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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1219524)	4/12/2020 8:33:45 AM
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It's becoming indisputable that Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology unleashed this virus on the world. I speculate that it was not on purpose, but probably a leak from lax precautions as they were studying the virus. I say that because this institute has a well documented history of leaking viruses unwittingly due to gross negligence. This is the Wuhan Virus in every sense of the phrase and China should be held accountable. -------- The Bats Behind the Pandemic From Ebola to Covid-19, many of the deadliest viruses to emerge in recent years have the same animal source. By Matt Ridley April 9, 2020 10:02 am ET RaTG13 is the name, rank and serial number of an individual horseshoe bat of the species Rhinolophus affinis, or rather of a sample of its feces collected in 2013 in a cave in Yunnan, China. The sample was collected by hazmat-clad scientists from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan that year. Stored away and forgotten until January this year, the sample from the horseshoe bat contains the virus that causes Covid-19. The scientists were mostly sampling a very similar species with slightly shorter wings, called Rhinolophus sinicus,... wsj.com