Has anyone seen the pictures of the wet market?  Fish, dogs, cats, so on, unbelievably horrible.

Is the Ibtimes a reputable group?

Best regards,

pg wrote on 04/09/20 at 07:57:22:





Ibtimes is INdia's national online version of the print (not even sure if it exists in print).
Classically India has a lot of personality driven politics but no real left vs right - because India is a multi party system. State by state is split by language and hence political party.
There is no reason to support or berate china in this regard, there may be a reason to support or berate Modi (India's PM) but international news are not incentivized to be "spun".

Its as it stands the best journalism you will ever get from a country of 1.5 billion that claim 81K infected, 3K dead, 77K recovered, 99% complete, no problem here, we've fixed this. You're dying cos y'all are incompetent. If those numbers are real, this is the world's most efficient Bio weapon. It kills white people at 100X the rate of Chinese people. More and more looking like someone built it to spare 1 particular race.

Cool.
Srinath.

"The international scientific community have come to almost unanimous agreement that it was the Wuhan bio lab that let it out."


 What do you consider "International Scientific Community" ?

"Really? More semantics?
That's where your question is?
Nothing else in my post is worthy of response? You want to niggle about a definition..
No "


 Its called having an adult conversation.  The problem is the hypersensitivity to a difference of opinion.  If my assessment is different than yours you think I am saying you are wrong, when I am typically saying nothing more than my definition is different than yours.  If you would stop being upset about every little difference we might actually have a real conversation someday.

 If our definitions aren't similar, then we are having an inefficient conversation about two different things by definition.  If your definition of "International Scientific Community" is different than mine then we don't even need to have the conversation about how I haven't seen this consensus you mention.

They didn't sell bats in that market. Most people interviewed about it never seen bats there - but they could have lied.
That species of bat doesn't have any big presence for 8-900 km. Street vendors don't transport their meat 500-600 miles to sell it. So its very unlikely it was sold there on that count too.
My $$ is on the labs near by doing bio research on it and getting it sold off either under the table or as their standard practice or a poor disposal where it got eaten by another animal or sold as feed even.
That's what fits the theory of 500 mile transport+no one seeing bats in that market.
Lab transports bats 500 miles, experiments on them. Then sells it off as animal feed. Local farmers/street vendors feed that to their pigs/chickens etc. They sell those at the market - and destroy the world as we know it. AOC was right, in 12 days the world as we know it is over.

Cool.
Srinath.

Why would they transport that particular species of bat 500 miles to a lab to research viruses in it? Why not use a local bat? I’m in St Louis Mo. if I was planting viruses in bats as a test, why would I get a bat 500 miles away, say from Jackson Mississippi, instead of a local species 5 minutes away?

I’m not saying what is or isn’t possible, I’m saying what is most likely.

I’m a national segment manager for a technical product. When new situations  pop up in the market, I have to analyze them to determine my move.

A great rule to remember about managing a business segment is it’s like playing chess except there’s usually more than two players and when it’s your turn, you don’t have to move.

You can sit back and analyze the board. Most of the time, what seems like a clever strategy against you is not. It’s someone else’s random moves that if you incorrectly identified as being meaningful, you’d open yourself up elsewhere. Most of the time, that’s all it is. Random business patterns. Occasionally, it’s not and that’s where market knowledge, discernment and the grit to act decisively when required.

The same applies to governmental leaders in this situation.

Where the virus originated from is vitally important to know, but it wouldn’t change a single step we should take right now.

We use this as a wake up call and purposely start moving critical goods and services away from China. We really take a serious focus on moving manufacturing back. We start a very tough vetting program for Chinese nationals who want to study in the US. We encourage our allies to do the same. We start, for lack of a better word, shaming China. We put incoming passengers from China through medical screenings, including US citizens.