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> The evidence we have points to Patient Zero being nowhere near the City of Wuhan. I've heard this a number of times, but where is the evidence? Where does i

• mikem170 5y ago
  From the reddit post I link to, table of contents, Q4, subitem 4.4, in summary: > We also know that the overall genetic diversity of the above cases cannot be explained exclusively by looking at the cases from the Hunan market. In other words, the viruses that scientists have identified from the Hunan market are not the parents of all other viruses identified since > The most logical explanation is that the virus crossed over from nature into humans in the countryside of Hubei province much earlier than any of the Wuhan cases. > It probably happened somewhere in the countryside, far before the virus made it to Wuhan, and far before it made it to Wuhan’s wet markets, and unrelated to the lab. Here's a direct link to that section [0], with lots of details and footnoted references. This is much better presented and more comprehensive evidence than I've seen anywhere else on the source of this virus. [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did_not_come_from_the_wuhan_institute_of/fqpcfs2/ https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did...