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As usual with most contrarians, their response is just that things are an ever larger conspiracy.
Personally I’m very concerned about the grey goo scenario. The three disasters I’m mentally prepared for today are a heart attack, hydrogen bomb flash and having everyone and everything around me rapidly dissolve into a giant block of carbon.
The whole, entire US government debunked it! Phew. I can sleep easy at night now... Who writes these headlines anyways...
> Who writes these headlines anyways... A Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Lab leak is dead.
Is this satire? One biased source parroting another is not news or fact.
Also, does anyone in the real world give a shit about who wins a Pulitzer?
The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
Also, the WIV was more than 2 km from the market; the grandparent is probably thinking of a different, closer lab. The market was definitely the first big super-spreader event, but not necessarily the site of introduction into humans; the earliest cases show much less clear geographic distribution.
There's no conclusive evidence for any origin of SARS-CoV-2 yet. The ODNI report clearly leans against a research-related origin, but no one except the LA Times's "business columnist" is claiming that they "debunked" anything.
As usual with most contrarians, their response is just that things are an ever larger conspiracy.
Yes, if Dr. Fauci says COVID came from the market it should be good enough for everyone. But the MAGA conspiracy theorists will try anything to discredit Dr. Fauci.
Gross. Have some dignity.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
It's amazing that people are still repeating this line. Dr. Shi's sampling trips were to Yunnan and surroundings, ~900 miles away. Expected prevalence of SARS-like coronaviruses in the Wuhan population was low enough that they used blood samples from Wuhan as negative controls in antibody studies. (Of course that expectation could have been incorrect; but the idea that her research group was deliberately based in a r…
YMMV but to me the spike protein encoding on the original covid strains was just a little too close for comfort to fall into the random mutation category for my armchair opinion. I would have expected to see a non-human variant of the spike protein if it was a natural occurrence.
Either way, it is doubtful to me that we will ever know for sure.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Who writes these headlines anyways... A Pulitzer prize winning journalist. Lab leak is dead.
> Lab leak is dead. Is this satire? One biased source parroting another is not news or fact. Also, does anyone in the real world give a shit about who wins a Pulitzer?
The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
“Wuhan lab workers were sick in November 2019, intelligence suggests”
The thing that tickles my conspiracy theorist, is that the outbreak originated 2 km from the lab that gain-of-function research into SARS-2 strains was outsourced to.
Could be correlation. There's pretty plausible reason to have a cutting edge research lab close to the highest risk place for natural outbreaks of the viruses it studies.
The bat virus they were doing gain-of-function research on at the Wuhan Lab came from miles away.
"Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-...