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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by ab7675226 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @08:55AM (#26646642)
There are thousands of wet markets throughout China. Even if you restrict your view to major cities only, there's over 100 cities in China with a million inhabitants.

There were 2 known locations in China where coronaviruses were being studied - Beijing and Wuhan.

Now apply Bayesian analysis.

This is before you look at the coverup and the history of diseases escaping from research labs all over the world and the documented inadequate safety measures in the Chinese labs.

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Re:Covid 'fuse' may have been lit weeks or months before the... by sudosysgen on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:11AM (#26646796)
The longer time-line makes a lab leak incredibly unlikely. WIV publishes data and shares it with international collaborators frequently, given the fact that every paper on bat coronaviruses from the WIV has international collaborators, how does it make sense that the sample wasn't known to anyone else in the months between the leak and detection?
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