Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed

Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by Raaasmus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:22AM (#26552418)

To me another simple explanation is that the disease was first identified near the labs because it is a lab that deals with viruses. I may be mistaken, but I recall it as one of the top ones in the world that virologists from around the world go to.

Also waste water samples from Spain and Italy show COVID-19 much earlier than reported in Wuhan.

Spain, March 2019, 1 sample https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-...

Italy, 18. December 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL8N2DW1YK

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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by hef19898 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:20AM (#26553213)

Plus COVID-19 positie blood samples in France from Nov/Dec 2019. That alone is reason for me to believe that the Wuhan lab has nothing to do with it. It just so happened that Wuhan was the first major outbreak.

That being said, I don't know how the origin would help us right now. We have working vaccines. So the solution is to push vaccinations as fast as possible. The origin of the virus isn't that important right now.

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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by e4325f on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:35PM (#26558523)

1 sample isn't conclusive enough to form an opinion, lab contamination is more likely. It's embarrassing they even released that information without further analysis.

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Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed by Jeema101 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:10PM (#26559800)

Exactly - people may very well be mixing up cause and effect.

It could be that a precursor was already spreading prior to the major outbreak but only detected when it hit Wuhan because so many coronavirus experts were concentrated in that area.

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