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2020-03-29 India-Pakistan

Indian variant of the virus is DNA/RNA different and seems optimized for Indians.

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#1 Any more questions on this thing, this monster being a carefully crafted biological weapon?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2020-03-29 09:34|| 2020-03-29 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Beginning to remind me of "Regenesis"
A Canadian TV series set in Toronto.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-03-29 09:35|| 2020-03-29 09:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The virus' preference for older people, men, and pre-existing condition 'cloaking' resonates a bit loader.

Extremely selective horseshoe bats, or a laboratory assisted anomaly ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-29 09:38|| 2020-03-29 09:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Virus mutating as to not kill host(s)?

Although the 'escaped/released from the lab' intent scenario has not left me.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-03-29 10:36|| 2020-03-29 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 What would Occam say?

Posted by Lex 2020-03-29 11:12|| 2020-03-29 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 It's not really surprising that in a given population a variant that reproduces better in that population is more prominent.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-03-29 12:30|| 2020-03-29 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Any more questions on this thing, this monster being a carefully crafted biological weapon?

Nope.

Posted by Iblis 2020-03-29 13:36|| 2020-03-29 13:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Accident or act of war?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-03-29 17:10|| 2020-03-29 17:10|| Front Page Top

#9 By some accounts, it's out of control in China. Still, that could be an unforeseen consequence.

Posted by Bobby 2020-03-29 17:45|| 2020-03-29 17:45|| Front Page Top

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