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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo the latest I hear from trump cultist
Cultist is now what a call the trump supporters.
This am I am hearing the latest conspiracy from the cultist is that the virus escaped a virus lab in China.
That conspiracy thinking can only come from one place.
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,885 posts)The vast majority of people learn to adjust to new frequencies in the environment, she continued, but "we've got to put that into the equation in terms of trying to figure out how to open the economy back up." Cellular technology is activating new levels in our brains, and creating a "multidimensional response"-- possibly the next stage in evolution, she suggested. Hand Clow also talked about her fictional trilogy of books set between the years 2011 and 2020, beginning with the end of the Mayan calendar, and going to a world implosion around the Spring Equinox of 2020 (such as we're experiencing with COVID-19). The astrological chart at the Winter Solstice (just before Christmas 2020), sees a return of the dwarf planet Sedna, last in this position during a cataclysm some 12,000 years ago, she detailed. During the fourth hour, callers shared how they were faring in the pandemic shutdown, and Hand Clow gave them psychic/astrological readings.
Or maybe it's both.
Her assertions that radar did not exist until 1957 and satellites until 1968 are subject to debate.
hatrack
(59,439 posts)Should I try turning it off, and then turning it on again?
mahatmakanejeeves
(56,885 posts)hatrack
(59,439 posts)That sounds . . . interesting!
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)It's a sleeper virus activated by 5G!
Apparently this ninny hasn't heard of Chain Home (1940) or Sputnik (1957).
dem4decades
(11,241 posts)And the talking point now is " he talked about it in the State of the Union address"
WTF, like that's something?
FBaggins
(26,693 posts)And Im pretty sure that it has happened before.
The conspiracy theory wouldnt be that it escaped from a lab... but that it was created intentionally and/or was intended as a bioweapon
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/how-did-covid-19-begin-its-initial-origin-story-is-shaky/2020/04/02/1475d488-7521-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html|
[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/?tid=pm_pop&itid=pm_pop|
It is unwise to accept or reject this theory without further evidence.
steventh
(2,143 posts)Thanks for the wise perspective. I look forward to more research on this important matter.
rampartc
(5,263 posts)i don't guess trump actually spouted that story, but by leaving the question in the air "people are talking about ....."
the chinese propaganda is that americans brought the virus to wuhan for the asia military games in october.
underpants
(182,271 posts)Haphazard Security and cleanliness. Ironically, low grade or misuse of PPEs.
Of course this feeds right into conspiracy theories that it was on purpose or, part of the Chinese PR effort, it was the US militarys doing. Oh and it might have come from a lab in North Carolina.
PCIntern
(25,342 posts)But by whom and the mechanism of accident or purposeful release is in great question. None of these individuals possess one shred of morality or ethics.
I have my clinical and gut reasons for thinking this. And if He can have a gut reaction so can I.
underpants
(182,271 posts)at this point. For future prevention yes. To boil it down to its simplicity - Trump February- thats it.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/politics/us-intelligence-virus-started-chinese-lab/index.html
US intelligence and national security officials say the United States government is looking into the possibility that the novel coronavirus originated in a Chinese laboratory rather than a market, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter who caution it is premature to draw any conclusions.
PCIntern
(25,342 posts)My point is that anyone who denies the possibility utterly of some form of bio-terrorism is not paying attention. Its like those who purchase Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum books, read them voraciously, and then when something out of the ordinary occurs, they say it is just is one of those things.
It may be naturally occurring. I woukd wish that it were true. Im just not so sure that it is. Whether the RW uses that as a distraction for me is irrelevant to the possibility that its true.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)is by passaging them from one host to another until they cause disease, then sequencing them to see what changes made that happen. So, actually, it could be both, that is, an animal virus that was created on purpose.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Not that it is genetically engineered - it's not, but a scientist studying these viruses got sloppy.
harumph
(1,871 posts)However, whether it was lab engineered, a wild type that escaped a lab somehow -or really did come straight from
a "wet market" does not seem relevant for treatment and containment efforts. We have to deal with it sanely.
Chainfire
(17,305 posts)It does not have any bearing on how our government failed to protect us when they had the chance.
The lab thing, until supported by strong evidence, sounds like just another smoke and mirrors distraction.
Now when Trump reopens the country, too soon, on his authority, and we get wave II, who are we going to blame?
Demovictory9
(32,320 posts)mikewv
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Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)... Id keep the idea that the virus was created in a lab, and add it was the last resort of climate scientists to reduce greenhouse emissions.
And that the virus was designed to lurk in some cells, to keep attacking in waves. So social distancing would be a permanent way of life, thus reducing further population growth and concomitant greenhouse emissions.
And that it was designed to slowly kill so governments had time to unify against the pandemic, scrapping their nuclear weapons in the meantime.
All of it spearheaded by George Soros, Al Gore, etc.