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jennyjoan | 22:47 Sun 26th Apr 2020 | ChatterBank
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Does anybody think like I do. I don't follow up (avidly) re this virus but let me say - Boris could or is back tomorrow but he doesn't know either all the "right" things to do or say cos he doesn't know.

Every day is "take a chance on this and that".

My 82 year cousin rang me last night from Jerusalem (she's a nun) and she said "they're dying like flies out here" and was very upset.

I feel no matter what I watch re this and that's point of view - NOBODY KNOWS.

I tell you one thing - that it never stemmed from China (a bat per se) - but I do believe that this virus has been manufactured SOMEWHERE - cos no virus could sweep the whole world like this has.
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You could be right, jj.
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Aye ok Roy - No it is then
It is very hazy.
Wouldn't be surprised JJ
With folk travelling to and from countries all over the globe and some folk not knowing they had the virus, would that not allow rapid infection around the world?
There are quite a few conspiracy theories going round and there is one suggesting it was man made by the US and then developed in lab in Hubei Province.

One thing I do want to come out of this is that the wet markets are banned across the whole of China.
I got lambasted on here for saying something similar.
Hope you fare out better, Jenny Joan.
I stuck up for you, Luca. ;-)
You've not been here long enough, Luca
it doesn't have to be manufactured. Lots of illnesses have come from jumping species to humans - plague from rats, rabies from dogs, anthrax from cattle, sleeping sickness from tsetse flies. As long as people work with animals there's a risk.
>>> cos no virus could sweep the whole world like this has

Viruses tend to 'sweep the world' more easily than they did in the past, simply because we've got far more people travelling across the globe nowadays than we had in historical times.

However the Plague of Justinian in 541 killed nearly half the population of Europe. The plague that affected Mexico in 1545 almost wiped out the nation, killing 80% of that country's population. The outbreak of Bubonic Plague of 1855 killed over 12 million people across many countries. Estimates for the worldwide death toll of Spanish flu at the end of the First World War vary wildly but around half of the world's population were infected, with perhaps 50 million deaths.

Scientists have known for ages that the world was long overdue for another major pandemic but Covid-19 probably isn't 'the big one' that they know will hit us eventually. i.e. it's very 'small scale' a these things go and we'll almost certainly eventually see something far, far worse.

So why on earth would you assume that it's in any way 'out of the ordinary'?
just as long as the next one only attacks the middle-aged and leaves us oldies out of it, Buenchico.
Wasn't Anthrax made in a lab?
>>> Wasn't Anthrax made in a lab?

Not unless there were some very advanced labs around in 700 BCE, Spicerack!

https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/resources/history/index.html
Yes you did, Spicerack, and so did others, and I appreciated that. Thank you.
I've been here over 15 years, Roy. ;)
yes, by cows
Manmade by cows?

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