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kleinbl00  ·  1501 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?

Ever read The Hot Zone, mk?

When we first discovered Ebola we thought it was Marburg. Why? Because we'd seen Marburg from monkeys at an animal testing facility in Germany. Then it showed up in Africa in a few different places. then it showed up in the Ebola Valley but oh holy fuck it was substantially nastier than Marburg but still a filovirus. So everybody knows Ebola, not Marburg, except the bioweapons community because Marburg is the strain that everybody's cabinet of curiosities started to fuck with because stocks were unconstrained prior to 1972.

So weaponized it was.

Using your logic, Ebola is obviously deliberately weaponized Marburg. Except it's not. It jumps from monkeys on the reg. It's been sequenced jumping from animal hosts on the reg. Viruses mutate. Bacteria mutates. SARS was bad enough but viruses mutate. Ebola and Marburg are both filoviruses but Ebola did not come from Marburg, despite well-documented efforts by numerous bioweapons labs to do just that.

That's Bill Gates five years ago.