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Lab leak and animal contact can both be true. Lab tech gets infected during animal experiments/sample collecting due to not following procedures and infects oth
by dagw 5y ago
Lab leak and animal contact can both be true. Lab tech gets infected during animal experiments/sample collecting due to not following procedures and infects others in the lab. They carry infection out into the population, and you're off.
- refenestrator 5y agoThere are many, many more human-animal contacts outside of that lab than inside it. It's literally a billion to one.
- dagw 5y agoA scientist or lab tech specifically working with virus infected bats will spend a lot more time in close contact with virus infected bats than most.
- refenestrator 5y agoSure, but we're back to "I want this to be true" at this point. It's possible. But there are a billion rural Chinese who also could have gotten it naturally. Add a 1000x coefficient and you're down to a million to one.
- basch 5y agoso would someone mining bat poop for fertilizer.