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2020-05-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Chinese Pearl Harbor: Xi's CCP deliberately infected West with COVID-19

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 08:33|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 After being genetically altered on two of its receptors. To make it more transmissible to humans.

Any news on a collaborative scientific remediation effort, site visits, information sharing with China? No? I thought not.

See today's Burg article on new rat vector in Hong Kong.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 08:47|| 2020-05-10 08:47|| Front Page Top

#2 The Black Plague was from rats, if I recall. What did the CCP do differently for this iteration?

Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 08:52|| 2020-05-10 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm beginning to thing that the biggest alternations were
(a) Variable incubation time (worldometers)
(b)presymptomatic/asymptomatic transmission.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-10 09:14|| 2020-05-10 09:14|| Front Page Top

#4 (b)presymptomatic/asymptomatic transmission.

That ought to be at least partly a result of cultural hygiene practices and standard social distance, it seems to me. In cultures where hand washing and disposable tissues covering coughs and sneezes are the norm, and cultures where people stand farther apart while conversing, asymptomatic transmission ought to be more difficult.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-10 17:15|| 2020-05-10 17:15|| Front Page Top

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