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[–] 2 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

Are we still doing Wuhan Lab Leak Theory? Wasn't that debunked ages ago

There was an attempt at debunking the lab leak theory early on with a nature article saying we do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. Then there was a rejected DARPA research proposal detailing exactly how the laboratory-based scenario is possible.

Lab origin has not been proven but there is no natural zoonotic path to Wuhan. Lab encouraged gain of function with in species reproduction seems most likely.

Half the US intelligence agencies support the lab origin theory.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    there is no natural zoonotic path to Wuhan

    How do you get from "we don't think the disease naturally originated in Wuhan" to "China engineered a virus, released it in their own city, and then used that as a vector for malicious infection of the rest of the world"?

    Half the US intelligence agencies support the lab origin theory.

    They also insisted Iraq had nuclear weapons.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    How do you get from "we don't think the disease naturally originated in Wuhan" to "China engineered a virus, released it in their own city, and then used that as a vector for malicious infection of the rest of the world"?

    I didn't. You invented all of that.

    Accidents happen even in level 4 biolabs. The is no need for you to be sinophobic.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We know Covid originated in Wuhan.

    That's never been confirmed.

    Neither has the "no natural zoonotic path" bit, incidentally.

    Accidents happen even in level 4 biolabs.

    And we're back to Wuhan Lab Leak Theory.

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  • A natural zoonotic path does not (yet) exist. It is correct to say none has been found.

    the Huanan Market in Wuhan was the early and main epicentre of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection.

    There you are.

    there is no indication that the Wuhan Institute of Virology had studied viruses similar to SARS‐CoV‐2 or artificially modified coronaviruses before the COVID‐19 pandemic

    This part of the paper is out of date. We now know there was a subaward to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, to understand how bat coronaviruses have the potential to become transmissible to the human population.

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