Why “Coronavirus” is being discussed
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No it's not "hearsay", you can download the logs and diaries and read them for yourself. They are verified documentation. I only bothered citing evidence relevant to your claim:…
by mike_hearn · Oct 5, 2026
> The outbreak looks like a wet market spillover. Zoonotic spillover is not a spontaneous 0->100 event, there should be a trail of intermediate hosts and adjacent infections tha…
by kryogen1c · Oct 5, 2026
The Wuhan institute was the world leader in bat coronavirus research. They were not studying random animals from their local wet market, they were studying bats with coronavirus…
by adammarples · Oct 5, 2026
Just read the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory The summary does not mention lab leak of a natural virus at all but the body of th…
by skew-aberration · Oct 5, 2026
This is not an accurate description. The first identified patients were people working in or living near a "wet market" where (among other things) various wild animals were sold…
by jacobolus · Oct 5, 2026
> But it is awfully strange that the first patients of a novel pandemic coronavirus were workers at a lab conducting gain of function research on coronavirus. Except - as far as…
by Angostura · Oct 5, 2026
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Coronaviruses are a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, they cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal. Mild illnesses in humans include some cases of the common cold, while more lethal varieties can cause SARS, MERS and COVID-19. In cows and pigs, they cause diarrhea; while in mice, they cause hepatitis and encephalomyelitis. Read more on Wikipedia