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There's quite a comprehensive document compiled by a virologist on reddit discussing what the options for engineering would be, and what traces they would leave

There's quite a comprehensive document compiled by a virologist on reddit discussing what the options for engineering would be, and what traces they would leave, I found it quite interesting: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAHSEx9-eIyVIahczH8itHaUm9jI9WX7/view https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kAHSEx9-eIyVIahczH8itHaUm9j...

baybal2 5y ago
No engineering, I want to underline it. This is not precluding a natural virus leak with, or without gain of function experiment involvement. Current facts on the ground: - 1st response to CoVID occurrence was certainly in Wuhan. - The closest wild strain of CoVID happens in bats living thousand kilometres from Wuhan - Wuhan had two institutes which, on record, did gain of function experiments on bat coronaviruses - SARS had a record of lab escapes past the previous pandemic even without live animal hosts.
- jghn 5y ago
  The story with the miners[1] has caught my attention. A group of miners fell ill w/ a SARS-like virus via bat droppings. In retrospect it sounds a heck of a lot like COVID. Wuhan was known to have investigated the case. Perhaps a researcher manages to get infected, or something like that. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606707/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606707/