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  • Diestar [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Alright since you're seemingly on this rabbit hole with me check this out. NIAID has a lab in bethesda Maryland and also Hamilton monatana. Googling stuff about bethesda is tough because they put out a lot of press releases and every medical paper has a ton of people with "MD" on their names; so I decided to check out montana.

    Came across a series of articles about a mystery respiratory illness affecting dogs in 2017. https://news.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=210&Id=8145367

    Other sick dogs seen in McDonald's clinic have come up positive — through PCR or culture tests — for a grab bag of pathogens: coronavirus, Streptococcus equi, pneumovirus, beta hemolytic Streptococcus, Pasteurella, E. coli and Staphylococcus schleiferi, she reported.

    So contagious is the infection that Moss was only half joking when he said, "Our advice is to board up your windows and never leave your house."

    If you find a highly transmissable coronavirus that's leaving dogs susceptible to bacterial infection, maybe that's the type of thing you send back to the boys in maryland

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      It spread from there:
      https://news.vin.com/default.aspx?pid=210&Id=8173108

      And was still spreading 1 year later, in late 2018
      https://news.vin.com/VINNews.aspx?articleId=50120

      That said, it's still so far before the COVID timeline that it's hard to suspect this, is there any other reason to?

      Are you thinking that this virus may have escaped from the NIAID lab in Montana? Or that it arose naturally there, and was taken into the lab (to be engineered into something like COVID)

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        My guess is that it was a different lab leak of a different virus. They happen all the time because they like playing with fire.

      • Diestar [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Are you thinking that this virus may have escaped from the NIAID lab in Montana? Or that it arose naturally there, and was taken into the lab (to be engineered into something like COVID

        This one. That lab isn't like a fort detrick as far as I can tell but if they found a particularly nasty virus I'd imagine the military would be interested

      • Diestar [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        My thought is basically find nasty virus, send it to detrick. Detrick let's it mutate for two years, and then you've got the coronavirus that doesn't look engineered