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There are thousands of wet markets in China, but very few virus labs. Out of all the wet markets in China, the virus just happened to originate at the one righ
by travisoneill1 6y ago
There are thousands of wet markets in China, but very few virus labs. Out of all the wet markets in China, the virus just happened to originate at the one right next to the virus lab? That alone is enough evidence to make the lab escape theory the most likely origin. Though it's far from certain.
- incrudible 6y agoThe virus likely didn't originate at the wildlife market, because many of the early patients had no connection to it. There is a building of the Wuhan CDC (not the WIV) near the wildlife market, but the Wuhan CDC has numerous buildings and this particular one doesn't seem to be implicated in coronavirus research.
- travisoneill1 6y ago2 good points. Being in the same city as the virus lab is a lot less suspicious than being across the street.
- andromeduck 6y agoRegardless of the lab theory it's pretty clear that the wet market was simply the first known super spreader location and not necessarily the origin given how a third of the first known patients had no connection to the wet market.
- MilnerRoute 6y agoSnopes.com points out that the market wasn't "right next to the virus lab." It was in fact a full seven miles away. https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/01/covid-19-bioweapon/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/01/covid-19-bioweapon/
- kunfuu 6y agoBack in Feb 2020, a rumor circulating on Chinese social media said that there was another lab in the city near the market, which was a competitor to the lab of Wuhan Institute of Virology that is most widely mentioned, under the umbrella of a university of agriculture/forestry/geology (I don't remember the exact details). I am not sure about the validity of the rumor, though.
- collyw 6y agoA couple of examples of Snopes intellectual dishonesty. Mixture https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phone-hammer/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon... Mixture https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-believe-biden-accusers/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-believe-biden-accus...
- RyEgswuCsn 6y agoThere are thousands of wet markets in China, but very few provincial capital cities (Wuhan is one). Out of all the wet markets in China, the virus just happened to originate at the one next to the provincial administrative office? That alone is enough evidence to make the provincial administrative office the most likely origin of the virus, right?
- MrPatan 6y agoIf they handle coronaviruses in the provincial administrative office, then yes. Do they?
- RyEgswuCsn 6y agoMaybe they do secretly handle coronaviruses in the provincial administrative office; they can't prove they don't anyways.
- koheripbal 6y agoThis isn't a logical comparison. The lab specifically collected live bat coronaviruses for testing. The provincial administrative office did not.