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> but relatively far away from the spot where it was first found in humans But not far away from humans who had been to where the bat virus was found to bring

• jacquesm 3y ago
  So? That's what they do at that institute. The only reason that that bat was far away from where it was first found in humans is simply because we haven't found a better sample, yet. This was iirc a sample taken long ago, so there was plenty of time for migration. Bats fly insanely long distances and can have multiple roosts. What all lab-leak theory adherents seem to forget: if the Chinese really had ready access to the very earliest strains of COVID they could have easily falsified evidence of where it originated. The fact that this hasn't happened is - especially given what is at stake here - pretty good circumstantial evidence that they not have access to that strain. I suspect it will take a long time (years, maybe as much as a decade) before the whole picture will come out and if not then too bad, it will be one of those things we'll never know. Which is entirely in line with expectations, and with the historical record of other discoveries like that. In the meantime: speculation is pointless. Either you have evidence or you don't. And [] do not confer any special insights unless actually accompanied by a citation, preferably of something that is not written by the same author.