What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted

Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by epups on Sunday June 11, 2023 @08:34AM (#36280788)

I don't understand this line of argument. The facts are that 1) the virus outbreak was in Wuhan, 2) that there ws a local lab working on virus samples that come from all over the world and 3) as far as we know, the particular strain that affected Wuhan is not local. Altogether, this should add confidence to the lab leak theory, not detract from it.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by th0ma5 on Sunday June 11, 2023 @01:11PM (#36283257)

The causality also supports that dangerous viruses spill into the human population in this area, so put a lab there to try to catch them.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by epups on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:07PM (#36284550)

Ok but in that scenario, a natural emergence would have come from a strain from Wuhan, while the lab leak theory explains why a virus from relatively far away had an outbreak in Wuhan.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by th0ma5 on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:05PM (#36296923)

Not really! Why do you need that to be true?

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by mensetmanusman on Sunday June 11, 2023 @06:57PM (#36286590)

A particular city center?

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by Biorealism on Sunday June 11, 2023 @03:43PM (#36284877)

The nearest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 are found in Yunnan and Laos. Both areas WIV sampled prior to the pandemic and they haven't shared their records with WHO or the NIH.

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