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Re:Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outb... by DoingIsLearning on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:17AM (#27265338)
> If the lab leak theory was easy to confirm, it would have been done already.

If a zoonotic event in the wild with SARS-COV2 was easy to confirm, it would have been done already.

Either hypothesis has circunstancial evidence. But there isn't an equal effort of investigate both candidate theories.

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Re:Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outb... by snowwrestler on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:44PM (#27268832)
Natural emergence of a disease obviously has far stronger priors. Two possibilities are not equally likely just because there are two of them.
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