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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 06:04 PM Sep 2020

A Chinese virologist claimed the coronavirus was 'intentionally' released.

Turns out, she works for a group led by Steve Bannon.

A strange new paper claiming the coronavirus was a "laboratory product" quietly made its way into a repository of preliminary research on Monday.

"The laboratory creation of this coronavirus is convenient and can be accomplished in approximately six months," the paper's authors, four Chinese virologists who fled to the US earlier this year, wrote.

Li-Meng Yan, the lead author, went a step further in a Tuesday interview with the Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

She told Carlson that her government had "intentionally" released the "man-made virus" — comments that echoed a fringe conspiracy theory that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump alluded to in May.


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https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-virologist-claimed-coronavirus-intentionally-150200793.html

That creepazoid's fingers are everywhere.
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A Chinese virologist claimed the coronavirus was 'intentionally' released. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
I believe she is connected to the demon sperm doctor. tblue37 Sep 2020 #1
Who exactly is that person? Is she at all credible? PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #2
No she isn't Miguelito Loveless Sep 2020 #7
The fact that she showed up on Fox is a big clue, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2020 #12
Agreed. Miguelito Loveless Sep 2020 #13
Even if that were true. Trump fucked up and is to blame for 150K plus deaths and destroyed economy. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #3
Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab cayugafalls Sep 2020 #4
I don't think the technology has evolved to even near this state, to genetically engineer such a ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2020 #5
The Right is praising her as if she were another Einstein. Chainfire Sep 2020 #6
What would have been the purpose? kentuck Sep 2020 #8
Hong Kong professor WA-03 Democrat Sep 2020 #9
"Tells fucker tarlson" that's all one needs to know Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #10
Bannon has a past with China, via video gaming. Baked Potato Sep 2020 #11

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
2. Who exactly is that person? Is she at all credible?
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 06:07 PM
Sep 2020

The nonsense about the virus coming from a lab or being deliberately released was pretty thoroughly shot down back in about March. So who the hell is she? And why should we believe her?

Heck, the fact that she's on Fox, not in some article in the NYTimes is itself a pretty strong indication she's full of crap.

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
4. Tucker Carlson guest airs debunked conspiracy theory that COVID-19 was created in a lab
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 06:14 PM
Sep 2020
Over the next six-and-a-half minutes, Yan, a virologist and former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong, explained that the Chinese government created the coronavirus in a Wuhan lab and released it intentionally. The virus’ genome, she said, indicates that it was modified. She accused the Chinese Communist Party of silencing those who claim otherwise.

"It’s hard to be shocked in a moment like this, but you have succeeded in shocking me," Carlson said at the end of the interview. "Unfortunately, this is not the forum for the details of your research; I don’t have the grounding necessary to ask you the right questions."

Scientists do. The consensus of the scientific community and international public health organizations is that the coronavirus emerged from bats and later jumped to humans.

But the doctor’s interview on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" quickly took off, inspiring a rash of social media posts parroting her claims.


https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/16/li-meng-yan/tucker-carlson-guest-airs-debunked-conspiracy-theo/

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
5. I don't think the technology has evolved to even near this state, to genetically engineer such a ...
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 06:15 PM
Sep 2020

thing. Otherwise, we'd have cures for cancer, and other viruses out there, wouldn't we? Think of the untold $billions one would make, making such cures...It would worth every penny to whomever could engineer such cures. I think now, most vaccines are engineered by weakening the viruses and then allowing the human body to create more robust antiviral antibodies against the viruses in question.

Of course this is my weak and feeble approximation of this whole process of creating a vaccine, this process involves whole subsets of actions, in no way could I even begin to list them here. All I hope is that we get lots of CV vaccines, accurately and thoroughly tested, prior to being applied to the overall population, worldwide.

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
8. What would have been the purpose?
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 06:22 PM
Sep 2020

If it had been "intentionally" released?

If Steve Bannon was connected, who knows?

WA-03 Democrat

(3,017 posts)
9. Hong Kong professor
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 06:27 PM
Sep 2020

Which back last November was still far away from China. 15mins of BS fame should be over soon.

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