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You must be kidding.  You're too bright to believe it and I know you're a ballbreaker

Fortunately the basketball season is over so I can go back to discussing things that are interesting, like this from 2019

https://www.rollcall.com/2019/07/15/house-orders-pentagon-to-say-if-it-weaponized-ticks-and-released-them/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-passes-amendment-ordering-pentagon-to-investigate-whether-ticks-were-weaponized/

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In terms of nature, there is nothing unique about the northeast. It is not isolated geographically. It has a similar ecosystem and has a nearly identical climate to 2/3’s of the contiguous US.

It makes no sense that Lyme Disease would just naturally appear in a small pocket near the NY/CT border naturally around 1975.

Old Lyme, CT can be seen from Plum Island Animal Disease Center.

Have some delicious thalidomide, it's good for you and your baby.

I don't have much faith in human nature but on some level in the deepest reaches of my consciousness, I would like to believe that governments are not so vile and pernicious as to release the plague purposefully on their own populace.

Plus my limited knowledge of Asian culture includes that they have a great deal of respect and reverence for the elderly

That is warfare between two super powers in the 21st century. Get used to it.

Then why did they go through draconian measures such as quarantining tens of millions once the virus was out? Why didn't they just let the virus fester and spread for max effectiveness of their diabolical scheme?

That is warfare between two super powers in the 21st century. Get used to it.

This was a bio-terrorism attack. This is an engineered, hybrid virus;HIV meds are used to treat it.

History has shown many previous governments and societies killing/infecting their own for mutiple reasons. WWII, the US government purposely infected Tuskegee Airmen with syphillus, and left it untreated to measure the effects. Pol Pot, 1980s Cambodia. Idi Amin 1970s Uganda.


Your history is correct.  your conjecture is ridiculous.  China would do nothing to effect their steamroller of an economy. 
Unfortunately, many examples of governments disabling or killing their own citizens

He's my favorite president ever. Obviously he's not perfect: he's no where near conservative enough for me, but my views skew slightly to the right of Caligula. But he's done some things of which I approve, mostly having to do with ending endless pointless wars; shrinking the size and reach government to expand personal liberties; and transforming the judiciary. But the thing I like the most is that he makes so many people so very unhappy, because other than vodka other people's misery is at this point nearly the only thing that brings me joy.

I don’t get your point. Do you think China wouldn’t try to get a leg up on us? Do you think we aren’t competing against them in spite of financial relationships? We are...and on many levels from currency manipulation to trade wars.

China can use their wet markets to cover up any purposeful release of a virus. Put morality aside for a second and tell me what negative long term consequences China will suffer compared to the rest of the world?

They will rid themselves of many of their older people who are strains on the economy. They put down the Hong Kong riots overnight as well as unrest in other areas.

They have an insanely disciplined population that takes these epidemics seriously unlike the west. They have an authoritarian government that can literally make people do whatever they want to mitigate the effects of an outbreak.

Oh, and 95% of the antibiotics Americans use are made in China. Without looking, I’d bet the % of antibacterial soap and hand sanitizer is pretty damn high too.

This was intentional.

Good point. I mean sure, Mao murdered 30 or 40 million people but that was 60 years ago, that's a lifetime or two, things have changed. Nowadays the Chicom government is full of respect and reverence for its citizens. It barely enslaves any of them or it'd never harvest the organs of concentration camp detainees and certainly they'd never run their own people over with tanks or anything. 

If this was intentional it was a huge flop. 

c) To increase antibiotic and health related product sales and prices

The swine flu killed over 14,000 in the US and there was no mass hysteria like this one.

First, you speak of the virus like it’s the plague. It will have a mortality rate of around 1% when the dust settles.