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    "Chinese researchers said Thursday they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats including one that may be the second-closest yet, genetically, to the Covid-19 virus.

    According to the researchers, their discoveries in a single, small region of Yunnan province, southwestern China show just how many coronaviruses there are in bats and how many have the potential to spread to people."

    ""In total, we assembled 24 novel coronavirus genomes from different bat species, including four SARS-CoV-2 like coronaviruses," the researchers wrote in a report published in the journal Cell.
    One was very similar, genetically to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that's causing the current pandemic, they said -- a viral sample called RpYN06 taken from a horseshoe bat species called Rhinolophus pusillus.

    It would be the closest strain to SARS-CoV-2 except for genetic differences on the spike protein, the knob-like structure that the virus uses when attaching to cells, they said."

    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/…

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    So this part: "It would be the closest strain to SARS-CoV-2 except for genetic differences on the spike protein" adds a bit of more truth to the idea that this current Coronavirus we're dealing with was indeed engineered, as many have concluded that spike protein part was not looking natural...

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    • What about this? "Furin cleavage sites occurred independently multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family"yuekit
    • https://www.scienced…yuekit
    • As I understand it, these viruses are constantly recombining and swapping pieces of their code in nature. Some have the spike protein, others don't.yuekit
    • ^yes indeed, but the idea was the differences discovered could not have been occurring naturally, as they say anyway
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    • if that was the case, these ppl that keep discovering these viruses would've gotten sick every time they discovered a new one!
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    • meaning these kind of viruses are not that deadly in their "natural" form, and need to be "modified"...thus gain of function research
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    • Well remember this is SARS 2...the first SARS virus was actually more deadly but less infectious.yuekit
    • And I haven't heard anyone claim original SARS was engineered. So these new viruses do appear from time to time in the natural world.yuekit
    • @yuekit yeah they are naturally occurring ofc, but not in the super-spreading and killer form that created this pandemic?
      Just a thought...
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    • There have definitely been viruses that came out of nowhere and killed millions of people. We've just only lived through one of them.yuekit
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