SupahEwok said:
Silentpony said:
Thaluikhain said:
Silentpony said:
Still doesn't change that it seems WAY to coincidental this virus started in the exact city where research into this virus was being conducted.
That's a hell of a coincidence. That's a smoking gun next to a bullet filled body level of coincidence. That yes, a gun was shot, a person was hit by bullets, but we can't possibly guess if they're related.
What people have been telling you is that, to use your metaphor, the rifling marks on this virus do not match those of the gun nearby, and ergo the bullet could not have been fired from that gun. Although in the case of the virus, scratch out "could not" and exchange it for "incredibly, incredibly unlikely."
That's my sticking point. However unlikely, it happened. It didn't start in Korea, Russia, Brazil or England. Not London, Moscow, St. Louis, Budapest or fucking Mars. It started at a fish market down the road of a research center researching how to infect people with this virus.
It's the bird of prey that fires while cloaked.
Of course it didn't happen somewhere else, they set up research facilities in the region where you are most likely to find these type of bat viruses to study these type of bat viruses. Why would someone set up a research facility in Russia to study these bat viruses that exist in nature in China? This is no different than sending teams to the Amazon to study viruses that primarily exist in the Amazon to be able to obtain data. You do not go to a house down the street to put out the fire when the fire is at your house , not theirs. These viruses already exist in nature, the institute was set up to find and research them. It only became a concern of the general population when the viruses transfer from other animals to humans and are harmful to humans. The virus itself is not new, it is only "new" in the sense that humans contracted it now and we have not had time to test how to best slow it, treat it and prevent it yet so it can do more damage while we try to figure this out.
There is no cloaked warbird firing at people, just people trying to find solutions to fight things that already exist in our world that can harm us that you simply are not aware are there already. Here is the actual reality of the world we live in: We live in a living, ever changing world surrounded by many types of viruses, fungi and bacteria that could potentially harm us. People actually do contract all sorts of viruses all the time that we are primarily not aware of because they are benign and do not cause alarm, and in this case one that did cause alarm due to damaging effect on humans. There are plenty of other viruses that already exist out there that this could happen with and it is just a matter of time before another one happens. That is why we actually need to fund more research into their existence, not less so that we can be better prepared when they do. We need more of these facilities, not attack them out of paranoia when one of the very things they are trying to combat does actually start to causes harm and we were not yet ready for it.
The research facility there was studying multiple types of bat viruses from that region, not just one like this one, they were studying the bat viruses they could find that already existed in that region. The viruses existing in that region is why they were studying them in that region in the first place. It is what brought researchers there to begin with. That is what you expect to happen, and no it is not suspicious that they were there at all tbh. It is only suspicious really to those who do not understand how this works in the first place.
