SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[Lhalo]

I agree with most of the video but the virus came from a biolab, not a person eating a bat. 

[tdawg87]

8 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

I agree with most of the video but the virus came from a biolab, not a person eating a bat. 

What

[Lhalo]

What do you mean what? Do people here really think this thing came from some peasant eating a bat?

[the dude abides]

1 minute ago, Lhalo said:

What do you mean what? Do people here really think this thing came from some peasant eating a bat?

No.  It came from Bill Gates, apparently.

[St1ck]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Wow, Jason actually posting Bill Maher.

[RallyMo]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

 

16 minutes ago, st1ckboy said:

Wow, Jason actually posting Bill Maher.

Jason follows Bill Maher on Twitter. The world is changing so fast these days. It's hard to keep up.

[mtangelsfan]

7 hours ago, calscuf said:

The economy won’t kill me.  And as long as there are gays and women @Blarg will still have a TV show to make, so it won’t kill him.  People will still be committing crimes, probably more so, so for@ten ocho recon scout Business will be booming.  People will be sad and desperate and will need @Taylor.  Snot noses will need educating so our boy @Tank will be fine.  America will still need creepy white dudes living in the middle of nowhere but needing guns to fight off terrorists, so @mtangelsfan will be occupied.  And even if there was a nuclear apocalypse at least half of us would log on here first if we somehow found an internet connection in the rubble so Chuck will always have us dumbasses to deal with.   

Maybe you should move to Sweden if you don’t care about the virus and like open malls?

I don’t own a gun, but everything else was spot on.

[Redondo]

Good news: the flu vaccine needs to be updated every season because the flu virus mutates rapidly, so there are always multiple strains going around at any given time, and new ones every year. But coronaviruses don't mutate very rapidly at all. In fact, they seem to have a mechanism that "corrects" mutations and keeps their RNA stable. As well, the coronaviruses that have been seen so far all have a common feature, a "spike", which could be a common weak point for a vaccine that would protect against all coronaviruses.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-mutation-rate.html
 

[tdawg87]

57 minutes ago, Lhalo said:

What do you mean what? Do people here really think this thing came from some peasant eating a bat?

Can you explain the biolab comment?

[Redondo]

Office of Director of National Intelligence says CNN coronavirus report 'contains inaccurate information'

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence accused CNN of publishing inaccurate information on Thursday.

CNN published a story claiming United States “intelligence agencies started tracking coronavirus outbreak in China as early as November” and shared the link on Twitter, but the DNI’s verified account shared the story with a caption informing followers that it got the facts wrong.

“As we told CNN earlier today, this story contains inaccurate information,” the Office of the DNI wrote in a tweet.

The DNI did not specify what was specifically wrong with CNN’s report, but came one day after a defense official issued a rare denial of a similar report by ABC News.

CNN did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

ABC News reported on Wednesday that a November intelligence assessment warned about a rapidly spreading coronavirus in China that posed a threat to American forces in the region – but the official said no such assessment existed.

ABC News cited unnamed officials with knowledge of the assessment by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) that raised concerns of the coronavirus and highlighted how it was disrupting daily life and business in the area.

Col. R. Shane Day, the director of the NCMI, a component of the Defense Intelligence Agency, refuted the ABC News report in a statement.

"As a matter of practice the National Center for Medical Intelligence does not comment publicly on specific intelligence matters," he said. "However, in the interest of transparency during this current public health crisis, we can confirm that media reporting about the existence/release of a National Center for Medical Intelligence Coronavirus-related product/assessment in November of 2019 is not correct. No such NCMI product exists."

The CNN report disputed by the Office of the DNI cited “a former US military official” who claimed, “US spy agencies were tracking the rise of the novel coronavirus as early as November, weeks before that information was included in President Donald Trump's daily intelligence briefing.”

CNN’s report mentioned the Pentagon denying ABC News’ similar report and noted that "Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Hyten seemed to push back on reports that the US intelligence community was aware of the coronavirus in November."

CNN had not updated its story following the Office of the DNI’s tweet as of Friday afternoon.

cnn-coronavirus-report-inaccurate-information

 

 

[gotbeer]

@Redondo You are killing the vibe.  

[red321]

1 hour ago, the dude abides said:

No.  It came from Bill Gates, apparently.

You won today...well done

[Lhalo]

24 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Can you explain the biolab comment?

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/
 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1251719/coronavirus-china-bioweapon-experiment-lab-leak-wuhan-seafood-market-spt
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8188159/Did-coronavirus-leak-research-lab-Wuhan-Startling-new-theory-no-longer-discounted.html

[tdawg87]

Do you expect me to read all that shit

[Jason]

1 hour ago, st1ckboy said:

Wow, Jason actually posting Bill Maher.

He may be a left wing asshat but he’s right every now and then

[Jason]

5 minutes ago, tdawg87 said:

Do you expect me to read all that shit

You are quarantined so you got the time 

[St1ck]

5 minutes ago, Jason said:

He may be a left wing asshat but he’s right every now and then

Jason s Bill Maher.

 

[tdawg87]

39 minutes ago, Jason said:

You are quarantined so you got the time 

I'm actually working bro.

[the dude abides]

2 hours ago, RallyMo said:

 

Jason follows Bill Maher on Twitter. The world is changing so fast these days. It's hard to keep up.

In the span of one month, Jason has posted (approvingly) videos of Bill Maher and Chris Hayes.

i think he may have caught “the lib”.

[halomatt]

1 hour ago, Lhalo said:

https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/
 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1251719/coronavirus-china-bioweapon-experiment-lab-leak-wuhan-seafood-market-spt
 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8188159/Did-coronavirus-leak-research-lab-Wuhan-Startling-new-theory-no-longer-discounted.html

I read them.  They did not persuade me.  About all I got from those articles was, "it's possible." 

[St1ck]

15 minutes ago, halomatt said:

I read them.  They did not persuade me.  About all I got from those articles was, "it's possible." 

[Lhalo]

43 minutes ago, halomatt said:

I read them.  They did not persuade me.  About all I got from those articles was, "it's possible." 

That’s fine. Keep believing that this whole thing started from someone eating a bat. 

[Lhalo]

1 hour ago, the dude abides said:

In the span of one month, Jason has posted (approvingly) videos of Bill Maher and Chris Hayes.

i think he may have caught “the lib”.

RIP Jason. 

[Jason]

1 hour ago, tdawg87 said:

I'm actually working bro.

#MeToo

[Lhalo]