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Don’t Fall for the Chinese Wet Market Theory for Covid

by Richard Eldred
22 September 2024 11:00 AM

No, Covid didn’t originate from a raccoon dog in Wuhan, says Matt Ridley in the Telegraph. Don’t be fooled by the latest PR buzz surrounding a debunked team’s paper in the scientific journal Cell. Here’s an excerpt:

The new study says there were mammals on sale in the market. We knew that: it was in our book published three years ago. It says there was SARS-CoV-2 in the market; yup, in our book. It says there were two strains in the market, A and B. Well, every human infection in the market was the B strain; the only sign of the older A strain was on a single glove, possibly contaminated in a lab. It says both animals and viruses were concentrated in the south-west corner of the market. Yes, that’s because, the Chinese scientists say, they focused their search on the stalls that had been selling mammals!

None of this is new. What the new paper does not say, because it cannot, is that there was an infected mammal in the market; or a market vendor infected by a mammal. These are the bare minimum clues that in every other zoonotic outbreak scientists have demanded to see. Other viruses that do infect raccoon dogs are in close association with raccoon dog DNA in that market, whereas SARS-CoV-2 is less associated with raccoon dogs in the market samples even than fish.

The new paper’s reasoning demands that a single infected raccoon dog somehow souped up a bat virus enough to spark a global human pandemic without sparking even a single other case among, er, raccoon dogs – and then vanished into thin air. …

There are thousands of markets selling raccoon dogs all over China and South East Asia. Yet by spectacular bad luck, the virus turned up only in the one city in the whole of Asia that has a laboratory focused on collecting, studying, growing and genetically manipulating SARS-like viruses and infecting humanised mice with them: Wuhan.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Covid originsLab Leak TheorySARS-CoV-2Wuhan

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago

https://thenewconservative.co.uk/the-intellectual-drivers-of-demographic-replacement/

Off-T but a valuable read.

Nill McRae discussing

Cultural Marxism

Coudenhove-Kalergi

Cloward-Piven Strategy

Common Purpose.

All employed against us.

Last edited 7 months ago by huxleypiggles
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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
7 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Good article….Here is a good video that deconstructs Marxism, Fascism etc and explains how the word ‘change’ has its roots in Marxism:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kzZoK5CtJ8&t=2674s

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
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Thanks Ron 👍

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wokeman
wokeman
7 months ago

This paper has been put out for 2024, it’s preposterous bs. It might as well read Hitler was a cuddly vegetarian who loved the countryside. Scientists will put their name to anything if the cheque is right.

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john1T
john1T
7 months ago
Reply to  wokeman

Preposterous bs yes, but it is the line they are going to use going forward. Lammy said in his speech a couple of days ago that we have seen how a virus can jump from animals to humans and cause a pandemic, obviously referring to covid. They think we are all stupid, but all they are really doing is highlighting how full of bs they actually are.

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Cirdan
Cirdan
7 months ago
Reply to  wokeman

haha good one.

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Iain McCausland
Iain McCausland
7 months ago

Don’t fall for the theory there was a virus.

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