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I would like to add another factor in your favor for this hypothesis. Naturally occurring viruses/bacteria tend to evolve to spread most effectively in conditi
by Consultant32452 5y ago
I would like to add another factor in your favor for this hypothesis. Naturally occurring viruses/bacteria tend to evolve to spread most effectively in conditions similar to how animals live: outside. COVID-19, conversely, seems to fair poorly outside and spreads most rapidly in indoor conditions not unlike one would expect in a human run laboratory environment.
- risaacs99 5y agoA virus with a novel mutation favoring humans would be successful infecting humans, period. I can't imagine any respiratory virus that wouldn't spread more effectively indoors. This "factor" is not particularly compelling (to me).
- dont__panic 5y agoJust to play devil's advocate, wouldn't COVID-19 also spread particularly efficiently in, say, a cave? Where bats live?
- celticninja 5y agoWouldn't they have located the cave by now, and a load of bats infected with the virus.
- rcxdude 5y agoThere's a lot of bats, caves, and viruses. Virologists find new viruses all the time, why would you expect that they have surveyed enough that the fact that they haven't found a particular one is evidence it's not present?
- celticninja 5y agoThe Chinese government are actively preventing the survey from occurring so that may be one reason we have not found it.
- mekkkkkk 5y agoThe way bats congregate and sleep in tight huddled up clusters would seem to be perfect for transmission.