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by forcry 5y ago
>I've repeated this because it seems to be a common misconception that the virus first appeared in Wuhan when in fact there is some evidence to the contrary. To be frank, that article is speculation, because they assume a certain va
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by forcry 5y ago
>risk of serious consequences (like dying) from COVID-19 Is absolute risk reduction mentioned anywhere?
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>But there's evidence that it emerged 600 miles south of Wuh.. I see you repeat this all around this thread. Can you show me where it says evidence is for emergence ?
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by forcry 5y ago
> earliest covid-19 cases were 600 miles south of Wuhan Nothing conclusive of that sort in that article. >All I can say is it doesn't look to me as if Wuhan is the prime candidate, because A exists in other regions of China at th
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>Scientists pump out a lot of studies that are just doing stats on public data sets. May be I didn't make myself clear. I only meant to include actual experiments, in the context. So it will only involve procedures that include coll
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https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=27757299
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by forcry 5y ago
>Attack their argument, not the location where they said the argument. As layman, I am powerless to do so. So I have to go by how much stake the proponents are putting in their argument. A testimony before government puts a lot more of t
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by forcry 5y ago
>Virus doesn't need to be perfectly adapted to infect a species. To be frank, no one said so. >And I'd be careful about reasoning that if I can't imagine any other way something could happen then it must have happened e
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>There's really no wonder that virus that spreads through human population is slightly better adjusted to humans than animal species its ancestor was infecting. This does not make sense to me, because I think the COVID virus was pre
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by forcry 5y ago
Well, if the authors of these posts disagree, they should contact the government and offer their testimony as well, then we can consider their argument to hold similar weight.
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by forcry 5y ago
> "muh freedom" Freedom is costly. A lot of people died, and I mean, really, "A LOT", and I am talking people at the prime of their lives, for freedoms that we enjoy all over the world. "muh freedom" indeed.
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by forcry 5y ago
>It wasn't uniquely adapted to humans in the beginning. Seems wrong. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-92388-5#Abs1 >Conspicuously, we found that the binding of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein was higher f
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>The bottom line is that the evidence we have at this time points to nature as the most probable origin.. Some scientists think otherwise, quite strongly in the opposite direction, it seems.. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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>The next time someone asks us to trust the science, our response should be "okay, but can I trust the scientists?" Originally, trust in scientists was not required. Because anyone could have repeated the experiment and should
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>If you're fighting a shooting war and you have an explosion in a munitions factory, you don't necessarily decide to stop making munitions What an apt analogy!
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>'Evidence Strongly Favors The Lab Origin': GOP-Called Medical Witness Discusses COVID-19 Genesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbJaaMG7Bs
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https://timesofoman.com/article/103697-vaccines-found-to-be-...
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by forcry 5y ago
When its your time to go, its your time to go...