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  1. The #WuhanVirus or "#KungFlu", as #Trump called it. The naming is a hop and a skip from being named "the ching-chong virus".

    Let's make it clear: it came from a #Chinese wet market and is naturally occurring in a species of bat. Someone ate a bat from a wet market, en voila: #COVID19.

    But we need to hate #China,
    so sayeth the #US government,
    who are totally trustworthy.

    #WhiteHouse changes COVID.gov web page to page supporting lab leak theory - ABC News
    abcnews.go.com/Health/white-ho

  2. ⬆️ @arstechnica “But the genetic flaws don't appear to end with the misidentification of raccoon dog genetic material. According to the Nature study, the China CDC scientists also found traces of various animals that were extremely unlikely to be present in the market. That includes the highly protected, and generally large, giant panda (Ailuropoda), as well as bears (Ursus), chimpanzees (Pan), grey seals found in the North Atlantic (Halichoerus), and rodents from the Chilean Andes (Octodon). ( 👀 )

    It's unclear why the Chinese scientists did not correct their analysis, but now that the metagenomic data is publicly available following the publication, outside researchers are keen to dig into it.”

    #covid #covid19 #wuhan #wuhanvirus #CCP #china #pandadiplomacy