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I wouldn't dismiss it.

I just haven't seen any evidence of it that I think 'proves' it.




Serious coronaviruses have jumped into people like, twice in the last 20 years entirely naturally[0], and so many more people have contact with animals outside of labs than within labs (orders of magnitude!), that it seems much more likely that SARS-CoV-2 jumped the same way than any lab-leak idea. Like, it's physically possible, and it would be important to know if that's what happened- people shouldn't dismiss it!- but I don't know how much it should be entertained as a real likelihood.

[0] natural insofar as humans intruding onto wildlife is natural


Serious cornaviruses jumped into people probably dozens of times in the last 20 years, and caused 3 epidemics, not two.


I meant to say two times other than Sars-CoV-2 (SARS and MERS).


Well it doesn't help that they've blocked the investigation.


The link between the Wuhan lab and the virus is circumstantial, sure it's strange the virus shows up in a city with the only level 4 biolab in China where they research corona viruses, but only if the virus did originate from Wuhan. I don't think we know all the corona viruses in the wild and who was patient zero was.




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