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> The lab leak hypothesis has a range from "This virus was created and released by the Chinese government as a bio-weapon against the US and to kill off their o
by autoexec 4y ago
> The lab leak hypothesis has a range from "This virus was created and released by the Chinese government as a bio-weapon against the US and to kill off their own aging population" at the extreme. To the "The virus was being studied at the Wuhan Virology Institute and someone one got lax on safety protocols got exposed accidentally and then took the train home."
And people on either end of that spectrum should be expected to have substantial evidence to support their position since the far simpler and common scenario is that it wasn't leaked from the lab at all. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" applies much more to the government bio-weapon crowd, but it still absolutely applies to the 'employee mistake' theory too.
- LawTalkingGuy 4y agoThere are two indicators, one simply how close it was to a virus lab doing similar studies, and two how immediately and blindly people denied that they could be any connection. They'd have had to investigate before making a claim, and had not, so obviously they're lying. A concerted conspiracy to deny an option is some evidence for that option being true. I don't claim it did come from a lab, but that anyone stating categorically that it did not is lying.
- JamesBarney 4y agoWhy is - a virus unusually adapted to being transmitted between people - which was released next to one of a handful of labs on earth that studied it - that the Chinese government and several American scientists tried to cover up - normally found a thousand of miles away - that we can't find an origin for unlike SARS and MERS (with far more looking) isn't also an at least equally extraordinary claim?
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