Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by igouy on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:13PM
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> … want to conflate lab leak…
And if a lab worker had become infected while field sampling bats and they - not the samples - brought the infection to Wuhan?
And if a lab worker had become infected while field sampling captive farmed "wild" animals and they - not the samples - brought the infection to Wuhan?
And if a lab worker had become infected while buying a captive farmed "wild" animal for dinner?
Almost everyone thinks this is true. Even the most fringy people don’t seem to be claiming that a virus was synthesized from scratch.
Found its way into a wet market near said lab
Ditto for this one. It’s pretty clear that there was a cluster of people early on that were infected in or near the market.
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The distinction between the lab leak and non-lab leak theory is whether the lab had anything at all to do with the chain of transmission.
If patient zero caught the virus in the lab or from a vector that was once in the lab, that’s lab leak. It’s apologists for the lab that want to conflate lab leak and bioweapon in order to dismiss the former as a nutty conspiracy theory.