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Re:Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron var... by ggm on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:27AM (#29777958)
My judgement such as it is, says we need a lot more time to be confident about the root cause and its premature to judge based solely on what is known at present from primary sources.

I also judge most people's opinions are being formed from at best secondary and probably tertiary sources.

I personally think your clarion call isn't helping.

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Re:Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron var... by _heimdall on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:53AM (#29778378)
The irony Herr is that its likely been so long that we won't find enough evidence to determine cause with high confidence.

The fact that a lab leak was even possible but it took over a year to get any researchers into the lab is a serious issue for data collection, not to mention the fact that the CCP got to pick those researchers and didn't share any lab records.

Its important that we learn from how this played out, but seems very unrealistic to think we could pinpoint the initial transmission event now.

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