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I think there's an option the author missed, which is that the virus arose naturally, was sampled in the wild and taken back to a lab, and leaked from there. Th
by sp332 5y ago
I think there's an option the author missed, which is that the virus arose naturally, was sampled in the wild and taken back to a lab, and leaked from there. That explains why it doesn't look like an engineered virus, but also puts blame for the outbreak on some humans.
- cratermoon 5y agoWhile "it was an accident" might sound more plausible than "purposely engineered", it is not. It still fails the requirement of requiring a "cover-up and the silent, unswerving, leak-proof compliance of a vast network of scientists, civilians, and government officials for over a year." If the virus had been sampled in the wild and taken back to the lab from whence it escaped, you'd still have to overcome the weight of the unlikelihood of the above vs the bog-standard, well-known, zoonotic origin.
- sp332 5y agoI haven't seen anything so far to convince me that it came out of a lab. But the hypothetical coverup isn't hard to understand. Everyone involved would look bad if this came to light, so there's a pretty direct motivation for all of them to keep quiet.
- spfzero 5y agoBut if you were looking for unswerving, leak-proof compliance, what better place... CCP can easily enforce that compliance, they have done so and continue to do so all the time. They even have a government controlled internet, to make sure.
- cratermoon 5y ago> leak-proof compliance Can't be all that leak-proof if we know about their efforts.