Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
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#2So was the first outbreak at the lab or at the wet market? I feel like everything else is circumstantial and conspiracy-laden.
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#3So was the first outbreak at the lab or at the wet market? I feel like everything else is circumstantial and conspiracy-laden.
The furin cleavage site itself pretty much points to a lab leak.
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#4A picture is worth a thousand words, here is an aerial shot of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)
https://i.imgur.com/v4xg9u1.jpg
source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid...
Re: Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
#5A picture is worth a thousand words, here is an aerial shot of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) https://i.imgur.com/v4xg9u1.jpg source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid...
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#6Well I hope that at least the next lab-made pandemic will insert some beneficial mutations to humanity.
In a way, the lab-leak hypothesis is comforting, because it means that nature with its own means did not manage to manufacture such a highly-transmissive disease, despite the facts of modern life, record human population and rates of travel. If it is not lab-made, then nature may do this again soon with another virus.
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#7A picture is worth a thousand words, here is an aerial shot of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) https://i.imgur.com/v4xg9u1.jpg source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid...
Maybe I'm daft but might I ask you to elaborate what you wanted to say with the picture?
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#8So was the first outbreak at the lab or at the wet market? I feel like everything else is circumstantial and conspiracy-laden.
As I imagine it can hardly be in the lab because the lab itself is not a good environment for the virus to spread.
However if only one sick transfers it somewhere it spreads in the environment where it is easy to spread - smaller (semi) enclosed space, a lot of people in that space, particular humidity and etc.
E.g. if I got a virus in laboratory and then spread it on the plane carrying 200 passengers, the first outbreak would be on the plane. However we can't say it "originated" on the plane.
Re: Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis
#9A picture is worth a thousand words, here is an aerial shot of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) https://i.imgur.com/v4xg9u1.jpg source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-27/did-covid...
Maybe I'm daft but might I ask you to elaborate what you wanted to say with the picture?
I don't understand it either
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#10So was the first outbreak at the lab or at the wet market? I feel like everything else is circumstantial and conspiracy-laden.
The two are not necessarily opposed. It can very well be a lab leak that infected the wet market: a scientist visiting the market, a supplier for lab animals getting the virus out to the market, etc, and the market starting the widespread transmission to the general population.
Whatever the case is, no, this is not circumstantial. If this is indeed a lab break, then action must be taken immediately for anything like it not to happen again. I don't mean "pointing fingers", but triggering a thorough review of all such labs worldwide and up security measures. This must not happen again.
TL;DR if it's a lab leak, it's actionable to us as humans to prevent further occurrences.