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China’s only level 4 biolab is just 8 miles from origin of outbreak - coincidence? by magnora7 in corruption

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Are you referring to this? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1.full.pdf

It looks like this geneticist repeated their results and found that these are not particularly significant alignments... "Looking at each "insert" in turn. We see that "insert 1" (GTNGTKR) is present in the closely related virus bat/Yunnan/RaTG13/2013. It is impossible that this sequence was "inserted" into the #nCoV2019 genome. 5/9" https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1223666856923291648?s=20

I'm a neuroscientist, not a geneticist, but these inserts are very small, generally at 5-7 amino acids. This is not enough material to make functional proteins. Further, according to this Twitterer at least, these proteins are in fact similar to other coronaviruses.

The reason HIV drugs work on it is because they work on pretty much all viruses.

Seriously what's the deal with Brave? Where did it come from?

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China’s only level 4 biolab is just 8 miles from origin of outbreak - coincidence? by magnora7 in corruption

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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.

China’s only level 4 biolab is just 8 miles from origin of outbreak - coincidence? by magnora7 in corruption

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The virus is not that different in its genetic code than many other corona viruses - given the high volume of biomass in the area, it was bound to happen that this one would eventually jump. Honestly, I am surprised it doesn't happen MORE often. Look, back in 2006 we were talking about bird flu... coming from densely populated poultry farms in the Netherlands. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2796.2006.01711.x