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This isn't in conflict with it escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It is entirely possible that a virus that originated in an animal was being studi
by lockhouse 4y ago
This isn't in conflict with it escaping from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
It is entirely possible that a virus that originated in an animal was being studied there and escaped lab containment.
Unfortunately due to the obstruction by the CCP we'll probably never know the real story.
- crazygringo 4y agoThat seems extremely unlikely, as well as just logically unnecessary. It's enough for it to be just one or the other.
- lockhouse 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity... Looks like it’s within the realm of possibility to me. I think it’s quite the coincidence that COVID first appeared in the city with a lab that specializes in studying SARS family coronaviruses. This coincidence seems extremely unlikely.
- crazygringo 4y agoBut the idea that it would escape from that to a wet market specifically doesn't make much sense. Wet markets bring in animals from far away, not from across town. I'm not discounting the lab leak hypothesis. I'm just saying it's unlikely it went from the lab to humans via the wet market. In other words, stronger evidence for the wet market does make the lab leak less likely, in terms of probabilities.
- DebtDeflation 4y agoProponents of the lab leak hypothesis aren't arguing that the wet market was buying infected animals from the lab, but rather that a lab employee was likely accidentally infected in the lab and then spread it to others when they stopped by the wet market. It's also possible that they spread it to others at another nearby location and then it spread from there to the wet market. Given the timing, the wet market looks like the location of an early superspreader event rather than the actual origin.