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The suppression of researchers who sounded the alarm and forcing all the hospitals to return their samples certainly makes sense if you consider it as a "guilty
by paulmd 7y ago
The suppression of researchers who sounded the alarm and forcing all the hospitals to return their samples certainly makes sense if you consider it as a "guilty reaction", after something they weren't supposed to be doing got loose. Or the government considers it embarrassing that the handlers were incompetent and this got loose.
It could also just be the reaction of a government who is trying to downplay the virus and retain control of the narrative, however.
Sequencing shows it's 96% similar to a wild strain of coronaviruses that has been previously studied in bats though, which argues against it being engineered.
- auiya 7y agoYeah I agree, it's likely not an engineered virus at all. It was likely incompetence on the part of the handlers, and a subsequent cover up to try and reduce/deflect culpability.
- souprock 7y agoThose are not opposites. An engineered virus can escape via incompetence. A non-engineered virus can be intentionally released. We can't prove that the virus was or was not engineered unless somebody finds a copyright message in the RNA. We do however know that the Wuhan lab had engineered similar viruses, slightly modifying bat coronaviruses so that they would be much more active against human cell lines.
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