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originally posted by: musicismagic
But wasn't samples of Covid 19 found in the sewage in Spain in September of 2019 ?
"This week, researchers at the University of Barcelona have published new findings that suggest the virus that causes COVID-19 has been found in sewage samples from March of 2019," a June 28 Facebook post states.
The original article published by Truth Theory, a UK-based website, emphasized the likelihood of this finding by suggesting "people who caught the illness could have been misdiagnosed with the flu" as a bad flu season was a legitimate health concern prior to the pandemic.
USA TODAY is awaiting comment from the author of the original article.
originally posted by: bloodymarvelous
I'm not saying it wasn't created in a lab. But I don't think it escaped by accident.
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A mistake that military strategists often make when planning an attack is to over optimize it. In war, that makes you predictable. In subterfuge, it makes it obvious something that is meant to be "coincidence" is not coincidence.
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If you wanted to use a weapon of mass destruction, but with plausible deniability, then the weapon needs to go off in a way so that it looks like someone else, or something else, did it.
originally posted by: HorsePaster
a reply to: bloodymarvelous
Covid 19 found in Italy in blood samples dating back to September 2019
www.reuters.com... J2
originally posted by: angelchemuel
Hmmm.... seeing as there are links back to Fauci and others outside China, has anyone ever considered that some 'nefarious' external source let it loose by WuHan so as to blame them?
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originally posted by: Ksihkehe
originally posted by: HorsePaster
a reply to: bloodymarvelous
Covid 19 found in Italy in blood samples dating back to September 2019
www.reuters.com... J2
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There is a very high likelihood that COVID was misdiagnosed as the flu/pneumonia for a significant length of time before it was identified. I doubt China's disease surveillance is as good as ours and we would likely take a while to catch a novel flu-like illness. This would be especially true if it's one with a pretty low mortality in healthy people under 70. It's not unusual for those over 70 or having multiple significant comorbidities to die from respiratory illness.
I'm not sure why I haven't heard much about that in all the conjecture and speculation from the various talking heads. We know that it seemed to explode overnight, but that's not really how diseases typically work when spreading from a single point. With a disease like COVID, that mimics a severe flu pretty well but isn't a flu itself, it's a near certainty that it was spreading long before the "genesis" of discovery.
Naturally, after it's identified, the numbers surge. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was already "in the wild" in early 2019 or late 2018.
originally posted by: Rich Z
Well, I dunno, but if this was supposed to be a weaponized pathogen, it seems pretty much weak sauce to me. Was what we are seeing now the design target? Well, why bother? Seems to me that either this weapon has been a failure, or there is a long term design goal that we just have not seen yet.