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What do you define as evidence and man-made here? From what I understand there was a large amount of circumstantial evidence (next to a lab researching similar

• somenameforme 3y ago
  Here [1] is a non-comprehensive list of various lab leaks. Even high security facilities quite regularly leak, which is one of the endless reasons that experimenting with these viruses is one of the most unbelievably stupid things we could be doing. An employee in the Netherlands was infected with polio last year, the year prior to that Taiwan had a COVID lab leak. Since 2000 the US has had no fewer than 16 different lab leaks, and you can add Japan, Singapore, Russia, Hungary, Australia, UK, Germany, and more to the list as well. All since 2000 if that wasn't clear. And many of these incidents were playing with some various serious diseases - ebola, anthrax, meningitis, and let's not forget just finding 6 vials of live smallpox virus by a worker cleaning at a freezer at a Merck facility, in the US, in 2014. The problem is not incompetence - the problem is the arrogance to think we can overcome these issues with competence, in spite of the absolutely extensive evidence of the fact that this is plainly false. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...