Three in 10 Americans say the new
coronavirus was 'intentionally
created' in a laboratory: Poll
Washington Times,
by
Jennifer Harper
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/9/2020 11:04:30 AM
What is the origin of the new coronavirus? It is an alarming topic. Still, a notable portion of the public—particularly conservatives—believes that the virus emerged from a laboratory rather than nature, according to a new poll released on Wednesday. Three-in-10 (29%) say it most likely was created in a lab—23% believe the current strain of the coronavirus was developed intentionally in a laboratory; another 6% say it was most likely made accidentally in a lab, according to a new Pew Research Center poll.
A plurality of the respondents—43%—said the virus came about naturally while a quarter say they aren’t sure
Reply 1 - Posted by:
msjena 4/9/2020 11:18:55 AM (No. 373895)
I don't know if it was intentionally created. But I do wonder if China didn't deliberately let it get out to infect the rest of the world, the US in particular. Isn't it kind of suspicious that it only infected one of their provinces? And after the travel ban, the virus started spreading in Europe, where there was no ban. What caused that? How did a problem in one Chinese city-Wuhan--spread to Italy? Note also in retrospect how the virus was relatively contained on the West coast but a disaster on the East coast. It looks like the travel ban worked as far as China was concerned but the virus ended up spreading, not from China, but from Europe. Who could have predicted that?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 4/9/2020 11:19:36 AM (No. 373897)
It had to be a bio weapon from China. Stopping all trade, grinding world economies to a halt, forbidding public gatherings, complete work stoppages.
There is no way this was all done for a virus. World leaders would not do all this for a virus. I suspect we won't know the truth for a very long time but eventually we will.
The world nations need to punish China and any coconspirarors severely.
This was no flu, but a chemical dress rehearsal for something deadlier.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/9/2020 11:20:26 AM (No. 373900)
Three in ten have been watching too many Hollyweird movies.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/9/2020 11:21:51 AM (No. 373903)
Absurd! who has time to do such a poll? And who cares? Roughly 30% of people who respond to conspiracy-theory surveys agree with any garbage you ask them ("Hello! We are doing a survey about the effect of high power radiation from local 5G towers on hair loss. Question ONE: Do 5G towers cause hair loss?")
This is just an attempt by the media to prove their excellence in spreading false and inflammatory click bait.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/9/2020 11:24:47 AM (No. 373913)
I sort of let the news that the particular bat species linked to the virus is not local to Wuhan but the bio weapons lab is sway my opinion.
Maybe I'm just quirky that way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/9/2020 11:26:50 AM (No. 373917)
It is possible that they had the cross over virus. Decided that they could control it faster, better than free capitalist societies. The risk was collateral damage to their own economy versus the payoff of bringing down a roaring Trump economy headed for the sky.. Can't say yet that they have lost.
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Those of you who think this was engineered (or just released intentionally) by China miss a key factor that may have led them to do so. If they started this on purpose it was aimed at the unrest that had been stirred up in China by the Hong Kong protests. The damage to the rest of the world was merely a bonus.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/9/2020 11:47:20 AM (No. 373951)
Based on available information, the virus "escaped" the Wuhan bioweapons lab either intentionally or by the sloppy handling of dead or alive test animals that employees took from the lab and sold for money or were eaten. Either way, there is evidence now that the lab acquired the virus from an outside source for purposes of conducting "research". The Canadian media reported in 2018 that two Chinese nationals working at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg had arranged shipment of a virus sample to the Wuhan lab. They were fired on the spot for arranging this illegal shipment. It has not been confirmed if the sample sent to the Wuhan lab was a COVID19 sample. It is also not confirmed if the virus infecting the world today is the same virus that was sent from the NML to the Wuhan Lab. Meanwhile the Canadian media more recently reported that other Chinese nationals working at the NML were suspended in 2019 without pay, work computers confiscated, email accounts locked out, and security credentials revoked. The RCMP is conducting a high-level investigation of them. The CBC in Canada is only giving watered-down versions of this behind-the-scenes investigation because RCMP's work represents a pending criminal investigation. More to come on this.
