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5. A wild strain would have spit out many new variants early on as it mutates to become accustomed to us. >None of this adds up to positive evidence of any var
by sleepysysadmin 5y ago
5. A wild strain would have spit out many new variants early on as it mutates to become accustomed to us.
>None of this adds up to positive evidence of any variation of the "lab leak" theory but given that there is no alternative theory that holds up to serious scrutiny or doesn't have serious flaws or unanswered questions, it has to stay in the running.
The virus derives from somewhere. If wild, we would have known it was wild. It's not wild anymore, that boat has moved on.
So where else? Now that we know it was a lab leak because of good old occams razor. We can look at the very quick response to label lab leak as a conspiracy theory. Who pushed that. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095418/
How did Trump of all people blame a lab leak in wuhan so quickly as well? Trump didn't know there was a lab there.
>My suspicion is the Chinese government doesn't know either but, more importantly, they don't want to know because absolutely no good can come from that becoming public. There is literally no upside.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...
A wuhan lab in china received money from the US government to do gain of function research on coronaviruses and they started using the variant that is 96% similar to covid only a few years before. The american politicians who at exactly the same time they started doing this work warned that safety at the wuhan lab was poor.
If it was a lab leak, why then is the person responsible for covid publishing about it like they didnt know. The exact person who is responsible.
That's because it's a leak. It's not intentional.