Well they were researching it in the lab (supposedly one of the stories). If anything it probably come out by accident in an unfinished state.

You have missed something : This is precisely, thanks to the recent explosion of S Korea, Italy, Iran, France and Germany, that it became now clearly noticeable that every countries on the Equator and summer season, simply had NO explosion or propagation so far, after the 20-40 declared cases 3 weeks ago because of their proximity with China.

It is that simple. Every countries over 25°C just don't see quick spread at all, just something completely neglectable.

Australia, Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, India, Cambodia, Egypt, all these countries should have seen by the time the same explosion that we have been recently seeing in the north hemisphere which is under flu-ish temperature, like 8-12°C.(check the meteo of Teheran...)

Just wait May, the insane transmissibility rate of this "super flu virus" will just collapse.

But still : prepare 3 weeks of food if you are US / european, we will have some massive quarantine soon, this is statistically unavoidable. This is a dangerous super flu as long as we are in winter climate.

It's the fallout of fake news and people believing we have everything under control or it won't happen to them that might spiral this out of control. It's not so much that the disease will cripple humanity, it's mostly the reaction, disbelief, unwillingness to prepare to mitigate the effects, then panic, that will do the most harm. Meanwhile the commercials for cheap holiday destinations are still happily playing while McDs is advertising family night!

The Corona virus is known since the 60s and those animals you got at ground zero can have it in them. 

But I guess you can always find something else if you need to fit it in a conspiracy theory. Why it's always the not so far left who love conspiracy theories?

Babies are a risk and badly developed children and the elderly, but mostly kids are best in overcoming viruses yes and that is why it is important to gain resistance to most of those viruses as a kid cause when you first encounter some of them when older it will make you a lot more sick.

The question is, can they carry the disease and infect others. That's still unknown.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/27/coronavirus-kids-what-role-transmission/

Though the evidence to date suggests this virus doesn’t inflict severe disease on children, there’s reason to think kids may be helping to amplify transmission. It’s a role they play to devastating effect during flu season, becoming ill and passing flu viruses on to their parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers.

While the new virus is from a different viral family, its behavior is more like influenza than its coronavirus cousins, SARS and MERS, making experts wonder if it is doing the same.

“Flu is clearly driven in part by schools. And we don’t understand what goes on with coronaviruses and kids — especially this coronavirus,”


There are also still many unknowns on how to protect yourself

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/unmasked-experts-explain-necessary-respiratory-protection-covid-19

Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, which publishes CIDRAP News, says, "The very unsettling data regarding the number of infected healthcare workers in the Wuhan area and the infection of a Japanese doctor working with those quarantined on the cruise ship and who used standard PPE [personal protective equipment]—except for a surgical mask instead of an N95 respirator—should be a real wake-up call to all of us about how do we really protect against this critical occupational risk."


Surgical masks will certainly help, but safety is not guaranteed.

to be more precise "corona virus" is a family of viruses, this specific "species" is a relative of SARS and hence the virus is officially named SARS-CoV-2 (and the illness is covid-19) - only 7 corona virus species are known to infect humans, 4 of them "common cold"s, MERS, SARS and the new one

several good RNA matches were found in different animals of the region, not a 100% one, which was super unlikely from the start as this is an RNA virus, meaning their genome is relatively unstable and changing all the time (samples from different human patients don't give out 100% matches either)

the origin of this one is very likely to be bats, as they are known to host hundreds of different corona virus species, but the strains in them tend to be hyperaggressive as bats have extremely good immune systems - SARS-CoV-2 is not that aggressive, so researchers do suspect there was an intermediate host before it made the jump to humans

Yeah all indicators are this is gonna be a heavy global economic recession.

Come on,he "said" far left as in ''extremists''.

That tones down the level of irony a bit imo and he is partly right so it would be good to address that too instead of the usual ridiculizing because someone commented something about the left.

Stuff like this man, just lol. To me, this guy's voice and physical appearance indicate that he has some sort of cold-like illness, the cough is just icing on the cake... Hopefully it's nothing or just something minor like the common cold.

Worries me a bit, maybe there's actually some merit to some of those rumors out there

link below to the coughing guy's covid19 saga

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8057513/Man-kept-coronavirus-quarantine-stop-coughing-taking-water-3-year-old-daughter.html