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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by eganist on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:22PM (#25648877)
> SARS has leaked from Chinese labs multiple times. And the only lab in the world specializing in coronaviruses was ~1000 ft away from the first cases. The leaked US diplomatic cables urge the US to help China with this very lab because biosecurity there was so concerning to visiting scientists. It's also the only BSL4 lab in China. In addition the head of that lab has published numerous papers about generic engineering of coronaviruses. That lab also discovered the closest ancestor of COVID.

Can you kindly cite literally every sentence of this? I googled, but my Google-fu is weak.

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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by throwaway189262 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:06PM (#25649535)
The virologist "bat lady" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_Zhengli

SARS leaks https://www.the-scientist.com/news-analysis/sars-escaped-bei...

Leaked cables https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/state-depar...

US coronavirus research collaboration https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02473-4

Wuhan Institute of Virology employees are cited in a huge number of Coronavirus research papers. Some research may be done elsewhere but AFAIK it's the only lab in the world doing lots of work with SARS and relatives. The "batwoman" researcher who works at WIV is somewhat famous for gathering thousands of bat viruses from caves across China.

In addition RATg13, the closest related virus to COVID, wasn't published by the lab until after the pandemic outbreak. Even though the sample was supposedly collected years ago. If they're sitting on random unpublished coronavirus genomes doesn't it seem likely that COVID was one of these?

Theres too many coincidences for me. I would bet money that it's a lab leak

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Re:The Lab Leak Hypothesis by baja_blast on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @05:34PM (#25652168)
Use DuckDuckGo if you ever want to search for something controversial since they don't filter their results like Google.
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