On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 11:13:07 AM UTC, Jedi Master wrote:
DID THE CCP LEARN NOT TO WEAPONIZE THE CORONA VIRUS RESEARCH YET? LIKE NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY THIS HAS TO BE CONTAINED!
As China deals with a new wave of Covid infections, BBC analysis editor Ros Atkins looks at why it’s hard to assess the scale of the outbreak.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-64042718
"Researchers have discovered coronaviruses lurking in Laotian bats that appear to be the closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, found to date, according to news reports.
In a new study, researchers from the Pasteur Institute in France and the University of Laos captured 645 bats from limestone caves in northern Laos and screened them for viruses related to SARS-CoV-2. They found three viruses — which they dubbed BANAL-
52, BANAL-103 and BANAL-236 — that infected horseshoe bats and shared more than 95% of their overall genome with SARS-CoV-2."
https://www.livescience.com/closest-bat-virus-found-to-sars-cov2-covid
OK. Viruses from infected horseshoe bats share more than 95% of their overall genome with SARS-CoV-2.
Does the above mean Covid-19 originated from these bats from Laos?
1. How close does 95% entail?
Human and Chimpanzee share 99% of their genome. Are humans chimps?
2. More important, do these viruses readily infect humans?
NO.
As a matter of fact, the only coronvirus jumping back and forth between human and animal hosts are from Minks.
And tens of minks had been killed during the pandemic. Governments ordered large scale killing of chickens during
a bird flu epidemic. Governments also ordered large scale killing of pigs during a swine flu epidemic.
Why did governments had tens of millions of minks killed in response to the COVID-10 pandemic?
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