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angrychair

(8,698 posts)

16. I don't disagree

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #14)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:12 PM

Jan 2020

Again, the tabloid aside, the two items I stated are facts.

While my two stated points are technically circumstantial,
It's also still true that the simplest and most plain answer is typically the right one.

Otherwise, you have to believe that a SARS-like variant just happens to pop up, by coincidence, in the same town/province as a lab specifically created to study SARS viruses.
While yes its possible, it would be a hell of a bizarre coincidence.

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China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola in Wuhan - and US biosafety experts warned in 2017 that a [View all] Throck Jan 2020 OP

Don't forget Faux pas Jan 2020 #1

A second story offering this hypothesis. Mike 03 Jan 2020 #2

CCN stands for Crypto Currency News muriel_volestrangler Jan 2020 #6

I use to walk thru old grave yards just to safeinOhio Jan 2020 #3

There are two old graveyards in my in-laws' town. Pacifist Patriot Jan 2020 #5

My wife's grandfather survived the Spanish flu. Throck Jan 2020 #7

My dads mother got it and survived. safeinOhio Jan 2020 #8

I've seen a couple of documentaries where isolated towns just plain shut themselves off. Throck Jan 2020 #21

A Sensationalistic and Misleading Headline groundloop Jan 2020 #4

Why are we quoting a notorioulsy unreliable Miguelito Loveless Jan 2020 #9

The mere mention of science and the God's Will crowd is nowhere to be found bucolic_frolic Jan 2020 #10

The Daily Mail? PSPS Jan 2020 #11

Daily Mail is a British tabloid and not a reliable source for anything IronLionZion Jan 2020 #12

Daily mail is questionable angrychair Jan 2020 #13

US and British intelligence agencies would probably know the truth IronLionZion Jan 2020 #14

I don't disagree angrychair Jan 2020 #16

It's certainly possible. And googling it shows it's a common but unproven theory. IronLionZion Jan 2020 #17

Some government worker making a few Yen on the side. Throck Jan 2020 #19

PETA always told us meat is murder IronLionZion Jan 2020 #20

....the plague never dies.... Toorich Jan 2020 #15

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