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I have read this (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021
by edumucelli 5y ago
I have read this (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...) about the origins of Covid and one phrase that called my attention was:
"Dr. Richard Ebright, board of governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University, said that from the very first reports of a novel bat-related coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, it took him “a nanosecond or a picosecond” to consider a link to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Only two other labs in the world, in Galveston, Texas, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were doing similar research. “It’s not a dozen cities,” he said. “It’s three places.”"
- KingOfCoders 5y agoI don't know who is right. A lab that does bat related research and is located where bats have traditionally shown these viruses, it's hard to determine cause and effect. "When I first heard about the Arctic, I thought about that Arctic ice research institute in a nano second. There are only two places. There are not a dozen places, it's two places."
- tim333 5y ago>A lab that does bat related research and is located where bats have traditionally shown these viruses But it isn't - the bats carrying coronaviruses live 600+ miles away. Wuhan was actually used as a control in a paper on bat coronaviruses as a population that wasn't exposed to them.
- KingOfCoders 5y agoAh didn't know, do you have a map with all the bat viruses say last 20 years in the wild + Wuhan? Couldn't find one, perhaps I don't have the right Google keywords.