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Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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Haven't read much yet. But the first point already doesn't inspire much confidence. "This market is less than 9 miles away from The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 9 miles away means that it's at the opposite of the city.

I mean, that text is trying to make it seem like they are close to each other when actually it just means that both are in the same city. 9 miles is not a small distance in a big city like wuhan.

It's like saying that Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty.

Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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An interesting read.

They present evidence of 2 labs in Wuhan, and each lab was doing work with bats with a high degree of likelihood of having this virus.

This puts the virus at the scene of the crime, so to speak.

This is opposed to the wet market theory which has no evidence of said bats at the market, or explanation for how bats from 1000 miles away ended up there.

Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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An interesting read. They present evidence of 2 labs in Wuhan, and each lab was doing work with bats with a high degree of likelihood of having this virus. This puts the virus at the scene of the crime, so to speak. This is opposed to the wet market theory which has no evidence of said bats at the market, or explanation for how bats from 1000 miles away ended up there.

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Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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Writing standards for conspiracy theories are on the rise, huh? Didn't read all of it, but I'm not sure what a GPG key is doing there.

I am sure it was not your intention but dismissing (what appears to be) factual information with references, as a conspiracy, is a common strategy of autocratic states when dealing with information that generates a lot of difficult questions. Is there a particular part of the text that you found innacurate?

The key is probably to allow for people to share encrypted data with the author/contributor? Although to me it feels that github is not exactly the best medium for anonymous info leaks.

Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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While I was building the my covid 19 tracker https://visalist.io/emergency/coronavirus , I stumbled upon this and was taken aback. These are some hard hitting evidence. What does it mean, what repercussions this can have on the World? So china has finally won the world war 3?

Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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Evidence is of two types: circumstantial or direct. This thing only has the first, and doesn't try looking for evidence of the contrary. At least they acknowledge this inconclusiveness at the end.

I would argue the same exercise could be made against the 'wet market theory', no?

What direct evidence do we have for the 'wet market' theory that is currently most widely accepted?

Looking from a distance, it appears that the volume of circunstancial evidence for this 'laboratory accident/negligence' theory is far larger.

Re: Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan, China

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I have my own conspiracy theory that some group with a financial stake in wet markets or the general trade in wildlife meat/products is manipulating right wing racists to push the theory that the virus originated in a lab rather than due to unsafe handling of wild game meat so that the Chinese government won't feel pressure to further curtail wild game markets.

My hard hitting github of evidence will include the fact that wet markets exist in China and also that racists exist in the US and other western countries. QED.

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