Whew. For now, it is a lot easier to think that today's pandemic is just a freak of nature that happens once every 100 years. Never mind that China, Russia, the dims, and msm all hate Trump and don't want him to get re-elected.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 4/9/2020 11:48:10 AM (No. 373954)
The Chinese Communist Party is testing a less-lethal version of the bioweapon to see how we react. Predictably, their Democrat allies continue to weaponize the government to go after our freedom to move or make a living. Corporate media is promoting panic and divisiveness. So far, a big success for China and their liberal allies. .
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/9/2020 12:08:39 PM (No. 373981)
Not necessarily created there, but leaked, almost certain. The Wuhan labs specifically research corona virus. It's too great of a coincidence that the present outbreak just happened to start in that city.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Gnana1 4/9/2020 12:13:08 PM (No. 373985)
It may have been deliberately let go...there has been research with coronavirus for several years, headed by China and a female Chinese scientist who worked with a NC university research center until 2014 when the USA shut the research down because it was too dangerous....she was recalled by the CCP and returned to Wuhan and the lab where this virus was housed. It acts very much like SARS, and I am not so sure it "originated" in the wet markets. I do believe diseases lives in the wet markets, not necessarily this virus. Yes, put into that suspicious category.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/9/2020 12:23:51 PM (No. 373994)
There is a difference between belief and evidence. There is evidence to support the accusation that this originated in a Chinese Communist Party lab. There is evidence that shows a researcher using bat virus to create a new virus that would cross species and attack human cells.
This Epoch Times documentary provides such evidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_rfTdayLs
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/9/2020 12:37:21 PM (No. 374012)
Wait a minute; make that 4 in 10.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/9/2020 12:43:34 PM (No. 374023)
I am suspicious too. P4 lab in Wuhan working on bat Coronavirus anybody? China must be punished for covering up the CCP Virus.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
smak90 4/9/2020 12:47:55 PM (No. 374034)
The poll is splitting hairs. It should be asking people if they believe it was released by the lab. I believe the lab studies many animal diseases and has extracted and studied them. It wasn't actually created in the lab but it did cross animal species in the lab and it was released to the general public most likely accidentally by lab workers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 4/9/2020 12:53:27 PM (No. 374043)
And every biological lab is a "bioweapons lab" for some folks.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/9/2020 1:28:09 PM (No. 374091)
Regardless of whether CV19 was intentionally created or occurred naturally, China's lack of concern for human life caused this. China is terrible on public safety. They do not care if their people live or die. It is reflected in their policies. This time their policies caused a global pandemic and collapsed the global economy. China wants to be a member of the global economy? No way. Not if they are going to be like this. What good are all those cheap Chinese products if the world ends up on lock down for it?
China most definitely needs to be held accountable for this. Hold their feet to the fire. Make them change. Otherwise no global trade with China, and travel to/from China should be banned. Their attitude towards human life should make them a pariah worldwide. If China isn't held accountable, China will cause another pandemic and we will all go through this again.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
A.I. 4/9/2020 1:36:37 PM (No. 374097)
It would have been more if the MSM was not playing defense for the CPP.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
NotaBene 4/9/2020 1:56:00 PM (No. 374124)
Thank you #12 for the very important film. Everyone should watch it. This CCP Virus is a Chinese bioweapon.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/9/2020 2:11:05 PM (No. 374145)
I don't trust China, period! I look at labels when I shop and if it's food and from China won't buy it. Many toys from China were loaded with lead paint. Pets died from China made food. I bought a 5 pound bag of stir fry vegetables. Go home and discovered it was from China. I took it back. Caveat Emptor.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 4/9/2020 2:13:49 PM (No. 374148)
Post 7 is spot on. Remember china could not control or disperse the pro democracy protesters in China. Video kept being posted of the brutal police tactics. They didn't dare ratchet it up to tieniman square levels. At the same time President Trump was playing hard ball with them regarding trade. This was a two for one. The protesters go home sick and world economies shut down. A double win for China in addition to becoming the world economic power if only briefly.
The best way to spread this is through the air, because every person on the planet has to breathe. This has China bio weapon written all over it.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 4/9/2020 2:31:44 PM (No. 374181)
Human rights violations
Animal cruelty
Shoddy products
Poison in some products
General uncleanlines
Questionable trade and business practices
We mitigated their bio weapon and saved a nation.
