- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- science@beehaw.org
Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science.
With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm.
Wuhan was shut down and word was out of a suspicious illness similar to pneumonia (what they knew at the time) in December 2019. China even went on to literally share a sequence of the virus’s DNA. All before the first international case was discovered.
Other countries just didn’t act.
This is just COVID misinformation and based in today’s culture of Sinophobia.