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Also the only lab that handles this stuff in Wuhan is less than a couple hundred meters from the wet market that Chinese authorities claimed was the epicenter.

I'd believe this is a story of grave incompetence, and brazen managerial failure at a biolab. The intern gets bled on, bitten, or just breathed on by the test bat, gets a bit sick but comes into work anyway. After it seems to pass, she heads down to the market on the way home, and spreads the disease to one of the live animals, including humans, in the vicinity.

Boom, outbreak.

Could be as simple as that, with it being a pretty tenacious virus.

The proven conspiracy follows, when authorities up to the top sought to cover up this embarrassment, then to make sure that the damage was global so that they wouldn't be at a relative disadvantage, and could maybe start claiming that it came from somewhere else (as they are now doing).




Can you find your source for the market being a couple hundred meters away? This tweet has a map showing it's twenty miles away, but the source is the Daily Mail:

https://twitter.com/dystopia992/status/1220735100192620546


Different lab. I bookmarked https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-china-tra... but it's offline for me right now. (Can't say if any of it is right, but the claim of the ~180m-away lab was the most interesting bit.)


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