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> In May 2021, a team of US evolutionary biologists published research on what an ancestor to Covid-19 should look like, and came up with two options. One had t
by bArray 5y ago
> In May 2021, a team of US evolutionary biologists published research on what an ancestor to Covid-19 should look like, and came up with two options. One had the same three mutations found in the samples.
Whichever way you boil this down, the following is a true statement: COVID-19 leaked from a lab in China.
Clearly, whether this was the 'original' COVID-19 strain or not (it appears to be the oldest mutation we're aware of so far), this particular sample that should never have had COVID-19 on it, did have COVID-19 on it. The sample was clearly infected at the lab.
If this sample had COVID-19 on it, why not another sample? And if we have virus samples travelling from sample to sample, it's not difficult to believe that the 'mover' here was the lab scientist/technician.
The real question is when this lab leak occurred:
> “The timeline matters a lot here. If they were sequenced in Dec 2019 then it’s exceptionally important, because [China] holds SarsCov2s not discovered until December 30 to 31.
Don't hold your breath on getting a true answer here, there is no way the CCP would ever lose face and admit fault, not in a million years. Be prepared for claims it was sequenced on December 32nd.