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on Saturday March 21 2020, @05:14AM
from the some-positive-news-for-a-change dept.
from the some-positive-news-for-a-change dept.
A new tweet from @CGTNOfficial China Global Television Network, or CGTN, is a multi-language, multi-platform media grouping. reports
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Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases
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(Score: 2, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @07:38AM (5 children)
They got people, even here on soylentnews.org, calling it by awkward names. Somehow the idea is that Wuhan virus is racist. Wuhan isn't a race, nobody is complaining about "Chinese food", and look at all the other diseases named after locations: West Nile virus, Zika, Ebola, German measles, Marburg virus, Reston virus, Spanish flu.
They had an official spreading the idea that the virus was a US military operation. We made our complaint to the ambassador, then Trump started calling it the Chinese virus. LOL.
Legitimately though, the best name would be Wuhan lab virus. The lab in Wuhan has a history of modifying bat coronaviruses to replicate well in human cell culture lines. IMHO this research is insane. Why would you do that??? Oddly, staff at the lab have even published the research in English. They've published in Nature and in the ASM's Journal of Virology. The research goes back at least to 2006, and has been ongoing ever since. One of the things the Wuhan lab did to the bat coronaviruses is to add the ability to target the ACE2 receptor, which is present in humans. This is exactly what our pandemic is targeting. Thus, the most legitimate name is "Wuhan lab virus".
BTW, this is NOT a "debunked" theory. China is pushing that idea, obviously. The claim is that the virus doesn't look human-designed. Well of course it doesn't. Adapting the bat virus to humans doesn't require a lot of intelligent design. You just shove the bat virus and a bunch of human viruses into cells, let the RNA get all mixed up, and you get what you want. It's the same way that viruses swap RNA in the wild, but with a bit of encouragement. Nobody should be demanding obvious signs of engineering. It's not as if the researchers are going to insert a copyright message and EULA into the RNA.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @08:51AM
Indeed it is. PSA: Stop using racist terminology! [babylonbee.com] Some acceptable terms are:
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @11:27AM (1 child)
Extraordinary claims require ordinary references.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @08:42PM
Extraordinary references: Nature and in the ASM's Journal of Virology
There's more than one. I looked over the research on my work computer, which isn't handy now. You can search as well as I can, I hope.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @12:47PM (1 child)
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @03:10PM
Your parents have the courtesy of naming you Cindy instead of, by your logic, the formally correct Under The Bleachers.