Comments on: How an epidemic (or pandemic) starts https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/ Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:35:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: JeffL https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-967759 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 20:35:43 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-967759 This genetic sequence is found in the SARS-2 virus: CAGACTAATTCTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAGT
It was patented in 2016 by Moderna. This sequence does not occur in nature.
Not very likely it happened again randomly in nature 3 years later.

However the Omicron variant appears to have evolved from a mouse.
The mice caught Alpha? from humans, bounced around in the mice for a year, and then a human in South Africa caught it from a mouse. That human had a common cold and it seems to have mixed with the mouse virus.

]]> By: Lionel A https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-966195 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:18:09 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-966195

The best explanation for this is that some animal species (could be more than one) had their own epidemic of this particular coronavirus strain going on,

One of the points that Nathan Wolfe makes in his excellent book ‘The Viral Storm’ which although published in 2012 is worth looking at today.

The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe – book review

and

The viral storm: the dawn of a new pandemic age

]]> By: Tom Dayton https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965987 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 14:29:58 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965987 I guess I owe RickA an apology for claiming he does not keep up to date on downright stupid conspiracy theories. The “theory” he now is promoting indeed is an old one, but it has been resurrected in the crazy-sphere. So RickA is up to date, but not at all creative; he’s recycling other recycling. For a slightly technical explanation of the stupidity of this recycled lie, skip down to the section “Moderna and the ‘lab leak'” in https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-return-of-the-revenge-of-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-permanently-alter-your-dna-and-lab-leak/

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965983 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:37:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965983 In reply to RickA.

Tom, rickA is famous for his lies and conspiracy theories, and his total lack of understanding of science. It isn’t that he needs to “keep up”, it’s that he needs to show some sign of wanting to learn and be an honest broker. His history shows he has no such desire.

]]> By: Tom Dayton https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965981 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:15:11 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965981 In reply to RickA.

RickA, there is no such sequence. Do try to keep up. https://cn.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-hiv-covid-explained-idUSKBN29C26E

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965978 Mon, 28 Feb 2022 12:39:00 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965978 What about the patented dna sequence? One which doesn’t appear in nature but is a sign of human manipulation (patented sequence shows humans invented that portion of the virus). How does the double natural origin explain that part of the virus?

]]> By: Tom Dayton https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965747 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 02:43:08 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965747 Some less technical and brief explanations are in some videos by a couple of my favorite scientific debunkers. Each video’s textual description below the video has links to the sources of all the claims made in the videos.

Dr. Dan Wilson:
– video 1: https://youtu.be/qk3eHZLChRE
– video 2: https://youtu.be/fmIo1XFxcEM

potholer54:
– video 1: https://youtu.be/ab-r0capbzk
– video 2: https://youtu.be/aX1EqRuVeU0
– video 3: https://youtu.be/PjafLCvejQA

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965730 Sun, 27 Feb 2022 01:21:04 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965730 In reply to Tom Dayton.

Yeah, for the lab leak to work it would have to be a very deep conspiracy!

]]> By: Tom Dayton https://gregladen.com/blog/2022/02/26/how-an-epidemic-or-pandemic-starts/#comment-965696 Sat, 26 Feb 2022 21:07:09 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=34342#comment-965696 Wow, thank you so much for this post, so quickly after those two papers appeared! Yet more, bigger, nails in the coffin of the lab leak speculation!

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