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Science posts coming in soon. Have a great weekend everybody

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JP - There's a lot of skeleton's out there Mr. Mulder. https://youtu.be/uounTCRkHpw

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Don't be a hater! It was an undocumented Lab.

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Wow thanks I had not heard about this. I don’t think many people have. Wonder if the guy was an American or Chinese national.

If there is one clandestine lab, I’m willing to bet it is not the only lab.

Makes you wonder… meanwhile in Aus RSV is causing huge problems, Covid still running rampant & sporadic break outs of Meningococcal disease

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Now I have to wonder how many more of these exist?

There's no way this is a 'one off'

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A few dozen at least.

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America is so done.

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In a precarious position wouldn't say done.

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Did you create another Twitter account?

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Same Twitter account as I always had. I will change the name John Paul anyway.

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I'll just drop this fun list here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7123372/

Published data on survival of pathogens on various inanimate surfaces:

Acinetobacter spp.: 3 days to 1 year (in-vitro)

Bordetella pertussis: 3 to >10 days; in pernasal swabs: >4 days

Campylobacter jejuni: >6 days, in water >60 days

Clostridium difficile spores: 5 months

C. difficile, vegetative form: 5 min (dry surface), 6 h (moist surface)

Chlamydia pneumoniae: ≤96 h

C. trachomatis: <1 week

Chlamydia psittaci: 15 days to months (environment)

Corynebacterium diphtheriae: 7 days to 6 months

Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis: 1–8 days, up to several weeks (environment)

Enterococcus spp. including VRE: 5 days up to 30 months

Escherichia coli: 1.5 h to 16 months

E. coli O157:H7: 27 days on spinach leaves, 179 days in soil, 98 days in water

Haemophilus influenzae: 12 days

Helicobacter pylori: ≤90 min; in water: 2–30 days

Klebsiella spp.: 2 h to >30 months, ≤144 h in detergent solution

Listeria spp.: 1 day–months, 141 days in water

Mycobacterium bovis: >2 months

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: 1 day up to 4 months

Neisseria gonorrhoeae: 1–3 days

Neisseria meningitidis: 72 h

Parachlamydia acanthamoebae: <4 weeks, in presence of blood <7 weeks

Proteus vulgaris: 1–2 days

Pseudomonas aeruginosa: 6 h up to 16 months; on dry floor: 5 weeks; in aerosol: few hours

Salmonella typhi: 6 h up to 4 weeks

Salmonella typhimurium: 10 days up to 4.2 years

Salmonella spp.: 1 day

non typhoid Salmonella spp.: 336 days

Salmonella enteritidis (broiler farms):1 year

Salmonella enteritica sv. Tennessie: 30 days (dried in desiccated milk powder)

Serratia marcescens: 3 days up to 2 months; on dry floor: 5 weeks

Shigella spp.: 2 days up to 5 months

Staphylococcus aureus including MRSA and MSSA: 7 days up to 1 year (in-vitro), 9–12 days (plastic surfaces), 72 h (stainless steel, ≤28 days (dry mops), ≤14 days (in water).

Streptococcus pneumoniae: 1 day up to 30 month

Streptococcus pyogenes: 3 days up to 6.5 months

Vibrio cholerae: 1–7 days

Yersinia enterocolitica: Up to 64 weeks (in water)

Yersinia pestis: Up to 5 days

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Wild story! My husband grew up in the Central Valley, so when I told him about it, he had to read the whole post and look for more information about it.

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Thanks !!! 🦋

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Even though they posted at the end of the program that it was satire, it’s a sad comment on our times that so many people readily believed this was real.

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It is the only variable that accounts for all of this.

All of this meaning everything else but SARS-CoV-2.

Illegal labs are fairly common in China, India, not so common in Europe. It was the first time I heard about it in the US, although illegal drug labs are dime a dozen in the US judging by the DEA site. If this is "fake news", it is measruing something, because the easily trackable network trafifick it created since morning on all English speaking sites is something.

Well, it could also be distracting from something else. The magician hands.

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Oh you meant the human meat one. To that regard, there is a company working on selling meat grown from cells from celebrities I think.

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Yes, I was commenting on the human meat “news story” but I see that post has been deleted.

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