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Thegarbagegamer97 t1_jaeoi2v wrote

Reply to comment by melorous in Sale of late Egyptian President Sadat's passport in Texas sparks outrage among family by Neo2199

They are trying to leverage a position of government as a means to regain something that seemingly, whether they like it or not, ended up for auction legitimately. Ill never be okay with a government official using their position for personal means, especially when the circumstances lean to this being a case where they have no right to do so.

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BridgetheDivide t1_jaeogq0 wrote

Reply to comment by Delicious-Tachyons in Paraguay declares ‘ Muslim Brotherhood’ a terrorist organisation by Slight_Watercress901

There are Muslim communities all over the world. Most peaceful. But in recent decades Saudi Arabia has been radicalizing many of them with Wahhabism. Communities that have existed in peace for centuries are now preaching radicalism and making their women dress like ninjas. Its sad.

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speedlimits65 t1_jaeo5x6 wrote

Reply to comment by MoboMogami in Hong Kong to lift one of the world’s longest Covid mask mandates by 4inalfantasy

your unwillingness to look up or believe the massive amount of research we already have about the effectiveness of proper mask use and its effects on the spread of covid isnt the gotcha you think it is.

edit: heres one of thousands of peer-reviewed papers on masks effectiveness at preventing the spread of covid: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/28/1/21-1591_article and another https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776536

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ph4mp573r t1_jaenz4m wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins by asdf3

>RaTG13 was just one of the COVID19-like samples they collected.

Name another. It's the only one with a direct relationship they ever found. Other teams have found similar since.

>We actually don't know what other similar genomes they found in the wild.

Yes we do. They published all their research in the open like most good scientific institutions.

>They used to publish a database of the genomes they found and worked with (though even then, some parts of the database were private). In September of 2019 they took the database offline.

They continued uploading all their sequences and research to both GenBank and Virological until December of 2020 when the CCP ordered them to stop due to Trump's rhetoric.

>What we do know is that in 2018 WIV proposed adding a furin cleavage site to a SARS-like corona virus. Two years later emerges COVID19, the only known SARS-like corona virus with a furin cleavage site.

Furin cleavage sites are a natural feature of multiple different coronaviruses:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1873506120304165

Is all of this proof that there was no lab leak? No.

But it IS proof that you and many others continue to spread false narratives and misinformation in support of a politically motivated theory on the origin of COVID-19 which obfuscates legitimate attempts at finding the true origin.

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sexisfun1986 t1_jaemy3i wrote

Reply to comment by crlb2525 in Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins by asdf3

No yeah a hundred percent random markets procedures are way more absolute then labourites. There is no chance that a market might have different offerings at different times and they are always perfectly recorded . /S

Hey fun fact zoonosis occurs whit contact to animals by humans not from stocked shelves.

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