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Trump Claims Evidence Virus Began In Chinese Lab
April 30, 2020 at 8:48 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/30/trump-claims-evidence-virus-began-in-wuhan-lab/
"SNIP......
President Trump contradicted a rare on-the-record statement from his own intelligence community by claiming that he has seen evidence that gives him a high degree of confidence the novel coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, CNN reports.
The comments undercut a public statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued just hours earlier which stated no such assessment has been made
......SNIP"
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)He did not believe US Intell but did believe WHO and Chhy-nuh. Now he says China and the WHO lied. He can't have it both ways.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)Otherwise its just conjecture.
clutterbox1830
(395 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Blame China
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)He was created in a lab using viper zygotes fused with human. He is a failed genetic experiment that got loose. They decided to let him continue to see how it would work out and here we are.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)Takket
(21,425 posts)basically some virologists studied the virus and said it was too dissimilar from existing known viruses to be artificial. because if you were going to engineer a virus you would do it using an existing virus as a template to tweak. sort of like is someone asked you to build a 1000 horsepower auto engine you aren't going try to invent a completely new technology, you are going to start with an existing engine design and try to tweak it up to what you need.
https://www.biospace.com/article/stop-the-conspiracy-theories-novel-coronavirus-has-natural-origin/
from the article:
Additional evidence of natural evolution was data on the viruss overall molecular structure. Typically, if a researcher was engineering a new coronavirus as a pathogen or biological warfare agent, they build it on the backbone of a virus that is already identified as causing disease. In the case of SARS-CoV-2, their research showed that the SARS-CoV-2 backbone was quite different from known coronaviruses and more closely resembled viruses found in bats and pangolins.
applegrove
(118,022 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)believe everything he says. Telling the same lie over and over to the "cult" is how cult leaders control things. He will never stop lying.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)if the virus was genetically engineered it would be pretty obvious.