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To be fair, the reason the lab is in that place is precisely because it's close to a place where zoonoses has occurred multiple times. Kind of like how we don't
by Pepe1vo 5y ago
To be fair, the reason the lab is in that place is precisely because it's close to a place where zoonoses has occurred multiple times. Kind of like how we don't blame lighthouses for shipwrecks.
That being said, from what I've read it appears that a lab escape is a very real possibility. Though I doubt that we'll ever find out
- lumost 5y agoThere doesn't appear to be any relation between the labs founding and zoonoses in the local region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology
- sharken 5y agoYour point about the lab is great, it's just very hard to dismiss the idea that a lab error was at fault. But i too think it all too likely that we won't be any wiser about the origins. Though it would be great if a timeline could be established, i don't remember seeing a good explanation on Covid in Italy being discovered in 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-timing-idUSKBN27W1J2 https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-italy-tim...
- prox 5y agoI believe that Italy origin story was not credible. Snopes goes with Wuhan as the origin.
- amayne 5y ago"Wuhan is ~1000km away from SARS spillover zones. Its human population was even used as a negative (no SARS) control group." Via @Ayjchan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1394327680456220672?s=20 https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1394327680456220672?s=20
- XorNot 5y agoThis is maybe 12 hours drive, depending on roads and traffic. 1000km is not a huge distance of migration to a major city.
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- AbrahamParangi 5y agoI've heard this a number of times now, but is it actually true? I find that argument hard to corroborate and there are other parsimonious explanations, like WIV was located in Wuhan because Wuhan is a major world city with high quality institutions of higher education.
- throwaway316943 5y agoIt’s a pretty flimsy lie that incidentally tries to paint Wuhan as an unsophisticated backwater. It smacks of uninformed spin.
- ekianjo 5y agoNope, it's been debunked. The bats do not come from Wuhan at all.
- temp8964 5y agoIf zoonoses was used to pick a lab location, it should be somewhere in the Guangdong Province.