"... very well documented event"
Re:Lab Leak 2.0?
by throwaway829 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @04:45PM
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Not sure what you mean by quoting that but there's not much controversy that Delta leaked from a Biosafety Level-3 facility in Taipei.
https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/taiwan-investigates-covid-lab...
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4371080
https://www.newsweek.com/taiwan-lab-worker-mouse-bite-covid-...
You don't understand why I would challenge you to cite your sources in a thread discussing COVID-19 conspiracy theories and misinformation? Not to mention, I think it's pretty clear to both of us that this "well documented event" is not common knowledge to people who don't follow COVID conspiracy theories.
Re:Lab Leak 2.0?
by XFrequentist on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:06PM
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I think this event qualifies as “well documented” by any reasonable standard, there was official public disclosure and an open investigation.
As one quick example, here’s a news clip including an interview with the Taiwanese health minister discussing details of the (then) ongoing investigation:
You can trivially find many more official statements about the event and subsequent investigation, if you like.
The author is saying that there was a lab leak involving delta, not that delta originated via a lab leak.
The latter claim would indeed be a red flag, but the former is just describing a very well-documented event.