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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by ezVoodoo on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:03AM (#23879394)
It is a false claim that the Covid-19 outbreak started from Wuhan. Scientists from Spain, Italy and Brazil have independently reported the detection of the coronavirus in their city waste water samples dating back to early 2019.

China was the first country to detect the existence of the coronavirus, but it does not mean the virus started in China. If a country announces the finding of a new virus, it makes that country a whistle-blower for the mankind, not the scapegoat.

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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday July 18, 2020 @05:07AM (#23880116)
This has been considered to be a problem with cross-contamination, only one sample was found in Spain for example.
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by gfaure on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:12AM (#23879431)
The fact that the virus was detected in wastewater samples in Italy earlier doesn't by itself rule out an origin from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or from China.
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by ezVoodoo on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:14AM (#23879441)
It does not rule out the origin from Italy, USA, Spain, UK or any other countries on the earth either.
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by gfaure on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:29AM (#23879980)
True, but what you wrote suggested that the fact it was detected elsewhere exonerates China. It does not.
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by arrayjumper on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:08AM (#23879415)
Could you link some sources for that claim?
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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by ezVoodoo on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:13AM (#23879434)
Brazil https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3091757/ear...

Spain https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

Italy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53106444

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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by mieses on Saturday July 18, 2020 @02:46AM (#23879568)
November 17 in China?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/13/first-covid-19...

Possibly in October..

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/coronavirus-...

as early as September?

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-outbreak-september-not-...

I'm getting tired of Googling fake news

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Re:The evidence which suggests that Covid-19 is not a natura... by calpaterson on Saturday July 18, 2020 @04:18AM (#23879929)
Thanks for doing it though.
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