If he's your Doc, find a new one.sejintenej wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:05 pmI saw this morning a doctor claiming that the virus cannot survive above 28C.
No, seriously. Find a new one once you've managed to stop laughing long enough to see if they were serious or not.
To borrow from Terry Pratchett "A lie can make its way around the world before the truth has even gotten its shoes on".
They are all enveloped RNA viruses, and (IIRC) the COVID-19 genome is about 70% similar to SARS, so that part is true, but as for being human engineered, I'm afraid that's more fantasy than reality. While mutating a virus is relatively straightforward for someone with a decade or so of training and a lot of expensive equipment, the truth is that viruses do it better and faster than we can. Coronaviruses have been around for a long time and there was a paper written 10, maybe 20 years ago now, outlining their potential to become a concern for humans. It's been known for a while, but until recently, wasn't as pressing a concern as any of the other diseases.