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  • [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    From August Abolins@2:460/256 to All on Wed Dec 15 05:43:50 2021
    Hi All...

    [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    "Chan and Ridley's new book is a viral whodunnit that is sure to appeal to armchair detectives." (The Guardian)

    In this uniquely insightful book, a scientist and a writer join forces to try to get to the bottom of how a virus whose closest relations live in bats in subtropical southern China somehow managed to begin spreading among people more than 1,500 kilometres away in the city of Wuhan. They grapple with the baffling fact that the virus left none of the expected traces that such outbreaks usually create: no infected market animals or wildlife, no chains of early cases in travellers to the city, no smouldering epidemic in a rural area, no rapid adaptation of the virus to its new host - human beings.

    To try to solve this pressing mystery, Viral delves deep into the events of 2019 leading up to 2021, the details of what went on in animal markets and virology laboratories, the records and data hidden from sight within archived Chinese theses and websites, and the clues that can be coaxed from the very text of the virus?s own genetic code.

    Ciao!
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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  • From John Dovey@4:920/69 to August Abolins on Wed Dec 15 10:28:41 2021
    Re: [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
    By: August Abolins to All on Wed Dec 15 2021 05:43:50

    [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

    That looks fascinating. Considering the obscuring effect of partisan politics, I'm curious whether this is objective/scientific or whether the authors have an "agenda"?

    JD
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  • From August Abolins@2:460/256 to John Dovey on Wed Dec 15 18:56:10 2021
    Hi John...

    Re: [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
    By: August Abolins to All on Wed Dec 15 2021 05:43:50
    [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
    That looks fascinating. Considering the obscuring effect of partisan politics, I'm curious whether this is objective/scientific or whether the authors have an "agenda"?
    JD
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    ... A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

    Is the truth or whistleblowing a bad agenda? Practically every writer/author has an agenda.

    Ciao!
    /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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  • From John Dovey@4:920/69 to August Abolins on Wed Dec 15 14:32:16 2021
    Re: [BOOK] Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19
    By: August Abolins to John Dovey on Wed Dec 15 2021 18:56:10

    Is the truth or whistleblowing a bad agenda? Practically every writer/author has an agenda.

    What I was referring to was the obfusication caused by the media viewing everything through the "Orange Man Bad" coloured spectacles.

    JD
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