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Re:Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weigh... by arcticbull on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:07PM (#30280008)
> It is of course very misleading present to these "leaks" as evidence of "lab origin".

To be clear I don't have any evidence of a lab leak origin [edit](for COVID-19), and did not claim to!

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Re:Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weigh... by vanusa on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:11PM (#30280057)
"It's completely precedented", you said, apparently in reference the lab-origin hypothesis.
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Re:Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weigh... by arcticbull on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @06:13PM (#30280076)
Indeed, I was referring to the idea of viruses and bacteria escaping from research labs and then, occasionally, spreading within a community. I provided evidence of this claim. I wasn't saying that I believed that COVID-19 specifically escaped from a/the lab. I do not have evidence of that. Apologies if that was unclear.

I was pushing back on the initial out-of-hand rejection of this idea.

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