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SARS2covid19 is extracted from bats

I believe it actually passes from the animal naturally, it's referred to as batshit.

Singapore

Really? Allowing to house 15,000 workers in a dormitory with up to 20 people in a room is barbaric at the best of times. They had 1,426 cases yesterday of which 1,369 were from the poor sods that are working here for a basic salary of £300 a month.

The joy of ignore.

First person I've ever put on ignore

Luc Montaigner has some strange ideas including being an anti-vaxxer...

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/sciences/202004/17/01-5269764-covid-19-la-theorie-dun-virus-fabrique-vivement-contestee.php

There's a thread for this half arsed conspiracy horseshit, do us all a favour and fuck off there for a spell, there's a good boy.

Do you not think that the nonsense you are spaffing all over this thread is having a negative impact on people's mental health?

Do try harder to not be the cunt you so desperately want us to think you are.

Mods.

SARS2covid19 is extracted from bats but differs from SARS1 in about 1500 genetic markers in its DNA.

I have a small suspicion that you don't know much about either virology of DNA.

You do realise that was posted as a joke?

I know the enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that but the WHO president, Adhanam, is not a medical doctor and is accused of war crimes in Ethiopia. All is not just surface.

Sounds like an Adhanom attack.

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Abalakina-Paap, Marina, et al. “Beliefs in Conspiracies.” Political Psychology, vol. 20, no. 3, 1999, pp. 637–647. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3792165. Accessed 21 Apr. 2020.

JSTOR is free to access through the end of June, which is nice.

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Your welcome.

If infant death rates decline in the developing world, people will have fewer children. Giving people more access to birth control will also result in fewer children. So the population growth could be 10-15pc lower.

And the thing he wants to get to zero is carbon emissions.

Only presented some facts with references.

Can’t argue with those!

Kumar RIP.

This is really sad. Kumar and everyone at FreshGo, my local shop, worked incredibly hard 365 days a year. No other shop is open from 6am to 11pm without fail. These guys need to be recognised as essential workers. They dealt with working in close proximity with some real idiots, drunks, teenagers nicking stuff. It's tragic that their hard work and the success of their shop has resulted in this.

Regarding the question of whether BAME people are more vulnerable. I don;t think it's a genetic thing. But people of Asian and African heritage often do jobs like this where they have a high exposure, I'm thinking cleaners and carers as well as shopkeepers. If I worked 17 hour shifts in a cramped shop I'd be at higher risk, too.

For anyone who lives round here, if you're looking for a way to help out / pay tribute there's this

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/kumarfreshgo?fbclid=IwAR3bEnNAnZuylXe6xoVvkog6sneQfX769c7cgakpjcqshZJS5fqYfopev_c

Downing St. preparing to chuck Hancock under the Wheels of the £350m p/w for the NHS Bus?

https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1252351210583027718?s=09

This thread has gone bananas.

Savage.

The joy of ignore

It's been so long since I ignored anyone I forgot this function existed. Thanks for the timely reminder.

It is either work or starve.

Or go on sick leave.

You might be reading but it seems to be a very select group of things that you are reading.

Being an internet sltluth I'm sure that you have heard of these things but....have you considered the role that conformational bias has in what you are reading?

I'm so confused, I thought this was all a leftist plot but now I learn from the internet that arch capitalists like Bill Gates are responsible?!1!?

To be fair, it’s at least exotic and exciting to see a link in here that isn’t to the Guardian

(I know I know other news sources have been referenced - it’s my own confirmation bias at play)