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ON "“SNAKE PNEUMONIA” – CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK IN CHINA TRACED

TO SNAKES BY GENETIC ANALYSIS"

George Johnson | January 23, 2020 at 12:51 pm | Reply

Why was a picture of Central American cribos used for this

article? They have nothing whatsoever to do with Asia. Makes it very
hard to believe the article for those of us who are not ignorant.

Dick Packenwood | January 26, 2020 at 6:23 am | Reply

Most likely from a “wet market” where raw meat is kept

outside and unrefrigerated in a hot climate, where no disinfect is used,
and random people come along and handle the meat with their bare
hands. Animals are kept in cages and blood is just washed away with a
hose.

Also, it should be noted that there are many reports of people With
symptoms having escaped the quarantine zones. It probably didn’t help
that they warned people days in advance before implementing the
quarantine. It certainly didn’t help that they were having banquets and
telling everyone not to worry when they knew people were sick.

Also, many news outlets are relying on information provided by the CCP,
but the CCP will never be honest with its own people, never mind
“foreigners”. Always consider the info from the CCP as credible as you
would coming from a random spam email.

Roxy | January 30, 2020 at 2:35 pm | Reply

Please tell Chinese to stop eating dogs, cats, snakes,

cockroaches….or stay away from US!!

Rebekah J Perry6 | January 31, 2020 at 7:31 pm | Reply

China is a nasty filthy country that murders innocent

animals and eats them alive.. And they invent horrific deases that kill
everything..make China stop their barbaric actions!

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William Monroe | February 1, 2020 at 11:22 am | Reply

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/coronavirus-
contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-
bioweapon

melissa mcneely | February 1, 2020 at 2:54 pm | Reply

I REALLY HOPE YOU HAVE THE PROOF TO BACK YOUR

STORY UP.I JUST READ WHERE PEOPLE ARE THROWING PETS OUT
WINDOWS AND KILLING THEM BECAUSE OF RUMOR STORYS SO I
REALLY HOPE YOUR FACTS ARE TRUE.

China sucks | February 1, 2020 at 3:50 pm | Reply

Filthy dirty country! Absolutely scum

rafid | February 17, 2020 at 1:17 pm | Reply

God save all people on earth

David Parry | May 20, 2021 at 1:37 pm | Reply

God just left the building and is looking back in disbelief.

Until all people limit their offspring to just 2 the planet faces a disaster
of irreversible damage to the only home we have. As for the Chinese
they are amazing people. They need to live up to their great history and
change their meat markets to avoid justifiable criticisms. I hope God
saves the planet first; the animals next and only then saves us. There are
far far too many of us while animal extinctions continue. Irreplaceable
every one. All of us need to live within our means and drastically cut our
carbon footprints. Or suffer the consequences. Long live that Schoolgirl
and the old man who tries to educate us. I forget their names but not
their message. Wind. Solar. Geothermal. Hydrogen. Tidal. Nuclear fusion
if possible. Fission if not. Way to go.

Just Me | November 23, 2022 at 6:06 pm | Reply

Man cannot bring world peace–only God has the

authority to do that. True world peace will not only include a

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clean, perfect environment, but it will include no suffering and no

death. No weapons of mass destruction. No murders, no child
trafficking, no drug wards, and the list goes on and on. It’s arrogant
for imperfect and corrupted man to think he can take things into
his own hands to solve the world’s problems. They can try, but
ultimately they will fail. It is written. “It does not belong to man
even to direct his own step”. God created man and woman to have
children and “fill the earth”. He didn’t say anything about only 2
children. That is an opinion.

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