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I don't mean we should be sure it couldn't have been a lab escape because we have found the natural origin. I mean we should be sure it wasn't a lab escape bec
by feral 5y ago
I don't mean we should be sure it couldn't have been a lab escape because we have found the natural origin.
I mean we should be sure it wasn't a lab escape because lab escapes have a prior probability extremely close to zero.
There are lots of smart folk, and intelligence agencies, trying to figure out whether covid is a natural event or a lab leak, and very few analyzes seem to be starting off with "as we all know, because of X, Y, and Z, lab escapes are effectively impossible, and these labs are so well designed that human error never results in accidents, so..."