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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by ikrenji on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:01PM (#34950623)
it's a hell of coincidence that out of all chinese cities the outbreak started in the one city housing the premiere institute dedicated to researching coronaviruses... so there is no smoking gun evidence, but it's a reasonable hypothesis... anyway, no one apart from the chinese ministry of state security will ever know for sure one way or another
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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by yibg on Sunday February 26, 2023 @07:09PM (#34951248)
Isn’t that mixing causation with correlation. The lab is there because there are lots of virus sources there.
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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by MichaelZuo on Sunday February 26, 2023 @08:41PM (#34951950)
This is definitely the most sensible explanation, since it's quite well known that Wuhan is the most important transportation hub in China since even before the lab was a distant dream in some postdoc's imagination.

And China does have the world's largest annual human migration, in the Spring Festival.

Placing the most prestigious and well funded lab studying dangerous human transmissible viruses at the world's most likely place to originate such a virus is an obvious choice.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by mwbajor on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:23AM (#34956710)
Wow, you did quite the somersault there.
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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by MichaelZuo on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:37PM (#34975201)
Account created 22 days ago with the profile description: "Long time lurker, only made an account to comment about FPGAs..."

So this seems like low-effort trolling.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by himinlomax on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:20AM (#34956063)
> The lab is there because there are lots of virus sources there.

That's patently false.

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Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag... by actually_a_dog on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:19PM (#34961995)
I don't see any evidence in either your or the GP's post.
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