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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by tzs on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:36PM (#34949748)
> I know suspicion isn't fact, but that should have always been the leading theory to be disproved

The leading theory should be the thing that has never happened before (lab leak causes epidemic or pandemic) instead of the thing that has happened dozens of times before (animal virus jumps to humans and causes epidemic or pandemic)?

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by ikrenji on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:11PM (#34950708)
lab leaks do happen. not often but a lot more than never. we were just lucky enough that they didn't result in a global pandemic...
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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by Izkata on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:50PM (#34951084)
> The leading theory should be the thing that has never happened before (lab leak causes epidemic or pandemic)

It happens pretty often, we just don't hear about most of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

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