Time to MITIGATE CHINA
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/9/2020 2:32:28 PM (No. 374183)
And I suppose the existence of a subversive Deep State within our government is but a conspiracy theory, too?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
sanspeur 4/9/2020 3:05:55 PM (No. 374216)
#1 , cause of direct Milan -Wooville flights that continued long after wuhanitus showed up . Then skiers , and others from Italy traveled the world “sharing “ .Oh and the same type of “sharing “ in Washington State from the princess boat people & chi com travelers .
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/9/2020 3:08:33 PM (No. 374218)
I think it was intentionally created for the US in cahoots with the demRats.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/9/2020 3:19:30 PM (No. 374231)
There are aspects of the corona virus that would lead anyone who has been paying attention, like how apparently rampantly contagious the virus is turning out to be compared to past viruses, that here is a pretty good chance that this particular strain of virus was engineered in a laboratory. If that is so, such a contagious virus could have insidiously and strongly infected a laboratory worker who then unwillingly went shopping for bat soup in a unhygienic Chinese culturally based wet market where he or she infected other people, thus starting the worldwide virus spread. If that is so, the laboratory worker has probably died months ago. But who knows, fingers have been pointed at the wet market and the wild animals that are killed and sold there, but it is interesting that as far as is known the Chinese have not come up with any scientific certainty a specific breed of animal at the wet market that would have passed the virus on to humans?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
or gate 4/9/2020 3:22:36 PM (No. 374236)
This is not as bad as a good germ warfare tool like the gasses made to kill lots of people.
This was an accident of some kind.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 4/9/2020 3:23:21 PM (No. 374238)
i believe it from the beg. i said pop control in china
they have to bring other nations with them....i believe it
i believe...done on purpose
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/9/2020 4:47:31 PM (No. 374305)
I heard the virus was invented by two prominent Chinese scientists Ho Li Fok and Wi Scru U!
4 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/9/2020 5:13:23 PM (No. 374315)
The Chinese are great at stealing from others...that leaves crooks in charge of highly volatile items...I think this one got away from them because they were arrogant (a Leftist thinking Failure) and just plain careless...'can't happen to me'...
We see this kind of mental deficiency in all Leftists from a goon squad of BLM all the way to supposedly sophisticated full blown Communists...China's Leadership. Our American Leftists are on the bottom of that mental totem pole...it's sad our country bred these incompetents and allowed our universities, Media etc. to be taken over by them. I think we need to start rounding them all up and sending them to Mars... a one way trip!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
judy 4/9/2020 5:20:40 PM (No. 374321)
Today everyone is trashing Birx & Fauci.....people want their lives back!!!We’ve been in time out long enough!
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Watlines1 4/9/2020 5:34:16 PM (No. 374331)
Four in ten ... no one asked me.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/9/2020 5:46:01 PM (No. 374341)
If it was on purpose or not it sure solved the Hong Kong riots situation.
For the time being.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
red1066 4/9/2020 6:00:01 PM (No. 374353)
I don't know if the virus was intentionally created, however, I absolutely believe it was intentionally spread by the Chinese government.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
chumley 4/9/2020 6:00:10 PM (No. 374354)
And zero in ten actually know for sure. Whats the point in having a poll about what rubes believe?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/9/2020 8:50:57 PM (No. 374486)
Count me in as one of the three.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
hershey 4/9/2020 10:14:13 PM (No. 374527)
Unfortunately, I don't think we will ever:
1- find out if it was created as a weapon
2- the Chinese actually created it
3- the Canadians created it and it was stolen
4- the Chinese actually intentionally released it
5- if it is a 'weapon' whomever created it and released it will ever be brought to justice
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If they want conspiracy- I think it's highly suspect that it happened after the President called them out on trade deals, and it's an election year. I put nothing past the usual suspects who should be tried as traitors to this country. Nothing. As usual-follow the money.
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Only 3 in 10? Not that we'd hear the truth anyway; imagine the panic in the streets, especially while our Most Favored Trading Partner's germ warfare agent remains active in the wild.