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GringoSalado

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  1. So various govt. officials have commented on it. Politicians. Huh. So has Surly, random Twitterers, the Guardian, NY Times, Fox News, every other fucking news outlet, and me. This isn't the "find a cure or minimize negative outcomes" thread. This is the thread for Covid-19. Including discussions about where it came from, without your weird partisan conspiracy theories about Fox News, the DOD and other Republicans. Jesus.
  2. On page 8, Jan 25 (first and only page I looked at. There were others about the Horseshoe Bats, genome of the virus & etc.) https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/13391-dt-covid-19-no-politics-allowed/&do=findComment&comment=2000797 https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/13391-dt-covid-19-no-politics-allowed/&do=findComment&comment=2000797 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7922379/Chinas-lab-studying-SARS-Ebola-Wuhan-outbreaks-center.html
  3. In addition to ignoring Cable News (I highly recommend it), I also never rely on Facebook for any real information beyond birthdays & etc. (also highly recommended). My info on this theory is all from this thread where it has been noted that 1) bats that carry the virus are not trafficked in the Wet Market, and not found in the region 2) except for inside the Wuhan virology lab That seems like a pretty solid coincidence, and is all I'm going off of. Not Facebook. Not Fox. I only read surl.
  4. What "entities" are "pushing" the lab theory? I mean, I've posted about it, but I'm not "pushing" it. I guess you could say I'm an "entity" though.... edit: forgot to ask, so what is my agenda? IMO it is to find out the truth about where this came from. Your agenda seems to differ somewhat.
  5. But that's not what you're doing, since Fox reported it you discounted it totally and in fact assumed it must be a conspiracy theory. But what if you are wrong in this case? You're just denying yourself legitimate information for no good reason. Meanwhile I don't watch cable news, but if I did I wouldn't totally ignore whichever channel, say, Stephanopoulos is on just because he worked for the Clinton administration Like you I think it is wrong for partisan politicians to pretend like they are straight news, but I'll listen anyway because I want to be able make up my own mind. Plus if you ignored every news outlet that hired former Administration officials you would probably run out of news sources.
  6. ...therefore whatever they report is wrong? They can't be right even once? Nice heuristic I guess.
  7. Like "LOLNO get out of my office I thought you were with Uber Eats"? (looking into cheap commercial kitchen space, used equipment)
  8. it did not originate from there. But so what if it had? What if it is accurate? I think CNN is trash but I don't reflexively ignore everything they report because I like to make up my own mind. You should try it.
  9. I was just thinking more broadly about the restaurant co declaring 13 as far as liquidating their assets: LOL! What is the used restaurant equipment market look like for the foreseeable future? For that matter, what does the commercial/retail real estate market look like going forward?
  10. Sister is a director w/ a smallish restaurant co., about 80 locations, and they just told everybody they would not be reopening and are going chapter 13. I was doing some work for a startup that serves the bar/rest. industry, and wow are we fucked obviously but we cut all labor (which was basically just a handful of us friends) and don't have much left in the way of expenses. Be interesting to see how many of our clients don't ever open back up or wither and die later. Looks like a nice day outside.
  11. I know. It's like I was drunk posting in the AM. Fucking rona.
  12. Mine isn't currently very sloppy but she's welcome to fix that for me.
  13. Which is simpler: 1) virus in a bat 600 miles away hops a few mammals and ends up in Wuhan 2) virus in a bat in Wuhan ends up infecting a human in Wuhan The idea that a totalitarian communist regime is more likely to lie in either # 1 or # 2 just boggles.
  14. The species that carries the virus is not from the area and is not known to be trafficked there. But it IS known to exist in captivity. In Wuhan. In a lab where viruses are studied. Edit: all of this has been posted in this thread
  15. The theory was an accidental exposure not an intentional smuggling of the petri dish. So either a virus from a horseshoe bat 600 miles away found itself in Wuhan or the virus from a horseshoe bat in Wuhan found itself in Wuhan. One scenario seems more likely.
  16. Patient zero may have been an employee at a Wuhan lab studying Corona viruses in bats. This seems a more likely source than a virus in a wild bat several hundred miles away somehow finding its way to Wuhan.
  17. If internet commentary were ever a representative sample we'd already be long extinct.
  18. We could select our leaders at random from the general population and do much, much better that we are sure to get.
  19. The fucking lawyers, like that dipshit, have their monetary reasons.
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