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Many good subjects and leads in this one and I have not chased through all of them.

About the Pangolin Connection: Pangolin was "used as an excuse" during the original SARS incident. I have not read about its role in the SARS-Covid-2 before this point. however, it has been widely rumored that the 3 incidents were actually inter-connected in the sense of systematic trial-by-error to improve both the infection tendency AND the lethality. Personally I don't have the knowledge to provide a scientific opinion. The "furin cleavage site" had been discussed and debated since the early days. My own "conclusion" after reading multiple articles is the whole thing is a genetic-engineering product starting from a bat virus (which provided 97-98% of the RNA materials) AND the developed virus was intentionally passed through multiple in-lab propagation to "smooth out its edges" by adding some random speckles to the less important segments of the RNA. IMHO, the futuristic "Disease X" is more likely to be a positively-sensed ssRNA virus, fast-cloning and fast-mutating, never an effective vaccine possible. But the great medical world most likely will push all of us into that endless chase. It is the improvement in basic human immunity for the basic defense lines, plus some Rx to deal with the symptoms.

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