Daily Archives: April 30, 2020

Clown, denier, Fail!, healthcare, MERS-cov, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Traitor

NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’ and might break rules, critics say | Science | AAAS

The research community is reacting with alarm and anger to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) abrupt and unusual termination of a grant supporting research in China on how coronaviruses—such as the one causing the current pandemic—move from bats to humans. The agency axed the grant last week, after conservative U.S. politicians and media repeatedly suggested—without evidence—that the pandemic severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that employs a Chinese virologist who had been receiving funding from the grant. The termination, which some analysts believe might violate regulations governing NIH, also came 7 days after President Donald Trump, asked about the project at a press conference, said: “We will end that grant very quickly.”

Source: NIH’s axing of bat coronavirus grant a ‘horrible precedent’ and might break rules, critics say | Science | AAAS

Clown, Fail!, healthcare, human rights, pandemic, racism, SARS-CoV-2, Traitor

Covid-19 coronavirus: Donald Trump blames China for unleashing virus due to ‘mistake’ – NZ Herald

Donald Trump has floated a dramatic theory about the origins of the coronavirus
— Read on www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm

His desperation to avoid blame for deaths he is responsible for because of his inaction and denial in January, February and March is unlimited. The result will be more deaths from his lashing out instead of leadership!

Clown, Fail!, Traitor

Trump says he could bring back fired ex-national security adviser Flynn – Reuters – Also considering pardoning and hiring El Chapo to head up drug war?

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would consider bringing his fired former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a key figure in the probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, back into his administration.

Source: Trump says he could bring back fired ex-national security adviser Flynn – Reuters

Viva!

Coronavirus latest: Trump suggests Chinese lab behind outbreak

Desperate to avoid blame for killing thousands of Americans due to his inaction in January and February. Deaths of many on him alone. US President Donald Trump suggested the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese lab. Meanwhile, Germany has announced it will ease some lockdown restrictions. Follow DW for the latest.

environment, healthcare, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2

Covid-19 not man-made or bio-engineered!

https://news.yahoo.com/us-intel-agencies-covid-19-134132888.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — US intel agencies: COVID-19 virus not man-made or altered, but still studying if outbreak began in China lab accident.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/03/17/covid-19-coronavirus-did-not-come-from-a-lab-study-shows-natural-origins/#8bf85eb3728c

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html

SARS-CoV-2 is very closely related to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which fanned across the globe nearly 20 years ago. Scientists have studied how SARS-CoV differs from SARS-CoV-2 — with several key letter changes in the genetic code. Yet in computer simulations, the mutations in SARS-CoV-2 don’t seem to work very well at helping the virus bind to human cells. If scientists had deliberately engineered this virus, they wouldn’t have chosen mutations that computer models suggest won’t work. But it turns out, nature is smarter than scientists, and the novel coronavirus found a way to mutate that was better — and completely different— from anything scientists could have created, the study found.

Another nail in the “escaped from evil lab” theory?  The overall molecular structure of this virus is distinct from the known coronaviruses and instead most closely resembles viruses found in bats and pangolins that had been little studied and never known to cause humans any harm.