Uh…I guess it’s how you look at it. Common cold is a coronavirus. Virulent, but not rabidly so in terms of harm to humans. So at some point, coronavirus (common cold) jumped to humans. But all other outbreaks have been last 2 decades and way more potentially deadly to us. Extremely suspicious. Once it jumped to humans “somehow” in China in 2002, it was going to mutate. I think that was a GOF lab escape too.
I am just going off what happened and what was known when this things first started a few years ago.
This is not a common cold or anything like it.
the common cold does not cause people to get pneumonia and need to be placed on a respirator because their lungs cannot produce enough oxygen.
Think of it this way. There is a virus that kills bats. But this virus does not affect humans
If this virus that kills bats could be altered so that it can not be stopped by the human defense system. The results of this virus infecting a human would be unknown. But it could cause the same fatal affects as it does the bat.
This actually happens all the time in research. Not to make a bio weapon, but as a research for medicine and other things. I am on the Ohio State university grounds often and my comany is contracted to work on their equipment, They have different levels of labs. One such lab (if it is still there) is so biohazard dangerous (they work on hazards for which their is no cure) that if anyone tries to bypass the perimeter fencing or security, Not only will the police be there in seconds the FBI will be there.
The fear is these things will get out. Steven king wrote a book about it (I believe it is called the stand) and there have been many movies and things made about this super virus or something that accidentally gets released into the world. and chaos and mass deaths occur because of it.
Rumor had it that one of the techs in Wuhan accidentally stuck himself with a needle. and was infected. Since in china this was an automatic death penalty, the guy ran, and entered the fish market. where he later died. His infection quickly spread to people in this market. and there was an outbreak of this "pneumonia virus" that no one could figure out what was causing it. And this virus eventually spread to the world.
Whether this is true or not. Something did happen in China, was it research for good or bad? Was it purposely released or as the rumor said, accidental?
We will probably never know the fact of how it was released. But we know what it was and where it came from, and are still today trying to counter act this thing.
While I believe the origional danger has passed and we are no longer in my view in pandemic mode. We still have an opportunity. To use this to research when this happens again how can we act more quickly and possibly stop the rapid expansion and number of deaths of the next as Jesus called it in matt 24 (pestilence - plague, pandemic, outbrake of disease) and we have seen the past few decades. all these different viruses (the bird flu, the swine flu, H1N1 etc etc) it is just going to get worse
I for one am happy I am in a country that spends money on research so that when these things do occur. we at least have some form of hope that we can survive them, and continue to spread the word of the gospel. and live our lives.