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To be clear I do not believe it was engineered or designed or otherwise was part of biological weapons research. I think that it’s possible that it was a tragic
by empath75 7y ago
To be clear I do not believe it was engineered or designed or otherwise was part of biological weapons research. I think that it’s possible that it was a tragic accident, though. In terms of culpability, I don’t see how it’s any worse for China than the wet market theory. Either way, it’s a lapse in public health safety protocols.
- chvid 7y agoYou can tell from the way the Chinese authorities reacted in the beginning that they did not know what they were dealing with. Had it been a lab accident their reaction would have been quite different. Also as I understand it. Bats acts as a repository for corona virus but the virus has to mutate in order to infect a human, so it infects another animal, where the mutated strain grow, before it reaches a human.
- tigershark 7y agoExactly, and it seems that the intermediate host is the palm civet as far as I remember.
- empath75 7y agoIt’s possible this virus might have escaped before they got around to studying it. Given how contagious it is, it might have gone straight from a bat they collected to a technician to the city.