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DIY-HP-LED

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I saw another article from the Taiwan News, while reading it I knew it was false from other stuff I read explaining their accusations away. So I do have a skeptical view on them, not to say this article may not be true. I am putting it in the Maybe column. I can see it.
 
Fogdog

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Taiwan news, Taiwan and China are almost at war and China has been hitting them pretty hard with vaccine disinformation. So I'd take this with a grain of salt, not saying it's not true, just noting the source.
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The footage was from 2017 and I see no reason to doubt what was shown.

Taiwan times is rated by mediabias fact check:

  • Overall, we rate Taiwan News Left-Center Biased based on socially liberal editorial positions. We also rate them Mostly Factual in reporting, versus High, due to a failed fact check.
So, yeah, not perfect but again, nothing like Fox News:

  • We rate Fox News strongly Right-Biased due to editorial positions and story selection that favors the right. We also rate them Mixed factually and borderline Questionable based on poor sourcing and the spreading of conspiracy theories.
 
Sativied

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Whether it’s from a lab, a wild animal farm, nasty eating habits, or animal sex, it’s above all the result of reckless behavior and they should be held accountable. 3 million people in concentration camps and millions of slaves in and out china isn’t good enough reason to boycott the factory of the world, so even if anyone could prove major negligence in a lab it wouldn’t change a thing. Cheap labor turns out to come at a very high price.
 
captainmorgan

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Sativied said:
Whether it’s from a lab, a wild animal farm, nasty eating habits, or animal sex, it’s above all the result of reckless behavior and they should be held accountable. 3 million people in concentration camps and millions of slaves in and out china isn’t good enough reason to boycott the factory of the world, so even if anyone could prove major negligence in a lab it wouldn’t change a thing. Cheap labor turns out to come at a very high price.
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Many now believe the worst is over, B.1.617.2 will be a reminder that things can still get worse. I think the India variant will kill millions and could lead to even worse variants.
 
PJ Diaz

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The biggest problem with Fox is that idiots take their talk show hosts as news rather than opinion.
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Agreed. But sadly, that's the case for most major media outlets these days. It just seems more like news to us, when we agree with the opinions.
 
Don't Bogart

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captainmorgan said:
www.taiwannews.com.tw
Video shows Wuhan lab scientists admit to being bitten by bats | Taiwan News | 2021-01-15 10:22:00 Chinese scientists shown using little to no PPE while handling bats in wild, samples in lab | 2021-01-15 10:22:00
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I was listening to a report on NPR about some biologists in China, Americans I think, taking samples of bat guano in caves and in some forested areas. They're all hasmatted up hunting for viruses. In the mean time tourists with guides are strolling through these places with flip-flops, short sleeves, cameras clicking. The woman being interviewed was amazed that these people didn't even flinch when seeing them in their protection gear. They just took pictures.

As far as China "creating" this bug. It's possible. What Country doesn't play with bio-chemical stock.

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I'm still curious who builds a viral lab right next door to a very crowded open air market.
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I'm in Massachusetts.
The city of Cambridge took a knutty when they found out that M.I.T. wanted to build a level 4 Bio lab.
Anybody remember the movie "The Andromeda Strain"? Cool movie. Twelve Monkeys? The Kingsmen?
That last one is cheecky.
How many movies have we seen that portray some whacko running around the world with a vial of something with the soul intent of devastation.

Think of it. Create a bug that spreads fast. You have a vaccine. Or as in what just happened, release it on your public. You have had practice with SARS, I think a few others of containing it.
One just around the bend https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53218704
Your population has a value of about a-dime-a-dozen. But the world...well.
I hope it's just natural jump.
Did you see that documentary on the Spanish flu? I didn't know it started here.
 
captainmorgan

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The closest wild virus they've found is is only 96.2% genetically the same as the original covid 19. Chimps are 98.8% genetically the same as humans.
 
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TacoMac said:
I'm still curious who builds a viral lab right next door to a very crowded open air market.
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Not only that but why are open live markets still in use with all the evidence of diseases hopping around at them ,looks like we're in for more of the same in the future, I'd like to see some of these cultures scale back they're protein choices,seems to me that the Chinese eat everything that moves on land and everything that is brought up in the fishnet,damn they're adventurous culinarily speaking.ccguns
 
hanimmal

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This makes me think about Rhinos.

And that made me think, why didn't they just consider harvesting a bit of horn at a time and farm rhino horn instead of murdering them and cutting it off. So wasteful we are as a species.
 
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