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> Mixing fact with speculation is never a great sign for an argument. You're the only one who's speculating, because in the page that sentence links to a scien
by hwillis 3y ago
> Mixing fact with speculation is never a great sign for an argument.
You're the only one who's speculating, because in the page that sentence links to a scientific paper: https://zenodo.org/record/6342616#.Y_WrmnbMJD- https://zenodo.org/record/6342616#.Y_WrmnbMJD-
> In particular, the market is across the street from a railway station
Which can be trivially ruled out, because then the spread would have been all up and down the rail line. The first infection point would have been on the train, among all those people getting off at all different stops. It would not have suddenly become infectious just as that person stepped off the train.
> and one block away from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical College Union Hospital.
The evidence for zoonotic origin is how people regularly found or contracted SARS-like coronaviruses from animals. The evidence there was any relevant research at that university is zero. It's not a government lab, those projects would have been public.