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> For it to have been WIV, we need a whole string of unlikely events. WIV was working on corona virus gain of function, and researchers there had previously fa
by ehvatum 4y ago
> For it to have been WIV, we need a whole string of unlikely events.
WIV was working on corona virus gain of function, and researchers there had previously fallen ill with their own laboratory viruses.
SARS escapes laboratories in Beijing on at least two well documented occasions.
Stridency is not accuracy.
- Maursault 4y agoThat may be so, but if the pandemic was caused by a lab leak, we should have seen a concentration of infections surrounding the WIV, and at least on that side of the river. But instead, we see a concentration of the initial infections surrounding the wet market on the other side of the river. So the lab leak hypothesis simply does not fit the evidence.