Old fake news: COVID-19 Man made - what a shock!

[Hobosapien]

Created in a Chinese lab to destroy the economies of the West.

Created in a lab to destroy all the magic money trees. The kids are fighting back with magic unicorn rainbow drawings in the windows.

[xoggoth]

Article does not say they released it deliberately to attack the West, but suggests it was used in research and accidentally released. Not totally impossible.

[NotAllThere]

COVID-19 Is A Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says "Could Only Have Been Created In A Lab" | Zero Hedge

Old fake news. (Thread title adjusted accordingly). It was reported at the beginning of February, based on a non-peer reviewed paper, which was later withdrawn.

Baseless Conspiracy Theories Claim New Coronavirus Was Bioengineered - FactCheck.org

The paper, which was posted on the preprint website bioRxiv ... on Jan. 31, claimed to have identified very short “insertions” in the virus’ protein sequence that had an “uncanny similarity” to HIV. Numerous scientists, however, almost immediately pointed out flaws in the analysis, noting that the sequences are so short, they match a bevy of other organisms — and there’s no reason to conclude they derive from HIV. The paper was voluntarily withdrawn by its authors just two days later, with one saying, “It was not our intention to feed into the conspiracy theories and no such claims are made here.”

[sasguru]

COVID-19 Is A Man-Made Virus: HIV-Discoverer Says "Could Only Have Been Created In A Lab" | Zero Hedge

You don't have to advertise the fact that you're a cretin. We know that already.

[BlasterBates]

Trump needs this as his popularity falls apart.

[Old Greg]

Article does not say they released it deliberately to attack the West, but suggests it was used in research and accidentally released. Not totally impossible.

Lots of things are not totally impossible - that's a very low bar. It's not totally impossible that a Jewish banking cabal released it to drive the population into using only cashless payments, so they can assert total control over the world using their Chinese Communist Party pawns. But it would be somewhat irresponsible to publish articles saying that this is true.

[AtW]

Article does not say they released it deliberately to attack the West, but suggests it was used in research and accidentally released. Not totally impossible.

Possible, Let’s say it’s true.

China will never admit to it and even if they did - What the world going to do about it? Feck all because world depends on China.

In any case onus on proving any conspiracy theory is the morons who peddle it. If you can’t prove it then STFU.

Oh, if it was from the Lab then China would have dealt with it early - not shutdown end of Jan, but end of Dec, they had every motive to do so IF it was from labs - which thry would have known end of Dec when they successfully IDed virus (and shared info with the world).

[AtW]

Old fake news. (Thread title adjusted accordingly). It was reported at the beginning of February, based on a non-peer reviewed paper, which was later withdrawn.

Baseless Conspiracy Theories Claim New Coronavirus Was Bioengineered - FactCheck.org

The paper, which was posted on the preprint website bioRxiv ... on Jan. 31, claimed to have identified very short “insertions” in the virus’ protein sequence that had an “uncanny similarity” to HIV. Numerous scientists, however, almost immediately pointed out flaws in the analysis, noting that the sequences are so short, they match a bevy of other organisms — and there’s no reason to conclude they derive from HIV. The paper was voluntarily withdrawn by its authors just two days later, with one saying, “It was not our intention to feed into the conspiracy theories and no such claims are made here.”

Don’t you dare bringing science snd facts to the conspiracy theory fight, that’s cheating!

[DimPrawn]

Wuhan Lab created Covid-19

Director of Wuhan lab denies coronavirus escaped from his facility

[AtW]

Covid-19 is a disease caused by a novel CoronaVirus, so no, Wuhan Labs definitely did not create Covid-19