Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
by freeflight on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:06AM
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> But it must a lower probability event that people got infected by such city bats
There have been examples of bats excrement contaminating fruits on fields as a transmission chain. Accounting for these, often undiscovered, interactions is extremely difficult in terms of probability.
> we already know for certain the labs were transporting the bat viruses directly
In research from 5+ years ago, research which warned exactly about the fact how the virus already had overcome critical barriers to infect human cells [0]. A very plausible interpretation here can also be that said research was a warning about things to come, and is now mistaken as the original cause for it.
[0] https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...
Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed
by FPGAhacker on Monday March 22, 2021 @11:33PM
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I suspect that it may have been "bred." That is, engineered in the same way that dog breeds are engineered, which isn't so exotic.
Researchers have gone to a particular region of China and otherwise gone to great effort to find these particular bat viruses. I agree it is possible that they could be ignorant of the fact that the virus is in their own backyard. But it must a lower probability event that people got infected by such city bats given that we already know for certain the labs were transporting the bat viruses directly. Additionally, I would be surprised if they have not been testing nearby bats for such viruses since the outbreak happened. If they got a match it would be highly publicized.