HN should limit the rate of comments per user per post. This user is seriously worked up to mute this discussion and spams in every comment thread. Edit: this user wrote 26 out of 88 comments here.

And they should ban throwaway accounts too which you can also see spreading more conjecture.

HN already has a rate limit. You get the message "You're posting too fast" when you exceed it. Though I think it's also tied to karma and might not trigger when all those comments get upvoted. And if you try to downvote them all, you'll run into the protections against mass-downvoting. Tuning the feedback loops to encourage good discussions while damping flamewars is a difficult problem.

Once you have some post history, I’m pretty sure the harsh rate limit, the one that would stop someone from posting in every comment thread, is only triggered manually by the mods if you’re a prick (personal experience).

The basic new account rate limit and the one you get from getting downvote quickly are too weak to stop what they are complaining about.

SARS-CoV leaked from a Chinese lab in 2004, and it is probable that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from Wuhan in 2019.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/

That article says the first thing you said but not the second.

You are reducing the quality of discussion here down to kindergarten level. There is nothing intelligent in these childish spam posts. Mindless CCP trolling.

Ad hominem attacks mean you can't seem to refute what I'm saying.

Why aren't we talking about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protes... or Uyghurs ...

No, we must "ask questions" about shit we'll never be able to figure out because we're fighting over the right to flood the net with stuff that doesn't help.

That wasn't an ad hominem attack. You're not even arguing a point.

Your so-called argument is basically "No U". Obvious CCP troll.

This here is a good example of an ad hominem attack, you're point is that I am not allowed to make my argument for reasons that are not addressing my argument.

Please read the real provable reasons to not trust china instead of endless questions about what ifs, which is my point, that we can be against china for real reasons and not make believe ones like that we have any proof of a lab leak. Hell maybe it happened, but it doesn't help to keep digging if it can't ever be proven.

No it is not an ad hominem attack to say that your argument is childish and stupid. You're not even having a debate. You're just spamming the forum with drivel.

I am trying to say that either it leaked or it didn't, but that we'll never know, but that it doesn't matter anyway.

We will know, eventually, hopefully. I think it really matters. To better prevent future pandemics and to establish frameworks for restitution. And it definitely matters for future economic reparations.

If negligence is the cause of a multi-million death, multi-trillion dollar response it needs to be corrected to prevent future similar errors.

The linked article is from 2004. It clearly says nothing re: point 2.

So what? You missed the point or are pretending to ignore it. Another CCP troll.