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TexasTowelie

(118,207 posts) Sun Jan 5, 2025, 10:05 AM Jan 5

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China's New Virus Outbreak - What We Know So Far; US-China Relations: Hacking - China Update [View all]

00:00 Introduction
00:11 China’s New Viral Outbreak: An Update
05:58 US-China: US Treasury Hack

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China's New Virus Outbreak - What We Know So Far; US-China Relations: Hacking - China Update [View all] TexasTowelie Jan 5 OP

We are on the uptake with respiratory and flu here also. Historic NY Jan 5 #1

I like his measured take GreatGazoo Jan 5 #2

Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) is not new. It circulates in the US and elsewhere in winter at same time as RSV, FLU hlthe2b Jan 5 #3

So, is this guy another hack reporter pushing the "flat-earth" virology of the lab leak hypothesis at 4:47 in the video? xocetaceans Jan 5 #4

Tony is not a hack reporter. TexasTowelie Jan 5 #6

Check the data on your "engineered virus" statement. You don't really know that any better than he does. n/t xocetaceans Jan 6 #7

Really? TexasTowelie Jan 6 #8

My statement is not one of "either...or". My point is you have no data of "yours" it came from a lab. xocetaceans Jan 6 #9

Thanks for providing a link, but I'm not going to watch a 55 minute video from a virology class lecture. TexasTowelie Jan 7 #10

Reading your comment again, I wanted to add one other thing. TexasTowelie Jan 7 #11

I can only guess your background absent such extending comments. There is no intent to demean it. This is not a... xocetaceans Jan 7 #12

You are correct that I fused HMPV and RSV together--it looked odd when I was typing it but I didn't check my work. TexasTowelie Jan 7 #13

I appreciate your comments. I think that I was fairly sharp-edged in a comment/reply to one of your posts a few years... xocetaceans Jan 8 #14

I like this guy Easterncedar Jan 5 #5

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