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== Shi Zhengli ==

== Shi Zhengli ==

This article has nothing about [[Shi Zhengli]] yet, although speculation is mounting that the virus might have escaped from her lab. Shi has authored so many papers on bat coronavirus that ''Scientific American'' has dubbed her "bat woman." That there was a lab in Wuhan specializing in this type of virus at the time of the outbreak might not be a coincidence. At least those are the lines along which Shi herself is thinking: "“I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir for many viruses. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “could they have come from our lab?”"[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/] Shi runs a civilian lab that publishes the results of its research, so I find it unlikely that this virus is some kind of genetically engineered bioweapon. You can get the conspiracy theory version of what happened from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_rfTdayLs&t=1s the ''Epoch Times''] while a debunking is [https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html here]. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 22:37, 13 April 2020 (EDT)

This article has nothing about [[Shi Zhengli]] yet, although speculation is mounting that the virus might have escaped from her lab. Shi has authored so many papers on bat coronavirus that ''Scientific American'' has dubbed her "bat woman." That there was a lab in Wuhan specializing in this type of virus at the time of the outbreak might not be a coincidence. At least those are the lines along which Shi herself was thinking: "“I had never expected this kind of thing to happen in Wuhan, in central China.” Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from animals—particularly bats, a known reservoir for many viruses. If coronaviruses were the culprit, she remembers thinking, “could they have come from our lab?”"[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1/] Shi runs a civilian lab that publishes the results of its research, so I find it unlikely that this virus is some kind of genetically engineered bioweapon. You can get the conspiracy theory version of what happened from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_rfTdayLs&t=1s the ''Epoch Times''] while a debunking is [https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html here]. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 22:37, 13 April 2020 (EDT)

:Conspiracy theory? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 22:51, 13 April 2020 (EDT)

:Conspiracy theory? [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 22:51, 13 April 2020 (EDT)

:Actually, it does have Shi Zhengli. "''On January 23, 2020 the Wuhan virus exploded. While Wuhan announced the lockdown of the city, Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who had isolated the bat virus, spliced it, and made it transmissible to humans, provided the official Chinese communist cover story that the virus arose in nature.''" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 00:35, 14 April 2020 (EDT)

:Actually, it does have Shi Zhengli. "''On January 23, 2020 the Wuhan virus exploded. While Wuhan announced the lockdown of the city, Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who had isolated the bat virus, spliced it, and made it transmissible to humans, provided the official Chinese communist cover story that the virus arose in nature.''" [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]^{[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]} 00:35, 14 April 2020 (EDT)