Conspiracy theories aside. There is a lot of evidence to suggest this started in a wet market in Wuhan. The next pandemic, if there ever is one, is likely to start in a wet market or a factory farm. Both places are breeding grounds for disease and sickness in animals which can be transmitted to humans.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping.

Hubert Reeves

Or in a lab in Wuhan

Slightly off kilter but still relevant. I have noticed especially over here even prior to this pandemic the amount of Hospital staff of all ranks who travel to work in their scrubs?
If a Painter & decorator can take off his whites before traveling home on the subway or bus? Then surely hospital staff shouldn't be allowed to travel too & fro to work in their scrubs!!

Pro USA & Israel

If you think my assertion is invalid, let's hear why that is. That you assert the virus comes from China is just that. An assertion. That others make it as well doesn't make it any more valid. Indeed because Trump is politicising it makes it even less likely to be true. So my assertion is that it's a baseless claim. If you want to counter that, present your evidence. Which is not that others say so too. Show me where they have "admitted" causing it! Show me what they have "covered up"! There are questions to be asked, that's true. But the answers are not yet available and won't be until properly investigated.

So provide the evidence for your assertion or my assertion that its baseless stands.

If you believe this kind of thing, which is resonant of the kind of garbage coming from Alex Jones at InfoWars, then the fool is you.

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This idea that some seem to want to believe that this situation is all an attempt by the media to get rid of Cummings is really bizarre.

It isn't. It could have been any number of the leading government advisers or a minister. It's what he did, Johnson's determination to whitewash it and reinterpret the rules for him, and the scientific advice of what the probable public response to this would be.

Cummings was merely the vehicle for the storm. That the vehicle decided to blow his trumpet in the way it did is not the fault of the media. That vehicle should have been taken off the road and declared unroadworthy until it had been overhauled.

This was a car crash of a response by the government and was never the fault of the media. It will have damaged their reputation immeasurably and as a consequence our ability to deal with this crisis.

It will not be forgotten or forgiven.

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Oh come on. They mean a lot to most people over 5. At least in my world they do.

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