we outsourced it to China. double stupid. first they have terrible safety in those labs which is known and gave them a potential bio-warfare weapon by funding it. it's not like they needed our money to do it but hey a few more Shekels never hurts, right?
Opinion: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...coronaviruses/
Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Like I said, shit happens. People with good intentions fuck up.
and there is this .. you won't see this on MSDNC ..
Leaked, Chinese Document Reveals Malevolent Intent for Coronaviruses
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/co...08/id/1020638/
aiding an enemy to develop a deadly (well not so deadly) virus can be considered treason
since we both agree and the numbers bear out our calculations that this virus has less than a 1 percent death rate i guess China will just have to try harder next time
Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
That's because the gang over at Newsmax is marginally more bsc than the Commies at MSNBC. The book in question,
The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, is readily available online for $9.95 according to the Sydney Morning Herald. I can't find it on Amazon, but since, contrary to what some here believe, I can't read Chinese, I wouldn't be able to read it anyway.
The lead author is Mr. Xu Dezhong, a retired professor of infectious disease at the Air Force Medical University in Xian. He and his colleagues' theory was that the United States or some other foreign power created the SARS virus and introduced it to China, to fuck with the Chinese.
Nobody took him seriously. He said the military and government wouldn't listen to him. The Lancet, a medical journal, rejected his paper. And the WHO never answered his letters.
There was only one chapter in the book that described possible methods to build biologic weapons. But Xu et al pulled almost all the info from an unclassified U.S. military document written by Colonel Michael Ainscough, a colonel with the USAF Counterproliferation Center.
If you believe in conspiracy theories, there's a lot more basis to believe the so called Wuhan Virus was manufactured someplace like an American or Taiwanese bioweapons facility, than to believe it was a bioweapon created by China and unleashed first on its own people. That's just a nutty idea -- why would they intentionally turn it lose in Wuhan first?
The reason I mention Taiwan is because they were better prepared for this pandemic than any other country, and have come through it better.
This asinine theory got started in Australia, largely by News Corp affiliates like the Daily Telegraph, the Australian, and Sky News. News Corp is controlled by the Murcoch family, the same people who control Fox News, who Tucker Carlson works for. See a connection? The Murdoch's outlets are putting out questionable "news" to pander to their viewers and readers.
However, News Corp is not all bad. It also owns the Wall Street Journal, the most reliable source of news in the United States of America.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/go...12-p57r6e.html