Yes, i'm one of the pre-alpha tester. It's supposed to be release around 2022 but it got leaked late 2019, so they have to put out an early access version right away.
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No. It’s pretty much concluded to have crossed to humans in a wet market.
Nah
No. The reason it was discovered in a lab isn't because they invented it but because they regularly tested people.
Yes of course! By the lizard people obviously. Must have been then because they are reptiles, and reptiles are immune to Covid. Also, wherever chemtrails have been sighted, people were affected by Covid, so there’s another connection.
No. Check out “The rest is classified” recent podcasts on COVID19 for details.
No.
I do think it leaked from a lab in Wuhan, but not that it was on purpose.
Keeping viruses contained is difficult. One slipup, or one incompetent person, and and it's out.
No.
This is almost definitely correct.
I do think it leaked from a lab in Wuhan, but not that it was on purpose.
This, however, is possible, but probably false. The consensus among virologists is that the virus crossed to humans at the Wuhan animal market, not the lab. As I say, it's possible and scientists are still looking into it. We don't know the exact mechanism by which the virus first infected humans, but the market is more likely.
It makes most sense that it came from the lab where such viruses were studied. But there was a cover-up.
It makes total sense if you ignore the epidemiological and genetic evidence that it came from the seafood market and instead hallucinate a ton of non-existing evidence it came from the lab.
There's no evidence to support the lab-leak theory at this time.
I could just as easily say it makes most sense that it came from bats which we know carried the virus and were sold at the market. But the criteria here isn't which of us can put together a sentence that sounds plausible and coherent, but what the people who actually study this stuff say, and they mostly believe that it's unlikely it came from the lab (different source this time, just to be clear!).
Is my boss (virologist) lying too?
I mean, I also remember 'the news' telling the truth. The question isn't 'Does the news always tell the truth?' (No), but 'What are the actual facts in this case?'
It did not leak from a lab. It was discovered there because they regularly test people.
Just Asking Questions (JAQing off) is a thing, it’s a form of trolling where people who either already have a POV or aren’t really actually interested in answers engage in discussion, typically in bad faith.
For example if you ask “do you think COVID-19 was engineered…” (given the conspiracy theorism inherent in the topic) and someone replies with an answer (no) to which you think reply “yes but virus can be easily engineered and released” and every response contains some variant of “I’m just asking a question”. You can probably see how it fits a pattern.
The correct response to a question like this is "are you looking for an answer or for an argument? "
I’m not saying you are necessarily (I also find it unfortunate in terms of acronyms lol). I’m just saying how it comes off a certain way and why people may interpret it that way and may be engaging with it as such.
Ultimately, no I dont think it was on purpose. Though there are some scenarios where it would make sense but personally I dont see enough evidence to support those scenarios. I doubt it was even accidental release.
If it was on purpose, then it was likely supposed to be a bioweapon. But it affected the country that the biolab functioned in REALLY badly. So unless the purpose was to cull the population there and maybe use that as cover to cause damage to rest of the world too I dont think it was on purpose. Also I doubt china would let foreign controlled viral biolab exist, so foreign influence is also quite remote possibilty. Foreign sabotage is plausible though but there is no way to even speculate about that. But if that was the case, i think china would be much more irate about things(and i dont think anyone could pull something like that without leaving ANY traces for chinese intelligence agencies to even suspect).
So the on purpose scenario would require that complete psychopats with taste for blood are in charge, accidental release of bioweapon scenario would mean complete idiots are in charge. One would imply more would follow, another that either idiots are no longer in charge or also more would follow.
There is also possibility of commercial reason; develop a virus, release it and sell cure for it. I think the "shareholders" wouldn't let the disease to fade away this much, or become more mild. I'm not sure how fast they did develop vaccines for it though. If its simply not possible to go from 0 to something that can be distributed to masses so fast, then some work would have had been done even before the outbreak. But I think there would have been at least some hints at some point, cant keep stuff like this 100% secret forever.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. While there so some people in power that absolutely would release something like this on the public, I don't think this was deliberate. Someone just slipped up. And if humans trusted science instead of hoodoo, we could have contained it. It spread because we are dumb.
Yeah, it was meant to be a test by the overlord to determine who's intellectually fit enough to survive and you obviously failed.
I call Occam's razor, so probably not.
By whom? Nature doesn't really have release schedules like humans associate with products. Evolution and cell mutation don't give a crap about us.
With questions you imply something, so every question is a statement to an extent
Spending a million dollars is not an activity surrounded by conspiracy theories.
Covid-19 very much is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
See the difference?
So you don't see the difference. Cool.
Engineered bioweapons are of course a thing, but sars-cov-2 is far from that. Even at the time, I knew college kids who could probably make a more dangerous virus if they had the resources.
Covid was a slow underhand toss of what an existential threat could look like, and humanity / governments fumbled it right into a faceplant. It's embarrassing, frankly.
All evidence and analysis of the virus point to natural origins and evolutionary pathways. There's no evidence of editing or that it was part of gain-of-function research. The virus is relatively harmless by historic measures, but also not weak or documented enough to be used in evolutional studies. It would be far more potent if it was engineered, and it wouldn't have been so novel if it was being used for research.

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