If anyone developed & released Covid-19, this seems like a more realistic candidate than China...

Pandemic Politics is not helpful.

Stay safe

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

Well Brazil did it again by posting over 30,000 new cases, but the U.S. is continuing to stay just in front with reported deaths, though with all the love and social distancing being shown at the moment over in the U.S. these days that may change again. :-(

Russia is on course to join the 400,000 club within 24hrs and France has thrown in another large bump in new cases.

Saudi Arabia has taken 16th place from China, but there are many more other countries that moving up the ranks at frightening rates.

On the bright side it looks like the U.K. may finally be getting a grip on things as they continue to register lower daily numbers while there are still several countries that are still on the quick slide downwards.

If anyone developed & released Covid-19, this seems like a more realistic candidate than China...

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Grant
Darwin NT

So much smoke about the Donald deflecting over his massive fail, he calls 100K dead a victory.

He also called it sad; so yet another flip flop flip flop flip flop

And some the Governor's of the States have no responsibility in the unfortunate deadly results of their actions?

And Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that read, "The Buck Stops Here".

Therefore, the Governor's, who have greater authority within their States than the Federal Government's President. Have no responsibility for their actions.

Interesting.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

So much smoke about the Donald deflecting over his massive fail, he calls 100K dead a victory.

He also called it sad; so yet another flip flop flip flop flip flop

And some the Governor's of the States have no responsibility in the unfortunate deadly results of their actions?

And Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that read, "The Buck Stops Here".

So much smoke about the Donald deflecting over his massive fail, he calls 100K dead a victory.

He also called it sad; so yet another flip flop flip flop flip flop

And some the Governor's of the States have no responsibility in the unfortunate deadly results of their actions?

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

So much smoke about the Donald deflecting over his massive fail, he calls 100K dead a victory.

He also called it sad; so yet another flip flop flip flop flip flop

As the world passes 6 million reported cases and 365,000 deaths for the 3rd day in a row Brazil has out done the U.S. (even though they did try harder) with newly reported cases (29,526 to 25,069), but Brazil couldn't quite match the U.S.'s reported deaths (only just but).

France's huge bump in their figures the day before yesterday must of been a correction of figures as numbers are back to their normal level.

India is getting ready to put an assault on Germany's 8th place and may even take France's spot on the same day. Peru took 11th place from Iran while Chile knocked Canada out of 13th and Mexico has just entered figures for today that have them leap frog both Saudi Arabia and China into 15th place.

Meanwhile South Korea has gone into lockdown again after a rise in cases over there while another ship has turned up here to bolster our numbers (well at least it wasn't a cruise ship this time, but is there much difference between 1 of them and a livestock carrier?).

So much smoke about the Donald deflecting over his massive fail, he calls 100K dead a victory.

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And NOT coming from the USA............
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/australian-researchers-see-virus-design-manipulati/

Australian researchers see virus design manipulation

No, they don't.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199

Overall, the data indicates that SARSCoV2 is uniquely adapted to infect humans, raising questions as to whether it arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins lie elsewhere.

They raised a question - that's what scientists do. They don't say they've seen something until after the question has been answered.

Correct, as one of the scientist's said in the previously refferenced article:

Nikolai Petrovsky, the lead researcher, said his team suspects human manipulation in Wuhan because of the unmatched ability of the virus’ protruding spike to infect human cells.

Yes, "suspects human manipulation".

We will hopefully get an answer, after further research, to this very important question regarding COVID-19.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
--- George Santayana

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
--- Lord Acton

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Seti@Home classic workunits: 29,492 CPU time: 134,419 hours

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/cave-full-of-bats-in-china-identified-as-source-of-virus-almost-identical-to-the-one-killing-hundreds-today

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07766-9

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/807742861/new-research-bats-harbor-hundreds-of-coronaviruses-and-spillovers-arent-rare

Of course fake right wing media sites won't report facts that upset their beliefs.

Occam's Razor...........if it walks like a duck,
quacks like a duck,
flies like a duck,
and swims like a duck...............

One question, WHY has no one in China yet produced a bat infected with Covid-19?

Because, like the Unicorn, they don't exist.

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And NOT coming from the USA............
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/australian-researchers-see-virus-design-manipulati/

Australian researchers see virus design manipulation

No, they don't.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06199

Overall, the data indicates that SARSCoV2 is uniquely adapted to infect humans, raising questions as to whether it arose in nature by a rare chance event or whether its origins lie elsewhere.

They raised a question - that's what scientists do. They don't say they've seen something until after the question has been answered.

While the U.S. continues on its merry way Brazil for the 2nd day in a row has recorded more new cases than the U.S., but the U.S. still recorded more deaths for the same period.

NY Post ?! https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85514

Once again consider the source.

Throughout its history, The Washington Times has been known for its conservative political stance.[6][7][8][9] It has published many columns which reject the scientific consensuses on climate change,[10][11][12] on ozone depletion,[13] on the harmful effects of second-hand smoke,[14][15]. It has drawn controversy for publishing racist content, including commentary and conspiracy theories about U.S. President Barack Obama,[16][17] supporting neo-Confederate historical revisionism,[18][19] and promoting Islamophobia.[20] The paper's reporting has been criticized many times, and has been characterized as "lies" and "myths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
Are you able to cite one more source?
I am unable to find another anywhere.

Dig a little deeper
http://www.operationsholdings.com/our-companies/the-washington-times/

The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet published in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1982 by the founder of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the church.

The Washington Times was founded in 1982 by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the Unification Church which also owns newspapers in South Korea, Japan, and South America, as well as the news agency United Press International. Bo Hi Pak, the chief aide of church founder and leaderSun Myung Moon, was the founding president and the founding chairman of the board. Moon asked Richard L. Rubenstein, a rabbi and college professor who had written on the Holocaust, to serve on the board of directors.

At the time of founding of the Times Washington had only one major newspaper, the Washington Post. Massimo Introvigne, in his 2000 book The Unification Church, said that the Post had been “the most anti-Unificationist paper in the United States.” In 2002, at an event held to celebrate the Times’ 20th anniversary, Moon said: “The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God” and “The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world.”

Is there a reason they are called moonies?

And not a link in that story to substantiate any supporting facts. ;-)

Once again consider the source.

Throughout its history, The Washington Times has been known for its conservative political stance.[6][7][8][9] It has published many columns which reject the scientific consensuses on climate change,[10][11][12] on ozone depletion,[13] on the harmful effects of second-hand smoke,[14][15]. It has drawn controversy for publishing racist content, including commentary and conspiracy theories about U.S. President Barack Obama,[16][17] supporting neo-Confederate historical revisionism,[18][19] and promoting Islamophobia.[20] The paper's reporting has been criticized many times, and has been characterized as "lies" and "myths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times
Are you able to cite one more source?
I am unable to find another anywhere.

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And NOT coming from the USA............
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/australian-researchers-see-virus-design-manipulati/

Australian researchers see virus design manipulation
By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Thursday, May 21, 2020

"A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence.

Five scientists who conducted the study discovered an unusual ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as the pathogen behind COVID-19 is called, to easily infect humans.

The scientists said there is no sign so far that the virus can be found in other animals, including bats or the exotic wildlife sold for fresh meat at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first identified and where China maintains a major laboratory studying such viruses."

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>