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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by TeMPOraL on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:08PM (#22147592)
> The odds of the Chinese government making a super virus based on Coronavirus seem smaller than that, and the odds of it escaping the laboratory might be decent, but when you combine them, it's pretty slim.

I don't think anyone is arguing that this is an outbreak of an unusually dangerous virus. It's just an unexpected outbreak of a new flu-levels-of-dangerous virus, and it happened suspiciously close to a BSL-4 facility. A facility like that stores dangerous viruses and works on them, it's not at all implausible somebody fucked up and something escaped containment.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by verroq on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:18PM (#22147657)
It’s funny because bats (and bat caves) are reservoirs of many viruses contained in BSL-4 facilities and they have no containment and frequently come into human contact.
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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by TeMPOraL on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:24PM (#22147703)
I didn't even realize that until now.
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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by Supermancho on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:27PM (#22148444)
> it happened suspiciously close to a BSL-4 facility

This facility is more likely placed because of opportunity for study in a high risk area. The consumption of random "sweet jungle meat" at the local markets likely has a legacy notoriety for such outbreaks.

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Re:New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in... by treis on Saturday January 25, 2020 @03:19PM (#22148400)
>I don't think anyone is arguing that this is an outbreak of an unusually dangerous virus.

It's not unusually dangerous. Viruses kill lots and lots of people every year. This one doesn't seem to be more dangerous than any other. It's just new.

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