China’s only level 4 biolab is just 8 miles from origin of outbreak - coincidence?

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[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

They've been saying it's bats and snakes from the night market carrying the disease. Which is possible because bats are known to carry the coronavirus. However the fact the ONLY level 4 biolab in China is located very close to the outbreak location is very concerning.

Remember too that the Spanish flu in 1918 that killed tens of millions, likely originated from a military base in Kansas because the first case was reported near there.

These high level biolabs often are doing testing of deadly diseases, including creating mutations of those diseases to use as potential bioweapons.

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It does seem suspicious, it wouldn't be the first time a virus has escaped from a level 4 biolab. I don't like to make assumptions though, hopefully we will have more information soon.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

hopefully we will have more information soon.

I'm not sure we will get that luxury. I think this is more likely to be covered up permanently if that's what happened. I doubt we'll ever know the true story.

[–]codeineblues 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They should not exist at all in any country. They were supposed to be completely dismantled, but the US not following its own laws then legalizing "keeping batches of extremely deadly diseases for research and defensive purposes" made all other countries with the means resume their insanity.

I'm a chemist and I would never work in such a place, that's right. A "scientist" (I only got a BSc in Chem, nothing too fancy) and I got ethics and I support open science, green chemistry and other actual progressive ideas on what to do science-wise. I even felt bad when I worked at a generics meds factory supervising technicians who would be synthesizing *prazole type antacids at times, so I switched for a less interesting but just as rewarding, salary-wise at a paint factory....

All this to say, they crack jokes like making CDC drills about zombie apocalypses, but with the virii and bacteria I know to exist not too far from me, no matter how securely stored it is makes me have problems sleeping, hence the sleeping pills, nothing synthesized by mother nature, I guess other than morphine, which isn't really used with insomnia in mind, none of it works anymore, melatonin makes me nauseous, kavakava extract stops working very quickly, weed (canadian, yup) is too much of a wildcard, sometimes it'll crank me up instead of help with sleep. Valerian capsules also stop working very quickly. Sorry for the Lifelog entry at the end here.

[–]eremsee 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe its because only poor people who would have a wildlife market like this would also get stomped on by the Chinese boot to have to tolerate a BSL 4 lab inside their city. Hubei is pretty poor over all, if government contracts work anything like they do in the U.S., poor counties accept NIMBY government buildings as a key source of funding.

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Make sure you keep an eye out for this guy.