faetal on 16/6/2020 at 07:53
Quote Posted by nbohr1more
Big thread grousing about anti-vax folk (morons) and not a single discussion about how absurdly non-biological this virus is:
What this very mainstream science thing:
(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtN-goy9VOY)
Instead of a YouTube video, how about a peer-reviewed article in Nature: (
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9)
Headlines:
* The idea that this is a lab-made virus is not plausible (lack of vector backbone sequence remnants is a pretty big indicator - I worked in a gene engineering business for several years and can confirm that absence of any vector makes it next to impossible this was engineered)
* Virus most likely passed from bats to pangolins, then to humans, where it mutated its virulence in humans
As a side note, coronaviruses in general have been known for some time ((
https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660)) to be something a time bomb for being a threat to people, due to their high mutation rates, steady reservoir in bat populations and proximity to other species via animal markets. It was really only a matter of time.
bob_doe_nz on 16/6/2020 at 08:19
Guess who just lost their Covid-19 free status?
FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK SHIT PISS FUCK!
faetal on 16/6/2020 at 08:23
Are you in NZ Bob? I thought it had been more or less eradicated there.
faetal on 16/6/2020 at 08:29
British people are the worst.
Thirith on 16/6/2020 at 08:31
Yeah. They should keep them from going abroad. :p
lowenz on 16/6/2020 at 08:50
Quote Posted by faetal
Are you in NZ Bob?
bob_doe_
nzLocation: Jafaville
New Zealand:P
bob_doe_nz on 16/6/2020 at 09:22
Quote Posted by faetal
Are you in NZ Bob? I thought it had been more or less eradicated there.
What the others have said.
Also, we couldn't say no to them. It was challenged in court by someone else and the Ministry of Health lost the case. These two twats also drove down to where they were going and most likely spread it elsewhere.
Also, I'm working at the first ski hill to start this season, if we go back to level 2, I'm waiting tables...
faetal on 16/6/2020 at 09:32
Quote Posted by lowenz
bob_doe_
nzLocation: Jafaville
New Zealand:P
Was semi-rhetorical - you could have caught it while travelling. Seemed worth checking given how squeaky clean NZ is.
bob_doe_nz on 16/6/2020 at 10:33
Quote Posted by faetal
Was semi-rhetorical - you could have caught it while travelling. Seemed worth checking given how squeaky clean NZ is.
One of the two was showing theoretical symptoms and also lied about it. The other was (I think) asymptomatic.
