
Here we are -- again. Yes, science never sleeps. A few facts as a primer:
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
As I've said before "Follow the facts"
We all got the same news as far as government's were concerned. Then there was what scientists who analyzed the data were saying:
Then we go from "science" to "politics" -- How a Bannon-linked conspiracy theory about coronavirus origins landed on Murdoch-owned media, including Fox News
Well al know FOX News knowingly lied about the 2020 election.
Then...
Discovery of the virus in animals makes it much more unlikely that SARS can be eradicated, because of the difficulty of eradicating the animals that harbor the virus. But control of those species could reduce the risk of it from seeding cases into the human population in the future.
Yes, Here we are -- again.
Headline: Genetic Study Retraces the Origins of Coronaviruses in Bats
As China and the United States trade charges of a lab leak, researchers contend in a new paper that the Covid pandemic got its start, like a previous one, in the wildlife trade.Here we are -- again. Yes, science never sleeps. A few facts as a primer:
In the early 2000s, a coronavirus infecting bats jumped into raccoon dogs and other wild mammals in southwestern China. Some of those animals were sold in markets, where the coronavirus jumped again, into humans. The result was the SARS pandemic, which spread to 33 countries and claimed 774 lives. A few months into it, scientists discovered the coronavirus in mammals known as palm civets sold in a market at the center of the outbreak.
In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared the evolutionary story of SARS with that of Covid 17 years later. The researchers analyzed the genomes of the two coronaviruses that caused the pandemics, along with 248 related coronaviruses in bats and other mammals.
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
As I've said before "Follow the facts"
The study (a study published on Wednesday), lands at a fraught political moment. Last month the White House created a web page called “Lab Leak: The True Origin of Covid 19,” asserting that the pandemic had been caused not by a market spillover but by an accident in a lab in Wuhan, China.
We all got the same news as far as government's were concerned. Then there was what scientists who analyzed the data were saying:
The Chinese government responded with a flat denial that Covid had been caused by a Wuhan lab leak and raised the possibility that the virus had come instead from a biodefense lab in the United States.
“A thorough and in-depth investigation into the origins of the virus should be conducted in the U.S.,” the statement read.
Sergei Pond, a virologist at Temple University, said that he did not consider the origin of Covid settled. But he worried that the incendiary language from the two governments would make it difficult for scientists to investigate — and debate — the origin of Covid.
“If it wasn’t tragic, you’d have to laugh, it’s so farcical,” Dr. Pond said.
Then we go from "science" to "politics" -- How a Bannon-linked conspiracy theory about coronavirus origins landed on Murdoch-owned media, including Fox News
Well al know FOX News knowingly lied about the 2020 election.
Then...
- May 23, 2003
Discovery of the virus in animals makes it much more unlikely that SARS can be eradicated, because of the difficulty of eradicating the animals that harbor the virus. But control of those species could reduce the risk of it from seeding cases into the human population in the future.
