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How did SARS-CoV-2 Break Out? - Poll

How did SARS-CoV-2 Break Out?

  • Humans directly contracted the disease from eating/interacting with wild bats

    Votes: 4 11.1%
  • Bats infected an unspecified mammal carrier host in the wild, and then humans ate the carrier host

    Votes: 2 5.6%
  • Humans captured bats for disease research and accidentally leaked the virus from a lab

    Votes: 10 27.8%
  • Humans genetically altered an existing coronavirus and it accidentally leaked from a lab

    Votes: 3 8.3%
  • Humans deliberately released the virus from a lab

    Votes: 1 2.8%
  • The virus originated in something other than a bat

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The virus was developed and released by the bats themselves

    Votes: 11 30.6%
  • I have a different theory

    Votes: 5 13.9%

  • Total voters
    36
Mar 11, 2004
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2 things
1. It doesn't matter. If it wasn't for the total complete fuckups by government entities (notably Chinese and American, although there's plenty of others to call out), its origin would not matter much.
2. Its obvious this was all an attempt at making more Bat Boys. China heard about Stalin's Gorillman Army and figured its the 21st century, they need to be able to fly. Unfortunately because of the needling about looking like Winnie the Pooh, Xi chose to not just go with flying monkeys, probably because he knew comparisons to the Cowardly Lion would be next. Not that it would matter as if they'd gone birds and monkeys, we'd end up with Avian Ebola or something. Also, how cool is Batman?
 
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BarkingGhostar

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According to the World health Org:

SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.
 

Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
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According to the World health Org:

SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.
SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is SARS

SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, which is what the poll is about.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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I voted for what I *hope* is the actual scenario. If it is determined to be a laboratory accidental release, then it should be possible to make sure the same mistake is never made again.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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2 things
1. It doesn't matter. If it wasn't for the total complete fuckups by government entities (notably Chinese and American, although there's plenty of others to call out), its origin would not matter much.
Why would you say this? If it was a lab accident, IT MOST DEFINITELY WOULD MATTER. Steps would need to be taken to ensure it never happened again.
 

BarkingGhostar

Diamond Member
Nov 20, 2009
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SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is SARS

SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, which is what the poll is about.
Your poll doesn't mention COVID19 at all. And my response never mentioned COVID19. So, we're in sync. Now, how can I help it if I cannot read your mind to <insert> COVID19 that you didn't explictly state to begin with?
 

brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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What about the 5G towers, or the Bill Gates vaccine! Huh? Huh?

don't worry, all you have to do is eat some dandelions

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brianmanahan

Lifer
Sep 2, 2006
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cool. :eek::eek::eek:

And, this is backed by SCIENCE? lol

i never realized that dandelions were orders of magnitude more corrosive than pure sodium hydroxide
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now i'm not sure how my dog survived eating all those dandelions in the yard...
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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Lemon now has a pH of 9.9? Basically grade inflation. I wish to disassociate myself with any pH above 14, thank you.
 
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Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
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Your poll doesn't mention COVID19 at all. And my response never mentioned COVID19. So, we're in sync. Now, how can I help it if I cannot read your mind to <insert> COVID19 that you didn't explictly state to begin with?
1st off, it isn't my poll, i didn't start the thread.
2nd, thread topic is "How did SARS-CoV-2 Break Out? - Poll".
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease.
Your response referred to SARS-CoV which is virus that causes SARS. Two different things.

I was just trying to point out to you that your post had nothing to do with the title topic

According to the World health Org:

SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) – virus identified in 2003. SARS-CoV is thought to be an animal virus from an as-yet-uncertain animal reservoir, perhaps bats, that spread to other animals (civet cats) and first infected humans in the Guangdong province of southern China in 2002.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2
 
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